Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1899 — From the Georgia Fruit Belt. [ARTICLE]

From the Georgia Fruit Belt.

Kewanee, Ga., June 26th., 1899. Editor Republican: We arrived here in the FruitBelt of Geprgia on the 23rd. This is truly a wonderful climate. While the temperature has been 93 to 92 in the shade, we do not feel the heat near as much as we did before leaving home. One does not feel fatigued by exercise as they do in the north, the air is so pure and refreshing. I met a gentleman here from Indianapolis, who pame here last spring, on account of the asthma. He informed me that he had not had the ' least symptom of it since he has been here. There is no fever of any kind here, and you do not hear of lung troubles in this section. Kewanee is in Laurens County, 10 miles from Dublin the county seat. This is where the Georgia Fruit Land Co., is planting orchards and selling on the installment plan. The trees are making wonderful growth this year, I see trees here that have been set out less than two years ' that will undoubtedly bear three to four bushels of peaches next P year, great many of the one year trees had peaches on them this year. All of the Company’s trees are doing well and they are taking the best care of them. Since the organization of the Company two I years ago, they have planted out 125,000 trees, and are intending to plant the coming season 75,000 to 80,000 more both peach and plumb. There are a number of northern families here, and there will be quite an emigration next year, as their orchards will come into bearing then. This is surely the best location in the Fruit Belt of

t Georgia.

E. PEACOCK.