Smyrna times., 1881-01-12

ELECTION OF BANK OFFIcERs-Each of
our bank institutions held elections yester.
day OF Directors for the enusuing year,
Fr7dt Growers' Bank.-H C.. Douglass, F.
II. Harper, JnO. H. Hotfecker, A. L. Hud.
son, Samuel Hurlock, Thomas James, r. C..
johnson, Geo. H. Raymond, Sam'l Roberts,
Joseph Smithers, w. w Tschudy. Geo. H.
Raymond, Prest, n. F. Wilds, cashier, S.
G. Wllds, Teller.
The National Bank Of ISmpna.-D. j. Cum
minis, J. f. Collins. j. w. Anthony, j. NJ.
Voshell, Wm. Hutchinson, J. b. Conner, J.
F. Denney, A. B. Roe, W. C. Satterfield. J.
W. E. Sudler, j. f. Tygert, J. G. Bailey.
David j. Cummins, Prest, VIM NJ Bell,
Cashier and D. B. Voshell. Teller.
A SURE PEACH CRoP.-The developments
of the past week set two facts before our
peach growers; first, that the peach crop
hudded fruits killed, and second, that
the natural fruit insignificant in quantity
is uninjured. Here is food for thought. es-
| pecially in consideration Of the hundred
of thousands Of dollars invested in peach
culture on this Peninsula. The railroads
and "middIemen" of the cities are equally
interested, as to them falls the lions share.
There are hundreds Of farmers who look to
their peach crop as the only source OF
profit. They are taught time and again
how prScariOus it is, but good hit once
in three or four years serves the purpose
TO keep the temptation ever before them.
Under the former system Of marketing
from the tree only, it was either this OF
abondon the crop altogether. But, the
developments Of the past two or three
years has put new phase on the peach a,
n farm product. We refer to the use o
the Evaporator. 1t is now a home crop, Of
can be made so as certainly as apples anc
almost as much so as wheat and corn. Tn,
large number Of peach dryers that wer,
put in use last year were in every cas-,
; highly profitable, and had there been
good crop the coming summer, the numbe
! would have been quslrupled in our com
: munity. BY the cold blast Of a singl
5 week those already erected will be dea
3 capital for year certainly, with the poss
>. bilities Of the future and its uncertainties
| With little change, as above indicated, t
). the man who intends to evaporate rathe
>. than market his fruit, we think he ca
v have almost sure thing of it. The reade
y has not read thus far without anticipatin
what we msan-the propagation of til
natural fruit. With a temperature lowe
Il than it rarely falls in generation. it hi
Il stood the test when the other has gon
II down carrying with it millions. Let til
IS farmer who intends TO sVsporatc his Gro
h plant choice varieties of natural fruit an
8. he may not often see his capital prolific
,e investment.
Of We read year or so ago Of farmer
Of far North as Maine who was making peac
q growing a successful and profitable thin
d The secret Of his success was stated to be
1t judicious selection of Natural fruit whiC
re he had himself propagated. Many of OF
IN farmers can 60 back to the period before Il
II peach was a marketable article. The
C will remember as raised simply for fami
IN use, in reproducing only from denirah
c fruit, what luscious peaches used to
III grown yearly in the gardens and along Il
st fence rows. The budded is a surer way
at an exact reproduction of special variet
ut and for general consumption more desil
st bic, but for evaporatinR, good natu,
10 preferable to the cullings of the budG,
k. fruit-the kind that usually finds its w
K. TO the dryer. If our farmers who la
II, gone to the expense Of putting up evap,
RS ting houses mean business, let them THU
ny we'll on this subject.