Smyrna times., 1875-10-06

PEAcHEs.-When, early in the season.
growers all around us said they intended to
cut down their orchards, they did not know
they didn't mean what they were saying.
That fact didn't dawn upon them until
recently. In hasty moment thew said
what calmer judgement will not Justify.
Ii Is pretty certain now that the only trees
that viii come down are the old ones in
the orchards that would have been weeded
cut under any circumstances. AS for onv
general onslaught upon the orchards. we
need not look for it. About the only re-
suit OF the disastrous glut will be to check
the peach fever and stop the culture right
where it is.
INC season Is now over and the growers
have been making calculations as to how
they have "cOme out" with their shin
ments. Upon inquiry of those right here
at home we find that the crop has nctted
all the way from 10 to 25 cts. Der basket
clear OF ireights and commissions. We
near OF few who say they have come out
III debt, but the figures we have named are
a fair showing; and, while they are small
they are better than was expected. Some
OF the growers are rather elated at their
showing. The large yield required heavy
outlay Tor baskets, crates, wagons. &c. and
some will not more than be able to moot
the expenses which the crop brought upon
them, but others will have clean balance.
Notwithstanding the many drawbacks.
And even if the crop has left us behind.
so far as the direct results are concerned.
the Incidental results have been more than |
ever beneficial. The amount of labor re-
qulred to get away with the great crop has |
made work abundant, at remuneratiye |
wages, through all the months from early |
summer to the present time. Almost every |
kind of business has been moro or Ioss /
stimulated by the peach trade, and some
important branches of industry have been
sustained by it solely, from which thousands
OF dollars have gone out to willing works in
every community. Our own town has been
particularly favored in this respect, through
the enterprise Of few tradesmen who had
the courage to venture n LITTLE. There *
no way to estimate the "returns" that
came TO 30 many among us through tbis
channel, for they were quietly lua.,.. from,
week to week, without hand. .........t;,,,
notice, till the suspension caused us 10 feel
their loss. And the driers and canneries-
the immense crop sprung them upon us on
all hands, putting money in the hands of
all the women and children that desired
work. What was lost, therefore, directly.
has been made up in large measure Incl.
dentally.
The growers now reason in this wav. II
Is not probable that another full cron will
ever be grown, and if not it will pay. The
new shipping points, drying arrangements.
ana other means of disposing of the fruit.
forced upon the growers by this seasons
emergency-which made it something Of n
blessing IN disguise in the eyes of many
VIII make the crop more remuneratiye in
the future, under any circumstances. and
highly profitable, no doubt, in short crops.
In view of small yield-if any--next wear
and the demands of the centennial. there
may not be supply equal to the demand.
In this event prices win be too good to
sacrifice the trees. The orchards are nearly
all now in their prime, and to pull them
out would cause considerable expense To
the growers. TO avoid this expense, to saw
nothing Of the chances of thef future, which !
most Of the growers seem willing to take,
will leave the trees intact, in the main.
TO remove fruit stains from napkins, etc.
wet the sr9ofn with chlorina xvatar