The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-10-02
RISE OF The PEACH KING
A kINGDON THAT STARTED ON
4 CONNECTICCr HILLSIDE.
,. %. Hate Began by EARNING SI9.sO =
WOnth-IIas 5000 Acres Planted In
Peaches Ne~-Thcre D. pTOnt In the
business Also ENpense Methods.

the Connecticut River. beautiful big
white house Il rapidly approaching com
pletion. The occasional motorist who
strays along that road slows mp and
regards 10 with a whistle % surprised
admiration He makes a swift guess
~ the thousands Of dollars going into
IT'S huilding and 20 himself he says
Geo. hat tkat's a peach Of place
And then he chuss on through the vii
laEse 20 south 0lasi onbUry without ever
moving what a pun h' has made FoT
( anv hous., in tho world deserves 90 he
ralled a peach 81 place that one does
Peaches have paid for every inch - II,
and when u is finished the peach king
himself will move IN and make himself
az hORas there.
JIM Haie l. pretty Young for q king
VIM. has made his own KINGDOM acre
hy acfA He WAS born only about fifty
five ye1rs ago right on the side ~ that
same range 81 rocky hiils which now
harbors his Principally. The family
moved up - Hartford. but when the
father died, leaving fh" widow and two
Young boys 90 take care ~ one another.
they moved back 10 tho little farm and
-.'t TO work
TH8pr-s..nt king earned for his princely
income all ~ 81 "a a month. 1iNt being
the ctss II may Ice believed that he wash Z
buyin: many peaches IN the good old
summer vine and was ilckled 10 death
to como across ro1dads seeding and
s~t his teeth into some % it, fruit
No, beng overfed with peaches that
luscious hIi - luck made his mouth
water for more He though peaches.
dreamed reaches. did everything but
rat peaches And he made up his uhnd
wua good old New England sturdiness
that he'd remedy that defect just ~
close 80 then and there a. he could make IL.
The Eelghbors wondered when he
-rraped together enough money To buy a
lev reach trees and actually planted them
IN an old stony pastur" But he turned
deaf car ~ their $cornful remarks and
planted more trees
The mortgage on the farm grew faster
than the trees hut he kept on planting
ihem He aervsl seven years for his
Rachel ~ a peach crop and IL looked as
Il no really was going 20 win h"r
Thcn frost came along and made ~
look NJ n ~ either must give up Rachel
or Harvo another seven wears for her
Rot his iuci turned the very next season
Termed WIN u throw back somer-
asIlt He harvested crop which
brpugh' him s9.6n from ten acres, paid
tlF mortgage and permanently cured hla
neigh5ors Of their tendency toward scorn-
ful CLEO
Bur they hal atparianced a harrow ing
season The Hale hoy seemed pnssessed
by tho evil pns Whom his crop began
% shov signs - being a record breaker
AID Providence appeared to he lnterv"n-
ing 20 paw nH m" mortgage not I'M
natural act on tina part Of Providence.
since the mortgage vas held by the church
s1-ietv--vounS Hale sat his hired boy 90
polling m tho half grown peachHs and
throwing them awav
Tho naighbors pleaded they Threatened
Hale was not 70 he uovet He'd got a
VA theory into his head about thinning
the fruit and nothing would stop him
lie stiII has thar theory SO has every
n,her orch lrSlist who wants fine. large.
richly Favored fruit But IL would have
seut him W the Mid1latown Insane Hos
pitaI then n tho raighbor- had been CON
suited IL wasn't a new thing even AZ
THAI time But IL was new m South Glas-
tontHiy, f= -v
YSnng Ha,a hai naVsr heard Of n II
was par n what he - fond ~ calling
reach sons" To the peach grower This
faculty - "a essential a. the nose for
n"wS - TO the reporter or IN" head Tor
figures 10 tho accountant
starting with few trees N thai old
pasture. Mr Hala has planted NOR" ssd
more and more NJ those stony ConnsctIcut
hIllsides 20 peaches until he now has
almost a Thousand acres Supplying peaches
with which he "a -fie- his uDdImin shed
rDpe'tte for the same and helps other
folks IN do likewise Not content with
his New England orchards. he has over
200 AIRES ~ PEACHES IN Georgia Alto
gethsr that makes tidy liftl" kingdom
Tn. income cannot hs called little
and IN good years - too fat 20 b" described
a. tidy All sorts ~ large ornate stories
are told about this income one man
profeS-ed 10 give in Mr. Iial"'s own
words IN" net financial results - the
leach kings years OF lalIor
According 'O him tho home farm in
Connecticut. which began with twenty
acres. has hroadened - 500 acres has
produced peaches thai have brought
moro than haH a million dollars. has
aupportnd and educated far sized
family and has paid for constantly in
creasing acreage and improvements
Another Connecticut orchard 81 1Dp acres
has paid for itself including an "xp"n- ve
house and other improvements. and has
gwen. by setting apple trees among the
peaches, a go acre apple orchard worth
$500 an acre The Georgia orchard from
1904 20 1910 inclusive produced nor.
than a million dollars worth - peaches
after- deductInR the op-t 81 harvesting,
shipping and selling
The only trouble with this statement.
according 10 Mr. Hale. ~ that a few Of
his own words got miNs-i One l''le
word for example. before. was lost ~
transit and another litil" word after
arrived in Is place No that instead -
the Georgia orchard having produced
q million dollars worth ~ Peaches after
paying- EXPENSES the story should read
-bsfors paying them. which makes n
whole lot Of difference
This paying expenses - matter which
Keeps the peach grower busy The mer"
bat 81 them makes III" unaccuStum"i
brain reel peach orchard - a regular
fs.ivar Twist IA ~ demand for attention.
You begin fs-Nding m" soil h s-foT- you
4yen plant your trees and YOU Ee 81 on
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