The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-08-10
PEACH CROP NOT FAILURE.
A Great Year For the Fruit-Peaches
Are Improving Every Season.

New York SUM
This will be a banner year for peaches.
The crop throughout the whole coun-
Try is estimated to be about 100000
bushels. and rather over than dnder that
amount The prolonged drOuth in some
parts of the country mas affected It
sQIae'v nat but not 10 any great extent
and the hot weather OF July has helped
TO atone for the backward summer in
developing the fruit
Finer peaches and a larger quantity Of
them 10 the acre are being produced
every year, and this is due not only 10
careful tillage and cultivation, but also
70 2 ruthless thinning of the fruit when
II nTst appears on the trees. The old
fashioned peach grower would have
thought 1t sheer lunacy to cut of three
Lourtns OF the peaches Just as they were
that method that more bushels of peaches
are now beln5 produced nom the lress
thsn they would bear il they were not
lnterfered with and the fruit is improved
ana brings higher price.
another important point about thinning
out OF the fruit is that as result of the
operation only One-fOurth Of the usual
number of peachstones is produced and
as the VOlpment of these is the great
est drain upon the vitality Of the trees
pIouLaDie economy IS erected and
regularity OF yield from season to season
Is promoted.
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The peach came from China originally
and reached Europe by way OF Persia,
and America by way of England ana
Holland. The peach season now has beeE
greatly heightened by the shipment TO
our markets in refrigerator cars, sent a.
express speed, OF southern and California
peaehes- immense tracts in Georgia are
now solely occupied By peach orchards,
q single one OF which VIII pack ana
snip more than 5000 peaches a day in
July, which is the height of the peach
season down there.
It isn't necessary any longer. in these
DAYS Of refrigerator cars. 10 pick the
t tut before II mas come TO It's IuH ma
way 10 market after it is packed. The
peaches are allowed 10 ripen on the trees
ana are picked so far as possible just
before they begin TO soften.
me plckers are traine to know the
IlEhJ stage at glance. k.Very peach. as
everybody knows, has its sunny and its
snady side. IL Is by the hue OF the shady
side that the degree of ripeness IS judged
10 ensure ali OF the peaches getting the
cement OF the sun the orchard is divided
blocks. ''''''
After the peaches are picked they are
sorted into three grades. according 10
Quailty- This is expert work Outside Of
tae three Grades all peaches oveTriPe for
Shipment are put aside for the evapOra-
To-, and the grower makes his profit on
them dried.
Scientific gardeners are trying to intro
Quce into this country some of the
Reacp-groWing methods Of France and
England. which produced wonderful
peaches, though few. over there peach
trees are usually trained fat against a
fANA- q 1tAN-ArAlL EAh AGIlC Uf On 4
trellts a foot or so away from such Il
wall and only a few branches of each
tree are allowed to crow.
Ihen most Of the peaches on these as
soon as the fruit develops from the
hover are cut of. only a dozen or two
sometimes score a [ most being allowed
70 Develop Such peach tree as this
doesn't look much like a tree But the
lew peaches that are allowed to mature
on il are marvels OF beauty and juiceness.
ara naI dozen of them in q cotton
aned basket cost from $ 10 S In the
markets