The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-07-12
A BOUNTEOUS CROP
OF ALL KINDS FRUIT
IN MAURY COUNTY
LITTLE SUNSHINE NOW WOULD
RlPEN PEACHES AND BER.
RIES RAPIDLY.
WINTER APPLE CROP IS SHORT
Every Family in the County Should
FIJI Pantry With the Bounty From
the Orchards in Preparation for
Future Uses.

Mduly COuuly 10 ShJos ih5 anu "Ai
continue for some months to enjoy
the most bountiful fruit crop it'has
had for al number of years, and the
fruit is specially fine. This Is par
ticularly true where the trees were
properly cared for and the fruit look
ed after at the proper time.
To begin with the strawberry crop
was a good one. 1t was, however, af-
fected some by the rains at the time
of ripening, but the crop was abun-
dant, of superior quality rand the
prices remained at high level. n
The cherries, too, were abundant,
and of good quality.
The reports are to the effect that
the blackberry crop is specially fine,
the rains having forced the growth
of the fruit to much beyond the nor,
NAL size, and a few days of sunshine
will ripen the berries apidly. With
in week the crop viii be in the
midst of its ripenins ana the house
wives Of the county will be busy
making. preparations for the winter.
There is fair prospect for a good
Iyield ofspears, and already some of
the earlier varieties are ripening.
The blight has had some effect, but
the fruit men say that it is even yet
a little early to determine the result.
They say however that on account
of the fact that there has been a su.
perabundance of sapdn the trees this
far that the baneful effects of the
blight may be stayed to large ex.
tent, and good yield be ready at
ripening time.
Apples are not SO abundant and to
the uninitiated this seems somewhat
mystifying. But an old fruit raiser
explains this condition with the
statement that at the time of bloom
ing of the trees and the floating OF
the pollen from the bloom that there
was series of heavy rains whicf
had the effect of washing of. the
pollen away, and preventing It's fer
tilization. This fertilization is an
absolute necessity in the production
Of the fruit and the crop is thus GU
short in some instances, and in 9th
ers it is of an inferior quality, tn,
fruit being deformed and incomplete
in it's formation This reference il
particularly with regard to the viii
, ter varieties of apples.
Plums of every variety are o
specially attractive flavor and size
and the trees are breaking down witt
the fruit.
, Peaches are beginning to ripen an,
: within few days the peach harves
! will be well on if some sunshine /
| only allowed by the weather man.
1t has been demonstrated durin
. the past few years that a bountifu
fruit crop comes but seldom in Ter
r nessee, and those who are now 8
D bountifully blessed should not max
, the crop other than an opportunit
r for preparation for the future. Ever
' means possible for the saving of tn
!. fruit should be taken, advantage Q
as it is safe to predict that anothe
year of such bounty will not be expt
trienced for some time. Preserves
pickles, the canned raw fruit in e,
cry variety should abound in ever
antry, as much from a healthful a
we'll as economical standpoint T
allow the present opportunities to G
unimproved would be almost Grim