French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1919-05-01
PEACH T HERE !.
Capt. r. II. Saith Suggests Crop For
Home Consumption and southern
MarketS-Pcaches Thrive Well III
TryOn. Why Not HendersOnVille!


The following from q recent issue
OF the Polk County News is interest
ingc
Knowing as I do that o people
at Tryon are in a section where the
biggest sums of money can be made
out Of the peach business, I am con
strained to write this letter for the
good of that community. AS you know
l was once an extensive peach grower
in Georgia, and know the peach bust
ness from selecting suitable ground
for an orchard to the receiving the
cash from the large fruit dealers in
New York.
I know that when the last peach is
in and gone from Georgia, the famous
EIberta is from one and a half to Two
weeks later at Tryon, which would
fill in that mitch of time between the
! Georgia crop and that CT eastern
shore of Maryland.
Now when the Georgia crop m
in. on account of the crop neing so
heavy the price ranges from S1.5C to
| s1.75, and as soon as the last Georgia
! peaches are gone, the price in New
| York and other eastern cities jumps
up to $3.50 per crate.
Now that is why l know that the
| Tryon people are in the midst of a
gold mine and don't know it.
Last SKINNER eoRe year g the
peach crop of Georgia brought
S. ,750, 900. Would the Tryon people
like to have an income of $4,000? Of
that same sort of peach money and a
large portion of hat amount clear
profit?
If @ would, then get busy and in
! terest your Northern friends who like
to visit Tryon and form a Joint stock
| compazsy and get ready to plant a.
| least zen to fifteen thousand trees
next winter. It would be a money
| maker and pay for itself every year
after i comes into bearing, the mid
die Of the third year. The stock.
would sell two for one at least, very
soop~
If / had time would like TO aG-
dress a large audience Of your Tryon.
peopke on this most important sub.
ject, and tell you what lands are the
best adapted, end how to prepare the
ground and dig the holes, and selecc
and prune the trees, and fertilize
them and cultivate the ground Il dig.
the holes, and select and prune the
| trees, and .fertiiize them and cultivate.
the ground: when to gather the fruit
how to crate, and where to ship, ana.
do my utmost to make your people,
| realize what a God-favored section:
| hat southside Of Tryon mountain IS,
for PEACHES"
Yours truly,
R. H. SMITH,
| Heniars0nUillP, N. c..
Can Grow Them Here
On reading the above The Hustler
| sought out Mr. Smith and asked him:
What about peach culture in Hen
derson county,
Peaches grow we'll in this county
but on account of the great altltuoe
the crcp will not mature here until
the northern markets are Ioade with
peaches grown in that section" SAD
Mi. Smith
But if Henderson county people
will grow peaches for the markets OF
our southern cities after the southern
crop is gone and when everybody IS
hungry for the lueiOus fruit 1t VIII
pay and pay well.
-And this section will grow them
e3IGl~-JIy -I- L,>244l1lE JuipcS-S ~I~
sections can be selected here where
they ~will.escape the frost, just as vel
as in any other section, as they ploom
later. 1t can be made "a great lnous-
try for this entire section.
st believe the industry "oup~
spread here as it has in Georgia.
where it had a very small beginning.
And the summer tourists would be oe-
lighted to find fruit here in
when they come to the mountains anu
after all the peaches grown IN 1hell
home sections are gone"
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