The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-06-18

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and peach, borers. which fatten on tho
roots OF the treeH; s
AXE tltS peach. We have east OF the
Rocl<iestaonlat Nj d gfHEe i $4,000 900 such
trees, and they, areli yielding crop
sons the brown rot takes away fully
half, Of the profits OF the South, and the
plum curculio' often eats down our
peach income to the amount OF $4,000
600, or s4,0oo,ooo. By, the recent dis
coveries of Professors Scott and Quain-
lance we are able to control certain
peach pests. and this means an annual
is self-boiled lime and sulphur wash
mixed with hrsenate OF lead. II Is ap-
Piled several times during the season.
Our Fig Peach Crop.
Now that the people are going crazy.
over the money In apples, they seem
to have forgotten the profits which
have been and are being made in
peaches. am told that the peach is
one OF the biggest CANDLES in the
great lottery Of fruit raising. It Of
ten falls, but single good crop COW
ers many past losses. and two or three
make the orchardist rich.
Take the Miller brothers, OF West
Virginia. They have an orchard which
has yielded dividends of $500 per acre.
and out OF which they have been max
Ing from 40 to so per cent per annum.
We have altogether more than! 00. 000-
00u rch frees. There are 100000 In
Michigan and almost an equal number
In Georgia, Texas and California.
Kansas is a great peach State. and 50
are Maryland and Delaware Along the
eastern shores of Lake Michigan there
is a peach country which runs from
five to ten miles hack from the lake..
or t,1-~ y, Il . r., AZ
lance of 80 miles. Georgia has. n
number OF orchardiets who are Gull
tivating from than Il 90, 600 trees. and
there IS a druggist In that State who
owns 10000 trees. The peach trees
of the Scuth"huye .beenfrecentiy great
ly injured by rot and other diseases.
but the nav spray solutions OF: the de-
partment have proved The salvation of
the crop, and there promises to ho big
money in IL. .{t
How One Boy Made Good.
In connection with peach growing, it
Is interesting TO tell how, one boy made
."..l inc III i,cartlss and by his, own
eXertions and studysliftcd not only his
own Family but many Others 10 ar
sfuence.. I9refcr TO Hale, the peach
king OF Georgia, The man who Is now
orchards capitalized at $1,000 900 or
more, and which has shown. profits of
$4,000 and upward a year, don't
know how many hundred thousand
peach trees Mr.. Hale /. owns, but he
has built mp q great peach growing
industry in southwestern Georgia and
his fruit is sent in refris orator cars
nil over The North. lie sometimes har.
vests 100000 peaches Il /, day each
pcach being handled sthres times in
sorting. picking and packing, and no
has Tho most improved methods oil
cultipating his trees and marketing the
crop. N 8
have. jus, TALKED with man who
knows Hale very we'll. Said he:
Hale wac horn near little town.
in Connccticut His father lived on a
farm upon which nothng coa,d be
raised, not even the mortgage. His
father was in debt. and lie died leav-
:fs the farm incumbefed to the amount
Of $4,000 with only two little. boys.
Hale and his brother.to meet the In,
terest and support thv family They
found they had 10 hlrefthemselves out
10 keep the farm going, and at twelve.
years of age young Halo was cutting
corn for his neighborsl at a few cents
a day. III. Els & III NJ q. t{ttt iH
" "It was one day during the noon re.
ross when he was tired OF handling
.cornstalks, that he sat down under a.
seeding peach tree and munched the
fruit, while he wondered whether he
should over be able TO pay off the
debt and make man OF himself As
no did no he looked up MT the pea ches,
and thought how nne IL would be 10
s have q few thousand such trees and
make fortune In fruit, The though,