THE LEADER TRIBUNE, FORT VALLEY, GA., JULY 9, 1920.
THE Hi
AND PEACHLAND JOURNAL
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THE PEACH—AND THE PIT
The peach is a luscious fruit, with
smooth and velvety skin, and when
it blushes under the kiss of the sum¬
mer sun inspires to poetical com¬
parisons. When one speaks of the
44 Georgia Belle”, the “Queen of Dix
ie tf or even merely the Georgia
• * peach," he must explain whether
h« refers to the genus homo, sex
fomininus, variety pulchritudinous,
for which the Empire State of the
South i* noted, or to the exotic Prun
us, or Amygdalu*. Peraica, now do
meaticated here.
But, unlike its fair namesake, the
peach of commerce invariably has a
heart of stone, and that stone is
seamed with wrinkles. It contains a
kernel, and that kernel is bitter, It
has the odor of Prussic acid. Prussic
acid is a deadly poison. It burns.
At the peach itself is an inspira¬
tion to poesy, the peach industry is
an inepiration to volumes of roseate
literature. Every spring gifted writ
v •r« paint glowing word pictures of
1 the wonderful peach orchards and of
the “velvet” there is in them for the
grower. Farm and fruit journals and
the magazine supplements of the
daily papers bloom forth with fea¬
ture Articles richly illustrated ex
plotting this alleged Golconda of the
horticulturalist. F'rom the time the
aap begin* to quicken in the dormant
trees, and, long ere the winter 1 roils
•r« past, experts begin to estimate
the size and value of the coming
peach crop. Railroad men, from sec¬
tion foremen on up through the land
development agents to the general
euperintendent, begin to exhibit a
solicitous interest in the peach crop
and make careful inquiry as to the
affect of each coid speil, drouth or
wet spell Long before the shipping
season begins representatives of the
“middlemen” are on the ground nos¬
ing around. Evidently there IS “vel
vst t, in the peach deal-—for some¬
body. For Whom? ^
Let ut go back to the kernel of
the matter—the bitter kernel within
the hard and seamy pit.
To begin with, a bearing peach
orchard represents a considerable in¬
vestment. Probably nowhere in Ilous-
1 n or adjoining counties can cleared
lend suitable for peaches be bought
for less than $50.00 an acre. Peach
lands .u the Fort Valley section can¬
not be bought for less than $125 an
•ere, devoid of trees. The price ran¬
ge* upwards to $250 an acre It costs
$3.60 to $4.00 to plant and bring a
tree to bearing. If 108 trees are
planted to the acre, a bearing or¬
chard will represent an invest¬
ment of anywhere from $400 to
$1,000, or possibly more, per acre.
Packing houses and equipment cost
thousand* more.
Figure three crates per tree.
year’s cultivation, pruning, worming,
and spraying alone will amount tu
75 cento to $1.00 a crate. The cost
af crates, picking, packing, hauling
and loading amount to 75 cents pei
crate this season. Your peaches there¬
for* cost the grower $1.50 to $1.75
par crate f. o. b. cars. This does not
include interest on his investment nor
taxas.
Two years ago refrigeration and
freight on a car of peaches to New
York or Philadelphia was about
$245.00. Subsequent advances in
freight rates and the recent advance
of $21.60 a car in refrigeration rates
have brought the present cost of de¬
livery to $342.50 a car; and the rail
roads are asking for a further in¬
crease of 31 per cent in freight
1 jptes. At the present rate the delivery
jriee per crate (625 crates per car)
la* fraction over 65 cents. Add this
$o the t. o . b. price of $1.50 or $1.75
and you will get $2.15 to $2.40 a
crate es the grower’s cost delivered
$e the eastern markets—AT HIS
RISK FROM PLANTING ALMOST
TO EATING.
A considerable portion of the or
cbiWHat’s expense must be
w ly. Payment of his hands is not
agent upon a good fruit crop.
re and packers must be paid
prices— instanter. The refriger
dtof end railroad company get their
Share—in advance. Then the commis
Men man must get his 8 per cent.
then, and not until then, if then,
doe* the grower get his. His ie all
the nek af freezes, wet spells, curcu
j»p, brofn rot, scale, labor shortage,
M
ice shortage, strikes, delays and what
not.
Look at the market report* of the
Georgia Fruit Exchange or- U. 3.
Bureau of markets and figure
the grower is getting this season,
above his marketing cost and on nis
investment per acre.
And yst people are encouraged to
go into the peach business. The rail¬
roads encourage the planting of
more orchards. Settlers are urged to
come to the “peach country" a id
raise peaches. The lure of golden
wealth is added to that of the coral
pink of the peach blossoms, the fra
gance and succulence of the ro-sy
fruit. And only he who grows them
has cracked the hard and seamy pit,
.asted the bitterness of the kernel—
and got burnt.
Last year the peach crop in this
section was practically a failure.
Few growers made anything. Many
lost heavily and had to borrow heav¬
ily to tide themselves over till an¬
other peach season. This year the
crop is again almost a failure. There
are few peaches, few of these have
reached the market in prime cond:
tion, labor is high, deliveries slow and
the cost of delivery high. Many bor
rowers of last season will be unable
to take up their notes. These w.li
have to be renewed and interest paid
tor another year.
A well-meaning but misinformed
city bank has been misled by the ex¬
ploitation of the peach industry i.r
has advertised Georgia's ‘‘$30,000,
000” peach crop and invited the af¬
fluent grower to deposit his golde
proceeds—his “velvet”—with them,
There will be little proceeds for the
grower this year. The hanks are re¬
spectfully advised to seek elsewhere
for the “velvet”. 6,500 cars and $6,
000,000 are a liberal estimate of
Georgia’s peach crop for this season
The editor of The Leader-Tribum
was taken to task only, a week or
two ago for an editoral In this paper
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WAGONS
if. B UILD a wagon of wood that grows rap,’d!y
and under easy conditions, and you have a
wagon that cannot stand abusive wear. Nature
when hurried shirks her work like man.
But build one—as Thornhills are built—of
i ' only slowly tough mate—then double The Let tough after us highland strength. upon show a close-grained you ceaseless the you have oak mountain the a and battle wagon Thornhill wood hickory—that side—that with almost is endowed soil wagons wearproof. and survives grows with and cli¬
the value of the Thornhill way.
CARJTHERS & EVANS
Fort Valley, Ga.
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alluding to the uncertain na- (
ture of the peach industry and
preaching a iittie sermon on diver.-d
fication. We have the utmost re
lor the judgment of our es
teemed critic, but we believe that the
experience of last year and this wilL
cause many orehurdiais in this sec
tion to ponder a litite more thought-:
fully this suggestion of
tion— all-season crops.
Plant peaches if you must, but—
remember that the industry as well
as the fruit has its pit. It’s a wary
or lucky man who does not eventual
ly fall in and get burnt, and live to
chew the bitter kernel of dearly
bought experience.
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HON. CLIFFORD WALKER IN
HALF OF A BETTER GEORGIA
Reprint of Article from the Carroll
ton Free Press Reporting Speech
of Hon. Clifford Walker Made in
Carrollton.
The address of Hon. Clifford Wai¬
ker, Attorney General _ , of , _
was one of the most powerful and
convincing ever delivered in Carroll¬
ton on Memorial Day. His main .ine
of thought is “the Improvement of
Educational Conditions in Georgia, »•
and in a most incisive manner he
dealt with the questions of Visiting
Nurses, Good Roads, Living Salaries,
Medical Examinations for our school
children, Immigration Tests, and riot
least of all, Bolshevism, that foul
vulture whose sable shadows are up
on every land. Surely everybody w’lt
want Clifford Walker, princely and
patriotic as he is, a devout church
man, an active layman, a construc¬
tive statesman, an educational re
former, for our next Governor. A
very prominent man of our town who
went to school with him when they
were boys said to the writer, “I have
never heard one word against Clif
ford Walker. • » Adv.
STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION
OF
THE CITIZENS BANK OF FORT
VALLEY
Located at Fort Valley, Ga„ at the
c j ose 0 f business June 30th, 1920.
RESOURCES
demand Loans 10,152.24
Time Loans 1,191,265.69
Bonds and Stocks owned by
the Bank 35,728.00
F’urniture and Fixtures 5,380.34
other Real Estate 300.00
c as ), j n Vault and Amount
Deposited in Banks 202,558.97
Casll items 6.19
Clearing House
TOTAL 1, 446,018.91
LIABILITIES
I Capital Stock Paid in
| Surplus Fund
j Undivided Profits, less Cur¬
rent Expenses, Interest
and Taxes Paid
Individual Deposits Subject
to Check
Savings Deposits 46,984.51
,
Time CerUfl cates 186,127.71
Certified Checks
Cashier’s Checks
Notes and Bills Redis¬
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counted
Bills Payable, Including Time
Certificates Represent¬
ing Borrowed Money
TOTAL
STATE OF GEORGIA,
County,
Before me came H.
Cashier of The Citizens Bank,
being duly sworn, says that
above and foregoing statement is
true condition of said Bank, as sb iw
by hv books jf f.lt in raid Bank.
B. H.
Sworn to and subscribed
me, this 7th day of July, l" 0 *
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Notary Public, State
Large, Georgia.
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