The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-08-25

Mr. Joe Lambert, q apardeneprp ppca, cano aIem lem:
lew years ago with 5000. He bonah.
a; place that cost 1900. He has na;de ens fas
.hisGadded improvements for which M ho
Pai9 S3,50O-and two acres for which he n
pn peid $500. His place is now worth AK
Wy and nc has bought several lots h.
sides: He has nine acres Of cahha"o oe, a
winch he has sold $4,000 in cash .ul; ui
expects $1,000 more. '' anu
There is contrast that is suoooo,;u
l 90 not believe there is anv oneS;nn 5;,'., s.,
business or the professions that rs prnm; e. in II
noude,. youde man i: such certain, happy, indie.
;rnois {, livinS as running fruit and
.rLch ,nt larm near Atlanta. Let us see
line. 'o's'a III THIS
The area devoted to fruit and vegetables
Nd .i''s increased nearly twenty per cent in
lug iast Two years. Mr. Parnell, OF West
loiht, WHO has probably the finest peach
oFcr M ara IN the world has sold peaches in
New YORK at S35 bushel and in Allan.
ln LOT nearly as much. Georgia peaches
nave neen in northern markets as early
as May, and this state might have
virtually the monopoly of the early peach
tlaae. Judge Cunningham, of this CITY.
nas over $4,000 trees planted, out Of
whicn over half are bearing. There are
about $4,000 peach trees, 1000 annie
4,ooo pears and $500 miscellaneous
lhe orchard covers 500 acres. about I i.
ooo acres making up the whole planta-
ttinon. tion. An ordinary -op should be 70 =.
oVo crates Of peaches, 5000 crates of mn.
pies and 1000 Of pears. This will in.
crease gradually as new trees come in
In nine years there have been only two
failures in the peach crop, and each of
those years the orchard more than no;d
expenses PAU
The great trouble with the fruit inter.
csts OF Georgia has been the lack of
transportation at once cheap and speedy.
Inc ships of the Central line have been
largely used, but by this course the adj.
vantage OF early prices is largely lost
!he fancy prices obtained for the first
lew crates of peaches have led the rail.
ROADS to put their rates too high. The
reform III transportation, brought about
by the new refrigerating cars, will doubt.
less give an impetus.
Alr. George McRae, of Lowndes coun-
ty planted two acres in cucumbers and
three in tomatoes. lie shipped 600
crates Of each, for which he got 50 per
crate, or 81 400 for the product of 5 acres
In Mr.. Fontaine's admirable book on
Georgia is the statements that 50 500 net
was made OIL four acres of strawberries
in the state.
The melon crop of Augusta and yicini
ty is immense and profitable. Melons
are being received in New York at the
rate OF 100, 900 per day and still the mar
ket hold its price. There can be grown
about Atlanta melons Of as good
quality as the best Augusta melons
IF they are only properly treated
The apple crop of north Georgia,
which will will give so to 75 barrels
10 the acre when the trees are cared for,
the barrels bringing 81. so to 50 90 barrel,
would be grea: crop if it was only un-
derstood. To the right of Atlanta reach
ing into Douglas county is a broad ridge
on which there has not been n failure in
the apple crop in 25 years. and the fruit
produced is delicious. Every foot of
this ridge would pay better in apples
than in any other crop that could be
grown.
Of cOIrsc there are fancy and excep-
tional figures. Butthey show very close
ly what can be done and what has been
done without adequate or cheap trans
portation. BY the lines of the road CEN
tering in Atlanta which will certainly
give low rates and quick transportation
to fruits and vegetables grown locally,
there can be concentered here q supply
Of truck next spring that will justify at
le. the trial Of refrigerator cars, and
am satisfied that if trial is once made we
shall have added to Georgia industries
one Of the pleasantest, safest aud most
profitable in all the range Of human labor
This fruit could be put into the great
markets at least two weeks ahead of that
grown about Norfolk, and could get cor
respondingly better prices. From At
lanta the western cities, such rs Chicago
and Cincinnati, which is even better than
New York, could be reached quickly and
cheaply.
All that is needed is to furnish enough
berries, cucumbers, tomatoes, celery or
any "truck" to Justify the sending down
of one car on trial trip. That car might
| come loaded with fine beef from Bal
timore or game from the New York mar
kets, which Il could bring cheaply rather
than emp. The subject is so thorough
ly new to our people that We had better
get at it by studying the course of those
sections in which truck farming has been
made specially. Ishall, therefore, pre-
sent in future letter some points on the
truck farms of Norfolk and Mar -emond
of Newbernc on the Carolina coast ard
East Florida. There is in the history of
these sections some figures more convinc-
ing than argument.
rrhn EnrIv Eruif that plpNSpG 1lln Grit.