The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-12-27
OF GEORGIA
TEEY ARE BE GINNING TO ATTRACT
ATTENTION.

ATTENTION.
More Than 100000 Trees at Fort
Valley What the Nurserymer
Make - Three Hundred Dollars ar
Acre the Average Profit on Peacl
Growing.
From, he Charleston Netcs and Courier.
Butler, GA, Dec. I5.-What is NOR,
pleasant to the palate than pesches Will
cream What beverage more delightful
than peach brandy!
The home Of the peach is Georgia. I'm
sglne what sight, in summer, to beholC
hundreds of acres planted in peach tress. al
laden with the very finest varieties Of THU
luscious fruit Perhaps many of your read
ers would be surprised with the rapidly
with which the cultivation Of this fruit il
being extended in Georgia, the value Of
this crop 10 the state. and the enormous
profits derived thersfrom. ~
The largest peach orchard in the world is
that Of the Ohio Fruit Land Company,
situated near Fort Valley. Ca, and in about
the same latitude as Charleston. S. G. This
orchard at present contains 10000 trees,
and IS being enlarged every year. Fort Val
ley ships more pesehes. perhaps, than any
other point. The largest orchards around
Fort Valley are the following: Ohio Fruit
Land Company, 10000 trees; Hale Geor-
gis Orchard Company, 125, 900 trees; AL
baugh Georgia Fruit Company, 10000
trees; the J. II. Hall Company, 100000
trees; Maioma Valley Company, 90 GOO
trees; the Gray Arrick Fruit Company, So. :
000 trees; N. Deitzsn & Bro, 5000 trees
Deitzen s. Shurnway. $4,000 trees
the Troy Fruit Company, 10000 trees: Fort
Valley Land Fruit Company, $4,000 trees;
Maj. George 4. Jones, 10000 trees; Gurr g.
Brewster, 5000 trees: F. V. Pagan, J. o.
Lilley Company, Heartily & James, hiley
Bros, W. E Wsrren, B. w. Sa ford, Sterl-
ing Neil. b. A. Brown and j. @. Vischer.
each containing between 5000 TO 900 trees.
There are around Fort Valley net less than
1.25O,OO0. young trees. There is also in the
same county as Fort Valley the famous
Rumph orchard. which until last year was
the largest orchard in the world, containing
125. 900 trees.
Most of the trees around Fort Valley are
yet very young. yet the net profit to fruit
growers around this place this season was
something over 100000. There will come to
them from the sale Of the trees $500, 900.
The Hale Georgia Orchard Company sold
$4,000 worth of trees this TALL, and there
are several other nurseries there.
The varieties usually grown in Georgia,
given IN the order OF ripening, are: Alex
ander, Tillotson. Early River, st. John.
Early Crawford, Amelia. Stump OF the
World, Gen. Lee, Chinese Free, Belle of
Georgia, liberia and Late Crawford. There
are others grown here. and all DO well, ex.
cept perhaps the Alexander, which some are
discarding. The main shipping points are
Fort Valley, Marshallville, Orchard Hill.
Griffin, Forsyth. Bare esviIle, Reynolds,
Perry. Powersville, Lorraine. Tsnnille, But
Ter, The Rock, Byron, Vineyard and More
hand.
1t would, perhaps, be interesting to the
readers of the Nel0s and Courier to know
the profits derived from this fruit crop. w.
z. Warren Of Houston county, whose land
is about the average, realized $500 an acre
from his entire crop. have before me an
account of a sole made by Snow & Co. in
Boston Of 4S0 cases OF these peaches sold at
auction in the month Of August. which
brought 81, 72l 81 gross. This being in
August, when the Delaware and New Jer-
sey crops we're on the market and also sold
at suction, gives some idea OF the demand
for them The usual price per crate OF
three pecEs, however. is from 50 to 81. The
cost TO market Is as follows: For crates in
quantities, 20 cents; gathering, packing AID
loading cars. 20 cents; freight and refriger-
alton, IS cents, commission, 10 cents; total
81 Us per crate. Taking the lowest price.
90, this will net 81 % per crate. A tree
Will yield, on an average, about 215 3-peck
crates
Suppose we get some idea of what the
profit of one of these farms will BE- Take
the Hale Georgia Orchard Company,
owned by J. H. 81 George II Hale Of south
Glastonbury. Conn. By the time these
trees begin bearing they will have expended
Sl25,000. Their average crop will net them
over $500, 200, which will almost thrice pay
for their lands. etc. Suppose we figure
on the profit per acre, as compared with
cotton. An acre In peaches will yield $500
net. Suppose that We have crop one year
in seyen-but more strictly speaking one in
three-Jhat will give profit of almost $43
per acre. Suppose cotton TO DO 10 cents per
pound, and that an acre will produce a
half bale, or 200 pounds this will give
$50 per acre, saying nothing Of the cost of
fertilizers. labor, etc. Does it not seem
that the peach crop In South Carolina
would pay better than cotton?
The canning industry is also receiving at
tentiop here, as we'll as the making of
brandy from tho inferior fruit.
The majority OF these orchards. and es-
pecially the largest ones, are owned by
northern capitalists. There are, however,
many Georgians and many who were form
erly South Caroiinians, among them Judge
A. 5. Giles. formerly Of Abbeville, s. G.;
Capt Wesley Houser, Col. David H. Houser.
Col. Frederick. the Posteles, and Frank
Houser, of Orangeourg. .....
s. F. DARLINGTON.