Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-05-29
PROFITABLE HORTICULTURE,
Quality More Desirable and Remuneratiy
Than Quantity.

Fruit-grOwrrs should remember that
it is the quality of fruit that brings the
tom nrinn and - should nlwoAs ha thoir
cndcayor to obtain this. After he has
shown that one can produceNo. / fruit,
then he can give his attention to pro-
ducing so much as he can, consistent
with maintaining the quality up to the
standard,
If the production of a greater guam
tity is causing a deterioration of quail
ity it is time to cry Il halt, and give
quality of products more attention, 1t
is the best Of every thing that brings
the best prices, and with none of our
farm products is this more true than
with fruits.
Another point in favor of producing
the best of fruits is that in doing so.
while You may not grow the largest
number of apples, pears or berries, You
do not necessarily produce a les,
amount in weight or by measure.
With fruits, as a rule good size is rood
quality; it is not so with all other
things. And if by giving better cul-
ture and more room one grows apples
only half the number of which are re-
quired to make a bushcl than would be
needed if this care had not been given.
and one bushel of large apples sells for
II quarter to a third more than the
bushel of small ones, it is easy to see
that there is a chance for greater profit
in growing the larger fruits.
One can pick a large strawberry or
apple as quick if not quicker than one
hall the size and the former will fill the
measure twice as fast. 1t costs less to
handle the large than the small fruits.
Customers are better suited with good
fruit than with poor, and by satisfying
their tastes we make them want more,
and the demand is thus increased.
But all the good qualities of fruit do
not, by any means, lie in the size.
There are many qualities which the
grower must try to improve; AS color,
flavor, texture of skin and flesh. etc.
There are two principal ways by
which fru~it-growers fail to produce the
best fruit, viz, by having a Greater
area than they can take care of right.
and by letting their trees and vine,
bear more than they can mature prop.
erly. If one has already more land in
fruit than he can attend to it takes
some courage to 90 and cut out q part
yet it is better to do so than to raist
and put on the market Il lot of poor
fruit. To those who c%ontemplat,
planting we would say, 90 slow, plan,
a small area at first, learn the bushes,
and as fast as you get the skill to grow
the best, increase the plantation.
Many fruit growers fail to produc,
good fruit by allowing their trees anC
vines to overbear. When the condi.
tons have all been favorable and tn,
orchardist sees his trees full of bloom
and setting a heavy crop of fruit, hi,
soul ~delighteth within him and he /,
glad! But if a late frost comes ant
Kills half of the buds he is almos
ready to curse and die But tina
which often seems a direful visitation
from Providence is really a blessing il
disguise.
A tree will very readily run tn,
gauntlet of all danger to the buds an,
then bear more than the tree can sup
port properly and mature in the hes
manner. And the evil is not contine,
to the fruit, but results in permancn
injury to the tree, This often happen
to young trees in the beginning o
their career.
The orchardist can do himself n,
greater service than by watching hi
trees, especially the young ones. and /
they have set too full pick off a part o
the fruit; and don't be afraid of tahin,
OIL too many. Better We too many thai
too few. Don't neglect it ether. 70
the sooner it is done the better for tn
tree and fruit. Colman'S Ru3ai Worid