Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1876-02-03
Ths Pcach Oronar1s standing.

PooR vAstETIzs YIELDING 10 BzrrxR oARs-wHAT
Qua fault oRowERs LRAAnkD LAST sUhNER-
sONn wHoLksoAR IAsTANoEs OF GOOD MANAGE
MENT.
Last summer In the peach gluts, there waA .
good deal Of threatening that the peach or
chards would be cut down." DO, DO. We have
boon inquiring how many orchards have thus
been slaughtered, and an intelligent gentleman,
well acquainted with all the ins aud oNts OF
peach-raising, informs us that . good many
Haie's Early trees, probably one-fourth Of all
that were standing, are being or have bsen taken
up. This unpopular variety contributed much
to the glut with which the last peaoh season be-
gan. These trees, however, will be mostly re-
placed by preferred early varieties, which ripsn
sooner and are more free from rot. Growers are
planting the Early Beatrice, Amsdens June. aud
the Early Alexander, ali Of which ripen
fortnight sooner chan the Hale's.
AT MAssey's Cross-Roada, Samuel Hurlock
HAS aRuBBED UP An ORCHARD .
Of ABOUT 1000 trees, oil unsatisfactory varieties,
such ~ the Algiers Winter, Crawford's White,
Troth's, and HAle's. William EaylOr, near Green
Spring, in Appoquinimink, took up about 1000
good healthy trees. Near Milford, Col H. B.
Fiddeman took up, 1t IL said. some three or four
thousand trees, and no doubt others, In the
manner noted above have cut out poor varieties
TO- make room for better. or have reduced. some
what, the extent OF their orchards. As gener-
al rule, however, while plenty Of growers talk
about sashing down their orchards, very few
touch rudely their pretty trees, whose only fault
| is their too generous yield.
| In fact, many growers were encouraged by last
| summers results. This is generally true Of
| those in the neighborhood OF the streams and
rivers, ~ho enjoyed cheap freights, and also Of
others shipping by rail who made it their strict
rule to send only their best fruit to market. We
are told Of one grower near Middletown, who
hal ten acres that yielded him 1890, and from
| n tRkal nf thirty, Apht unt & 2fN fu1H in
both cases, except picking) He sold, daily,
to the agent, ut Middietown, Of Western dealer,
and made it rule to deliver only fine fruit,
closely culled.
| TEE GREAT LESSON,
which needs to be more carefully learned every
year IL, ~ not TO Jor,odrd any poor fruit; (O
| to utilize the crop vt home, by drying, canning,
There were some notable examples, last season,
| OF parties who made money drying. One near
Henderson, Md, had an orchard of small, in
ferior fruit He did not send 1t to market, Il
home, and made arstrAts profit on his crop
II lie had shipped iC, lie would have beer
brought in debt by his commission men. Al
Westover, Md, the firm of Cork 4 Zell shipped
ton Thousand crates Of fruit, and made tus
about $500, They were satisfied that il they
had canned it, they might have made . dollar
crate, just IS easy ~ not-snd been 80. 800 rich
| or.
Last season, while we had such an immense
peach yield, the crop in North Caroiins, South
Carolina, Virgins, and Tennessee, from which
States our supplies Of dried peaches come, was
failure. Hence
DRIED FBuIT HAs BEEN gLLINa
at good prices, and II only our Peninsula grow
ers had bet u we'll equipped, last summer, will
drierA Of all sorts, great and small no that when
ever the gluts came they could shut down shor
on the shipments till prices rose, and work VI