Litchfield enquirer., 1875-10-14
What Became of the Delaware
 Peach Crop.

In about another week the peach sea son will be virtually over, and the grow CTS have already begun to count tine costs | of their enormns yield. There can be no doubt but that their fears for the profits
 have been fully realized. The markets from the very first shipments of Hale's Co few days since, when the frmeK varieties began to make their appearance, except at irregular intervals, have been gIutte6, and the returns have been absolutely loss in many cases. sa3 ll zkula;s As general thing the quality of fruit shipped this year to New York and the West has been finer than ever sent from Peninsula markets, and but for the super abundance of the supply there is little doubt but that the growers would have been amply compensated. The first shipments were made about July 26, when the season of rain, which lasted for nearly a month, set Tn, and naturally the fruit was not n such good condition as would otherwise have been the case, and the market. was depressed immediately. Prem that time up to last week six thOus- and two hundred and seventy-eight car loads of fruit have Seen shipped over the Delaware railaOad to points, north, east and west. Adding to this the two tb0us- and cars, or one million baskets, which have been shipped by the owners on ,vafi- ous water lines, the total will foot up more than four millions of baskets aIfeady marketed. This is an average 0fOne han d. ed and sixty thousand baskets sent from the Peninsula orchards to supply the vest, New York, and northern markets. Of this enormous quantity of fruit New York has received g, ,6OO earss or about l. 800. .O0O
 The total shipments will amount to about 6, ,OO0, 600 baskets of fruit, which fs 1000. 900 short of the grower1 estimAtas, made at Dover last spring, but is only short because poor markets have deteFred the shippers from marketing all their fruit. rEr .t.ss..~e ..f, f-.s..s-sr.
 Becides this quantity of fruit fully a million and half baskets have been used on the Peninsula, some of it canned, . great quantity dried, and tEgusands of baskets made into peach brandy by tk1s | distilleries which have sprung up ell oyer the lower part of the state FgOm the present time until the conclusion of the season, the markets will cOntinue. to im- prove, and fhe growers yet hOpe4O make at least expenses, if not a small surplus. But, altogether, the effect of the pheeent crop has been disastrous to tIIa p6aoh aia- terest of the Peninsula, and viii EfesaIe in the grabbing out of many of the 0rchaEds. Already some of the heaviest growers are making preparations to cut down the bulk of their trees, and it quite likely tBat many years will elapse before sueia nEs6sh- CT immense crop of fruit will Ee guawR, if Delaware and Maryland. s. - ,-....-.-..s,
 The experiment. of Mir. Riker, of NeW York. of preserving the ffuit by meanszO of mamm0th refrigerator, which 1gaas Co.'S structed at MiddletowB, is likely tO prove c complete success. The building, which has q capacity of 75, GOO baskets is Tow being rapidly filled with peaches of the finest quality, and fruit Wbich he has had in the building for two weeks iS as shr1h and in as good cOndIti0Din eveKyBsway sS when placed there. Some of it has been taken out as an experiment. and shipped to New York, arriving there in good cOn- ditIon and keeping as long as fruit that had been picked two weeks after it had been placed in the rcfrigerator. t'siL9
 Times.
 Benson, of sixth street, removed the body of his m0thef-in-iawa from tfiA s0ld cemetery the other day, and he, ,sag a. he could find nothing but ter jaw,r vhiek was in Q state of perfect preservation.