The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1893-02-16

| the most perfect peaches and pears, we
! ma the apple IN its perfection. This is
a wonderful attractive possession as it
makes secure the highest satisfaction of
| !iYlnS. This diversity of fruits that can
be easily grown with slight expense will
! be the best returns horticulture can
| promise our people.
rms, with the delightful climate and
multitude of other good things be-
| slowed upon us, contains profits that
| cannot be indicated by dollars The
North Georgian should never ask the
| question what are we living for? Look
ing at the fruit interest from the stand
| point OF commercial grower, is there
room and hope for North Georgia?
That this section will produce the fruit
has been fully demonstrated, we have
| 1t from eastern commission merchants
that North Georgia peaches were lar
ger, finer and of better quality than any
| arrivals during the season. Pears do
| well, especially is this truelof the Keif-
fer. The grape succeeds admirably.
Japan plums promise to more than full
I'LL the most sanguine expectations.
Some few of the Europeans succeed
nicely. Duke and Morello cherries are
a success on nearly all soils.
Apple growing, which IS yet almost
entirely undevelopad is most promising
especially in the territory north of us
/ If you have ever seen Paldwin's golden,
Kinnards choice and eveI = alive seed
lings as grown in that reacA vo2 uu-
derstand why we should be S4nraiaa Il;
to the future of apple culture. With
the entire southland for a market this
is one fruit that no grower could rea-
| sonably fear of overproduction. In fact
the question of overproduction need not
engage the attention of our fruit grow
ers; but these are questions that must
have careful intelligent consideration or
| failure will be the result.
II we make commercial growing a
success, varieties must be grown that
| are adopted to our soil, climate. and
elevation, proper cultivation must be
given, remedies for insect depredations
must be properly and timely applied,
| the fruit must have proper handling.
The markets to be supplied must be
carefully studied, and then cater to the
| best trade.
Neglect of any one of these points
Will most likely lin time bring disaster
upon the grower.
His returns will be in exact proper
| ton to his knowledge and the practical
business like application of it, to the
work.
The great question remains to be
solved will our people with the position,
the climate, and possibilities Of the fu-
| ture of fruit growing in plain view, give
| North Georgia, the great prominence as
a source from which to supply q large
! territory with the most luscious fruits,
which she should justly receive.
Thoughts On stock Raising In Georgia,
Suggested by Daily Observation
BY HON. R. T. NEsBTTT, COMMISSIONER OF
AGRICULTURE.
| From the Southern Cultivator.
AT this season of the year I pass on
| the railroad car after car filed with
mules and horses shipped here for sale.
and rs each Gay see the dr0ves pass my
office window, the thoughts i'll my mind
becomes al earnest wish that every
! farmer could realize the tremendous
| drain on cur resources caused by this
/, yearly buying OF stock, and that some
| plan could be practically formed for
Keeping at home the immense sums
which are paid out for this one item.
IN Atlanta alone are sold each year
about 10000 head, representing about
S6o0,O00. Can we not keep at home o
| part at least of this large waste? Tt
does seem that if the stock raisers of
the west can, with all the attendant
risk, breed and raise this number of
| mules and horses. then paw the expen-
ses OF shipping, and still realize hand
some profit. we, with cOmparativelv
nominal railroad expenses and every
advantage Of climate and situation,
could make such an investment pay
well, added to which stock raised here
being acclimated. would be far less liza
bic TO sickness than those brought from
a higher latitude
Even where it is not desirable to en-
ter into this as a regular business. there
is scarcely farmer owning land who
could not by proper management ar
range to raise a colt or two, and this
once accomplished, he would be aston
lshed at the ease with which it has been
done and the small outlay it has cost
him.
l have now valuable three year-old,
| the raising of which has cost me scarcely
a dollar. Indeed, were | to begin to cal
culate how much she has cost, would
say, nothing, except the attention. be-
cause her food was raised on the farm
and would have been consumed there;
in palmer words, she represents what
would otherwise have been wasted.
Understand, [ do not at present urge
the raising of stock on large scale, ex-
cept where necessary preparations have
been made, because where one goes into
this as a regular business there are
several requisites which are absolutely
necessary to success, and if these, or
even one or two Of thevS are lacking,
failure is almost certain to follow.
was recently talking with gentle
man who was well posted and who had
been an enthusiast on this subject. He
owned large tract of land five thou.
sand acres, in one of the best portions of
this state, a large part of it in fine Ber-
muda pasture. He bought sixty mares,
hired the necessary labor for their at
tention. and fitted up his place with all
the appointments for a first-class stock
farm. But he forgot one thing: that
the class of labor which can plod along
in the corn and cotton fields is not, un.
less under the most careful and watch
full direction, capable of attending to
the duties of a stock farm. The negro
| iS often Crua1 tO and rara1occ Of liS OI,,,,