Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-11-07

your own thinking, and If you slip up
trying to follow something l have
tried to tell you, that is your lookout.
No, 1 would not try to fool you; but
YOU will never get anywhere on my
Judgment or the judgment of anybody
else. You've got to do your own think
| ing.
Il put out five thousand trees and
they are doing fine, all but about a
hundred. l expect to get my first crop
of peaches n year from next summer,
and that is about all l can tell you
along that line"
In reply to questions, Mr.. Cameron
said that he had been investigating the
peach question for several years. He
has grown peaches on his farm and
convinced himself as to their quality.
1t was just about 1914 that he finally
made up his mind to set out a COM
mercial peach orchard, and he made a
contract for 5000 trees; but the war
came on, prices went up, the nursery
man went back on his contract, his
boys went into the army and he was
unable to carry out his plans; but now
he has his orchard growing and he is
watching the experiment with much
interest.
They tell me I am going to fail in
this" said Mr.. Cameron. Maybe l Will;
but if | do it will be the first big VEN
ture of the kind that l have everfailed
in. don't believe am going to fail. l
am going to succeed; but if l do fail,
hope there wont be anybody hurt
but me. And 1 won't be hurt badly.
[ have always made it a rule never to
venture all l had in an uncertain eX-
pertinent But let me tell you this.
If l succeed as l believe l will, my
success is not only going to be worth
something to Johnson Cameron, but it
is going TO be worth lots to York coun-
ty Just let it turn out that York
county can produce the kind Of peach
es 1 think she can produce, and the
demand there will be for peach lands
from Northerners and Westerners will
make the boom of 1919 look like 80
cents"
What reason have you to think that
superior peaches can be raised in this
county," Views and Interviews asked.
Well that's one thing that 1 am
just sure Of" Mr.. Cameron replied. Il
know, because l have produced the
peaches and other people have produc-
ed them. have been spending good
deal of time in the peach growing Sec
tion of Georgia during the picking sea-
son. On one occasion l secretly took
down some of my own peaches, and
while going through the orchards down
there / would submit them to demon
stration men and other experts to look
at and taste, without letting the eN-
perts know where they came from.
Yes, that's n beauty they would say.
(Which tree did you get it from" /
put one of the demonstration agents
wise in confidence, and he was aston
ished. He admitted that my peaches
were superior in flavor and size.
There is plenty of good peach land
in York county" declared Mr. Came
ron; but you must not make the mis-
take of thinking that one kind of land
will grow peaches as well as another.
A peculiar kind Of pebbly land is the
best, and then too you want your ORCH
ard located to the best advantage with
reference to the sun and the danger
from frost.
up to a few years ago." Mr.. Cam
eron concluded, "the average life of q
commercial peach orchard was only
about six years. This was especially
because of the peach borer and the
San Jose scale; but they've about dis
covered means to control both of these
pests, and by the right kind Of atten-
tion the orchard can be kept alive al
most Indefinitely"