The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-27
PEACHES IN PLENTY.
THE GEORGIA CROP TO BE THE
LARGEST EVER KNOWN.

It is Little Late, But Will Begin
Moving in the Next Week or Ten
Days - Savannah Dealers Receive
Advices of Loaded Trees and Pros
poets of Fine Fruit - This Year to
Make Up for Last Years Poor Crop.
| 1Sapannahians will have all the peaches
| they can eat this year, aud the prices will be
cheap. The Georgia crop this year promises
to be greater than the crop of 1889, which
was the largest crop ever known. Savan-
nah dealers and shippers are receiving ad-
vices from the sections from which Savan-
nahFeceives its peaches to- the effect that
the crop, though a little late, is In fine con-
ditioh, and will begin tqimeve between June
and Mcp5UJ TIqsLm
Thebtipss Georgia qbeaches received in
SavahIstf last year |grs received by L.
Putzel May ct, aud were Of an inferior quail
ity, osI In tIgpIw weeks from now Savannahians
will bbeL sse9iEingL AL the peaches they can
eat. The principal peach growing section
romwhioh Savanpah receives It's best fruit
Is the vicinity -Sandersville, Tennllle,
Gordon and 9cones. Very little, If any,
fruit comes TO Savannah from beyond that
distance. Marshallville is the great peach
center. however, and the sdvices from
there are that the crop is an enormous one.
COMMISSION MEN BUSY.
Mr.. Miltier, of Miltier & Roberts. COM
mission and prod uce men Of New York, is
in the city on bis wsy from Florida He
says his advices from the largest growers in
the Marshallville section are that the crop
will exceed that of three years ago by at
least 300 carloads.
Another Nav YOrk commission man
just from Marshallville. says the crop is
marvellous. The peach growers of Middle
Georgia, he says, have bonanza this year.
He gave it as his opinion that good prices
will prevail through the season. The Cali
fornia crop, he says, is not large, and be-
sides, Georgia peaches will take the lead.
Peaches can be shipped from Georgia to
New York In less than four days, when it
requires considerably over a weeks time to
get California peaches there. North Geor-
gia peaches will always be fresh, and there
will be eready market throughout the sea-
son. Peaches have sold for $40 per crate,
but the prevailing price is usually 81, which
will be something like the price this year.
1t : is expected to make the fruit net 81
per crate to the grower. Five hundred
crates to the car are shipped, or a net of
81, 900. With 500 cars sold at even the
above low prices $500, 900 will be brought
to Middle Georgia for her peach crop. The
peaches DE the blIQe Jney nave r0acneQ the
consumer will have cost over 81 100000.
PREPARING TO HANDLE THE CROP.
The railroads are making extensive
preparations TO handle the crop, and it is
stated on good authority that fast peach
trains will be a feature of the freight busi-
ness this season. The peach growers are
jubilant over the outlook, and will ooin
money this season.
One grower alone there expects TO ship this
year more than the entire crop of last year.
Where ten carloads were shipped last!yssr
100 will be shipped this year. Last year.
however, was a phenomenaAy bad year for
peaches and the crop was little less than a
total failure. In fact 1t was hardly tenth
Of the average crop which is practically no
crop at all. This year the trees are loaded
with fruit and the fruit itself is finer than
ever before. In nearly every instance the
yield per tree will be twice as large as in
any previous year.
This much for the Middle Georgia section.
What is true of il is true in a sense of all
| sections of Georgia, particularly that from
which Savannah is supplied. The only thing
that can injure or cut off the crop now is a
cyclone or hail storm or long continued
rain. There does not seem to be any fear
| from hail unless 1t comes in the next two
weeks, and while Cyclone is always pos
sibility 1t does not come often and is not one
of the every day casualties which peach
growers look for. When it does come, how
ever, there is no guarding against it aud it
generally makes clean sweep.