160 How to Plant and Treat Peach Trees. [April,, 



are unprepared for all this work, let peach culture alone, unless you 

 want simply to support nurserymen. 



You say it will not pay. We answer, and will adduce the proof, 

 that it will pay, and pay better than in the days of their glory. 

 Then men could reap by simply planting, literally without labor. 

 Then, we sold peaches at six cents a bushel, and hauled them to the 

 city on a corduroy turnpike, occupying us, with our ox team, two 

 entire days to perform the pilgrimage. 



A fact or two in point in regard to profits. Mr. Davis of Cler- 

 mont County, of peach renown, placed in bank, after paying all ex- 

 penses, from a single orchard, in one year, twenty-three thousand 

 dollars, and in four years out of seven, made in clean cash fifty 

 thousand dollars. It is true his peach orchard occupied about ninety 

 acres. His success has inspired his neighbors to go and do likewise. 

 It is to be feared that many of them will not observe the same care 

 and attention, 'but they are sure to reap if t\iej faint not.' 



Mr. Jno Langhert, of Hanging Rock, Adams County, has been 

 one of the most successful cultivators. He informed me that year 

 before last he expended upon a peach orchard of eleven acres, in 

 pruning, by shortening in, worming and pushing ofi" fruit, one hun- 

 dred and eighty days work. He paid all expenses, and pocketed 

 the snug sum of four thousand dollars. That is more money, we 

 venture to assert, than was realized for all the peaches raised in 

 Hamilton county, made into brandy and sold in our market, in those 

 days of peach memory alluded to. 



We distinctly remember that we ourselves marketed one year's 

 crop — one thousand bushels — which brought us, after all our labor, 

 one hundred and seventy five dollars. 



Our advice is, plant fewer trees, properly attend to their pruning, 

 worming, etc. ; and have an abundant supply of this luscious fruit. 

 If all will do this who plant the peach, we would soon at least lessen 

 the ravages of this great enemy. Ed. 



