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Our fruit growers are
the prospect for a la*e yield of
fruits this season, and they have
every cause to be.
It is a recognised fact that Spal¬
ding county is the heart of the fruit
growing section of the State, and
this season our progressive fruit
growers will be enabled to ship more
fruit and to a better advantage than
ever before. The News, which is the
official organ of the Middle Georgia
Horticultural Society, has always,
taken an interest in the fruit culture,
which we believe to be the « most
profitable crop that can tre raised in
this section—and this belief is borne
out by the results of former years
products. * *’ v
On Thursday a News man, in com¬
pany with Hon. W. B. Hudson, made
a tour of inspection of the different
orchards and vineyards around
Griffin, and can truly assert that in
the many years spent right here
among fruits that never have the
trees and vines been so heavily laden
as now.
Most of the fruit growers are com¬
paratively newcomers, who were at¬
tracted hereby the splendid elimate
and the adaptability of the soil for
fruits. Many of them came down
and remained some time before pur-
with those who come here with the
idea of locating, they bought houses
and went to work. Among this num¬
ber is Mr. J. D. Husted, who is now
president of the Middle Georgia Hor¬
ticultural Society, and one of the
best informed men on the subject of
fruits we have. Mr. Husted came
here from Michigan and purchased a
place about two and a half miles
north of the city and now has one of
the prettiest vineyards and most
valuable orchards in the county. He
has planted in his orchards 7,000
peach trees, 3,000 plums and a num-
growers here will be rewarded for
heir labor by abundant crops this
season, the only possible chance for
a failure being heavy and continued
rains just at harvest time. He thinks
that his two varieties of peaches
will do splendidly here if they can re¬
sist the frost, as they are constant
.bearers trad fine fruit for any pur-
you can Its only have agood crop of El¬
bertas all you can ask.” His
plums are fine; his wild goose plttm
trees being loaded so heavy with fruit
that they almost break under its
weight. He also has the Kelsey,
Bobtan, Mariana and the Satsuma
or Japanese blood plnm, which is
loaded with large fruit. This plum
fruited in Florida last year for the
first time in the United States, and it
was a question as to whether or not
it would grow here. Mr. Husted has
proven that it will, and as its fruit
is very fine it is likely that it will be¬
come a favorite. The quince is also
planted by Mr. Husted and his
young orchard of “Angler’s Late” is
quite full of fruit and in a few years
will yield him a large quantity of
fine fruit. Like all of the growers,
Mr. H. is delighted that Griffin has
recieved the experimental station
and farm, and says that it wiU save
hundreds of dollars to those who ex¬
periment each year with new varie¬
ties of fruits.
Near Mr. Husted lives Mr. Henry
Gaihouse. Mr. Galhouse caiqe to
Spalding county three years ago,
from Dayton. Ohio, and purchased
place for the purpose of setting out
orchards and vineyards to raise
fruits for the northern and eastern
markets. He has one of tlieprettiest
and best situated fruit farms in Geor¬
gia and by hard work has made it
second to none. Mr. Galhouse make*
most money off peaches, owning one
of the finest orchards of the Elberta
peach in this section. His trees are
full and he gives as his opinion that
the crop will be larger and the
peaches finer than ever. He also has
the Alexander peach and says that
for early shipment it has proven a
success for him. It is impossible to
estimate the number of bushels be
will ship this year. Mr. Galhouse has
a young vineyard of 17,000 grape
vines, which be will get over 2,000
baskets of grapes from this year,
being the first year that. it has
borne. His grapes are mostly of the
Ives and Concord varieties, though
he has a number of new varieties
that he is experimenting with, also
Missouri, Ruling and Ives seedlings.
His plums are the wild goose, Kelsey,
Mona nna and Pottowattomie, the
wUcTgoose being the favorite. Like
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there is money in them for early ship-
ment. On the half of two short
rows, about seventy-five feet in
length, he picked a few baskets on
July 6tb, last year, and sold them
for *15 above all expend. Mr.
Smith bas a very fine apple orchard,
the trees, though young, being very
toll and giving promise of a large
crop. As for plums, his trees area
sz
Mr. Smith says that he would not
take five dollars each for the fruit on
the trees. Money has been made by
him every year on his plums and this
ana and Kelsey variety. His straw¬
berries have paid him well. He has
sold 800 quarts off a half acre al¬
ready and will have as many more.
Last year a half actor netted torn
$140. Mr. Smith saysthatany fruit
not a strict native of the tropics will
grow to perfection in this climate,
and having been a nurseryman all of
his life, he ought to know. On his
place is a fine almond tree that trill
mature several bushels of fine large
fruit this year, opening to August.
About one mile >orth of Mr.
Smith’s are the orchard and vine¬
yards of Mr A G. Vandyke, who moved
here four years ago from McComb,
Ohio, and has planted orchards and
vineyards each year since his resi¬
dence in the county until be has
10,000 grapes, 3,000 peach trees,
250 pears and 500 wildgooo plums.
His orchards and vineyards are
young, but will bear fair quantities
of fruit this year, and yield him a
very flattering-return. He afeo has
one and one-fourth acres to blackber¬
ries which he thinks will make money
here. Mr. Vandyke dislikes to give
his opinion as to what fruits pay
beet here, saying that he is only ex¬
perimenting, and in a few years will
be better able to judge. His varie¬
ties of peaches are Elbertas, Rus-
ted’s Nos. 15 and 16 and Vandyke’s
Nos. 1, 2 and 3. His Tears are Le
Conte, Keifer and about twenty-five
fancy varieties. He has seventeen
varieties of plunu experimenting with
them, but thinks that the wild goose
and the Cumberland are the best for
this section. His grapes are mostly
Concord and Ives.
Mr. Vandyke is president of the
Middle Georgia^ Shippers Union and
informed the News that the Union
had, after much trouble, secured
a quick route to ship their fruits to
Philadelphia, New York and Boston,
the best markets to send fruits to,
and they expected to ship about
three trains per week. Mr. Vandyke
has just shipped 80,000 cabbage
plants to Ohio, off of a very small piece
of ground—6x60 feet—receiving for
them $80. He is very enthusiastic
over the Experimental Farm and
Station coming to Griffin and says
that it is a Godsend to the fruit
growers.
The largest vineyard visited was
that of Mr. Rudolph Oetter, who
give# fof ft fthnwl fi clMiiTft"
ly to them. He baa 1,000peach trees
and a number of apples, but his
hobby is grapes, and as is not usual¬
ly the case though, understands his
hobby. There fe not a Concord
grape in his vineyard, but the majori¬
ty of his vines are Ives, Norton’s Vir¬
ginia and Cynthiana. In all he has
about fifty different varieties, some
of which have no names a* yet, bring
derived from different varieties of
southern grapes, These are only as
an experiment, and he is inclined to
believe it will prove a success. He
wiff ship his grapes as long as the
market is good, bat as soon as the
price goes down will convert the re¬
mainder of his crop into wine. He
has no fears for the fruit crop now,
bat thinks that it will surprise even
those who anticipate a large yield.
Speaking of the Experimental Farm
Mr. Oetter said: “It isthe besttiling
that could bare happened for the
fruit growers and will save them
thousands of dollars. One hundred
fruit growers could afford to support
such as institution from the expense
it takas of! thrir hands.”
a M. Wayman came to Spalding
county, from Missouri, in 1885 sad
put out a vineyard and orchard
^ to 1887 a,et
at an avenge a
and to 1888 fro
gathered 3,500
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business looking toward the final con¬
summation of its agreementwith the
the price, looked at froto a mone¬
tary standpoint, is a fair one. Bat
when w# look at the beauty and de¬
sirability of the plat
the many years that
loved home of Mr. Bates and his fam¬
ily, it will seen that the money would
be no object to a person as well fixed
financially as Mr. It win re*
quire tite sundering of many tender
ties, and the hunting wp of a new
home after years of peaceful and hap¬
py resident® in one spot, But there
was no other place that attracted
the Experiment Fsm commissioners,
and it was doubtless the appearance
*■* frfeff.fr™
and while it was impossible to give it
up without a struggle against his
NEW COMMITTEES
At the meeting in the interest Of
the Experiment Farm yesterday
Chairman N. B. Drewrywas instruct¬
ed to select a committee to go to
work, at ones and collect the money
to pay for the farm mid make up the
county’s bid. The following com¬
pointed, who wifi proceed with their
duties and report at a committee
meeting t»;be held onnextSatarday,
at 10 o’clock, at l>r. Drewry’s office.
Let r J.+ each district see how u favorable t ________ a _
report it can make:
Griffin District—J.<; D. Boyd, 8.
Qrantland, J.m Stewart, H. C.
Barr. ' t$» *
Orr’s District—W. E. H. Searcy. J.
P. Hammond, W. V. Maddox.
Cabin’s District—A. W, Walker, J.
H. Mitchell, Marion Patrick.
Akin’s District-J. D, Cunningham,
R. D, Ogletree, Scott Colbert.
Union District—J. J. Elder, J. H.
Urita J HVlMl U. oi y w if » JF w« IhiifiwiP DilQ^RKi
Mt. Zion District-W. H. Touch¬
stone, C, A. Dickinson, W. M. Bl an-
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ton. ‘ : ' ■■ ——~
Una Creek District-A. Tidwell,
Frank Scott, W. L. Bowers.
Africa District—J. Beatty, H. T.
Joe Ford and Arthur Hfo I ■
take in the Gate City today.
Judge Boynton is at home for a
da, or so. He will leave again Mon-
^^hchisgTt the Christian church
this evening at 7:40 o’clock, by Bev.
Harrison Jones.
*M*s.E. E. S^reoa returned •-
Jas. G. West, of Baltimore, who
IhfMd ck y
left yesterday for Augusta.
Not satisfied with a new spring
bonnet, the young wife now turns her
thoughts to the fashionable summer
resort.
Some of our horticulturists are
furnishing Griffin with the finest
strawberries ever mixed in sugar and
cream.
A good rain is very much needed,
but the farmers can put this dry spell
to good use to cleaning their crops ol
all grass.
J. W. Woodall, of BarnesriUe, who
has rented Stephenson place to
near Macon, has returned home.
If yon wish something pretty, fresh
and cheap in flowers, hats, Ac., call
on Mrs. M. R. Brown A Co. They
have a handsome line fresh from New
York.
On Monday, 18th, Mrs. M. B. Brown
A Co. will offer the biggest bargains of
the season. New, stylish shapes can¬
ton bats at 15c., 25c. and 85c., for
one day only.
Miss Katherine Healy, of Troy, N.
Y., who has been spending the whiter
in this city, left yesterday for her
home. She made many Mends while
here, who regret to see her leave.
Eli Brewer, B. A. Brantley and Ed
Smith will makea trip toBarnesvilfe
and back on their bicycles. They will
no doubt hare a pleasant ride, as the
we a the r is fine and the roads in good
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