PEACH GROWING GEOGRAPHY II 



make mistakes, and can afford the expense of doing 

 it, he has the chance to develop a local market of 

 his own and make good money out of it. It is rather 

 important, however, in going into the business in 

 this manner to have a suitable local market in view. 

 In the big peach-growing centers the sale of the 

 product depends upon long shipments, and these can 

 be most successfully arranged in those districts 

 where the offering of a large product gives the op- 

 portunity for special fruit trains, refrigerating sta- 

 tions and all the highly organized facilities of mod- 

 ern marketing. 



As a matter of fact peaches ought to be grown 

 much more extensively for local markets. The peach 

 is a fruit which suffers severely from long ship- 

 ments, and it has been in many ways a misfortune 

 that the modern peach-growing industry has been 

 so largely developed in the wholesale way. Those 

 men who are able in the next few years to develop 

 small orchards in localities where the peach is not 

 now grown, and who can place their product directly 

 upon the home markets, without the damage of long 

 shipments, and without the expense of multiplied 

 middlemen, will find more profit in it than many of 

 the big growers in the most famous peach regions. 



