The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-06-18
MONRY IN SMALL INDUSTRIES.
A Lesson that the South Learns NIL too
Slowly.
Correspondence Ncucs and Courier.

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goods, notions ands knicknacks" by the
Southern people for: home consumption.
The discussion of this subject is, / am
pleased to see, extending in 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 pape. says:
"We sleep on Northern beds and on
woven wire springs from Connecticut,
our eyes open in the morning upon
Yankee bureaus, Yankee carpets, Yam
kee wall paper and Yankee paint. We
eat from Yankee plates (using Connect.
cut made knives and forks and our food
is cookedsupousC Cincinpatistoves. Many
of us burn Pennsy lyania coal. We die
between Northern made sheets, are
placed in Northern or Western collins
and are deposited in grave dug with
Yankee spade 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
and give in exchange the cotton for which
we get low price. To-day we see in.
our Fstores Northern apples; to-day we
buy from ours provision men Baltimore
cabbages; we use oleomargarine 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 (undeyel-
oped) nearly all our tombstones come.
from Vermont. In short, we furnish the
money hard learned by the raising of
cotton, and the shrewd Yankee manufac.
turers are constantly making profit"
The writer of this graphic festtn,e
might, very truthfully, have added that
Just so long as the 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 at over 100000; the dried
blackberry and raspberry crop of New
York State exceeded in value half
million dollars. This is but one small
item, aud yet who would think, here in
South Carolina, of drying berries or
fruit for the market? "No," the farm
ers say, "it amt worth while; tn crops
IL be good this year, I reckon" and so
it goes. The total valuation, estimated
by II. K. & F. B. Thurber, of New
York, of dried fruits in New England
and the Middle States last year vas
little over $6,QO0,OOO. 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
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 of whom are making money.
Over 100000 cans of vegetables and
fruit were consumed in the South At.
lantic States during the last twelve
months. At Tryon City, on the Asbe.
Vile and Spartanburg Railroad, at Gaff
ney's, Spartanburg aud 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 BE DONE.
In Bordentown, N. j., one firm clears
$4,000 year canning nothing but to.
matoes; the work only lasts few
months and the profits are about twelve
and half per cent. on the capital in
vested. The Beck Fruit Canning Com
pauy ofICalifornia, with q specially of
peaches and pears, pays dividend of
sixteen per cent. a year on capital of
100000 invested. Several factories in
Baltimore earn ten per cent, and none
in the country fall under eight and a
half. If four or five men with $4,000
each to .investawould get together and
erect canning factory in every large
city in the Carolinas where there is q
good, constant supply of fruit and vege.
tables, the industry would pay handsome
ly, since labor here is so cheap. Aspar.
agus can be canned first; then come
peas and beans, cherries and plums,
tomatoes, corn, peaches and other fruits
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"
aud 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 fruit which
occurs in the Piedmont Belt every year.
There is always market for every pound
of dried fruit the farmer can make.
A MODEL FARM.
Here are some figures made by man
in Sullivan County, N. Y. He writes:
"I have ten acres of apple trees, all
bearing. I can make each year, by
means of patent fruit dryers, about
$4,000 pounds Of dried apples from the
ten acres. We use machines to pare,
core and slice the fruit. My wife,
daughters and I do this work at night. I
get four cents q pound cash for my dried
fruit, in all about 3,250 from ten acres
or 1925 an acre. Then I have the land
planted in turnips for my cattle and in
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