The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-10
SAND HILL FRUIT FARMS.
The Peach Crop is One Of the Best
in Years, and All the Will
RCaIiya Good Prices.
(SOuthern Pines Tour

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though not a record-breaking fruit
year. The yield of deWberries was
large, but prices were not as good as
they sometimes are. This crOp is
one of the most reliable that grows.
a failure being extremely rare. Most
of the fruit men have a few acres in
dewberrieS, the crop being out Of the
way before even the earliest peaches
are ready for the market. The Pine
Knot farm is the largest producer Of
dewberries. Seven Oaks Farm, Thigh
man, Richards, Young. Van Lindley,
the Niagara Vineyard, Bruhn and
maybe others, ship more or less of
them.
Grapes are a source Of profit to most
of the fruit This years crop
will not be as large as in some years,
although one or two w report
their grapes to be in fine condition.
Mr.. Bruhn shipped seven crates early
this week, two days later than last
year, but earlier than anybody else.
Mr.. Bruhn. who leased the Won Herff
vineyard two years ago and has lone
finely with it. will ship about $500
crates of grapes.
The early peaches are all shipped.
The crop has been large, the quality
never better and the prices very sat
isfactOry, all the way from $3.50, the
price realized for a single crate Whicn
the Niagara Vineyard sen to Chicago
and which happened to strike a bare
market, down to $1.75 net. One car
load sold for about $1,1OO. In 1907
Mr.. Huttenhauer realized about $1,1U0.
for half a car Of Elbertas-a peach of
a price.
Seventeen. years ago Mr.. Hutton
hauer started his Edgeview Peach Or
chard. 1t is most appropriately
named. being situated on the highest
~-l h1 riIn o
which Overlooks the town on the east.
He has 5000 trees. covering 55 IL
acres of ground Since the orchard
came into bearing, a period of thirteen
years, it has had ten good years, with
but a single year that was an entire
failure, 1908. when all the peaches
in this, section suffered from a hard
fl eeze. Nj. Huttenhauer, like most
fruit has experimental more
or less. but thinks he has things in
shape now for the best results. He
has but two varieties, the famous Ell
berta being his leader, with the Car
man for ~early shipping. His Car
man are All young trees, but he ship
ped nearly 900 crates this year, two
or three hundred more than he eX-
pected. In all he will send to mar
ket between three and our thousand
crates of peaches.
Directly across the town. on the
westerly rim Of the valley, is Mr.. j. H.
ITilghman's place. Like Mr.. Hutton
hauer, he has q fine home and a mag
nificent view, Pinehurst being plainly
visible from his porch. Mr.. Thigh
man came to Southern Pines twelve
years agO, tool an old orchard and
has been making it a little better each
year, until another yea will see him
with 1000 peach trees, in prime con-
dition, and a good acreage of deWber-
ries and grapes. He is fixed to make
good money in the next few years.
Along the foot of this westerly ridge,
downward, lie Mr.. J.. H. OBrien's Seven
Oaks Fruit Farm and the orchard
connected with Mr.. J. f.. Richards
Eloise Cottage. Fac farm has about
1000 peach trees, with grapes as a
side line. Both orchards are in fine
condition. Mr.. Richards trees are
all young stock, and Mr.. O'Brien has
beer busy renewing his orchard, and
another year or two will see a vastly
different place from that which he
took hold ofthree years ago.
MIR. O'Brien has II Burbank plum
trees, from which he has just shipped
100 crates to say nothing of ten or a
dozen more crates solo about town.
These trees will net him at least TWEEN