The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-26

and flavor of the Elbertas grown by scientific management on these mountains. The shipments this season, including a few tomatoes. consisted of eight carloads, chiefly peaches. It Is expected that by next season about thirty five thousand peach trees will be in bearing. so that shipments should be many times greater next year than this year.
 One of the most surprising things to the writer was the fact that although this land had been but recently cleared of a very thick and heavy growth of timber. yet the sprouts had been kept in complete subjection. though this has required heavy expenditure for la- bor. On the lower levels there was many apple and pecan trees. the pe- cans being all budded trees. This farm also produces a considerable amount of hay for sale including cow peas. sorghum and Johnson grass. The barn where the work teams are kept and where thA hay and corn are stored. ts probably the largest and most extensive seen by the writer in Alabama. A fish pond, generously sup piled with fish, is another feature of in- terest. The land on which peaches are growing is of 6 character which in the past has not been utilized. It has redder color and contains more clay than much of the mountain land in Alabama. In places the surface is al- most covered with flint rock which in the end may prove fortunate in decreasing the amount of washing on these very steep slopes.
 Indeed in spite of the care taken to direct the water as far as possible | through natural runways or gulleys 1t | tn ha a ha | roots of the forest growth have de- cayed. it will be absolutely necessary | to keep the steep surface of this or- | chard covered with a dense growth
 during winter. of crimson clover, vetch,
 burr clover or winter grain, in order
 to prevent the washing away of the surface soil. '-.t
 | At Fort Paine, Ga, we learned that
 the mountain peach orchard of Mo-
 Kinze and Towers at that point had
 shipped this season about twelve car-
 loads from five thousand trees. The
 shipping season was still in progress,
 the season at this point, according to
 Mir. Towers. being 8 little later than | that of the region around Rome, Ga. On the other hand peaches from Gads-
 den are said to come into market a
 little ahead of those from Rome The
 prices received for the Gadsden beach,
 es has been highly satisfactory, the l Elliot Iron Tonic Elbertas having sold
 at considerably higher price than
 other peaches with which they com peted.
 The interest in peach culture in this
 part of the State is not confined to
 men able to plant large areas It is
 general, and great hopes are enter
 tained as to the development of this | industry As indicating the exnecta-
 tions of one individual, I may mention
 the fact that graduate of the agri-
 cultural course of the University of | Wisconsin has just bought two hun.
 dred acres of mountain land at Fort
 Payne, not a single acre of which is
 yet cleared. This was bought to be
 cleared up and converted into a peach
 orchard and already his home is build.
 Ing. The quality of the peaches growr
 In this section of the State has at.
 tracted considerable attention and par.
 ties from the north are inspecting the | country with view to buying anc 1 planting orchards