Daily Republican., 1882-08-17
LUSCIOUS PEACH.
Peaches RrOund smyrna NJ 10
cents . Basket.

FeAcheS around SMYRNA At 20
cents = Haskell.
The Smyrna Times published in the
very heart Of the peach prod ucinR coun.
try devotes nearly q column to peach
items amongst which are the following.
The peach shipments on the Della
ware railroad last week mum bered from
40 to 30 cars per day, reaching on Sat.
urday 81. On Monday the Troths be-
ing ready for market, they jumped up
to 154 cars, making in all up to Tues.
day 750 car loads. The quantity will
increase daily from this time until the
time tor the York and Nixon Rlut.
The evaporators all com menced Mon
day with more ready peaches from the
fast ripening, than they had expected.
The parers and cutters were on hand at
the first call The establishments of
Voshell & JermAn, VIM. Tygert 81 Co.,
John IL. Hotfscker, and II. W. Hutton
in town, and Hardcastle & Joues at
Clayton, and Horace Spru ance, A. l..
Hudson, John p. Hudson, l. &. Lap
ham, John Anthony, N. I. Underwood,
on their farms give employment to 500
or 600 persons, mostly women and
children.
Peaches dry the best when fully ripe.
Acting on this knowledge, John Au-
thony came to town on Monday, bought
ahundred yards of muslin, with which
a canvass was made to catch the peach
es as they IRE shaken from the trees.
This process is better and cheaper tina
picking when they are to be dryed,
The most of the evaporating proprie.
tors have laid in several dozen each of
pairing machines in anticipation of a
possible deficiency of labor. The peel
ers are allowed to use these without
any charge, or reduction of wages,
though they will pare a peach about
three times as quick as with u knife.
In town, ten cents basket is paid, but
about two cents more are charged
where they have to walk in the coun.
try.
The fruit evaporated thus far has moi
'panned out" in weight in manner
to convince that there Al Q "millious In
it."
The baskets in the hands of our deal
ers have been cleaned out, one man sell
ing ITO, 900, aud tho factory has advanc
~ cents for making.
Horace Spruance has an orchard three
years old that will gather Ghree baskets
to the tree.
The myriads of mosquitoes cause tn,
frequent use Of expletives among tn,
pickers that are more foIcible than DO
lite.
The dryers had tU pay 35 and 40 cent
for TrOths to begin with, but they ar,
beginning to think % cents should b,
the ultimatum for poor peaches.
Messrs. Voshell q Jerman hav,
bought the orchards of 1hCs. Kirby
Isaac Truax and James johnson, at al
tayerage Of 80 cents. Also several va
rieties of d. j. Cummins at 25 cents
Messrs Hardcastle g. Jones have bnugh
orchards as follows: Geo. T. Thomp
son, 40 cents; John Hackett, 80; Thos
Reese, SO; VIM. e. Riggs, SO; and tn,
orchards Of VIM. Hening, Geo. Cool
and James Crawford in a lump.
John II. Hoffecker has bought thu
orchard Of VIM. n. Ransom for 40 cent
per basket. The fruit of this with hi
own TWO large orchards will be large
ly rsed in canning and evaporating
VIM. Tygert s. Co, have bought tn
orchard Of G. Speakman for 40 cent:
per basket.
W. f. Jefferson has bought the OF
chard of s. p. Truax for $40O estimates
at HOO to 1900 baskets, and the peache
OF James Startling for two, weeks com
mencing with yesterday, including
Troths, YorAs, Crawfords early ant
probably a part of the Mixon
for 80 cents per basket, estimated Il
about $500 baskets.