The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1869-02-03

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for not less than SO per bushel, say 1926
trees to the acre. we have from $3.50 to ST.
GOO income per acre, or say an average OF
500 per acre net iacome.
STRAwBERRfEs-yield about 5000 quarts
to the acre and over early ones will average
half dollar a quart or s 500 an acre, but
500 to $500 net income.
BLAcKBERRIEs- will yield about 1850
quarts toI the acre and will bring 40 cents
per quart, or $700 to 81 900 per acre, and
require but very little cultivation. The
vines will last twenty to thirty years.
They ripen in our climate directly after
the Strawberries, and go to market in the
| same crates and boxes.
RAsPBERRIEs-Can he cultivated here to
great advantage, but it has been thought
they cannot be transported in good condi-
| ton to market
We think however that they will he cul-
tivated, and means for their transportation
will be provided for after awhile
They will yield about as abundantly as
blackberries, and sell at higher prices.
GRAPEs-will yield the largest income of
any OF the fruits per acre, and to follow out
the facts to conclusion seems so much like
the fables OF the Arabian Nights that few
are disposed to believe the half that is told
them. They produced $4,000 pounds to the
acre-a fair average for good ands-and
sell them as we readily can do, if early in
market, at 20 (wenty) cents per pound, and
we have $4,000 for the income of single
acre.
Ii we make wine. say 1900 gallons to the
acre, we can readily see no " large an income
per acre can be realized even at fifty cents
per gallon.
The yield from peas, tomatoes, cucumbers
and Irish potatoes will vary from $500 to
5000 per acre.
Therefore we can all see that there is mo-
ney in great abundance in the culture of
all these articles, if we will go into the bust
ness intelligently and with determination
to succeed
This work is destined at no distant day
to make our section prosperous and thrifty.
1t will bring to our AID the most reliable
white labor as well as all the industrious
colored laborers that are disposed to make
an honest and thrifty population, and we
want no other kind
Your committee could dwell upon this
subject at much greater length and tell you
what Future there is before US, but we will
leave that to your own imaginations, and
close with "a few remarks upon the question
"f labor that we need most here, and what
the country can sustain. 55.,'5i.
1t has been estimated by an English wri-
ter that our whole Southern country con-
tanned previous to the late civil war but
about two and half millions of laborers.
and yet the Southern States of America |
alone exported Tin value of its products) |
more than any country on the globe, except |
Great Britain, and if we except her manu-
factories, more than any country. All this |
in the very face of the great labor pro-
ducing countries of Europe and without
their aid.
Now, suppose We could bring to our
shores-to the Old North State--half mill
ion OF industrious producers (foreign or ma
tive) and employ them or help them to en-
ploy themselves in the growth of the arti-
eles we have been describing. What
change would soon be wrought in our con-
dition.
Without diminishing the cultivation of
,he great staples, cotton, corn and tobacco.
we could send to market millions of dollars
worth of truck and fruit from lands that
ire now looked upon as worthless, or of but
little value.
We have been informed within day or
wo by persons knowing the facts that the
strawberry crop of the vicinity of Norfolk,
Va, will reach one million of dollars this
Tear. If they can reach such results, what
AN we do? What can be done on the line
It our railways reaching from the Pee Dee
o the Roanoke, with arms (branches) to
forehead City on one side, and to the base
It the Atlantic slope on the other
The question has often been asked, will
We not overstock the market and reduce the
'rlces ? To this we might reply yes, when
We can dip the Atlantic dry with a tin cup.
L. should be borne in mind that the
southern production of fruit and vegeta-
lies tends rather to increase than diminish
he demand.
AS soon as the prices justify, all these.
rtlcles are transported North, West and
last OF the great central markets, and it
only question of supply, how far they
an be carried. The market cannot be
Verstocked. The consuming population
Increases much faster than the production
xtends ITSELF We may therefore rest as
ured that the supply can never reach-in
ur time-the demand.
We have but one great question to con-
der, and that is labOr-skilled labor with
sufficient number of assistants in gath.
ing the crops Time will solve this for
S, and the time is not far distant.
Let us all unite, then, with determine
on to make this work q success noao, and the
rofts are ours. If we only engage in it
ebly, we shall fail. and others will come
ter us and reap the reward due only to
lie faithful and the perseverng.
S. L. FREMONT,
Fl. III. ROBINSON