The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-10-13


In the year 1885, which was light year for peaches
two millions hundred thousand baskets this
market single family OF Delaware peach growers
the Reynolds sent $780, 900 WORTH which they real
zed after paying all commissions and freghts, about
forty cents basket. The average sale OF the same
been received fully - many as during the year
1885, Major Reybold the founder OF the Della
" ware peach rads vas German nj ooy who We, We;
he was sold II local report DO true 10 pay bis pas
sage money He became contractor, in course Of Time
upon the Chesapeake and Delaware canal, where be
quired enough money TO purchase large tracts Of land
IN Newcastle county, Delaware and upon tho Bohemia
He had observed that the peach throvs better in the
soil Of those regions than elsewhere and while the
hand be raised nurseries from the peach kernel
he set out as much as hundred acres OF peach trees Of
ali varieties His sons, Anthony, Philip and John also
became possessed OF peach lands aud last year the
united family-the Major having deceased about ten
years ago-hsd nearly hundred thousand peach trees
bearing They also sold about hundred thousand
peach nursery plants a. from ten TO twenty cents
to mature. The fourth year II will bear Handsomely.
Taencsforward Is good for five or six year, steady
conditions mperfsciy understood II is easy 70 lose
whole years proceeds by single late frost The Dea
ware peach has no rival in the world and the King
peach is that species called the Late Heath which Is
Of the sort that Is best for preserving and hermscay
sealing The peach seems TO be Indigenous to Delaware,
and after the trees are planted out pains taken
with them, crop OF wheat buckwheat being often
raised under the orchard An the peach begins rpen
watches are set on the orchard day and night and ride
men whose guns shotted with salt fire upon in
truder1 The plcksrs are negroes and boys and they
forbidden to cal Of the fruit The peaches laid
marked with the owners initials, aud these baskets
packed In tiers upon six stored wagons. which drive
down to the steamer that has pushed perhaps up some
shallow creek ~ far rs her draught will al
low. Taken on board, the baskets stand in
gratinss over all the decks deep and
so numerous that the little steamer Is laden
almost TO her water line. They then take the
Delaware Chesapeake and Rartan canals reaching New
York within twenty hours seldom stopping At phila.
stand smackng their lips upon their deserted piers.
there are spectators who 90 into Delaware every
"cropr Il stands pick and forward It. The peach
growers TO this the price OF labor being
very high with them since u: extinction o. slsysry;
every year In unrsturned baskets They hold the
specuIators responsible only for broken trees.
The season OF peach picking is the American vintage.
IL DO 10 all Its beautifulness to be realized.
The red tint OF the peach the buzz Of bees the
sounds or singing and hsloo that come out Of the low
purple foages the beautiful velvet surface Of the fruit
pursued BY reed brds and yellow breasts, make the
peach season classical in the beautiful northern county
New Jersey produces an inferior peach, bu. her
crop' Is more TO be depended upon than Delawares
The early peaches that We get como from the Nat lands
steamboats, and hve thousand bands have been engaged
in saving the peaches OF 1867 Almost the entire guam
commission merchant generally One firm In West
street are said TO have received twelve thousand
baskets d. y shs's peaches 60 into or
hibiton there we're fifteen New York exhibitors Of
canned peaches. This year almost all peaches were
packed 10 latin crates. holding two baskets each
how wB OFT OUR porLrRY.
On the 3D. ult. tho Wholesale mission sold
by the quantity live chickens at from fifteen eighteen
cents pound spring chickens at seventy I've cents ana
81 10 pair live ducks 1t eighty eight to
81 rs pair geese at 81 and 81 60 live turkeys
twenty hve cents per pound. On the day, TO the
consumer purchasing in Washington Market, chickens
cost picked but not gutlsd twenty-five to twenty eight
pound live spring chicken 81 90 pair ducks
picked, 81 10 per pair, and turkeys hirynve cents
pound. Here ~as . large average difference. This
city consumes In Christmas week sixty thousand
turkeys There are. the year round, an average
Of seven thousand chickens q day brought here. New
Jersey New York State, PENNEY and Ohio furnish
these almost entirely. Vast quantities OF live chickens
collected by the etorekeepers country towns kept
in coops until lot collected and then sent to the city
by boat chicken will carry farther than almost any
copsumable animal Novelties In the way the
poultry and game trains that over tho Western roads
n the winter season. These are simply lath covered
burden cars into which poured At the engine
reservoirs single car, with It's numerous compart-
All poultry forwarded alive from any considerable dis
ances. except in the coolest seasons when 1t will trans
port for three weeks without spong In the month OF
December steamship from this port took 10 Liverpool
forty turkeys presents to some American gen lemen
London. They were packed apples and were fifteen
days reaching their destination All ofthem were sound
and roasted cxcellenty.
Considerable excitement was created here few years