Show S agriculture IN INDUSTRY j riz 1 a by florence C weed sg this is one of a series of articles showing how bow farm arm products are finding an aa ampar tant market in in industry peaches for fuel ingenious is the fuel business developed by a california man who makes a round of canning plants collects discarded peach stones dries them in the sun then resells them for fireplace fuel scientists believe that some day important industrial du products will be found in peach stones in colonial days peaches were used for cider and brandy and were preserved by drying For famous fruit book of 1803 reports that peaches ripened from july to november and the great surplus was applied as food to hogs when canning methods were perfected the fruit grew in favor andi and now ranks next to the apple from 30 to 50 million bushels are grown annually in the pacific states 90 per cent of the 20 million bushel crop is canned some commercial pectin is derived from the peach skins california georgia ark arkansas ansas north carolina and virginia produce peaches by the million bushels important areas are along the eastern and southern shores of the great lakes ip in michigan and ohio and around the finger lakes in new york there in the spring the heat beat absorbed by the lakes r edards retards blooming and lessens the dan danger ger of frost in the winter the heat released from the water moderates the temperature and prevents wood and bud injury from freezing nowhere except in america are peaches grown commercially commercials Y in england and on the continent the fruit is a delicacy grown under glass or trained on trellises the results are excellent but costly and peaches there are a luxury only for the rich V hi 1 l |