The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1894-10-25
INTERESTING READING.
Rich Summary of Information About
the South.

recent years as a fruit producing AGRA.
The article is elaborately illustrated
with fine half-tone views of orchards
and vineyards 1t is shown that
peach orchard or a vineyard Of any
size, from five acres up, need not cost,
including price Of land, planting IN
| trees and cost of care and cultivation
up to the time Of bearing, more than
/ SIS 90 to $500 an acre, and that in
three to four years it will begin yield
ing a revenue Of 500 to 5000 an acre,
the great prohtableness of the business
being due to the fact that the fruit
from this section, which is Of exceF-
tionally fine color and flavor, gets
into the Northern markets several
weeks earlier than the products of more
Northern orchards, the prices received
being in consequence many times
| greater than can be had later in the
season, when the fruit has become
more plentiful. Land in this region
sells at from 5 90 to So. 90 an acre,
according to location and improve
ments, and a farmer can begin III SIX
months from the purchase of his land
Gaming enough to live on from the
sale of early vegetables and ordinary
farm products, supporting his family
in this way while waiting for his trees
and vines to begin bearing.
| In the same issue DR.. Charles Small
wood writes, with all the enthusiasm of
the true sportsman, about Hunting
the Wild Turkey in Eastern North
| Carolina" Mr. Charles I. Smith has
also an interesting article on Fruit
Growing in Georgia. and DR.. Jay
Shrader, Of Winter Haven, Fla, writes
entertainingly about the business of
''Tomato Growing in Florida Mr..
Hugh K. Garden, the eminent lawyer
of New York, and president of the
Southern Exchange Association, in 4
brief bat clear and comprehensive
article sets forth the reasons for the
association, the need of it, the work it
is designed to do, the means and
methods it will employ and its plan Of
organization. This article was written
in compliance with request from the
editor of the Southern States, as the
best way to answer adequately and
authoratively he numerous requests
received by him from all parts of the
South for information about the pur-
pose and plans of the association. The
series of letters from Northern and
| Western farmers who have settled in
the South is continued in this number,
with one from the fruit section of
Missouri and Arkansas one from a
farmer who moved from Iowa to
Mississippi; one from an Englishman,
who reCltes his experiences in North
Carolina one from a Pennsylvania
who settled in Underwater Virginia
one from delighted Iowa man in
Alabama, who urgently importunes his
friends Of the North to move South
one from a New Yorker, who writes
from North Carolina that, while he has
not grown wealthy, he has everything
he needs and is doing we'll one from
Pennsylvania man settled in Ten
nessee one detailing Nebraska man S
experience in and opinion of South
west Louisiana, and one from a lady
who moved from what she calls "the
country of the BLIZZARD to louisiana
: and writes with much enthusiasm
about the charms of that section. These
letters are followed by some interest
ing items about farms and farmers ir
the South.
One of the most important article:
in this number is an editorial showing
the fallacy of some statements recently
, published by the United States Agrl
, cultural Department as to the present
, relative rate of growth of city anc
, country population in the South. The
; editorial is an elaborate analysis o.
Y statistics of population in the South II
r the last thirty years. This is followed
by an editorial showing that the wave
S of population that has been moving
/ from the country into the cities il
S beginning to recede, and that in this
! turning back to the farms from the
e cities the South will receive the large
S share. The editorial departments, i'm
+. migration news, real estate and genera
s notes contain great deal of interest
e ing and valuable information and com
e ment bearing on developments in The
# South along the lines indicated by tn
titles of these departments. TIL,
e department of correspondence contain
several pages of exceedingly interesting
I letters from contributors in diferen
;. parts o: the South.
S As an exponent OF the attractions G
= the South in climate, health and soil
:. the Southern States under the editor
S ship of Mr.. William H. Edmonds is ;
e pronounced and pre-eminent success
d It doing wonderful work III the wa
e of directing immigration and invest
IS ment to the South. The Souther
e States is published by the Manufat
If tHrs,s' Record Publishing Co., Balti
n more. The price is $3.50 year, 0
fifteen cents for single copies.
n The most remarkable cures of Scroful
on record have been accomplished b
{ Hoods Sarsaparilla. This medicine is III
st equalled for diseases of the blood Tax
, only Hoods.
&c Hoods pills are hand made, and perfel
n i'll proportion and appearance. 25c.
Il WITH the close of the base ba
Is season comes foot ball, and we ma
expect to soon see the usual chronicl
u of broken limbs and battered head
II incident to this brutal so-called spor
u AS the game of foot ball is played te
IL day the attendance of a surgeon is {
y much of a necessity as in a elias
y between the Japs and the Chimes
u He is, we are reliably Informed, secure