Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1851-09-16
abr FarInrr.
Driving Fruit.

description Of the Dist mode Of dry
ing fruit While So much attention
is given to the cultivation Of fruit,
there still eAists a great deficiency
i'll good, cheap, and expeditions meth
DDS Of dryingABhicH by converting
.perishable property into a condition
ior long keefing and easy transporta-
ton, may greatly Increase both in
extent ard profit, the culture of the
highest favored sorts.
Dried apples and dried peaches
already constitute considerable az
tiele OF commerce. Buttheir quql.-
y is immeasurably inferior to that
whica might be Attained. The same
difference in aAyor exists between
an unra!sst&ble s Beding and the most
highly improred grated variety,
whether they bef.esh or dried. Vet
the poorest apples are usually select
ed, simply because dried fruit is
bought by the pound5 and not for its
EXCELLENCE Late OF inferior peaches
are chosen, because their owners have
no other use for them; when besides
the inferior flavor of the late seed
Hngs 50 hugely used, the cool damp
weather TO which they are exposed
while drying, does the work III {; very
imperfect manner, and hali-dccaydd
flavor is often mingled with that 81
the fruit 3tselc II dried at Him Tie
open air, it is 6f much consequence
that early sorts, both Of apple and
peach be sqIccted,I that the benefit
Of a'hot sun may be secured. Willy
is i II pt as easy t plant and raise
early prolific sorts, that viii npen at
a time when two days Of hot SIN will
DRY them, as later sorts, which VII
scarcely get dry at al IL. the open
ar?
4 good and ftultless mode.of using
artificial heat appears not, to have
been ye. rractised. The great a pc
EXISTING deficiency is the want Of /;
free circulation Of the heated Dir
Hence the reason that the use of fla
boards a4d Shelves is usually attend
"a with GREATER or less decay. Li4h
wooden lattace-worl IS better, bu
still bat imperfecily admits a fire.
circulation, without making the slit
too vide to prevent Che dried frai
from falling through. CheapInettin;
of light twine is still an improve
ment; an easy mode of making il i
thus described by a correspondent G
tie Michigan Farlndr II: Take cdm
mon carpet yarn, wrap it for two 0
three yards length, just as yol
chonse; use alive OF six-quartdrs reed
in drawing through the reed, Is
every third or fourth space betwee
the teeth Of il; ID insure strength
double your thread oecasionallyAan
in weaving, fcRt twp or three thread
clos ely together, and then nlors open
", alternately; when taken from til
loom, fastcn It to a light frame, an
il is ready l9T use.
Rooms en- building made for I1y4n
ly artificial heat, mus, admit q yer
fred ventilation. We have ioan
that when fruit OIL lattice shelves
PLACED near 4 fire or under a stoy,
who're there is no current Of alt, an
whore heat IS impaired s6ldly b
radiation, it becomes heated withou
driving. for there IS 10 eurrJht t
sweep OF Tho moisture about i
But when suspended immediatel.
owe the stove, where the heated d
is c onstantly ascending, the process
zoe on rapidly and PERFECTLY
When thus dried, it IS nearly whit
in color, and retained its flavor IN
impaired, and is incomparably BET
ter than a great dead that we olte.
see. which is brown with age, am
spoiled With incipient decay, befor
lie moisture is all exAellel by tn
tardy process u wlichi4is saigeoaod-
The following would probably be-
well arranged drying room for TIN
purp pose. Let the shelves, made q
netting stretched on frames, occup,
the interior or central portion of Tia
rool n,- one above the other, at fire
atdrYdls, leave sufficient space 70
The pcrsonin Attendance to pass free
IL r6aad oil every side, next to tn
vail. This would be not only Ror
convenient, but admit a better circu
lation Of ait, than ifthc shelves Yer
plae ed against the wall; The room
might be heated with 4 small stove
the pipe Of which SHOULD at first pas
horizontally as near the floor as pos
sibld, anl afterwards ascend 70 c4ns'
sufficient draft. This arrangement
"a