The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-06-18
MONRy IN SHALL INDUSTRIES,
A Lesson TINT the South Learns nj, too
Slowly.
Correspondence Ye,cs and Courier.


several prominent Northern journals a
text for sermons upon the existing ne.
cessity for the manufacture of small
goods, notions and knicknacks" by the
Southern people for home CONSUMPTION.
The discussion of this subject is. I am
pleased to see, extending ia this direc.
ton, and it is to be hoped practical re-.
suits will ensue. Nowhere are condi.
tIons more favorable for the cheap pro.
duction Of the hundreds of articles that
are now imported here from New York,
Philadelphia, Baltimore and Boston. and
from the great manufacturing cities of
the West. The editor of prominent
North Carolina paper saws: (:
We sleep on Northern beds and on
woven wire springs from Connecticut.
our eyes open in the morning upon
Yankee bureaus, Yankee carpets. Van.
kee wall paper and Yankee paint. We
eat from Yankee plates (using Connecti.
cut made knives and forksl and our food
is cooked'uppn,C Cincipnattstoyes. Many
of us burn psnnsy ivania coal. We die
between N rthern made sheets. are
placed in orthern or Western coffins
and are der sited in grave dug with a
Yankee spaue or shovel We make for
sale-alas !-only cotton, with which we
must pay for the one thousand and one
things we buy from the North. Instead
OF having our own meat and bread stuff
We buy it at high prices from the North
end give in exchange the cotton for which
we get low price. To-day we see in
our stores Northern apples; to-day we
buy from ours provision men Baltimore
cabbages; We use oeomargarine and
Goshen New York; butter for which we
pay exorbitant prices, although we have
fine lands ADAPTED to cattle raising. We
build railroads and send North for rails
and engines, and although we have
thousands of marble quarries (undevel.
oped) nearly all our tombstones come
from Vermont. In short, we furnish the
money hard.earned by the raising of
cotton, and the shrewd Yankee mannfao.
turers are constantly making a profit"
The writer of this graphic resHme
might, very truthfnlly, have added that
just so long as tho people of Dixie sit
down and wait, like Micawber, for
something to turn up, just so long will
the condition of affairs described con.
tinue. 1t is in the little things that the
Yankees excel. For instance, the crop
of dried apples in Pennsylvania in 1884
was valued ut over S33000O; the dried
blackberry ani raspberry crop of New
York State exceeded in value half
million dollars. This is but one small
item, and yet who would think, here in
South Carolina, of drying berries or
fruit for the market? mo" the farm.
ers say, "it amt worth while; tn crops
III be good this year, I reckon" and 30
it goes. The total valuation, estimated
by H. K. & F. B. Thurber, of New
York, of dried fruits in New England
and the Middle States last year vas
little over $G,000,000. About one third
of this fruit was shipped South.
FRUIT IN THE PIEDMONT BELT.
All through the Piedmont belt the
country is especially adapted to the
growing of fruit, and practical demon.
strations of what can be done in this
line were given at the Agricultural Fair
held in this city last year. Peaches,
pears, apricots, cherries and luscious
fruit of all kinds, nearly all of perfect
growth, were exhibited, and yet not a
single person has attempted to can this
fruit and put it on the market for home
consumption in competition with the
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware,
Maryland and California canning com
panies, all uf whom are making money.
Over 100000 cans of vegetables and
fruit were consumed in the South At.
'antic States during the last twelve
months. At Tryon City, on the Ashe.
Vile and Srartanburg Railroad, at Gaff
ney's, Spartanburg and Seneca, and at
Greenwood, canning factories would un-
doubtedly pay. The machinery is not
very expensive and the work can all be
done by women and girls, with few
male inspectors.
WHAT CAN DE DONE.
In Bordentown, N. j., one firm clears
$50, 900 year canning nothing but to.
matoes; the work only lasts a few
months and the profits are about twelve
and half per cent. on the capital in
vested. The Beck Fruit Canning Com.
pany of;Qalifprnia, with aEspscfalty of
peaches and pears, pays dividend of
sixteen per cent. year on capital of
100000 invested. Several factories in
Baltimore earn ten per cent, and none
in the country fall under eight and
half If four or five men with $4,000
eachT TO Tinvest,ywouldrget 1together ind
erect a canning factory in every large
city in the Carolinas where there is
good, constant supply of fruit and vege.
tables, theindustry would pay handsome
ly, since labor here is so cheap. Aspar-
agus can be canned first; then come
peas and beans, cherries and plums,
tomatossHc core, pfacheSand Other frhits
and vegetables, so that from May first to
October first the machinery could be
kept going constantly. Farmers would
be induced to give more attention to
fruit growing and to ''truck gardening"
and the South would begin to become
more self sustaining.
PATENT EvAPORATORS.
Since the invention Of patent evapo.
rotors, whereby fruit can be thoroughly
dried in few hours, there Is no reason
why apples, berries and the like cannot
be dried for the market at profit to the
farmer. A company has been formed In
Greenville for the manufacture Of evap.
orators, and this may be some aid toward
preventing the great waste of frnit which
occurs in the Piedmont Belt every year.
There is always market for every pound
of dried fruit the farmer can mako.
MoDEE FARM.
Here are tome figures made by man
il Sulliyaa County, IN. Y. He writes:
IL have ten acres Of apple trees, all
bearing. I can make each year, by
means of patent fruit dryers, about
so, 600 pounds Of dried apples from the
ten Nacfess.. tise machines 70 pare,
core and slice the5 fruit. BY wife,
daughters and do this work at night. ]
get four cents pound cash for my dried
fruit, in all about 43i250 from ten acres