Smyrna times., 1882-09-20
The Last Of the Season.

The Last Of the Season.
The peach shipments are over with
the most of the farmers and will be
with all by the last of the week. The
evaporating men will run on part of
next week, using up the soft and fruit
not otherwise desirable for market.
This is pronounced the most unSatiS-
factory year in the history of peach
culturc-dcmoralizing alike in the two
chief factors in its marketing, the labor
ers who gathered it and the commits
sion men who converted it into hard
cash. The excess of fruit above what
was anticipated tone quarter) was
just that much too much and made it
unsatisfactory to both the shipper and
his agent. The greatest hardship has
fallen on the renter. "HOw have you
found the season." we asked day or
two ago of a man who sends away con-
siderable fruit Not so well as | eX-
pected" was the reply. The crop has
paid you has it not, }" we asked. "Yes," "
he said, because got all, but it has
been poor year with the tenant.
There is little or nothing to them in
| peaches" He went on further to say
! that it was an injustice for the renter
in addition to tilling and trimming the
orchards, whether there was fruit OF
not, to be at all the expense of baskets,
wagons and pickers, whether the fruit
sold for anything or not. He believed
the landlord should bear at least hall
the expense of the baskets, if nothing
else.
The railroad management it is said
has never been so unsatisfactory. This
does not apply to the part under |. n
Mills which has been skillfully run
but after it left Gray's Ferry. The
delays in getting the trains in BOstOI
on schedule time has caused depreci
ated value to much of the fruit sen
there, but the cost to the shipper is jus
the same. The general average of re
ceipts will be somewhere about 3
cents, some may go ~, low as 20 cents
while few will go as high rs 80 cents
The best paying orchard we have hear'
of was that of VIM. Morgan betweel
Central Mill and Seven Hickories who's
fruit was remarkably fine and wei
colOred and will return profit {
81 600 it is said from eight acres.
:: Every man who essayed to specu
! late on peaches was burnt" and badl
so. Our evapOrating men have had a
= experience they would not like to re
peat. In buying orchards they pai
; about One-third more than the tru
! realized, thus dissipating very largel
, what should have been their prof
All parties were counting largely o
: good prices for their late fruit, bu
: smOcks" have been "given away" /
: nearly as was the "old Nixon" III
q reason assigned is that they have bee
going in from Jersey by the 100 C;
loads.
The amount of money locked up
baskets aggregates an enormous sun
One farmer, A. l.. Hudson, tells us thi
u he had at one time 1000 baskets {
e the road, his entire stock, and soon,
n than pay the high price then demandC
d by the manufacturers, (about VIII
peaches were selling for), he cease
Is picking until some of them were +
i, turned. The renters especially wi
n have much of their peach money pac
n ed away in their barns until the ne
crop, whenever that is.
70 After all, the rich grain crops, su
Ia plemented by the peach crop has ma
y, the country rich, that is, more mon
CO in circulation than Mt any period sin
lie the flush times during the war.
ed one has not got what he expect
or another has, and its effect is felt frC
n the large land holder down to I
humblest laborer.