Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1859-07-21
farmer's department.
From the Charleston Courier.
SHIPPING FRUIT TO NEW YORK

From the Charleston Courier.
SHIPPING FRUIT TO NEW YORK.
Pluck your peaches carefully, two orthree
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 free
from any bruise or decay whatever. Pack
them carefully with clean rye straw or leaves,
or hay (though hay is heating,) in Slated
boxes about twofee long, fifteen inches wide,
and ten inches deep-say five or six pecks TO
the box. They will shrink ct least peck on
the voyage, from softeniug 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 and depth,
but twice as long, are sometimes shipped, but
for divers reasons the smaller boxes are pre-
ferabIe.
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 wei ght, and render the circulation of
air more certain, they would open in much
better order. Book. binder'spoper shaOings
are sometimes used in packing, and answer
very we'll.
The stats ought not to be further apart
than is sufficient to adnita mans finger, and
they should be nailed very securely, to pre-
vent the fruit from being pilfered after having
left the consignor and before reaching the
consignee.
Col. VIM Gregg, Of Kalmia, S. c., near
Aiken, by packing and shipping his peaches
in the manner described, and which, we be-
lieve, he originated, has the satisfaction OF
rcalisiug from two dollars and fifty cents to
five dollars per bushel for several thousand
bushels, which he ships annually to New
York. =.
The steamer freight on the bushel or halt
bushel box is forty cents, and it is expected
that this will be paid in advance.
Consignors in the interior sending their
fruit to Charleston for shipment, will lind 1t
for their interest to entrust this inland trans
portatien 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
express charges, and steamers freight, must,
in that case, be prepaid to the Express A
gent.
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 and other Fruits vary, but taking all
things into consideration, the result is about
the same, viz: ten per cent, on the 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 to
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 at almost any price, to the
,peculators, who usually double their money
upon them.
As the crop is backward and meagre in
the middle States, South Carolina and Geor-
gia consiguors of peaches can continue to
ship, with fair prospect of remunerative re-
turns, until the second or third week IN
August. The best peaches will command
from three dollars to FIVE dollars per bushel
in the New York market, for week or two
at least.
Properly managed, this fruit trade OF s.
Carolina and Georgia with New York, will
grow in few years to be worth half a mil
lion of dollars annually. 1t needs only the
intelligent encouragement of the press to in
duce many persons in these States to enter
into this new and profitable branch of South
ern business. We know of one lady, wild,
ow, who added between one hundred and
three hundred dollars, this season, to her
limited income, by Shipping the produce OF
her orchard.