Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1859-06-29
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From tho Charleston Courier.
Hints to those who have Fruit for Ship
ment to New York.

From the Charleston Courier.
Hints to those who have Fruit for Ship
ment to New York.
Pluck your peaches carefully, two or three
days in advance Of their maturity (but only
long enough before the steamer day-every
Saturday--to get them aboard, and take
care to send only such as are entirely tree
from sny bruise or decay whatever. Pack
them carefully with clean rye straw or leaves,
or hay Though, hay is heatlng,) in slated
boxes about two feet long, fifteen inches wide,
and ten inches deep-say five OF six pecks to
the box. They will shrink at least apeck on
the voyage, from softening and becoming
= more compact in consequence. There should
be partition down the middle of each box,
otherwise the fruit is injured by its own
weight. Boxes of the same width aad depth,
but twice as long, are sometimes shipped, but
for divers reasons the smaller boxes are pre-
ferable.
Peaches should never be packed without
securing for them thorough ventilation en-
route. IF it were possible to divide them In.
to layers, with something between TO support
their weight, and render tho circulation OF
sir more certain, they would open in much
beter order. Book-binder's paper shapings
are sometimes used in packing, and answer
very well. ].
The stats ought not to be further apart
than is sufficient to admit mans finger, and
they should be nailed very securely, to pre-
vent the fruit from being pilfered after having
left tho consignor and before reaching the
consignee.
Col. VIM. Gregg, Of Kalmia, S. G., near
Aiken, by packing and shipping his peaches
in the manner described, and which, We be-
lisve, he originated, has the satisfaction Of
;reslisipg from two dollars and fifty cents to
Eve dollars per bushel for several thousand
bushels, which he ships annually to New
York. j.
The steamer freight on the bushel or half
bushel box Is forty cents, and 1t Is expected
that this will be paid In advance.
.Consisnors In the interior. sending their
fruit to Charleston for shipment, will tind it
for their interest to entrust this inland trsna-
poststion to the Adams Express company,
when convenient TO do so, as it will ensure
an earlier delivery to the steamship agent, to
whose care it should be addressed. The ex-
press charges, andsteamers freight, must, in
that case, be prepaid to the Express Agent.
Some country consignors employ success
fully the shipping agents in Charleston, to
get their fruit aboard, but, in one or two in.
stances, large quantities have been left be-
hind, and sold at sacrifice.
The merchants commissions for selling
Peaches sud other Fruits vary, but taking all
things Into consideration, the result is about
the same, viz: ten per cont. on tue amount
of sales. There are only three or four Peach
and Fruit Commission Merchants in this
trade. Their address may be had at the Ex-
press Offices.
We are advised that it Is bad policy 10
consign fruit to merchants not engaged in the
business, as they do not understand how to
market them, and, therefore, are glad to get
rid of them ut almost any price, to the specu-
lstors, who usually double their money upon
them.
As the crop is backward and meagre in the
middle States, South Carolina aud Georgia
consignors of peaches can continue 10 ship,
with fair prospect of remunerative returns,
until the second or third week in August.
The best peaches will command from three
dollars to five dollars per bushel in tue New
York market, for week or two at least
Properly managed this fruit trade OF South
Carolina and Georgia with New York, will
grow in a few years to be worth half mil
hoE of dollars annually. 1t needs vniy tue
Intelligent encouragement of the press to in.
duce many persons in these States to enter
into this new and profitable branch Of South
elm business. We know Of Que lady, a widow,
who added between one hundred and
three hundred dollars, this season, to her
limited income, by shipping the produce Of
her orchard