The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-07-01
THE PEACH CROP.

Il 5-nears that after all there viii be fruit
somen here, We shall have peaches and
cream, 1.-THE lssler not classified as truit.) A
report from Middlelown, Delaware. dated
June 10, said: The peach raisers of this
state ne: here to-day for the purpose Of
making proposals and arrangements for
s-p .,s- by the various railroads leading TO
ana fs0m Philadelphia, New York, Boston
and The West, the enormous crop of peaches
tnas win De gathered in the peninsula this
season. At the nesting OF the Peach GROW
ers Association at Dover on last Thursday,
,hs amount of peaches 70 be shipped by rail
was estimated at 100000 baskets, and the
entire crop az 6.0OO, 600 baskets. The Pbila-
tlslphis, Wilmington 81 Baltimore railroad
authorizes, of which tie Delaware road IS
branch, annually make an estimate OF the
crop through their agents at the stations
o. the line. They use all the means
- Insi- power TO ascertain the probable
vjetd il every orchard. This estimate is put
at ,00r 600 baskets for the present year, TO
De shi lped by railroad, ano 2,OOO.OO0 being
aHded toy the crop to be shipped by wafer,
the total IS 5000, 900 baskets. This is likely
20 prove more correct than the peach rails
era estimate. MiddletOwE will ship, By the
agents report, 6O0,00 baskets; Mount Pleas
ant, SEQ. 900; Dover, O,OO0 and the queer
Anne Il Kent County railroad will carry to
the Delaware road 700 600 baskets. A sch5d
Tlle OF rates TO various points in the interior
Of Pennsylvania and New YORK was SUB
nitted. The routes we're by the Philadel-
phia & Reading and the Lehigh Valley roads
and their branches, which offered all facilities
IL the way OF quick transit and good cars.
Arrangements for shipping ten car loads per
day 20 Reading. Harrisburg and Pittsburgh
were also made, aud a numbeT Of peach
rsissrs pledged themselves TO snip car load
each day TO certain points. One would ship
10 AlelsOwn, another 10 scranton, and
others 70 BinghamptOn, Sunbury, Harris
burg, Pittsburgh and Boston. Ten thou
sand baskets per day VIII be shipped 70 those
places.
CROP PROSPECTS.
McKinop, Sprague & Co. give the follow.
ing crop reports, dated june 26sh: From
Kansas We have reports OF thirty-two coun-
ties. o. these sixteen report no grssshop.
pers, the wheat harvest going forward and
the crop far above IN average. Oats in a
6ne condition, safe and heavy crop. With
I've or three exceptions, the fruit crop is be-
low par. The other sixteen counties report
more or less damage from grasshoppers. In
SONS instances one portion of the county
suffered while the remainder escaped. In
al cases the farmers have been replanting,
ont the results will be that in the eastern
part OF the state the wheat and oat crop viii
fall sho1usof an average probably thirty per
cent, but the corn crop promises remarka-
bly, vel. In Southwestern Kansas, wheat,
barley and rye ara the best ever grown ia
the state, aud the prospects Tor good fall
trade excellent. Our Galveston associate
announces this week the result of reports
non Texas, which have embraced
every section OF the state from the
C9ass u the North, and from the Sabine TO
tins Rio Gr2nde. The middle and northern
portions of the state, where the raising OF
cereals is combined With the culture OF COZ
EOD, With bat two exceptions, report the
crcps as unusually fine, the yield of wheat
ana oats being very large, the corn gener-
ally IN t2ssel and considered "made,D while
the prospect for cotton continues very fine,
rs blooms and squares are numerous, while
bolis are not rare. The weather generally
has been of favorable nature, and season.
able rsins have fallen in many localities,
w1ica will insure excellent crops OF corn,
EsZ ue OF great advantage to cotton. Es-
zi-esel.v IN Western Texas have tbs rains
0ee8 productive of much gOOd, aud our re-
por-s from number OF counties unite Ia
a.ylnz. I'VE have had very fire rains.
Wheat aDd oats are remarkably fine and
clt.su + aoi1g very well, and the prospect
y Gseias3ig good" In The coast counties
rl1e yield o. Irish potatoes has been remark
ably large, and great quantities of them
have been placed on the market and
shipped.
REVIEW OF THE home MARKETS.
MONEY MATTERS.
The only thing TO be said IS shat idle money is
plenty, but can only be had on good paper.