The morning news., 1899-05-15

fort. G. H. Turner.
Peach Culture in Southern Georgia.
Varieties for succession-Time to
Plant.
Subscriber" Ware county, Georgia:
Like every other farmer in this section
of the county, 1 am at a loss what to do
to make my land, or at least, a reason
able part of it. of real value to me in the
future. With the very best mana cement
it is bare living that can be had out of
corn and cotton, if present prices are to
rule. Few of us are prepared to go into
stock raising of any kind; that Is, on
scale sufficient to get any returns from
the business under three or four years.
We are just compelled to plant such
things as make the quickest returns.
Even with the orchard crops, peaches,
! plums, pears, we have to wait several
years before we can get any money back
on the investment and 1t is fact there
are few of us that are able to invest in
such, especially on an uncertainty But
the old saying, Nothing venture, moth
ing win," must spur us to make some
ventures within reason.
Il have decided to establish a small
orchard of peaches and 1 would be glad
to know what are the best kinds to in
| NiuuS III d small tilldfftlnS OIL SAX or elSnt
acres; a half dozen kinds, say. that
would give a succession of fruit from June
to October; and Is it best to plant in the
spring or in the fall would be glad
10 have the benefit of the experience of
some of your South Georgia readers who
have had fair. success with this fruit"
In replying TO the question of our cor
respondent, we have 10 admit that we
inf Cd 80 -
tanned in peach growing in the past ten
or fifteen years In his immediate locality.
1t may be that there are some there who
nave made a fair success of growing
peaches II so, Subscriber should make
It his business to maAe such inquiry of
these between now and November what
varieties have produced the best results
on the particular soil of that section. AS
with every other plant, there is a vast
difference In the characteristics of The
various varieties of peaches. When one
KIND IS adapted to a certain soil another
KIND VIII not do at all. If Subscriber plants
out eight or ten varieties of beaches ne
is quite sure to find that here is a vast
difference between the best and the worst
of the several kinds. If every tree did a.
well as the best he would be well satisfied
Wlth the result. If every tree does as
poorly as the poorest variety of the fot
he would probably cut every tree down
and use them for firewood in the course
OF few years. This would be the result
almost invariably.
Some varieties are much more suscepti
bic TO disease to injury from late frosfs
to damage from wind to attacks of in
sects. Some are much better keepers than
others
And then one man will succeed in get
ting good results out of peaches or Other
fruit when another would fail A steady
energetic, persistent man doing every-
thing possible to prevent injury from in
sects or disease, taking the trouble to thin
the fruit on overcrowdeds trees and using
care in gathering the fruit Just at ths
proper stage for the table or to shin. such
man is apt to succeed where a careless
man would miss it,
The average Southern-born man ,s ,,ot
a thrifty, energetic man and manager. He
does not know what economy means when
1t comes to compare him with the man
who comes here from Europey The mol
ding but steady-plodding German
Scothman, knows how to economiza
money, time, labor and product. This com
oinaton of the economies viii produce sue
cess when It is to be had at all even
under apparently unfavorable conditions
SO much by way Of parenthesis a ar 80
sential requisite in successfuI fruit-grow
ing. .a*s af5
AS 70 the best varieties to commence
with by one who has had no practical
experience or any observation of the mar
ter we can name a few varieties tha,
generally give satisfaction anywhere IN
Georgia when properly looked after. Fra
ana foremost, Is the well-known Elberta
that would ripen in your section about tbs
middle of July or little later An earl
Ter peach by two weeks is the Hale's Ear,
-ripening the first week in Julv
Still earlier than this variety ers
the Sneed and Triumph varieties. The ono
ripening about June 10 or is ana the Tri-
umph ten days or two weeks later ,rha
Emma Is good July peach and the sal
way said to be good variety for sonth
Georgia, ripens In August. Crawford's
Early and Crawfords Late are two we'll
known kinds ripening' in July and about
two weeks apart ft-
The old Indian Blood that forty or fftv
years ago was famous in Georgia is rarely
seen now, as It rots very badly, Il is claim
ed. -
It Is the variety of all Others to grow
directly from the seed, and If one can ref
good seed Of this variety II is advisable
10 plant some of them as part of the Or
chard. There are other varieties IKE
stump the World and Reeves Favorite
and Old Nixon Free aud Cling that may
be included in a list of ten sorts. We
cannot name any reliable September or
October peaches, though there are few
perhaps that may give fair results.
In your section the, best time 10 set out
the young trees-i Is in November ana De-
cember. though Il can be done much later
even. In conclusion, we would advise vo,,
to secure the various bulletins issued bS,
the several Southern experiment STATIONS
upon peach growiug and study them we'll
between now and. fan You will haxe
much 10 learn from experience and ohsa+-
walton later, but you can learn much fron,
the practical experience OF the stations n
you viii. IL is important to know just
how 20 put the trees in right, how ~
prune and fertllize them for the best start
on, Essace.
Farm and Garden Notes.