Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-10-06

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Wilmington, Charleston, and Talla-
hassee, where market gardening has
been followed by success, enormous
quantities of berries have been raised
and shipped for consumption. Ifthese
formed a part, though small one, of
the yearly crops of every farmer of
these sections, they would not be so
remunerative, perhaps, to the market
gardener and trucker, but they would
be sufficiently so to the farmers, and
would add greatly to the health and
pleasure of the vast number Of people
within the range of whose means they
would come by reason of their reduced
price, and if the supply exceed the de-
mand at any time, the surplus could
easily be canned.
In all parts ofthe South, blackberries
grow wild, and when they first ripen,
find ready sale in the local markets.
Within a few years evaporators and
fruit-driers have become cheap enough
to find their way amongst farmers, and
are coming into common use. If suf-
fcient public spirit could be infused
into every community, to haYe erected
at some convenient point in its midst,
public establishment, however small,
provided it was neat and clean, and
furnished with inexpensive apparatus
for drying and curing fruits, the
amounts gathered by individuals would
be increased, the curing improved, and
the time usually spent in curing saved;
being better cured, it would baing bet
ter prices, and would thus effect con-
siderable saving to each community.
Blackberries, as all know, grow wild
but strawberries, raspberries, or any
other. berry, they grow larger and better
when carefully cultivated, and they
can be planted in parts of the farm
where they will not become nuisance
by interfering with other crops. Very
few farmers are aware of the immense
trade in dried fruits that awaits de-.
veloyment at the hands of enterprislng
business men. "The quantity of dried
fruit shipped from this point annually
Hickory, N. CO. for the past five
years, will approximate half million
of pounds. About one-half of this
amount is in dried blackberries. The
present crop was never better, and the
market will open at about five cents a
pound"
Apricots are broguht to rare per-
lection in France, and are quite differ.
ent from the tasteless, acid and watery
fruits of the same name in this country
They do well on a loan soil, but thrive
on any soil that is enriched, if the trees
are protected aud properly trained.
In the Piedmont country Of the South
they will pay as well as any fruit that
is grown. At the present the apricot
is not common fruit, and has a future
to make for itself. The cherry is
valuable, because it can be matured
and marketed before the apple blossoms
have fallen from the trees in New York
and New England. The thrifty far
mers who will engage in nursing few
trees will be paid for their care, not
only as a table delicacy, but in the
fancy prices that this agreeable fruit
will net them in the large markets.
Peaches and apples, in their endless
varieties in the green state, or when
dried, are the bulk of the marketable
fruits. They are found in greater OF
less perfection in any part of the
South and it is safe to say. do
well anywhere. But when these trees
are left to themselves, in the old de-
serted, blank, barren fields, the fruit
deteriorates every year, until it be-
comes small, faulty, and an easy prey
to every kind of disease. With the
same care and attention that similar
crops receive in higher ATTITUDES, these
fruits grow to rare perfection, and i
the trees were given the care to which
their relative commercial value en-
titles them, they would yield on every
farm as sure and high profits as any
, other crops under cultivation. The