Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-04-15

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Cecil county, Md, excludes them from any
reasonable hope OF ever mskipgths cultiya
| ton OF berries source OF profit as srcE
fruits ripen, ast as Lower New Jersey
| growers, who in great measure supply
both New York aud philadelphia markets,
arc sending forth the gut OF lheir crop.
However. some attention Id eiver uy ssy-
eral trut.groWers near M, Pleasaut 10 tie
| cultivation NJ Gooseberties and c0rEants.
! Ono grower near the Delaware river has
| now just coming iuto LoariBg A fue pate.
OF five acres OF cnrTan,e, ,outs;Liug about
%. 900 bushels. 10 digisss d lillls IRON
| strawberries, / would s,ato iha; this grow
| or informs ioe thai II takes a man fully
day to picE seventy Eve pounds CT currauts
anu "a this patch, should wuen n44ture5
yield fully 10000 poundS,aDd must be 0ic.s-
ed III about week, IL win REQUIRE / .. lDec
per DAY To pick II. This IS more lshosers
than can to found unemployed la tie entire
township In The season ri Tue gear wAe2
currants ripen; and unless Ls can induce
the women and children TO 90 into TIE fed
, anil pick tor him, As aannot secure h:s
crop whom matured. TINS would no; co
difficult instter iieNew YpTk or New Jer
, ssy, but in Delaware aEd Maryland lie
!, people have not been educated YET L. hsyigq
thoir women aud children wotb in the
held, excepting the eolo~ed portion of the
population, ami for The past few years THAI
5 source OF labor supply has been emisrst-
ing very rapidly 10 The cities and faTlheF
north.
al To return 10 str4wberries. Ey 4 .u:trsr
, examination OF the table I. VIII be seen iL4t
there was a decided decrease in the sLi...
> meut OF berries last year from Middleto~o,
+ Townsend and Biackbird. These stations
are all in New Cast. g county, D5I., and 1t
e has been ionnd that Ihe COS. OF cultivatc.
y and uniformly low prices preclude any
proht from the growing ri Strawberries ~
1 that county.
$ Green Spring and Farn4iugton and lLe
u inclnUeU stations M cr.1
l. it will be seen at all these stations, win ci.o
exceptlon. thero WAS last year very
: healthy increase in Tho yield over hat Gf
n The previous year Tba exception is Fei.
ton. The crop around FELTON, wa, vo-v
much injured by long drought, perhaps
more than at any other station on t..e road
l However, there Ii another cause when
Is leads 10 the decrease-iI Was scar ceIy
- decrease-and that is the intention which
" has been diverted '~om strawberries 10 tks
" cultivation OF pears and grapes.
VI There was very good increase al al. IL e
~ stations IN Sussex, showing uecd3d IL
% crease in the planting OF new patches"
,ot From Delmsr to Crisleld the Increase was far
" greater than in any other section Of The peuinsu
M la. As ar as have been able IL a=certaia-I
DO tud the interest taken in the strawberry culture
~ greatly Increasing, and uudo abedly lie day is
w not far distant when the amount OF sales f,cra
Do the strawberry crop OF the peninsula will be ful.z
o0 equal TO that OF the peach crop; because tint:
W that he percentage OF new planting OF strawber-
500 ry patches far exceeds !he rev planting O
N peach orchards
al The gross sales OF the peach c1tp Of las veal
90 was only about 81 100000, aVtI:ss of abor
0U 81 per basket, while allowing the berry cf5g /
100 average twelve cents per quart, the gross sale
80 OF the berry crop were $780, ,00o. and oye-
90 This YEA. should the crap be as good as ex
~ pected, at least 000.0 900 o! quarts o. sraWbe5
% ries and blaekberriea Will be shippe1 from IN.
o0 peninsula 10 the market. Or thai q aaut.is niGe
mo ~ per cent or more will b. strawberries. Tn
so season is sn unusually early one aud should NJ
- cold weather visit the lowef peninsula, uDdt -
AZ edly by he 1at If Nav the dr.t stfaEhe.ftss
,73 the season from that quarter will be Ending IL
80 lway to market The New York esumlss!c
ail- ied,els are around even this s.Hiy oiiciliL
als con.ignments. Tbs cJ-sis. 4oiictlL
ae among commission LaeIc1aut. las bseou4e a N
~ as n4ueh IA institution IN pe,awage aud Mar
~ land coumefcal travelling !. in tAe We
some OF the means enplayel - thl saaTls {
lie platkst sharks II impose "a ne Tow + are
he ees loseuIu;, Il uot ~ssIitac 2 I'D a; 10 atst
lie al JtCer -asss, lie 'icttce s-r f.5s- .4~. ta
lu Us l.Lposed on. fhs e4e most 1a:tI
NE play ed however, Is tot sone o1e of .Ae bLale
"a us sidewalk mercea ants 10 80 ls;e: sri altrA
'uu tive card and spend thre r le1c .oI.4Js !,
- week il The "Ptice Cdrfenis Ehi.a ley ser
to some of the small growers, Saoss aoqualL
Nv lIGG tbey nave lSrEeu fo0 Saf is - sseE1lls {
ieo crases received by the regular eommisIe
houses. 1t costs not more ,bhn g 10 SET j
Dad price current for whole year 10 such grove
- and whenever that grower reciprccaEes thsl cou
les esy by sending him some fruit 10 sell be eltL
'a conh:cstes ii at once, or macs extraordinary
td large returns So as 10 induce lu<tGer pue,.
ner and when the shark thinks be Eas got enol :
.r OF the victim sfrnt 10 satisfy bis pressing
bic be coofscates II. and eiiber says uothlux /.
about il CT says some one 10 waom he sod II 1l
Dad not pay for IL. But most frequently lie al -
'nl- that II came IN sueh bad order that il do /
.e' bring the cost Of freight Another rlaa IS
ci. send decoy and, by maxi =. Uni ruly la-ge T
I'D turns TO him. induce Others 10 try. and wLe.-.
str, the height oi tie season. good sum Of neA
not /. al the hands OF the receiver, the victim /
his eyes opened 10 the f.et hat he fsa , q 2
Dad by cunLiag fisherman. Sone;ip pes trrs, /.
III names OF which APPEARING on lh,ir bos.as
- kcards are fictitious, ieceiye thousands of dol,d
Ia; worth Ct fruit, and when at the end OF The It
son, the victim colnes 10 look up b. com,-., s.
ON hrm, lie 6nds, 10 his surprise sai DISCUS, Il
ON there is neither number nor name where t
ries card calls for Nest generally tha victims .
sw 80 poor that ,heycanunl look for the delinqrer
ave and all the sympathy they get from the unbi,i
1eI- l. ttNPll | fol1 you how IL would Ia