The Delaware farmer., 1883-09-21
FRUIT Farming.


Each succeeding year adds testimO
IN favor of Fruit Farming in Della
re- rs one of the most, profitable ol
5ustries We have repeatedly urged
need ofskill and ordinary business
resight in the conduct of this busi-
IS and have claimed for it greater
ention by our farmers. The CHRON-
LE has given every encouragement
the canning, conserving and evapO-
Ting of fruit; and if there is any
ler method of preserving the perish
lie growth of summer for the cheer
winter, and for transportation over
ng distances, to such we bid hearty
lcome, The Marketing of green
lit is limited by the number of con-
rners that may live within such a
tance as may be reached by rapid
nsportation; this market has been
lch extended within the last decade
rough the opening of new transpor-
ion lines, the extending of old ones,
d running ofspecial fruit trains over
ah routes. The growth of the cities
i,hin this radius and the increased
bit of using fruit have contributed
aterially to the increased demand.
The annual product of canneries and
aporators has been increased many
Ia within the period named, and
facticallv the limit to the demand for
red fruit is beyond the probable sup
Of the neXt quarter of century
This expression we do not mean 10
IN that for twenty five years no fruit
III be cured at loss, for indeed we
nav not say that even this year no
tnithas been cured alta loss. But we do
mean to say that the rate at which the
labOring classes are learning the econo-
mn of fruit-eating is greater than the
rate of increase in the production OF
cnred fruit; and we believe it will take
good many years for growers and
manufacturers of fruit products to
"catch the step" of this quicker march.
But however that may be, we may
rest assured that the wide-awake man
nfacturer in this business will do as
the wide-awake manufacturers IN all
other business; they will supply them
,elves with such improvements and
skill as will enable them to make some
orotit even on a full market.
We have the pleasure with this issue
% publish the income Of several large
tarmers in New Castle county during
,he year 1852. Among the many
ooints of interest in those statements, !
we notice that thirty gears has Increased
he acreage price Of peaches, but that the
price of wheat was higher then than {
now. Wheat then had less cOnten-
ion with low freights from the west
han it has now; and cattle growing
n Delaware thirty years ago was GER
ainly in less competition with the
West than it is to-day. The "mixed
lusbandry' of each statement is no /
icaable feature, and the sum total OF \
.acb seems tOfollow as matter OfcOurse
his system of farming everywhere
With sums of money that it would be :
Iuite comfortable to take as the annu- =
/ reward of well conducting a nice
arm in Delaware.
From the statemants we see that II
,askets of peaches was the yield of one y
arm to the acre, and that so to "a cts. T
vas the price of the fruit. The amount i,
er acre is small, and in sections at all q
lvorabIe to peaches it is hardly up to B
be average between the very good o
nd the very poor years. The years ]
ave brought a decided increase in -
be aggregate growth of this fruit; and B
S much of this years product netted C
he grower over 81 per basket, we APP
cal to this fact to substantiate our p
tatement that it will take many years
)r growers to 'catch the step" of the T
Increasing demand,