The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-10-08
GEORGIA PEACH ORCHARDS.

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State Entomologist Scott seems to
| think that within a few years Georgia
| will produce so many liberia peaches
that the market for that variety of
/ the peach will be glutted, and that
! consequently producers will not be
/ able to sell their peach crops at profit
I able prices. He calls attention to the
great number of liberia trees that
viii be planted this year. placing it at
| 5000 900. and says that those who are
thinking of giving attention to
! peaches should plant other varieties
as well as the liberia. There is no
doubt wisdom in the suggestion about
planting other varieties, but it can be
pretty safely said that there is not
much danger about quitting the mar
ket for Elbertas yet awhile!
A gentleman who has had a great
deal of experience in the shipping of
peaches from this state said to a rep
resentative of the Morning News day
or two ago, that the market for Geor-
gia peaches had as yet been hardly
touched. There are hundreds of towns
within reach of the Georgia orchards
that is. towns which can be reached
with the peaches in good condition
and at not too great a cost for trans
portation--in which the liberia has
never yet been ~seen. To illustrate
what is meant, 1t can be stated that
during the last peach season a fruit
dealer in a far away Wisconsin town
wired the Central of Georgia Railway
for the name of a peach grower who
would ship him a carload of peaches.
The names of three were given him.
and he selected that of Mr.. Hale OF
Fort Valley. Mr. Hale sent him
carload. and he was so well pleased
with the shipment that. in coming sea-
sons, the section of Wisconsin in which
he resides will be a market for Geor-
gia peaches. The truth is, there is
hardly a town in the whole country
that will not be a consumer OF the
liberia peach in the very near future.
At present practically the whole ont
put of the Georgia orchards goes to the
great cities of the East-to Philadel-
phia, New York and Boston, and the
larger cities of the Middle West. Lit
tie or no effort has been made to place
the peaches in the smaller cities.
The need for reaching parts of the
country which have never yet had
chance to see what the liberia peach
is like is well understood. Last year,
for the first time. buyers appeared at
the orchards, and the growers had no
difficulty in selling their peaches on
the trees at good prices. These buy
ers understand how to distribute the
peaches without Cutting the market.
They keep track of all shipments
made, and see to it that more peaches
do not go to any one market than can
be sold at a profit.
AS far as we are able to see now
there is promise of good profits in
peach growing in this state. There will,
of course, be many growers who will
be disappointed. but they are people
who seldom succeed at anything, be-
cause they fail to do the things which
must be done in order to be success
full They will neglect their trees and
they will not fight the insects which
are the enemies of the fruit, and which
will destroy it If permitted to do So
But a fair percentage of those who
plant peach orchards will succeed and
their reward will be all they expect
There is money in the growing of
peaches for those who have the indus
try and knowledge to properly care
for peach trees.