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The Peach
Orchard
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The
Louisiana Peach Orchard
The yearly harvest of
peaches near Ruston occurs around June. Late frosts are a constant threat to the
vitality of the growing peach buds. Precautions are necessary in cases where the
over-night temperature drops below freezing late in the season. On those cold,
frosty Spring mornings Ruston wakes to a blue-tinged, thick haze. The atmosphere in
town is overrun by the overnight burning of old tires, sticks, and blocks of broken coal
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It is a vigilant effort by tired field workers
to maintain an air temperature a few degrees warmer around the trees. The effort is
uncertain. Some of the peach buds will not survive, but the effort is valiant. |
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