The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1892-09-08
ANOTHER MONEY CROP.
Zig Culture In the South Easy and
Profitable.

can not We here In North Carolina send
them IN much better condition. To-day
Gully 22d) figs are retailing in Raleigh
markets for twenty-five cents per peck
and the crop from now until frost win be
very large. i am going to make an ex-
perimental shipment for the benefit of our
growers and believe that they can be
shipped in strawberry boxes and crates
just as well, or better, than Strawberries
are. Figs all over Eastern North Caro-
lima can be grown as successfully and of
as fine quality rs anywhere in California,
and II We once get our slow people stirred
up to their interest in the matter, they
are sure to "git there" in the end. The
interest in the fig crop is increasing here
have distributed In the last thsec years
over 9, 600 fg trees from the North Caro-
lima Station Of our thirty varieties of the
choicest figs Of Italy and the Levant, and
am beginning to see some of the results
We have had recently San Pearo figs,
which weighed quarter OF pound each.
These were of the fret crop, which is
always large in size of fruit. These carly
figs set in late autumn and remain dor.
mant all winter and swell out ii spring
when the winter is not SO, severe as TO in
jure them. Many of them get nipped by
frost and the early crop is never so large
az the later ones. The second ar main
crop is now coming on, and is unusually
abundant, and will be until frost
have suggested to onr growers and
wish to repeat it here, to take the figs
when ripe, but not too soft, wrap each
in tissue paper and pack snugly in
strawberry boxes, and then pack in crates
not longer than thirty-two in crate, and
am sure they will reach the northern
Icities in good order.
| A number Of farmers have written to
aie for directions for drying figs. have
found the following the best plan: Take
well-rpened, figs. make strong lye of
hardwood ashes, dip the figs in the lye,
rinse and wipe dry with a soft cloth,
eyaporators. When dry pack in boxes
made Of washing soda will answer, but
object is to remove the acidity of the
skins. The figs can also be treated in
this way aud then instead of drying,
in syrup: Put them up in glass jars with
neat Autograph labels and they will "sell
like hot cakes" Many southern lady
USoutu "uhC uouCN AL thio Wuy. N utLiC
ginger root with them is an improvement.
Here Is an industry which our Southern
Ipeople ought surely to develope.
i met one of our leading farmers to day,
"a member of our Board of Agriculture.
He said that our work here has brought
Iahoat a wonde,Sr1 enthusiasm for -ths
lure of COW pease in Vie State, and
that In t,s section more Are being sowu
than Ne ever knew. Formerly from his
stationa a numter OF car loads were ship.
Iped annually to New Orleans for seed,
but fhis year they were hard to get nj
any price, as the farmers were using
the seed on their own land. had great
difficulty in getting seed pease wanted
for parties North VINO are taking aa in
terest in the crop. Here is another open
ing for our Soutl IN folks. Hundreds of
farmers are trying these pease in localities
too far North to ripen them we'll. They
are finding them valuable, and the de-
mand will annually increase. Our farmers
should grow them not only for the benefit
of their SOIL but for the sale of seed. You
Can not 60 wrong In this matter. There
will be greater demand every year for
this valuable crop and our growers should
be prepared to meet it. At present the
balance of the trade is against the South
and many goes away from US northward,
but 1t is in our power, with the wonder :
full variety of crops we can grow to change
all this, get the balance on our side and
thus make the money stay here. Grow
pease for sale of seed, grow peas 9. to feed
hogs and stop sending money North for
bacon; and, finally, grow pease to prepare
your land to grow more of everything
else. All through the upper Piedmont
country of North Caroliua, there is the
finest wheat soil, naturally, in this country,
and the people are attempting to grow
cotton when wheat on pease fallow would
bring them more money, and would en-
able them to keep stock and make man.
ure and all the products of the dairy.
ate to day cheese made at our experiment
station by Prof Emery, finer than can be
bought to-day in Raleigh at twenty cents
per pound. All of Piedmont N. c., can
make good cheese even If they can not
make market for butter. 1t will be a,
happy day for the hill country when thief
quit cotton on most of their lands and 6b
ie.ssgheAs grass, pslas a2dn nSaX1hv.
RICHMOND. VA Il .yrv Court