Middletown transcript., 1877-05-12
rHE cREAr ERulT CROP.

The prospect for an immense fruit
crop on the Delaware aud Maryland
peninsula the coming season, and the
difficulty which has heretofore attended
the disposition of large crops, has set
the growers seriously to thinking about
what to do with IT, To ship it all to
market with profit is out of the ques-
ton Should all that are upon the trees
now come to perfection there will be
many times more than are sufficient to
satisfy the demands Of all the cities Of
the Eastern and Middle States, and
those markets would soon become SO
glutted as to make it worse than use
less to send fruit to them. New mar
kets, will have to be sought out, and a
way to them opened up This was
done to some extent, and with some
profit, two years ago. and many peaches
we're shipped to the Western cities and
to the interior of New York and Penn
sylvania, to cities and towns which
we're comparatively unknown, as mar
kets to the peninsula fruit growers
But for this action it is doubtful if
enough would have been realized from
the immense crop of 1875 to pay for
gathering it.
This year the crop promises to be
larger than any heretofore grown, and
what to do with it becomes a question
Of very serious import to the growers.
Much of the land of Delaware and the
Eastern Shore Of Maryland-perhaps
toO-much is in peach trees, and, as We
do not have peaches every year, if we
fail to make something out Of them
when we do have them, they will be
very Improbable crop indeed, and make
the farmers poorer instead ofrichsr.
Reports from the West indicate that
the prospect there for peaches is rather
slim, and that not more than a quarter
or an eighth Of crop can be relied on.
Should this prove true. some Of our
growers may find market for portion
of their fruit in the cities of that Sec
ton. But if the crop this year is much
larger, as it now looks as if it may be,
than that of 1875, there will be no use
to tryso market it all, for it cannot be
done successfully. Then what? Why,
simply find some other way to dispose of
the fruit; and one Of the best ways Of
doing this, that is so far discovered, is
to reduce them to a state of preserga-
tion to be kept for disposition in more
favorable times. Several processes have
been tried for this purpose, all Of which
have answered tolerably well, but have
not been very profitable. The latest of i
these, and the one which seems at the t
present time to give the best promises $
Of success, is the process Of evaporation
or drying. For this purpose a large :
number Of machines have been patented r
and are now on the market, each claim j
ing to be the best. Three Of these are /
advertised in the columns of this paper, =
and we. cordially commend the descrip- q,
ions therein given of their respective G
merits to the attention of our readers II
A trial Of these machines is promised to =
De made in this place on the day of the !, !,
Fruit Growers Convention, next Satur- Il
lay. and will doubtless elicit much at m
entiOn. The meeting next Saturday su
hould, and we hope will, be largely = !:
ttended by the farmers and frnit grow j
RS from all over the Peninsula In be
dditien to the railroad representatives, W
rho have been invited and who will q
oubtless be 10 attendance, there will u
0 all probability be a goodly number .,
+ commission men present, as well as yc
atsntess and manufacturers of Dryers, ch
nd many questions of interest and i'm y
ortauce will be brought up for discus = =
ion-all of which will tend to make ne
ais one Of the most interesting meetings br
{ the kind that has ever yet been held y
be meetings held here in 1875 had a r. =.
ood effect in stirring up our growers to an
snewed activity in searching out means rei
I'd markets for the sale Of their fruit, of
nd in that way we're productive of =
luch good This meeting in 1877. NJ NJ
hich perhaps is only the foreruunsr of en-
any more to be held, may have equal tes
as COED effect, and even much better VIC
ew ideas will be suggested and new 70
ans proposed which may help vastly = ~
the disposition of the great crop that sa,
now promised. phi
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WITH the exception of some cannon SO
lels between the forces of the onposinp ia'