The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-09-27

and cheapness of shipment and wider
mutual knowledge Of supply and demand,
South Carolina and Middle Georgia threat
en- to become the next great peach-growing
and exporting centers. They have the
advantage of month in ripening the
fruit, and as it steadily improves in flavor
and size as the summer advances, con-
stantly outrivals and anticipates the north
rn-raised varieties in the market. The
vicinities of Norfolk, Va, and Charleston,
S. e., portions of Georgia and to q limited
extent Florida, are at present the principal
centers of competition with the North in
the raising of small fruits. From them
come strawberries in limitless quantity,
while perhaps the snow yet fingers about
the northern fences, and when the tardy
native berry arrives our appetites are like
ly enough stated with plentiful indulgence
in the southern fruit; and likewise, too,
they furnish largely blackberries, cherries,
plums and watermelOns by the million.
This southern supply Of early fruits is
comparatively new thing, and the bust
ness is bound to yet increase immensely.
Florida has but just demonstrated her
ability to raise great variety of rare fruits
which have hitherto been imported. That
State is now gaining a large permanent
immigration of the energetic northern ele-
ment whose whole future seems to turn
upon the culture Of these fruits, and the
capacity of Florida for such production.
and the character of the people engaged
in it, promise great results in the future.
But in the thrifty soul there is room for
dissatisfaction over the riOtOus abundance
of the country's fruitagc. Consumption.
cheap, quick transportation and methods
of preservation, have not yet kept pace
with the bountiful yield, aud enormous
quantities of good fruit 60 to waste in
various ways every year. How to pre-
vent this breach of economy is more and
more exciting the attention of scientists
and inventors. Cannis e is an expedient
extensively resorted to at the North,
where in places it has grown to the proper
tions of a great and valuable industry, but
it is little practiced yet in systematic
way at the South. Drying fruit is per-
haps the Oldest and most widely practiced
method of preservation, and in this art
the inventor has come to the assistance of
the housewife with effective machinery.
This was noticeable in the Agricultural
Department of the Centennial Exhibition,
where might be seen apparatus by
which apples and other fruit could be
pared, cut and artifcally dried with mar.
velous celebrity, the result presenting such
clear and sweet contrast with that of
the homely old-fashioned methods as to
appeal at once to the least fastidious per
son. But the ideal method of fruit preser.
walton is neither of these. What is wanted
is some cheap and simple way by which
the decay can be arrested and the fruit
kept an indefinite period and yet retain al
its natural qualities. This may be an i'm
possibility, although it was only lately
claimed that Southern gentleman hat
achieved it in process involving the ust
of certain cheap chemicals. If this con
summation ever be really reached, ther
the millennium of fruit will certainly b.
at hand.-SDrinQfield (Nnss) Republican