Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-12-28
Create Your Own Markets.


is large section of fertile lands occupied
by 1000 farmers. One-tenth of these could
join together and subscribe $1,000 each,
thus furnishing 500, 900 to build a co-ope-
rative factory that would employ several
hundred hands. That section could Just
as easily build halt a dozen factories of
various kinds, and, of course, double and
quadruple the number of employees to be
fed and clothed. Do you ''catch On'' to
the idea? What the farmer wants is a
population differently employed from him.
self to buy and pay for his surplus, If he
can obtain this by investing little some
thing, would it not be wise to do it? Th2!
lis the way they made England the fore
snost manufacturing country in the world.
Scu think it will not pay. So did thou
of the English people when they
w of their neighbOrs begin their
R-OperatiOn, but some men have
enough to look into the future.
COnte Pear in Chatham.
perhaps, no pear. so well suited
to { Chatham and the other sea-
Goa les of Georgia as the lie Cont
and no known reason why j.. sbould
not hlly well adapted to the lower
cOun the Carolinas. 1t first became
know Liberty county, in this State,
wher1 believed by more than one
horticI rist, that it first developed from
some iOr pear into its now well-known
super characteristics. Prof. Berck-
mans, me years ago, if our memory
serves well, expressed this opinion,
which ems to be founded on the belief
that iT iOr fruits may develop into su-
periOr IDS by transfer into more suita-
BILE 10 Aties. Nothing was known of
such a in this country until the LIE
Conte b pc famous in Southwestern
Georgia. then it was ascertained that
the cuttiS bad been brought from Lib
erty coun where the parent tree has
fiourished Ne twenty-five years, and
still bears Rnt crops of fine fruit.
Although the tree was procured in
a Northern nun is distinctive char
acter was not x TO buyer or seller,
and as no such nRuently APP
peared in the NOl = be
good ground for z n
ion and emitting then the
lie COnte as a natiVe. nly
taken the front rank anon bars
OF the lower South, and rity
seems undiminished after ely s of
unprecedented distribution to al very
State in the Union. Whatever 'e its
fate in other sections, thorough has
proved it to be at home on the lig andy
soils of Georgia and the Gulf ST. and
should it prove worthless everyw else
we have here an area of territory able
of producing the worlds supply. GEMS
not to be affected by drought or fid nor
has it so far developed any form of ease
OF suffered from anyFinsect, so thai 18th
its extraordinary rapidity of growth n
simple cuttings, its prolific annual d
of % and 80 bushels of pears, without
years; - its deep instead of surface I'd
ing. allowing deep cultivation Of OthN
crops under its very foliage; and its early
bearing, producing fruit in three and four
years from the cutting, it is clearly the
most profitable pear that can be success
fully cultivated in this section.
out small orchards in the vicinity last
year, report favorably of the thrift of the
yQpng trees and are much pleased win
tie prospect of future profit. We are sur
prised that this pear has not attracted
more attention in Chatham and adjoining
counties, where it will evidently thrive as
well as in any part of the world, and
where it can be shipped to Northern mar
kets at so much less cost than from two
or three hundred miles in the interior.
Had Chatham been prompt to recognise
its value when it first appeared in her
market a few years ago, her fruit growers
would now be annually shipping thou.
sands of crates and realizing more profit
from it than any other section of the State
The lie Conte rivals the Bartlett in pOpu-
larity as green fruit and bids fair to sur.
pass all the other pears for excellence in
the dried state.