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paratively small, the individual growers may be unable to 

 load entire cars at any one time, whereas it is possible for 

 a community of growers to eliminate the necessity of express 

 or broken car shipments. And further, a community or 

 locality in which there are large peach interests attracts 

 more fruit buyers and sometimes, doubtless, more expert 

 laborers. The possibility of organization and cooperation 

 among the growers for mutual benefit in selling the fruit 

 and in purchasing supplies offers very definite advantages 

 in many respects which cannot be realized where the orchards 

 are isolated with regard to one another. 



In locating an orchard, it should be anticipated that dur- 

 ing "peach season" a relatively large number of laborers 

 are required to pick, pack, and handle the crop. The grower 

 should see to it before the location is finally determined on 

 that the community affords ample facilities for taking care 

 of the laborers, or else arrangements for housing and provid- 

 ing for them at the orchard should be included in the initial 

 plans of development. 



Locations with reference to the ripening of the fruit. 



The factor here involved is economic rather than pomologi- 

 cal in its significance. While many varieties of peaches are 

 in cultivation, there is probably no other fruit industry with 

 wide geographical distribution that is built up so largely 

 on a single variety as is the peach industry at the present 

 time. In practically all peach-growing districts in the United 

 States, with the exception of those in California in which 

 a number of different varieties are gro\\Ti for special pur- 

 poses, and in the extreme South where a subtropical climate 

 restricts the choice of varieties, the Elberta has come to be 

 by far the most extensively planted of any variety. In 



