The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-01-22
Profit in Fruit Growing.

Tropical countries excel in the mum.
Der of varieties of fruit. but with its
delicacy of flavor, the pineapple is in.
ferior in point of excellence to the
peach of the temperate zones, and the
familiar apple of our climate mas no
equal in the tropics for combination of
desirable qualities. We import large
quantities of fruit. as we desire some
kinds that We cannot get within our
own limits, but really because We Go
not supply the demand for our own
native fruit. In no year within the
past quarter of a century have we
been supplied with a sufficiency of APP
pies. During certain periods Of every
year they bring larger prices than or.
is annually sold when the trees are
in blossom. The demand for pears has
very much increased of late years. Ow-
ing to the great improvement that has
been made with this fruit. When the
buyers find out good article they
care nothing for price, and thus the
Bartlett (the favorite) and the beau.
limit to the demand, and the supply is
always short. The curculio has al
most oblterated the plum. but of late
the pest has been fought successfully
and with the steady improvement be.
ing made with the fruit 1t will. no
doubt, in few years, resume its place
by the sic. of our most favored deli
cacies.
The blackberry was lately weed. on
which every farmer showered his
wrath, sparing for its determination
neither the hoe, plow nor knife, but
the berry held on to its place in popu-
lar affection, appealing on its merits
for acknowledgment among domestic
fruits. until finally, on the advent of
the Lawton, the ackberry was recog-
nized by the grower, and now we have
them far superior to those Of years ago.
And yet the cry is. More blackber-
ries." The demand, instead of decreas.
ing from its cultivation, has increased,
and new markets are opened every
season. 1t is useless to specify kinds
further, for the raspberry, currant,
grape. cherry and ounce have their
enthusiastic admirers. Even the
huckleberry (whether blueberry or
whortleberry). as it is called, will soon
be among the cultivated fruits, place
It should have had long ago.
If the demand for fruit greatly in.
creases, is there not a new field open
TO those sections not adapted for spe'
cial farming or stock raising? Stony
hillsides. that are now unprofitable,
can be made TO blossom with each re-
turning spring. The grape will grow
on soils that refuse nourishment TO
cereal crops, and the blackberry is sue.
cessfully grown on the lightest sands.
With all the boast of the West" there
is not State in the Union that aver.
ages the net profit per acre that New
Jersey does with her small fruits.
Lands that will not grow blade OF
grass pay the owner in pears, black.
berries and raspberries, and the better
qualities of soil produce the best of
strawberries. If there is a failure in
growing fruit 1t is due to carelessness
OF the grower. Trees and vines. like
anything else, must receive the care
and attention of the grower, must be
properly cultivated. pruned and the
fruit judiciously prepared for the mar.
ket. The curculio must be fought, the
borer killed and the miller and cater.
pillar destroyed. If the work is well
done and the grower patient his re!
ward will surely come, for there can be
no failure in fruit growing IL he uni
derstands his cailing.-Philadelphia
Record.
| Lots Of opportunities are wasted be.