The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1895-05-02
SOUTHERN ORCHARDS.
Something of the Profits in the
Culture of Fruits.
Nearly Every Known Variety OF
Fruit Can be Probably Grown
I'm the Southern States.

south. Every variety that can be
grown in tho northern states will
succeed in the sOnth and besides
many varities that ii is utterly I'M
possible to grow to maturity in the
north are grown with success in
the milder climate Of the southern
states.
Raising fruit for market has in
the past few years awakened great
interest among the fruit growers,
and, AS consequence many large
orchards have been planted and
small ones enlarged. With the en-
largement of the fruit area, the
transportation facilities have been
improved, and the railroad and
steamship lines now provide ample
means for the rapid transportation
of fruits, and other perishable
merchandise, 10 the northern mar
kets. The rates Of transportation
are by no means greater than those
charged in other parts of the
country, and, AZ n Tnle, are some
what cheaper than those of the
western routes.
Southern grown fruit commands
a much better price i'm the market
than that grown IN any section of
country, because Of its superiority
in flavor and rs wen rs early ma
turity. Southern frnit commands
a price two or three times as great
as uorthen grown fruit. The south
ern growers can raise much larger
crops than the gr)wers in the north
and his profits are correspondingly
greater
The net profits that can be made
from a five acre fruit farm in the
south, are greater than can be
made from hundred acre farm in
the north. Lands in the south that
are best suited to fruit growing are
the cheapest lands, and sell at from
$3 to sl5 per acre. These cheap
lands will give double the profits, if
planted In fruit trees, as will the
lands of the north that cost $50 or
more per acre, because trees in the
south grow twice as fast as in the
north, will bear sooner and double
the crop of the same aged tree in
.he north, and the fruit sells at
double the price Of the northern
grown.
We can hardly see what better
inducements could be asked, by
the fruit growers than the above.
The south is booming and the fruit
growing industry is almost wholly
responsible for, and is the solid
foundation Of the same. Less than
seven years elapsed since the first
shipment Of peaches was made to
the north from the south, yet, in
that short time, has attained u rep
utation that surpasses all other
fruits.
There is no other crop grown in
the south that returns better
profit on the investment than that
of peaches. Fifty thousand dollars
has been made from one crop off an
orchard Of 200 acres, or $3.50 per
acre, and that net. And from this
same orchard, the own netted
Sl25,0O in four years, and TWO of
those years the crop was poor.
Another grower sold his crop of 100
trees for $500 cash and the pureha-
ser said he doubled his money on
the Investment. We merely give
these cases for illustration, and to
sh W that the large, rs well as the
small grower, is well paid. We
could name scores Of other growers
that have been equally as success
full and which we intend tC do
later.
The immense profits in fruit grow
ing in the south, has already at
tracted the ate tiOn of the nor
thern growers, and, within the last
three years, they have invested
largely in southern fruit lands and
planted orchards.
Some may think that there will
be an over production and the mar
ket glutted with southern fruit,
and to these we will say that the
increase in the number of trees
planted in the south willonly about
replace the trees that have died of
the 'yellows' in Delaware and
Maryland in the same Tenth of time.
1t was once said that California
would glut the market, yet from
100000 pounds Of green fruits in
1880, the shipments grew to $4,000
600 in 1890, and the market has not
been glutted. Southern peaches