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This is the way Carman Peach trees produce fruit in our orchards at Berlin 



The Latest About Our Berlin Peach Orchard 



E THOUGHT we made a killing when our ten thousand peach trees, on less than 100 acres, 

 netted us $25,838.84 in 1913, but this year our fruit is selHng for even better prices than 

 last year. As this catalogue goes to the printer, the seUing of peaches from the orchard 

 is not entirely over, but we are expecting to load about forty cars picked from the same 

 trees that last year bore sixty-two cars. The peaches shipped in carload lots all were packed 

 in the regular six-basket Georgia carriers, containing about three pecks of peaches. These 

 brought us $3.00 to $3.50 per carrier. After deducting freight and icing charges, they netted 

 us $2.50 to $2.80. 



These peaches were packed with great care. They were graded into three, sizes, and 

 packed into the baskets after the baskets were put in the carriers, observing the regular threc'-tier, or 

 two-and-a-half-tier, pack. The peaches are packed to suit the requirements of the market to which they 

 are sent. We sell to large dealers we are acquainted with in northern cities. Few peaches are sent out 

 without ice. We aim to pick them after the dew is dried, when they are sunny and clean, and get them into 

 the cold cars as quickly as possible. 



You probably will remember the story pubHshed in this catalogue last year, of how the 1912 crop 

 was almost destroyed in this same orchard. That year we thought to save work by doing little spraying. 

 Before we knew what was happening, the damage was so great that not only was the fruit gone, but the 

 twigs and buds were injured, and the orchard looked as though fire had swept through it. The next spring 

 we began a campaign to prevent this from occurring again. The Maryland Agricultural College helped us 

 with advice and personal direction when we needed it. A "dormant" spraying before the leaves came 

 out, with regular lime-sulphur solution, was followed with four other sprayings, beginning just before the 

 blossom-petals had fallen, and covering the entire time with sprayings at intervals of about fifteen days 

 to three weeks or so before the fruit got ripe. Self-boiled lime-sulphur was the main spray used in these 

 four apphcations, with arsenate of lead (two pounds to fifty gallons of water) added to the first two for 

 control of curculio, etc. These five sprayings kept the trees covered all summer. The result was that very 

 few fruits had any rot, in spite of the fact that the rot-spores were waiting around by the million to get 

 in their work. We harvested a flawless crop, and received a gross amount of $35,165.53 for it. The 

 expenses of the orchard that year, including all spraying, cultivating, pruning, etc., were $9,326.69, leaving 

 $25,838.84 net profit. That was in 1913. As we said in the beginning, the 1914 crop is bringing even 

 better prices than the 1913 crop. In 1914, we sprayed thoroughly, but not so many times as in 1913. 



WILLIAMS EARLY RED APPLE 



this Apple puts it in the class that makes the money. 



This splendid fruit ripens in August and 



September, just when buyers are hungry 



for fresh Apples. The color and quahty of 



For full description see page 21, and for prices see page 17. 



