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Americus Recorder. ESTABLISHED 1879. AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY. MARCH 27, 181)1. GEORGIA ORCHARDS. WHAT MR. FREDG. W1THOFT SAYS OFTHEM. A Pnper Read ffefore the Montgomery Ohio County Horticultural Society— An Ohio Man’s Evidence. *I'l,e Dayton (Ohio; Daily Times publishes in full Mr. Withoft’s ad- <lre*a on Georgia liorlicu! lure be low the Montgomery (Ohio; couu- ty Horticultural Society. It in as follow: IIOltTKTI/lTLK IN (JF.OIUHA. j nhull confine myself principally to Southern, Central and South western Georgia. The State lies between 20 and BO degrees north latitude* its northern boundary be ing south of the lowest parallel of the contLieut of Europe. The cli mate and noil are most favorable to ♦he production of all kinds of fruit. It is the home of the peach, pear, grape, fig and luscious watermelon, ami lias already obtained a national reputation as a fruit growing State. From Atlanta to south below Fort Valley, a distance of about 150 miles, is a ridge from live to ten miles in width, the elevation of which is from -400 to 1,000 feet ubov the sea level, and is the highest point between the Atlantic ocean and the gulf, which, for successful fruit growing L said to be unequal ed on the Atlantic slope. The soi la Southwestern Georgia u a rich brown, sandy loam, underlaid with a rich red clay containing pot asii and lima. This possesses great productiveness. SHIPPING FACILITIES. With mild and healthy climate cheap lands, unrivalled fertility great diversity of fruits and the present facilities for shipment to northern and western markets (being within two days of New York city and Philadelphia by rail, and three days from Savannah by steamer, and Cincinnati, Chicago, •St. Louis and Louisville ure readily reached from Atlanta , no part of the United Slates otters greater advantages for profitable fruit growing than that of this sec tion. i’lie Refrigerator Car Company, wli »»e headquarters for the south are at Atlanta, send their cars down to Port Valley, where they are loaded with fine fruit, the tempera tur* i' -t right. In a few hours tho trai l r~*chen Atlauta, where the * a. Agent is ready with a force '*) *tu-u and ice; the cars ure mu on hack near au ice chute, and •a u very few minutes re-icing is , slid go forward without de- la y« At Lynchburg, Va., an agent company does the sh "f iU l ^ n K* At New York another agent 1‘XamiueH the fruit and takes the temperature of the ears. The fruit ,uu ■’ ul ’rive in good condition. In CiH “ tl,erw i* any trouble between 1 -Uppern and commission mor- «’h..ni* as ro the couditlou of tlie r uit, the records of the company * re a protection to the shipper. •iQdreds of these cars are now lu use und their advantages to ship pers are greatly appreciated. Thexe facilities for shipping and l u *ek transit, run on passenger !! ni< ’ os are used in Southern Illiti berries for tlie shipment of . *w« h> Chicago;-, have done more tt mn anything else to induce •ur i'Ml'urists to ti.^est here amt largely. ki ° r a W»i*s there are sixty-live * which can be grown h«*»- j 1 fair success, one of the >st , ies bei » r the Shockly, which ,l kept for nearly a year. „tV ac /T beuin to ripen about the A *y nnti continue until the * 1 -Iuly; grapes in June, undo Uar| d water- , 0f,, t justly famed for their ex- t° ripen in Houih- iV e ° rKla 1>y lho rtrst (jt tir,' n,, ‘‘ ,a:, t until September the r ,. ,1 ,,Je, dh>u hero that the ' ‘cxuriantly and is nl- P'-U etunJiy in bloom. . A DAYTON SFTTLEB. exi.,. r i. 1 ’ < ^ eor Kia, is tho state lu, '" l ul farm, which reminds 1. ;.. , .' l . f:lr,u in l * u * Miami valley. Henry GaHjouse, a for- of |) r y ‘ ‘ f Dayton, also a eon lat*. ., r ft . r * Cincinnati, the I’u, . / '' n \ of American •<, * i \ a8, °olatioii. They eecm '•-‘t:-well. *1;. ,l /.. mut ‘ l ' rous peach or- n ' v,,, «yards here. It is tr.uv t rr. t .L oc, ‘' ufei for grope «x Iwri A " tJ:,t 1"reqolrsd isan bl 'sine a . 6 ' a,k,:r l <> maka the profitable There are thirty three kinds of grapes that succeed here. The 8cuppernoug, from which au "excellent quality of wine is made, grows without any attention. This wine Is to be found upon the tables of thecitlzeus and is furnished free at the princi pal hotels. The Scuppernoug is a vigorous grower. I have seen the vines of this variety cover a space seventy-live feet square, and have heard of them covering one-fourth of an acre. At Kurt Valley may be seen tho largest peach orchards In the south; in fact, in a few years more, if tlie present rate of planting is contin ued, this will become tlie largest peach centre In the United Hlates The State Horticultural society re ports fifty-live kinds of peaches tlie best quality that do well her T..e trees are botli grafted and hu.l iled, while we, bore iu the n only bud them. Tlie Klberta is the leading and most profitable variety bringing as high as eight and te dollars per bushel, ripening vei early and being tne first lu the Ne York and Philadelphia market Tlie original treeof this variety stilt standing ou ilie farm of M Kuinpli, wtio lias the largest or ■■hard here, having over 400 100 acres of which was planted last year. He lias a hundred acre or chard from ten to twelve years old iu which not a dead tree Is to be seen, looking as line ami healthy as can he desired. Iu fact, I hav not seen as tine and thrifty au or chard iu til. United Stales, and have been iu nearly every section The “yellows” are nnknowu here Ills stated that Mr. Humph realized *00,000 In 1880. He manufactures Uls own packages. To give some Idea of the magnitude of his liusi ness, I will mention that he say that his packages for packing in that year, or crates, cast him in the neighborhood of *10,000. THE AI.llAUClH COMPANY. The AlbaughGeorgia Fruit Com pony, the majority of whose stock holders live in this val|ey, pur chased 1,200 acres of laud hero last April, and iu November and De comber plauted 70,000 trect, cover iug about 400 acres of the Klberta I,tidy Ingold, (a fine variety orlg seated iu North fcaiollnal, tho Diamond,” a seedling peach whicli received tho highest premi mil at the Ohio centennial in ISSs Karly Crawford, Smock, Old Mixon and a few other old kinds. As one drives down the main avenue, two and a'half miles long lined on either side with the Kiel ter and I.e Conte pear trees, and then looking down the rows of the youug peaeli trees as far as the eye call reach, straight and regular laid out liy tlie gurveyor—some a half mile deep, ail whitewashed to prevent tlie rablts from gnawing the hark, ono feels like exclaiming, this is surprising!” Mr. II. T. Moore lias 110,000 trees mostly Klberta; Capt. J. H, James ha, 1111,000, of various ages; a Michi gan firm nas several hundred seres, and many others have orchards from five toten thousand trees. In all, some 3,000 acres or nearly a half million of trees, all within a short distance of each other—a half day’e drive. Mr. J. H. Hale, a large peach grower of Kouth Qlastoubury, Coun.,who visited Georgia last sum mer in the interest of tlie United States Census bureau, to gather hor ticultural statistics,saw thegre- 4- vantages of Fort Valley, and at once purchased 000 acres of superb level land, of which he will plant 500 acte» ip peaches. rltEOIt’O FIll'IT I.AN '.'ONIPANV. The I tellur an I.e Cjnte pears are also extensively planted here, with good success. The Ohio Fruit I.and Company purchased 1 ,HC0 acres of land here, upon which they intend to plant the largest pear orchard iu the United States. Some 110,000 trees will bo planted next fall to begin with, mostly Klefier, a cross between tlie Chi nese sand pear and ilaridett, which IS also one of the mosc profitable [wars iu the north, is apparently fret from blight, and bears early and abundantly. This,' company h*s laid off part of !tt< land in 50 and lw) acre farms, and ihe station on their purchase, called' Myrtle, in one acre lots, which will be donated to the pur chasers of these farms for bunding homes. Mott of the white farm er, here live In the towtu and cities. The land In Georgia is all In large tfaols, and It ia difficult to get small farms. Kverything here goes by the mule; 40 acres Is a on* malt farm. I asked a negro farmer how much rent he paid, and he said, “two bales (cotton) to de mule, sab.” 1 then asked him why hedid not buy some land, and he replied, “that he could not because dey wouldn’t sell him a small place. He had to buy too large a tract and dey asked him *15 to *J0 an acre, and he didn’t hsb de money.” Wlieu auked did he' make enough to have beef steak three times a day, he looked up, showing his white teeth aud rolliug his eyes so that the whites could he seen, and said, "I'so satisfied if I get good bacon.” iiut leaving ail jokes aside, some of them are thrif ty and are making money. THE HOME or THE I.E CONTE l'KAIt. Leaving Fort Valley, we come to Kinithville, Tliomasviiie and Alba ny, tlie home of tlie Le Conte pear, a cross between the Chinese sand pear and Bartlett or Howell, which is said In lie absolutely Wight proof. Tie firm tree of this kind was p!a.,:nu lu Liberty couuty, Oa., by Mrs. .1. M. Hardin, whicli was sent lo*r by her uncle, Maj. L.* Conte, of 1’hiladtlphla, who first saw it ill a nursery labeled Chinese sand pear, rom which Che large orchards orig in a ted. This tree still lives, so that n >w it. is over 40 years old. Tills is remarkable, for many of our tree- are kille I by blight before the trees are half that age. The tree still hesrs abundantly,yielding annually from ta'enty to thirty bushels, rip ening during the first weeks of July. Although there is a great deal of mouey made ou tills pear, it will not sell half as well as the Kietler, but there is another mode of dis posing of them at a profit. They can be evaporated in the same man ner as apples or peaches, and iu that condition they bring from 25 to 30 cents per pound. When dried the tlesh is a beautiful white, sweet and sugary, very much like dried figs. A bushel of tine pears, wlieu evaporated will weigh from six to seven pounds. Of course, when In this shape, they may keep as long as desired. We found orchards from one to ten thousand trees grown from cuttings, which is re- marknhie as they will not grow in all latitudes. Cuttings are taken from the trees as it has checked Its growth for the season, and planted at once; tlie time varies from Oc tober to February. The way this is done, is this: trench is dug about sixteen laches deep, filled iu with fertilizers three or four inches deep, Then it is tilled aud the cuttings stuck straight dowu, an inch or two of the top being left uncovered. A negro is hired at 50cents a day, who sits down at tlie side of a pile of scions, three to six feel long, and with large - pruning shears cuts thousands of them a day. They are left to remain in the row until the following November. ;How- ver not more than 15 to 25 percent of theiiYgrow ) The twigs or cut tings are generally from ten to twelve inches In length -nd about one-fourth to one-half inch lu diameter. By fall they have made a growth of from five to six feet, and then they are ready to lie out iu the orchard where they are cut hack to within eighteen inches of the ground. The following year the limbs aro cut back two-thirds of tlie year’s growth; the same the sec ond year, care being taken to 'savo the last bud ou tbe outside of the limbs so that they may grow out from the centre of the tree, to give as much head as possible, as the tree Is inclined to run up too high ill the centre. They make a beau tiful orchard, and one cau see from twenty to 103 acres without a dead tree, hut, unliko a pear tree ill tho uorili, they ueed cultivation, prun ing and attention, the neglect of which for one year will stunt them and they fail to bear. It is said that the Kietler also will do well here from cuttings, hut it is much better budded on the Le Conte or its own root. They do not hud tlie trees near the ground as wodo, but about eighteen Indies bovo. . IMMENSE OBCHAKI S At Smithville, W. .V. Thompson has twenty-five acres, chiefly L- Conte, also noma Klefier aud Bart lett, ten to twelvo yean old, which yielded in all 800 bushels last sea son, the Le Conte selling »k 80 cents per orateand the Kietler from *2 or *3 per bushel. Ona Le Conte -tree, ten years old, produced on an average ten bushela for aix consecu tive years; In three ol tbe rows of Klefier grafted on LeConte, tbe tope were broken ofT, being over- loaded with fruit which could have been averted by tbinnlug out the fruit. Auotber peculiar bi?ht was three iowm of Bartlett’*, budded ou LeCoute, which bad au uuuatural growth at the end of each limb, the terminal bud formiug a sort of wooden |>*ar, giving the trees an appearance of being loaded with unnatural fruit. This proves that this variety is not a success when budded on the Le Conte. For this orchard Mr. Thompson asks$400 an acre. At Albuuy we saw large pear and aud also some pencil orchards. The soil here very good and the hor ticulturist'* bright aud pushing, even unto a ripe old age. One on- turprUiug old gentleman by (he name of Tift, 80 years of age, has planted 75 acres o' a pecan orchard from tho nut, which takes seven years te bear, an 1 expect* to live to gather the fruit. He also takes a lively iutercst lu railroads and other enterprises, Tills ought to make a 59 or 00-year-old horticultu rist fell ashamed when he says: “1 am too old to plant.” Tho pe can nut dues well in Georgia, is loug-liveil uud makes good lumber. TJIK GARDEN CITY OF THE SOUTH. At Thomaiivillw, the Gai deu City of the South; u famous wluter re sort, there is a boulevard which makes the circuit of the city ut au average diatauce of two miles from its center. From the city splendid hard roads diverge from the city in every direction, like the spokes of a wheel. It has pleasantly laid out wide streets, and some of the grand est hotels. The city seems to b j encircled by extensive pear or cliarda—Le Coute—tlie driest in the south. Messrs. BUckshear au<l Sanford, two of the leading nurserymen here, make a specialty of growing Le Coate and KietFer pears. They also have lino hearing orchards. One tree ou Me. Hanford’s place, llyours old, last year bore thirty- four bushels, on which he realized $7« The Le Cuute l’ear company here owns 225 acres, 100 acres of which were plauted two years ago, most ly Lo Conte. Near by is au or chard of two acres, ou which whs cleared $70') last year. But there is also one of fourteen acres, four years old,which 1ms horn*- nothing, because it was neglected, which goes to slio v that tlie Lo Conte needs attention. Mr. Blacksheur also makes a success of hi rawherry growing. The Wilson does well hereon account of the soil, whicli is a rich sandy loam. ATLANTA TO THE SEA. At Atlanta, a genuine northern city, and Mucou aud Havannah, ty pical southern cities, we dlcl not get out into the couutry. Macon s noted for her large manufacturing Interests and her schools and col leges, particularly among which Is the Wesleyan Female Seminary, being tine of the foremost iu the laud, the first that ever conferred college degrees upou ladles, being tilled with beautiful, charming ami sensible young ladies from all parts of ihe country. Hivauuah U the largest shipping point iu Georgia. Here can he seen vessels f rom all parts of the world. Millions of bales of cotton are shipped annually from this port hvdirect line of "<tearners to rthern eilies and t« Europe. At Augusts, Oa., we visited the nursery of Mr, Beickmnu, the presi dent of th»» American Promologlcal society,a gentleman of aboutD*) years of age, who Is as hale aud h- arty and spry as a man of 40. This nursery is famous throughout the United States for its original trees and shrubs. It remind* one of the large oro.imsutal nurseries in eastern New York. Here originated the orients! peaches Yum Yum and Peen too. The land here lies high and rolling, and is we*l adapted for nursery and the growing of fiuit.iu fa^t the state general ly, where lands are high and roiling, is destined to he a paradise of fruit growing iu the coming years, and well deserves the earnest attention of horticultur ists. STILL DRY. The publishers of the Recorder having been unable to make terms with the Water Commissioners for a supply of water for motive power, are compelled to again issue a half sheet. Buch a course is as unsatis factory to us as it can be to our readers, and we shall remedy it as soon as possible, and then try and make the Recorder so much bet ter ns to make np for our present deflcJencf«»«i. Among the n»< of the filial w«M*t Gen. J us. E. J 1 ' A TAWNY HEAD FROM EGYPT. With tufts of hair warm l.roaae, within a caso It rata, this marvel from the ant (quo land Of pyramid and sphinx, or palm aud sand, Aaillustration of the domiuaut race That swayed tho worl 1 for centuritw, and that planned Archives of art and catacombs, to *t u*l • 'Gainst all time's efforts laboring to efface. These slfrhtioe* SOcfcMa onco with love light gleamed; Tilt* brow oommandinontover mon has beamed* And with (hi Intelk'et may liftvo i»iven tone To goveymnents, and even touch.kl our own! While lips that may have graetol wife and young: Aro now with brain that thought, with voice that r York Sun. An lsstlmatc of Carlyle. “I never knew Carlyle,” nays tlie an ther of "Glances of Great and Little Mt impoi taut events ! Men,” "except by sight. To tell tho ttih of | truth, 1 <li<l not greatly covet his ac quaintance in those last days of liia, ! when alone I could have known him. I was even not without n certain dread of this roaring apostle of taciturnity. Once, however, finding myself sitting opponfte to him in a Chelsea omnibus, I ventured to address him. I tried the weather—the recognized conversational aperient—bet L* this case it failed of it? maud eikt-ct. He gave no -»uswer, but | bat there, loosing on his&t.uT in brood- JumcH \V. Lancaster, Hawkins- ville, Gu.. writ*-*; “My wife «-*« in bail In Hit/i lor years Five doctors and as many more patent medicines had rionw le-r n<» g<*» d. 8ix boltlcM of B. B. B. has cured her.” GEORGIA AT THE WORLD'S FAIR. Gov. Northern win* is ulwa>hfully alive to the interest* of Georgia and endeavor- l » a !v.»nc»* them In a practical way, has issued a call for u convention to he held in •' t- lautit, on the Gth of May, to con si or what action shall be taken in re gard to a ti exposition of Georgia'* products at the World’s Fair. At that meeting twoemiuent constitu tional lawyers will deliver their opiniou a* to the legality of tho leg islature making an appropriation for Bit* purpose. One of these law yers has already expressed an opin ion that such un appropriation would come wlthiu the limits of the constitution. Col. Liviugston, v. ho K chairman of the World’s Fair committee ap pointed by the State Agricultural Society, has called a meet iug of the committee for the 15th of April,for the purpose of consulting as to the be*t method of securing » r« prcpeu tation of Georgia a! the Fair. The people «»f Georgia are awskrn lug to the importance of uinkiug u proper display of h-r matchless re sources beside tlio«c of Lor sister Slnics, and wo believe that these meeting* will result in th • foimuta tion of Horn*, plan Rich will give us such an exhibit as w ill attract tin* attention of the world and In duce a movement «,f people and money Into Georgia- that will fill her wa*-te places withjan industrious and thrifty popuiafi.m uud develop our industrial res.micvs. If you decide, from what you I»h h'-unl or read, thut you will tase Hood’s .Sarsaparilla, do not he in duced to buy any substitute iustesd. P. P. P. stimulates the appetite and aid* the process of assimilation, cures nervous troubles nr.d iuvlgoi- atea and strengthens every organ of the body. Nervous prostration is also cured by tin* great and pow erful P. P. P Its eilects are per manent and Iami iug. A «1v in Moth«o». Mrs. Winslow’s hoothinci Syr up should always be u*ed for cbll dren teething. It soothes tbe child, ^rtecs tbe gum*, allays »U pain, cures wind colic, and is the beat remedy foi dlarrhom. Twenty-five o uifcs J ?r bottle. Wanted. ' * , oxen. Address 8. Joiin.-on. Mr. Raudall Pope, the retired druggist of Madison.Fla., says (Dec. 8, 1880,) he regards P. P. P. rprick- ly Ash, Poke Root aud Potassium) a* the best alterative on tho market, and that lie has seen more benefi cial results from tho use of it Hihii any other blood mediciue. I\ P. P. cures Scrofula, Salt Rheum and all humors. Dyspepsia, Sick Headache, Hilipiisnesa. It cures that tired feeling, creates an appetite, strengthens the nerves and build* up tin* whole system. P. P. P. is unrivaled, aud since Its In troduction lias cured more cases of blood disease than all the other blood purifier* put together. Trades and Occupations, The Youth’s Companion for 1891 will give an instructive and help ful Series of Papers, each of which describe* tho character of some leading Trade for Boys or Occups- tion for C.lrls, They give informa tion ns to the Apprenticeship re quired to learn each, the Wages to be expected, th** Qualities neod«d in order to •liter, and the prospects of success. Address, tfiB Youth’s Companion, Boston. Mass. ice and with introspective eyes, mi til he reached his destination. When he lu«l got ont, I, affecting not to know him, asked the conductor who he was. Tho latter had touched his bat to him. " ‘Oh. yessir, I know him well enough. ’E orfeu ridea in my ’bus. ’E”*t wot you call a littery geut—writes h...As wot no body can understand.* "The conductor paused, as if mentally summing up fr.nu his superior stand point—tho footboard — poor Carlyle’s characteristics, and then added, with a touch, half of pity, half of contempt in the voice: " 4 ’E’s a bit oil his chump, like many of those gouts; but he ain’t a IkuI sort if you hike him tho right way.* " Artur* IVlio Paint. speaking of jieople who paint, Edward W. Kemble, the artist, said: "1 know many actors who are art 's with tho brush and i>oucil, and very imr artists at that. Joseph Jefferson goes in for water colors. Dixey draws queer caricatures, and I saw one of his eccentric drawings on a Parker house (Boston) lull of faro only the other day. Louis Harrison, tho comedian, is a rapid draughtsman. Tim Murphy used to bo u house pay»UT in Washirgtou, so he comes rightly by hia taste for pvu aud pencil. His dressing room wherever he may bo is covered with daubs roughly but effectively done in grease, jiaint and crayon. Lotta, Minnie Mnd’dcru, Madeline Lucelio aud Alice King Hamilton draw very neatly. E. II. But hern has made sketches winch Dan Frub man considers worthy of hang ing framed in the lobby of the Lyceum theatre. George Fawcett Rowe used to go in for oils. Alexander Salvini, son of his father, has presented a very neat water color to Mnrie Burroughs.—New York Herald. . Job Printing. Although the Recorder is for .tho pfeseut iu * state of a*.sp**t3 .o‘ the job office Is still alive and pie- pared to turn out all kinds of print ing. Ho Grlng on your work and we wijl turn jt out prompt!\* And cbe.pty. . v , ,H ‘ i i Muftis Work In Lecturing. A popular lecturer who ha? appeared before big audiences ou hundreds of platforms during the past ten or twelve years, says that lecturing is the hardest way of earning a living. The lecturer is all tho time exhausted with travel from place to place by railroad or steamboat, or stage coach or other convey.ince' Ho cannot get solid sleep any time. Ho finds himself in uncomfortable qurn tors in all sorts of hotels. Ho caunot get to bed till nearly midnight after uny lect ure. Us is bothered with committees and agents. Ho often finds tluit both tho audience and tho receipts are light. Tho lecturer hero quoted says that he is worn out down to the bones after a few weeks of lecturing, and (list ho never had as exhausting work when he w:w u deck bninl n'oonrd ship as ho has Inal during the Clears in which he has lx*e:i on tho lecture platform. His nervous system has Ix'en shattered by it.—New York Sun. Krrtihtitiiru of lli« Air to u Locomotive. Experiments on the French railways show that the resistance of the atmos phere to tho motion of highspeed trains amounts often to half tlie total re.-istauctx Two engines, of which the resistance was measured separately and found to be 19.8 i>oufkis per ton at thirty-seven wiles per hour, were coupled together and again tried. The resistance fell to 14.8 pounds per ton. Tho second engiuo was masked by the first. It may be ar gued from this that by a suitable adap tation of the front of a locomotive, elec trical or otherwise, a saving of from 8 to 10 per cent, of the effective power could bo made.—Electrical Review 1‘arrow* on lliu Finger Null*. Nearly twenty years ago Dr. Wilks <li- rvotwl attention to tbe carious fact that a transverse farrow always apiiears oa tue nails utter a serious illness. Medical men Ignored wlutt they called the vision ary opinions .of Mr. Wi.au. giving tho ■patter out little attention iu r.uir med ical worka * Recently a new interest in the subject haq been revived and patho logical toctulits have begun an investi gation. One remarkable case shows nail furrows caused by three day’s seasick- uess.—Herald of Health. It the feet of a fly is pat aader the glass of a good lakroecepo it maybe seen how simple is the contrivance that seems able to defy the laws of gravita tion. She foot L made op of two pads, coversinu.ih fine h v luJrs, with a pairofeJ __ bind each pad is a t’.ny clear, liquid gum, the bain v aud fuled with the Mi