Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-08-23


or SI733 per acre. These are the largest |
net profits the committee reported. |
There is one vineyard Of Delaware which /
paid net profit OF $4,000 per acre. Per- |
haps you will say the committee did not
report all the vineyards I will admit /
that most Of the vineyards shout Cincin- /
natl are - Catawba, " and there are none
of that variety repOFted-only Ives, Del
aware and Norton. The Cstawbs may
not pay any longer in Cincinnati or in
this state, but we have other varieties
that will pay, and well, too. You can
| safely count on $1,000 year to the acre
/ with Concord, Norton and several others
/ Of the new varieties.
! Let US compare the profits OF an acre
! of grapes with bank or railroad stock. If
[ it pays ten per cent, you cannot buy II
under par; if twenty per cent, you can
not get it for less than one hundred per
cent. premium. At that rate an acre Of
grapes thst pays $1,000 a year is worth
$4,000. What would you think Of man
/ to pay $4,000 for an acre Of grapes
/ Yet many men make investments that
| do not pay them as well.
/ If the cultivation of fruit pays so well,
why Is il that we have so many stock
! companies for that purpose that don't
! nav? There must be something wrong
| somewhere.
| Let Us suppose that q man is 8 doctor,
I or q LAWYER, or q minister Of the gospel,
/ if you please; that he lives in the city
/ and hss not been able to make much OF
an income at his professions but he has
read 8 great many books about the enor-
nous profits made by raising fruit. he
owns q large tract of wild land II the
country, 50 he gives up his business IN
I 70 d in 10 n-cre IRA
in the country with the determination to
nut it all out in fruit-R very easy mat
Ter. he thinks, as be goes on the principle
that if one man can cut cord Of wood
in a day, a hundred men will cut hun
dred cords. He does not appear to think
that the hundred men will require any
linking after TO make them DO their
work in proper manner.
It is late in the spring when he moves
on his place, and he does not get any
ground cleared in time to plant fruit that
vesr. The next year ne gets two or
three acres planted, erects fine residence
and extensive outbuildtngs; keeps on
planting fruit for three or four years, but
he can't see the income, and begins to
look rather blue when you talk Of the
profts of fruit growing, but he has lots
Of courage il his money IS all gone. 50
. ne applies to the legislature for charter,
and easily gets one. As be has many IN
fIuential friends and lots of assurance, he
gets some of them who have more money
than brains to take stock. Now be
thinks he is made UP, and goes into fruit
, raising " steep" plants out bfty or one
! hundred acres, bat when he comes to
! balance the company's bank book, ne
. finds there is no money in the treasury
, tries to make q raise on stock ou'
! finds that uphill work; then tries to cul'
: tivate few acres Of the fifty or one hun
: dred he has planted, and lets the res
! grow wild.
Still, things don't 90 on very smoothly
) he can't see the income from the lanC
vet Talk to him about what dividend
the stock pays, or why it don't pay, YOI
will be told that the stockholders are 81
, wealthy men, and don't expect any dlv
: idend They only want nne place q
= come To in the summer, with fruit enough
u 10 eat and wine TO drink. 1t is well they
. are so easily satisfied. The above ONLY
: shows that when a man cannot msnsg
. a small business be is not tit to manage
: large one. But fruit-grOwing can b
( made to pay on a large scale, II con
Quoted in the right manner. We nav
! some such in Missouri, which believ
!, will. in less than five years, be the oes
!, having stock in the state. Why be
+ cause the men in charge have shown
7 that they know how to manage thel
own private business in q paying manner
= =, THE APPLE
, Ia a fruit that can safely be planted 70
= profit. Although the income from th
; a2ples does not come so early as troI
: the fruits we have considered, still tn
results are most reliable, and the Orchar
after once getting into bearing, require
~ less care and outlay than any other crol
:. Bv q iudiciOus selection OF varieties, q
:, income can be obtained every month !
the wear. They can be marketed greel
dried, ss apple butter, cider, vinegar
brandy; and as jelly on the liable tne
a nIav an important part. For teedin
IL Stock thew are Of great value, and we al
" convinced that an acre Of sweet appl,
te nj ten to twelve years from planting WI
e. make much more pork than an acre
:, corn. ,-.-u-
g, Our time forbids going into details
es to planting, management and merits
~ varieties, but We find the following hay
ne been long tried here, and present slroI
e. claims upon him who simply plants Il
as nrofit Red June, Red Astraehan, Aul
I'd Susan. Maiden's Blush, Fall QueeI
nt Jameton, Wine Sap, PTyOr's Red Gilpil
le The quality Of late blooming will presel
en- claims in planting not to be oyeriooke
sn as in the Jameton, BOhannon, etc, al
ne some find a special home in the bottom
as the Vandevere and Bowles, while Il
ed limestone ridges are an appropriate pla
We for the much esteemed Newton Pippi
p In conclusion, to the man Of mOdera
eh means, who desires with small outlS
w OF capital and labor to provide regul
70 income, we can present nothing oett
of o1,d .,,,I, j., Cnr sCiI and climate. 9th
n fruits certainly commend themselves
amateurs, where enjoyment can con
~ before profit.