Smyrna times., 1922-07-19

was served in the packing shed to a
large crowd, after which automobile
transportation was provided for tour
of the orchards.
The party visited the Pomona Or
chard territory on the Berlin Snow
Hill road. The principal item Of in
terest in this orchard was the large
crop of belle of Georgia and the ex-
traordinary size of the Carmin peach
es. Forty-fve peaches to a e basket
gives some idea of the size that these
beauties have attained. In this or
chard demonstrations of the methods
of preparing the peach trees and ap-
plying paradi- i-chlOrobenezene for the
control of peach tree borders was ar
ranged under the auspices of the coun-
ty agent. E. l. Oswald, and State
Entomologist, f. N. Cory.
From there the party returned to
Ironshire and viewed the large blocks
of peach and apple trees and other
nursery stock, aggregating ten million
trees.
From there the tourists went to the
Squires' Farm, where the principal
item of interest was the wonderfully
fine crop of Williams Early Red ap-
Piles. The Glack Twig Orchard on this
farm bore approximately one barrel
of apples to the tree at six years of
age, and has been bearing a full crop
! each year since that time. This was
remarkable for this variety, as the
Paragon is notably late bearer.
A visit was next made to the farm
where Admiral Stephen Decatur was
born, which is now an 11,000-tree or
chad in full bearing. In this orchard
there was an early variety of peacl
ripening and the visitors regaleC
themselves to their hearts content.
The party then proceeded to the
Home Orchard, and paid particulal
attention there to the excellent equip
ment for preparing spray material
and for handling the spraying prob
lem. In this orchard, as in all of tn,
others, elevated platforms, with from
two to three cookers and runnin,
water, are used in preparing both tn
dormant spray material and summe
! sprays. One of the most importan
factors in the success of these or
chards is the thorough way in whicl
they are sprayed from the time tn
buds begin to swell to the time tn
peaches are off the trees.
A complete coating of self-boile
: lime and sulpher is maintaine
throughout the season. Another re
markable sight at the Home FarT
, was the 18-year-old Elberta peach OF
chard, which has a crop this year an
/, has borne a crop for the last 13 years
This is probably the best producin
: orchard to be found in the Unite
States. There are two thousand tree
: in this orchard and they have born
/ as high as thirty carloads of first-clas
$ fruit in a season. This orchard, al
4 though a great age for peach orch
ard of the original planting, is of tw
e thousand trees. Practically all of ther
$ are still standing.
I The facilities for packing and loaC
e ing the cars at the packing shed al
tracted a great deal of attention o
account of the amount of fruit goin
d out from the Berlin station each yea
t To date fifty cars of yellow transpal
t ent apples and ten cars of peache
s have moved from that point. Ther
d will be about three hundred and fit
e cars of apples handled by that organ
g zatiOn. The fruit is packed in the she
y right alongside of a switch capable {
= holding forty cars and carriers al
e shunted into iced cars on gravity rol
:. er carriers and shipped as far West &
e Indianapolis and North into Canad
e and into the leading Southern cities
/ After the tour a great many of II
visitors went to Ocean City for II
weekend to enioy the surf bathing.