The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-09-06
FRUIT FACTS

,,p!I%a POSSIBILITIES OF Ile Sanu HIS
from a horticultural Standpoint
Kaor Pines Are Half the
I,cach Trees i'm the Whole State Of
%ngth Carolina.
(Southern Pines Tourist.)
17ron1 time to time the Tourist has
uo1Ia1 attention to the fruit growing
'C@LreibiIities Of this section of North
TIaraIfna and doubtless has been &C
cIsad of o~ver-coloring the picture.
rI,.a who have inferred from any
.hfnq this paper has said that anyone
can come here and, without capital.
oTnarfence or knowledge, jump into
eNrrass and secure large money re-
44urns in fruit growing has read care
1aseIy or reached conclusions which
+Ln facts do not bear out. Men Of
a,.oragp Intelligence can learn to grow
Fr,i+ but 1t will take time. If mex
narienced men will profit by the very
sl5stIv experience Of their predecessors
they will be able to reach success at
. much smaller cost Of money, time
and labor than did the early fruit-men,
rona Of whom gave up after losing
10 money, while others kept on I'M
III they were able to recoup their
lar1z losses and now bid fair to make
fortunes before they retire
This article is written TO show not
what may be done but what has been
Gona-the truest indication Of real
disabilities. Western North Carolina
+ q vast apple orchard. Watauga
county has one orchard Of $4,000 trees.
while there are many OF
from 1000 to 5000 and 10000 trees.
eastern North Carolina has discovered
hat if can raise apples, and in some
sections experiments on a somewhat
extended scale are being made which
may mean that the peach culture OF
the sandy regions may be supplement-
ef and perhaps paralleled by apple cul-
tuIp. No doubt varieties Of apples viii
ev4ntnallv be found which are as we'll
adaDtod to the light sands Of Eastern
North Carolina as are other varieties
Of the heavier and richer loans of the
mountain regions.
The Sand Hills is the home Of the
peach. and here, as has been shown
IN the Tourist, the soil and cllmatlc
conditions are such as to produce the
surest and largest crops of the finest
and most beautiful peaches that grow
anywhere.
According to Bulletin No. 6, Volume
80. issued by the North Carolina De
p~art1nent of Agriculture, there are in
Southern Pines or its suburbs, IN round
numbers, 55, 1000 peach trees, or about
One-third Of all the trees contained
In commercial orchards in the entire
State. Just over the line from Moore
county. in CandOr, Montgomery cOun-
~, are 1000 peach trees.
Hence. within a radius Of so miles
from southern Pines, are at least l0I,-
600 peach trees, almost exactly as
many as are set DOWN to the other 30
counties of the State. OF course most
farmers have a few peach trees and
there are a, multitude of small
orchard, but this t~abulation deals with
orchards of not less than 500 trees,
which are worked for commercial, pur-
poses. These facts indicate that right
harn &c thu TC1Jrict hos co often
stated, is the peach-groWing center Of
the State, and the development Of this
great and profitable industry has just
begun. Within easy reaching distance
Of Southern Pines are thousands Of
acres Of the best peach lands to be
found out Of doors, which can be
bought at very reasonable figures. and
from which the peaches nay be quick
~ and profltably marketed.
1t is not the peach alone that thrlveS
In this section. The dewberry is at
It's best here, and those who give it
the same care that others devote to
the peach have good success and are
amply rewarded for their labor and
Hnd thelr investment a profitable one.
weather conditions this year were I'M
favorable to the ~dewberry crop and.
the Yield was abnorsnally small.
rom Cameron, a few miles north
OF Southern Pines, 1000 crates Of
oeW0erries were shipped this year as
against $4,000 last year. Aberdeen,
.alher new at the growing of dew
petF1eS, but a coming dewberry town,
SHIpped 1000 crates by express and
sixteen cars by freight, a total Of
something like $1,000 crates. This
output will doubtless be argely in
SeaSed IN the hear future as the Aber-
Geen growers are hustlers, and are go
tIS Ihto the business in a big way.
roII'Aan, a small town fifteen miles
SUN Of Southern Pines, shipped 80
n@teS OF dewberries by express and
eight cars by freight. When the writer
asked the leading grower what his
80 10 seasons shipment were, he re-
bb+rgo mat these were the first dew
corfS ever shipped from Hoffman,
M1a,aIniy a promising beginning.
earn1a 2 fierce and league are in
rnar ana Will put Hoffman on the
shinp" as a dewberry center. Hoffman
aPped this year six cars Of water