. The Southern States. IN GEORGIA. -shipped from their depots, shot throughin refrigerating cars along the greatSouthern trunk lines, is within reach ofa population of 30,000,000 of peoplewithin full time to be enjoyed in all itsfreshness and lusciousness. This facthas caught the attention not only of thefruit-grower but of the capitalist, andthe lands about Griffin andFort Valley today presentan unbroken scene of peachand grape plantations. Atthe one place they extendnorth and south along theCentral Railroad of Georgia,and southwest along theGeorgia Midland & GulfRailroad, and at the otherthe
. The Southern States. IN GEORGIA. -shipped from their depots, shot throughin refrigerating cars along the greatSouthern trunk lines, is within reach ofa population of 30,000,000 of peoplewithin full time to be enjoyed in all itsfreshness and lusciousness. This facthas caught the attention not only of thefruit-grower but of the capitalist, andthe lands about Griffin andFort Valley today presentan unbroken scene of peachand grape plantations. Atthe one place they extendnorth and south along theCentral Railroad of Georgia,and southwest along theGeorgia Midland & GulfRailroad, and at the otherthey reach north, east, southand west along the South-western and the Atlanta &Florida Railroads. At Fort Valley the acre-age is devoted almost ex-clusively to peaches, andcovers a space of some eightsquare are-V about 1,000,- 000 treesplanted andabout half amillion dol-lars investedin the orch-ards. Theprofits on thepeach cropof Houstoncounty, inwhich thetown is lo-cated, for theyear 1892amounted to %. $350, some of the largest orchards are cul-tivated by joint stock companies and thecapital in\-ested is mostly from the Wcst-ern States, notably Ohio. The largest or-chard, however, is owned by a nati\e ofthe county. Ten years ago he did nothave a dollar. As an experiment heplanted 20,000 peach trees which, withinthree years, began to bear. His netprofits from his crop in 1889 were esti- 82 FRUIT CULTURE IN GEORGIA. mated at $50,000, and in the year fol-lowing they were proportionately orchards vary in the number oftrees, from 5000 to 200,000, but thereare many small farms, all of which go toswell the acreage. The yield from the trees, on an aver-age crop, is from one to one and one-half crates of three pecks each. In afull crop the yield is from two to fourcrates. The estimated cost of a cratefrom tree to market is about one includes the cost of the crate, gath-ering and packing and carting the fruit,and transporting it by rail. The crates
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