The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-07-27
WILL MAKE MONEY
TRAFFIC MANAGER HINTON SAYS
so OF PEACH GROWERS.
GOOD PRICES ARE SECURED.
SERVE TO COUNTERPART THE
RATHER SMALL CROP.

the CentraI-NOw Believes There
VIII Be Fully 1000 Cars-CurcuIiO
Principally Responsible for the
Shattered Estimate Something
AbOnt the Insect-S6OO "a Car for
| EIbertas on the Trnck-New Plan
for Bringing Growers and Buyers
in Touch.
I Peach growers will make money this
year. That is what Mr.. F.. H. Hinton.
| traffic manager of the Central railroad,
says. Mr.. Hinton was seen yesterday.
as was General Superintendent r. =.
/ Kline of the Central, and both gentle
men discussed the fruit situation.
Growers should realize a handsome
| profit this season." said Mr.. Hinton.
They have been receiving good prices
for their fruit, particularly for Elber-
| tas. The crop will not be as large as
l estimated some time ago, but the
| high prices will counterbalance the loss
| in volume to a certain extent. Certain
| 1t is that there will be money made by
| the growers.
II estimated the number of cars that
would originate along our line at 1900.
| That was too high. 1t did not seem
| too high at the time, but the curculio
| showed up this year more disastrously
| than ever before. The ravages of the
curculio have cut down the crop. The
movement from along the Central,
therefore, will not be as much as 1900
cars. 1 think, however. that it may
safely be estimated at 1000"
Mr. Hinton was asked for some de-
scription of the curculio, an insect of
which a good deal has been said in
connection with peach culture. He an
swered:
You have seen a doodle bug? Well,
a curculio is very much like a doodle
bug with wings. The insect settles
down upon a peach when it is young
and tender. 1t inserts it's sharp bill
and then deposits an egg, carefully
covering the hole it made. After a time
a bit of gum may be seen exuding
from the hole. Then the egg matches
and leaves a worm The worm begins
to burrow about in the peach. finally,
as it ripens, reaching the seed. The
peaches are practically ruined by the
pest"
"Is there no way to fight the cur
culio?" Mr.. Hinton was asked.
But one effective way" he answer
ed Paris green may be used, but
that damages the tree. The only way
that will not hurt the tree is TO take
muffied mallet to jolt it, A sheet
may be spread upon the ground be-
meath a tree early in the morning
when the curculios, which are very
sluggish. will fall like 'possums on
the sheet and remain there some mo-
ments before attempting to fly
away. They may then be gathered up
and killed. The jolting of the tree
causes them to loose their hold and
drop upon the sheet"
Mr.. Kline said that he was just back
from a trip to the fruit districts, where
he had gained some idea of the prices
that were obtained by the growers.
General content is shown by growers,
who are satisfied with the production
and the prices. Mr.. Kline learned of
number of growers who had been
paid $500 a car for their Eibertas as
they stood on the track. and Mr.. Hin
ton figured out from this that there
was net profit, to the growers who
receive this price of $3.50 a car. This,
he said, means more than 800 an acre.
The Central this season has under
taken to bring the growers in touch
with commission men who want TO
buy peaches as they stand in the or
chards or after they have been load
ed in cars. A difficulty has always
been found by both growers and COM
mission men. The Central has ascer-
tanned a number of commission men
that are anxious to buy outright, and
when one of its agents learns of a
grower who desires to sell in that way.
it is an easy matter for a buyer for
the house to call upon the grower.
Next season Mr.. Hinton expects to
see a great improvement in the opera
ton of his plan for the establishment
of communication between growers
and buyers. When he was in the
West a few days ago he had a consul
tation with the editors of two or three
papers that are devoted to fruit. and
they agreed to publish lists that he
might send them of growers who de
! sired to sell in their orchards. Com
mission men may then observe these
lists and send out their buyers. Mr.
! Hinton looks for valuable results from
| such method. He expects to see the
| territory of the consumption of Geor-
| sia peaches greatly enlarged Almost
entirely, he said. this consumption is
now confined to the East. where grow
| ers ship to commission houses.
AS a rule, MIR Hinton said, the peach
| growers would prefer to sell their fruit
In the orchard. He recalled a grower
near Round Rock. who had said that
| a. hunibeT OF MS nelgnDOrS haQ declared
that they, too, would begin to plant
peaches IL they found that he could
sell while the peaches We're yet on the
trees. MIR. Hinton has been informed
that such n sale was made and that
the grower realized a considerable
profit. 1t is now thought that the in
dustry will receive an impetus about
Round Rock.
Never" Mr.. Hinton declared. will
the market be glutted by alberta
peaches. 1t cannot be. There is too
great a demand for the luscious fruit.
| expect to see the peach industry grow
year after year, and II will become one
OF the most profitable in this section
or the country. There are thousands
of acres of land that are splendidly
adapted to the culture of the peach,
and l expect TO see them planted in
orchards"
Mr. Hinton furnished figures show
Ing the shipments of peaches and of
cantaloupes and melons from Georgia,
as follows:
Cars
Shipments OF peaches by Central
OF Georgia Railway up TO and in
Guiding July % this year ........ TAG
Shipments of peaches by all lines
up TO and including July 25 this
year ..t.......s........ ............. 905
| Shipments Of peaches by all lines
mp TO and including July % last