Georgia's Fruits

Georgia put peachcs into market on May 20, and New York paid seventyüve cents apiece for the first crate. The one érate, the product of two or three limbs of a peach tree, brought more nioney tothe owner than an acre of the best cotton. Peaches will grow anywhereinthekState. One finds the tres along the roads, off in the field, and even in the woods. And tliey hang full. This year the yield is beyond anything ever seen, and the railroads and steamboats have made rates that will put Georgia fruit into all the Northern markets. The largest peach orchard in the South, if not in the world is located near Gnffin. It eontains 50,000 trees and covers almost 600 acres of land, on the same farm are 4,000grafted appl9 trees and 5,000 fine pear trees! The income of this year will exceed that of any 2,000 acre wheat farm or cotton plantation. Georgia is wild over the LeConte pear. It is equeal to the Californian in size, and surpasses it in flavor. Some thirty years ago vlr. Le Conté, being in a New York Nursery, was given a seedling. He took it home to Georgia, gave it a place in the grownd not caring much whether it lived or died, and he himself died before the tree matured. War spared it and the immense yield and find flavor attracted attention. The neighbors bepged cuttings, and in a few years the LeConte was established in two or three counties, but it is only in the last few years that it has made a reputation away from home. The tree is one of unusual vigor. The tree has never been known to blast. Cut off a twig and stick it in the ground and it will take root. The pears are of great size, the flavor is exquisite, and a f ull-sized tree will yield from twenty to twenty five bushela. Men have cleared as high as $2100 f rom seventy-flve trees, and LUere ia not one tree in a hundred that will not yield at least flfteen bushels. The first of the season sell at about $12 per bushei, and the price never goes below $4. Some of those who started in ürst, have made a great deal by selling cuttings, and orders arp now received from almost every locality in America. The shipments began with ten bushels, and this year will be over 10,000. In three years from this the , shipments will probably count up 25, 000. In three years trom this, the shipments will probably count up 25, 000 bushels and the price may come down to a dollar, but at even this tigure, the growers would make a profit ot f 1,000 to the acre. It is the only variety of pear ever known which bears each season and has never shown the slightest signs of blight. Georgia is putting out a vineyard for al most every other cornfleld, and its grapes will be in market six weeks before those around the shores oí Lake I Erie. The Concord, Salem, Delaware, Hartford and all other varieties yield splendidly, and bring such prices as make farmers look wild. Georgia is as certain of a big yield of plums each year, as the farmer is of potatoes or corn. It is rare that worms or blight fall upou them, and the fruit is of extraordinary size, and of excellent flavor. Ten plum trees will bring in about as much money as an acre of cotton, and the only expense is the picking. Sum up the fruits of Georgia, and it amounts to saying that she can raise any variety in the utmost profusión. Ten years henee she will raise more peaches, pears,plums, grapes and strawberries than any other state in the ion. Her fruit growere are now maKing more money from ten acres ttian any cotton or cereal farmer is from forty Her boom is not a speculation, but has been brought about by hard work, good planning and common sense investments. Twelve thousand tons of locust eggs would seem a reasonable number to have destroyed, but though rewards offered by the government have brought about the collection and destruction of this amonnt the siege is regarded as a f ailure, owing to the ïndifference of farmers and agriculturists in general who refused to devote themselves to the work with the necessary enthuaiasm.