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Houston County’s Great Detrion-
onstration,
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Atlanta Constiintlon, July 31. ,
The peach crop of Georgia has
practically been marketed.
The ‘oldest inhabitant remembers
no crop that equalled it, and the
youhgest will never see it exceed
ed. . ,
The peach crop for five years
has been a failure, blit the im
mense yield this year has More
than made up the deficit to the
growers of thp five years’ loss.
“This crop,” said Mr. James,
one of the largest growers in Geor
gia, “has been the finest the coun
try has ever seen or ever will see.
We have made a great deal of
money, and would have made more
could we have gotten sufficient
Cars and crates, but it will have
the effect of hurting somebody, for
when the people find oiit tlie enor
mous amount of money we grow
ers have made, everybody will want
to go into the business, and then
somebody is going to get hurt.
.. “If a man is going into the friiit
business be must have plenty of
money to withstand years of fail
ure and loss, or else he must make
a surplus crop. This is the first
year I have made a cent since I
started in the business five years
ago- , ! ,
“But., you have coined it this
Season?”
“Yes, I have Made ijtiite a good
thing out b£ itj although,, I lost
hi,If My crop on account of being
unable to secure cars and crates.”
All the growers, like Mr. James,
have been unable to market their
full crops on acijaant of a lack of
crates and refrigerator cars.
Mi. Si S. BttMph; the fruit king
of Georgia, at the beginning of
the season purchased $12,000 worth
of crating material, which he
thought would be enbiigh for him
self and the growers around him,
but the supply fell very far short,
and Mr. Bumph himself lost about
one-fourth of his crop on account
of this shortage.
Then they were nnable to get
enough refrigerator cars, and even
when they had the, cars were una
ble to get sufficient ice. Two
weeks ago they had to* haul three
cars of ice hll the way from Chat
tanooga, being nnable to secure it
either iii Atlanta; Macon dr other
near places, however, the refrig
erator car has been the salvation
of the fruit grower, for without
them it would haie been impossi
ble to market the fruit in first-class
condition, and the prices would
havb ranged very low. Then
there would have heed great loss
by the friiit rotting on the way.
As it was there was only one car
out of more than two hundred
shipped from Fort Valley and
Marshallville; wKicli was material
ly damaged, and that was on ac
count of a wash-out which delayed
tiie car on the road and prevented
it from being re-iced;
Accompanied by Mr; James I
drove out to. Mr. S. H. Bumph’s
“Willow Lake Nursery and Fruit
Orchard.” this’ afternoon,
jp Mr.' Bninph is the largest fruit
grower in Georgia, and perhaps in
the south. Immediately around
his house are 600 acres in peaches,
apples, pears and plums. Of this
amount Mr. Bumph and his part
ners own 360 acres, his interest
amounting to about two-thirds,-
Nearly two hundred acres of the
total acreage is in peaches. There
are 193 tress to the acre, and a tree
four years old will avenge about
four bushels of fruit However, a
large portion of these orchards are
in young trees. Nevertheless, Mr.
Bumph has ifiade quite asudg for
tune from the sale of his peaches.
The Siberia is the favorite* and
commands tKd' fugnest price of any
peach on the market. it is the
of an ordinary orange, of a
hue, very juicy,’ add a clear
“I have a few acres of these El-! “Mr. L. A. Bumph and myself,’
berta trees,” said Mr. Bumph, i spud .Mr- Moore, “own the ‘Georgia
“that are four and five years old,! Friiit Farm,’, of sixty-five acres,
and from these I gathered about 1 We have 1,000 of Elbertas and
fivfcjrandred bushels per acre this 17,000 of other peaches and plums.
I received from five to : From this we have already receiv-
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New York Snn.
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Heroism at Homo*
Marietta Journal.
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tree s
to nine dollars
H the fruit of one 000.
six dollars a bushel for them.
That would be putting it, at the
lowest figure, five dollars a bushel,
$2,500 an acre on a portion of bis
orchard. ■** ... .
“Hbweverj” continued Mr.
Bumph, “much of my orchard is
in yOung trees. Now, I have 10,-
000 Elberta trees in my orchard,
but; as I said before, many of
them are very young, and I don’t
suppose they ,feear more than an
average of a bushel to the tree, or
10,000 bushels.”
“Then at $5 per bushel you re
ceived $50,000 net for yotif Elber
tas alone?”
“No, I didn’t say that. I told
you I lost considerable by not hav
ing sufficient crates and cars.”
“Well, you must have netted at
least $30,000 on your Elbertas?”
“I did make a great deal of
money out of them, but I can’t tell
you the exact amount, for I haven’t
counted it up; and then; to tell you
the truth; itiwould do you no good
for me to tell you what I have
made, for it has been so much that
the people would not believe it,
and would say I. told these big
stories to sell trees from my nur
sery.” , , . , ... s
“Well, what is the highest price
you have netted on a car-load of
your peaches?”
“I sold one car as high as $1,600.
Here is a telegram I received this
morning.”
It was. from a NeW York. com
mission house announcing that he
had j’ust mailed him a check for
$1,24Q, which was the amount he
netted on a car-load of Elbertas,
exclusive of freight and bom mis
sions. ^ , t .
“Here is another thing I can tell
you,” continued . Mr. Bumph.
“From seven-eighths of an acre I
shipped four hundred cases of El
bertas which netted me $4 a case
(not quite three-fourths of a bush
el )j or $1;600 as my receipts from
seven-eights of an acre. But don’t
misunderstand me. I did not make
that much proportionately on my
crop.”
How much will you make on
your entire .crop?”
“I don’t know yet,' for I have not
received account sales for all my
shipments.”
, “But you know-how much you
have received* and about how much
more you will get?”
“Yes, but as I told ybu before,
people would not believe it if I
were to tell you. Here is all I am
going to tell. Here are nay cer T
tificates of deposit for the past
three days;’’
They were from Macon banks,
and were $3,902, $1,630 and $1,514,
or a total of $7,047.'
Mr. Bumph ships frdm Mar
shallville, and from that point one
hundred and two cars have , been
shipped. More than half of these
were from Mr. Bumph, and one of
his partners informed me that he
had already shipped friiit which
would net him at least $60*000,
and that from the sales of his ap
ples and pears and the products, of
hisrnursery he would receive not
less than $95,000 or $100^000 . this
season. Of coure the' labor is to
be paid from this,' but that will not
amount to much.
Immediately adjoining the # or
chard of Mr. Bumphj is the f “El-
berta fruit farm,” the property of
Mr. B. T. Moore and Mr^.Bumph,
who are ecfual owners. It covers
one hundred acres. There are
nineteen thousand trees in the or
chard, bnt five thousand of them
are very young. Adjoining it are
fifty acres owned by Bumph alone.
They shipped together, and from
the 150 acres thirty-two' cars were
shipped. These cars sold at from
$800 to $1;300 each. Putting the
average at a thousand dollar a car,
which is about correct, the net
proceeds-from 150 acres was 832,-
ed checks to the amount of $10,
600 for, if I remember correctly,
about eight ears; and we have six
dr seven cars out now from this
orchard from which we have not
yet received account sales.”
- “Then you will make at the
lowest calculation fully $17,000
from your sixty-five acres?”
“I can’t tell yet, as I don’t know
how my last shipments Will turn
out. However; I would have made
much more had I been able to se
cure sufficient crates. I lost at
least 2,000 bushels for want of
crates and transportations There
are three things;” .he. continued,
“we want here, and we are going
to have them before the next fruit
season. They are, first a crate
factory, next an ice factory and
thirdly a canning factory.”
Every friiit grower iii Houston
county has made money, . and a
great deal of it. Consequently
they are happy, and upon every
face is a smile of contentment. A
great deal of friiit was lost on ac
count of the short supply operates;
but no one seems to be grieving
over it, for every one has made
much more than he expected.
Mr. E. B. Baldwin* of Marshdll 7
ville, sold from seven hundred
trees .oh hot„ quite four acres,
$2,000 ivorib of fruits exclusive of
freights and commissions.
Major George T. Jones after
making one shipment from an
eight-aere«rchard, on account of
being unable to secure thore crates,
sold the remainder of his fruit as
it stood on the trees for $800 to
Mr. Joseph Deitson, of Chattanoo
ga, a crate manufacturer, and Mr.
Deitson cleared $1,000 oil tile trade.
A dozen such instances could be
cited! Everybody made money.
The remarkable phase of the
crop was the high prices which
have ranged throughout the sea-
soflt The Elbertas have not sold
for less than $3.50*a crate; which
is a. ,bout two-thirds of a bushel.
There have been about 240 cars
of peaches shipped this season
from Fort Talley and Marshall-
ville, and about that! many thou
sand dollars,deceived in Houston
county foy them.i§ This enormous
amount of money from peacHeS
alone has had the effect of making
almost every one in this section of
the state ambitious to go into the
business, consequently Mr. Bumph
has already received many niore
orders for trees than he can sup
ply from his nursery. He sells
them at fifty dollars pel thousand,
and having only one hundred
thousand Elbertas, has already re
ceived more orders than he can
fill. Altogether he has'about a
million trees of different) varieties
in Ids nursery, from which, if he
sells them at fifty dollars a thou
sand, he will receive $50,000.
However, the expenses of a nur
sery, the budding and grafting and
so forth; are very heavy.
Houston is indeed a blooming
county, and were there fifty more
such in the state, Georgia would
rank far ahead of what she does
to-day.
Y . E. W. B.
Fort Talley, Ga.
Persons who have ;a supersti
tious dread of Friday will be
pleased to learn that thiS is a year
of Fridays. It came in on Friday
and will go out on Friday, and
will have 53 of the ill-omened
days. There are four months in
this year that have five Fridays
each, and the longest and the
shortest days of the year fall on
Friday. It will be remembered
that the greatest of all American
disasters, the Johnstown hoffor,
occurred on Friday.
Ireland has 200,000 women lace-
makers.
COXSUMPTIOX SURELY CURED.
There was tpHea.balloon assen-
sion in a Connecticut town, and
the professor bad offered to let any
one 'accompany him on his trip to
the clouds who had the nerve to go.
A yonng farmer about twenty
years old stepped forward as-a can
didate, but while the crowd was
’cheering him a voice called, put:
“Hey, Bill!” I want to speak to
you a minit.” ^
It was^his father, and L
him to the outskirts of the cro 1
be baited and asked: .
“Bill, d’ye know ivHat ye
doin’?”
“I am a-'goin’ up in that balloon,
dad”
“Expect to git down alive?”
“I due;” j| .
“Wall, ye never will.”
“Why?” , f
“When you left home this morn-
in’ you had 60 cents in clean cash.
I wanted you to leave it home;-but
you wouldh’f,” . , .
“I’ve got yi|; dad, a-lackin’ three
How useless our lives seem to ns ft
sometimes!. Hqw„- ne, long for an
opportunity to perform some grqat
action! ..We become tired of tiie
Routine of home life, and imagine
We, would be happiei^rip other
scenes, We think of .life’s great
battlefield and wish to' bo heroes.
We think.-of the good we might do
if our lot had been cost amid other
scenes. We forget that the world
bestows no such title as noble as
father, mother,-sister or brother.
In the sacred precincts i of home 4
we have many chances of heroism.
Tlie daily acts of self denial for
the good of a loved one,, tfie ,gentle
word of soothing for another’s
toubles, the, care fo.r tfie sick,, may
all seem as nothing, yet who carf
tell the good they may have accom-
that por-
fessor knows it. That’s why he’s
encouragin’ .you to go. When you
git up thar among the clouds he’s
goin’ to rob you.”
“Shux, dad! I’d have him took
up when I got down.” .
“Not much Bill. After he robs
you he’ll throw you overboard, and
ns who are lookin’ up will see.
come sailin’ down tike an old gan
der skimmin’ over a hoss pond.
Ye’ll strike somewhar’ oven in
Sheppard’s pastur lot, and ye’ll go
into the sile about eighteen inches
before ye bring up!”
“Honest Injun, dad?’’,
“Bill, did I ever lie; to ye? I
may be able to fish but one o’ yer
shaiiE bones to take home, and
when I band it to your mother and
tell her that’s all that’s.,left of
William Acford MoseS SiiSmer-
horn, whaf s sfie goin* to say and
how’s she goin* to feel?”
“Shall I back water, dad?”
“I would Biil}4| Sartainly would.
I know it would be sighin’ to brag
of if ye got down alive,’ but ye
never would.”
“If I back water kin Ldependon
them fifty-seve,n cents?” .
“Wallj fiioslfciyji Hut not quite, all.
S’posen ye buy s cokernut apd ci
gar, and PH kinder help eat and
smoke as we jog along home, and
save the rest for a rainy day.
Times is goin’, to be awful tight
this fall, Bill”
“Yes, I guess. Wall, it’s a go,
dad, and you jist don’t worry no
more. Youjlpn go back and watch
the'balloon, and I’ll kinder aige
round to’rds a grocery. I’ve been
tastin’ cokernut "for the last five
minutes.”
plished? Our slightest word may
have an inflheMce dtel another for
good or evil. We are daily sowing
the.seed which Trill ^ bring forth
some sort of Harvest. . Well will it
be for us if the harvest will be one
we will be proud to garner. If
some; one. in that deft: home can
look back in after yeafs^ and as he
tenderly utters our name,, say;
Her words and example prepared,
me for a life of usefulness, to her
I owe my present happiness,” we
may all say: “I Have Hot lifced ’in
vain."
More than . 15,000,600 railroad
cross-ties are Used annually in the
United Stales, to furnish which
requires the destruction of nearly
200,000 acres of forest. This fact
illustrates the necessity of tree
planting and the preservation of
our forests from wanton destruc
tion.
About 18,500,000 phrsoiis; if is
estimated, pursue the fleheme of
study laid down by the interna
tional Sunday-school lesson com
mittee. i
— —pr?-: >
A SOtlVB lEGAIi OPINION.
lowever;. even putting it at
bSOO, t he net receipts J ,jy ¥RKE to any ol jour readers who have cor;
'"r something over; «napa°n i£ they
To the Editok—Flease inform vonr read-
era that I have a positive remedy for the above
named disease. By its timely use thousands ol
hopeless cases have been permanently cured.
. 5 I shall be glad to send two bottles of my reme-
E. Bainbridge Munday, Esq,',
County Atty., Clay Co., Tex., says:
“Have used Eleetric Bitters with
most happy results. My brother
also was very low with Malarial
Fever and Jaundice, but was cored
by timely use of this- medicine. ^
Am satisfied Electric Bitters saved
his life. . ,
Mr: D. L Wilcoxson, of Horse
Cave, Ey., adds a like testimony,
saying: He positively believes he
would h ave died, had it not been
for Electric Bitters. .
This great remedy will ward-off,’
as well as cure all.Malarial Dis
eases, and tor all Kidney, Liver
and Stomach Disorders stand's un-
equaled. Price 50c. and $] L.00. at
Holtzclaw & Gilbert’s Drugstore.
ndme theii
delay
m'
?ow
Undersold tlie Owner,
‘Your reference to the banter
ing style of doing buisness calls
.many funny reminiscences^”
said an pld merchant to, a , Utica
Observer man. “I most tell yon
of one occurrence that took place
in a neighboring. Qpnntjry store.’
The proprietor was noted for be-
. smart young man.
buy a dress pat
was 75 cents, and. after a long tal^
the clerk closed the bargain at 70
cents., While the clerk was select^
ing trimmings, etc., in ( another
part of the store the genial propri
etor came, along rubbing his hands,
inquired after the family of the
customer, praised-her taste in se
lecting that particular. piece of
goods, and as a special favor to a
good customer let her have it for
68 ( pentsper yapL . ’
The clerk relumed an a thejlady
told of the reduction the proprie-
told had made. The clerk was fu
rious, Hut not in the least discon
certed. ,, He saw that, if the
tomers thought that he was se
higher than others in the
they would avoid him and his dis
charge would follow. So he says:
“I just looked*at the bill Snd can
sell you that piece at 65 cents a |L
yard *” 4 *
When the deal was’ complete
the. proprietor was angry * at the
clerk. .
“Do. you know that I made the
price 68 cents,” said the proprir
t°r,
“Yes,” said the clerk,’
want you to, . understand t
man can undersell me :
store.”.
He kept his job.
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cus-
;,Tery few of the editors of t
New York papers live at home.
James Gordon Bennett, of t
Herald, spends his time in Eui ’
Joseph Pulitzer, of the Wc ‘ *
Albert Pulitzer, of
Journal,’alkt-liye in Eure
the time. Whitelaw Beic
Tribune, has taken up ]
dence in France, an d Mr.' Da
in.Europe nearly .all, the
Bobert Porter, of the Pre
cbiefiy engaged in ceus
George Jones,' of the
very little editing. The
volving upon Charlef
a whole, the great editor
New York papers do very
wor£ Man.unknown to fame do
most of the writing.—Columbus
Enquirer.
And those <
Xram care ore
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