The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1902-10-09
TORE HOr1E INDUSTRIES.

We waste what Yankee commun-
ity would live upon. We throw away
thousands Of bushels of vegetables
and fruits in their season, and when
they are gone buy the canned goods
put up by our considerate northern
friends, who know that we must have
them. Corn from Maine, peaches
from jersey, tomatoes from Maryland,
and even sweet potatoes raised and
canned ir Massachusetts have been
sold in the Waycross market. We
are sleeping over our rights and
throwing away our opportunities.
We must turn over several new leaves
if we would be independent, and as
the natural outcome, happy.-Way-
cross Herald.
Too true, and just as soon as Geor-
gia communities awake to this great
truth and utilize their abundant raw
material in small manufactures, just
that soon will they be more than self
supporting and commensuratelyp pros
porous. In this particular Georgians
have learned much of late years, but
the lesson is not yet half learned.
Contining its application at pres
ent to the Horticultural industry, as
suggested by our Waycross contem-
porary, the situation is at once disap-
pointing and encouraging; disappoint-
ing in that world OF raw material is
going to waste for lack of the initia-
tive to convert it into readily mar
ketable commodity, and encouraging
in that the possibilities are so mani
fold that all admit them and aspire to
| make the most of them.
But there is no time like now for
doing these things, and doing them
| well.
This season Georgia has taken her
place at the head of the peach-pro-
ducing states, Notwithstanding the
crop was but partial one. When
we consider how largely the national
market is supplied with California
canned peaches, the mere statistical
showing that Georgia produces more
the query: Where are the Georgia
canned peaches? That California
does not can all her peaches by any
means is evidenced by the crates OF
fresh fruit of that variety which flood
the national market throughout the
season-an evidence that can be wit
messed by glance at any fruit stand
in Atlanta TODAY. The fact is, Cali
fornia sends her best peaches east in
cold storage, and cans the smaller
varieties and the culls. Georgia sends
her peaches north, rather indiscrimi'
nately, generally paying the penalty
Of inadequate or no returns, lnsteat
of marketing only the best and can
ming any overplus or inferior fruit
Innumerable bushels Of peaches ROT
in Georgia every year for lack oi
local canneries, after the housewife:
have supplied the family with winte
requirement by the hand process.
Not that there are no cannerles II
the state. There are few. Bu1
there is room at the present for ter
times as many as are here. The stat
is being covered with peach orchard:
and truck farms. Few towns of any
size would not support local can
nerv, and in the exclusive fruit ant
| trucking oells, SOME very iai &c olc'
could be supported handsomely Ih
necessary capital involved in suct
enterprises is not large, especially IL
the blishment Of IL small neigh
borhood cannery, and they can b
easily organized and protitably con
Quoted on the cooperative plan
private capital cannot be enlisted. !
community determined to have a can
ming factory can readily secure one
it has enterprise and the visible sup
, port for the proposed industry i
sufficient. 1t is surprising what Al
element in the thrift and progress o
town such industries are, and tn
? farmer is immeasurab!y benefited b
them.
Georgia can produce and is produc
ing in abundance the varied fruit
and vegetables necessary to supply
: fully equipped cannerg. That ther
is money in it for producer an'
manufacturer the consumer can we
, | suspect. when. for instance he pun
| chases a can OF California peaches q
MARYLAND tomatoes.-Atlanta COnst
: tuition.