The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-11

I began planting large and small fruit
ten years ago. peaches, pears, plums, APP
pies and cherries, on a small scale at first.
Since that time have put out fifty acres
in large fruit, but straw and raspberries
on small scale have done very well, says
w. G. James of Alabama in Home and
Farm. 1 now have out some 1900 peach
trees, most of them young. 1 have sew
eral varieties some very good and some
of not much value My preference OF
early peaches is Crawfords and Triumphs,
which l consider the best for June ana
July. Triumph is a June peach, and
Crawford both late and early July peach.
Chinese clings l consider best. Cling is
a July peach, but somewhat inclined to
rot Gen. Lee l think one of the best
white freestone July peaches. l have sew
eral kinds of August and September
peaches, such as Stump of the World,
Old Nixon, free and cling, ST. John, Anne
liza, which is a fine, large peach, but
does not bear well. / have also alberta,
which is a July peach, but does not COM
pare with Crawford.
1 planted or set my trees at first 20x20;
since then l have put them 15x15. 1 set
900 last February 12X12. My land l con-
slider of the best for stone fruit, sandy,
without any subsoil and not very rich.
Where set peaches and plums, do not
suppose it would make more than fifteen
| to twenty bushels corn on such land. Some
of my Crawfords measured ten to twelve
| inches in circumference. I sold them by
putting in neat packages at from 50 to
50 per bushel, and could not supply the
demand in our local markets. 1 sold my
late Crawfords for 81 per bushel, when
! Elbertas sold for 81. 1t seems that nearly
everybody is crazy about Elberta, but
Crawford is good enough for me.
| am very much IMPRESSED with the
| Japanese plum; have fruited two kinds,
Abundance and Burbank. Like the Abund-
/ ance best. Sod from one tree four years
setting, 81 worth of plums. 1 cultivate
cotton in orchard while my trees are
! young; when trees begin bearing plant
peas and pillow them under. Am trying
| crimson clover this year and think il is as
! good. Have been trying to induce neigh
| bors to plant fruit so We could have whole
| sale buyers, but cotton is king and we are
! getting poorer every year by planting it
! and it is wearing out our lands. What we
need is thrifty class Of white people and
| raising fruit such as peaches, plums.
! prunes, and a finer place does not exist
20 raise Bartlett and Kieffer pears All
| carry apples such as Transparent, Har-
! vest and Ben Davis do well, but very late
varieties on my lands do pot do we'll and
| l think the hot summer too long for them.
/ l was given some Paragons and other
/
of his raising as fine as 1 ever saw. Kief-
! fer pears do splendid; l sold from thirty
trees nine years setting, $50. 1 have this
| year 400 of that kind in fruit. Have in all
| 900 out and will set 1,500 more, also $50
Bartletts and $500 Japanese plums, am
! troubled to some extent with insects and
| fungi, such as borers, curculio, codlng
moth and brown rot in peaches and plums
| and bitter rot in apples. l get the borers
out with wire by taking away the dirt
and running the wire in holes they have
made. l jar for curculio, catch them on A
sheet and burn them. Spray with Dor
deaux mixture for fungus and paris green
for codling moth and all gnawing insects.
1 prune my peach and plum trees heavily,
thinning and cutting back one-third of each
years growth. l thin my peaches, piums.
pears and apples from one-half to two
thirds, as 1t makes larger and more de-
| licious fruit. Choice fruit will command
| choice prices when trashy fruit will not
| sell at any price. I saw peaches selling
| in Huntsville and one of my local markets
! for 30 cents per bushel when I was selling
at 81 per bushel The fruit was wormv
and people will not buy worms for fruit
| w. G. James, Madison county, Ala,