Milford chronicle., 1883-08-03
PEACBEs.

What the crop may be this year is
yet matter of much difference of
opinion, and possibly these differences
, will only be rcc0nciled by the gathered
crop next fall. The PHILADELPHIA
Times, printed last week q number of
special dispatches from Delaware and
Maryland that bear the aggregate in
depreciation of a smaller CROP this wear
than last year. The shipments from
/ Middletown and Mt. Pleasant are es-
] timated at 200, 600 baskets; 100, 900 bas-
kets will be packed or evaporated, by
/ the MiddletoWn and Odessa canncries
and evapOrators, and $4,000 baskets are
| put down 10 be carried by the steam
| boat from Odessa.
This is putting the yield of the Mid
dletown district; including the peach
Is that will be hauled to Middlet0wu
from Cecil county, Md, at 350G00 bas-
kets, which the transcript thinks is
low enough. Last year 250000 baskets
were shipped from the Middletown
station, and the total crop Of the dis /
trlct, including shipments from Odessa I
and the fruit canned and evaporated /
could not have been short of 400, 600 /
baskets.
The crop in the Smyrna district is
estimated at from 300, 900 to PSI. 600 .
baskets. Milford, Feton and Freder-
lea promise crops about equal TO that
of last year. Yellow fruit, except
Smocks, is reported to be scarce.
About 100000 baskets are promised
from the Bridgeville district. The
Tines dispatch from Wyoming puts
the crop atnOt over half OF that of last
year, hut promises fruit of much bet
ter quality. The estimate for Talbot
Nd, is half a crop. The Times
has no advices from Kent and Queen .
Anne's counties, in each of which there
will be good yield, probably az heavy
rs the crop of last year. The WELD in
Kent county, Delaware, will, it is
thought, be equal to that Of 1882 The
Tines Dover correspondent says that
superintendent |. N. Mills has made
lmple preparation for shipping the tt
'rop and estimates that 5000, 900 bas- Il
lets Of peaches Yill go over the Della h
ware railroad and its connectlons. p
The Transcript thinks 100000 bas- ~
,ets of peaches would be a very high d
stimate of the total yield of the Pen
nsula this year It places the figures CO
t last year st 8, 1909, 900 baskets shiDned m
yer the Delaware railroad which il sa
ays was three-ffths of the total crop IL
I the Peninsula. or
The Se'atnei of Dover puts the sub as
sct in this light: co
"Peach-basket makers begin to real
se hat they have not got as soft a wi
ling of it now as they had last year W
he growers can afford to be as inde- sui
endent as they please, there being
lore baskets than peaches. One foi
rover remarked TO us the other dav of
lat he had several thousand baskets. mo
lt no peaches. Last year it was the
verse. The peaches are not here
I'd most growers will realize it when -
eY go to gather them.n
J. T. Budd, Peninsular agent of the
& 0. railroad, thinks the peach crop
the Peninsula will not exceed FIVE
millions Of baskets.
A bout Milford the impression has
ined a firm hold of the people that
ere will be a good average crop this
ar and growers are contracting their
,hards with eyaporators for twenty
e cents per basket: whereas, the
ice paid in this neighborhood last
ar was thirty-fve cents per basket
contract. IL is fair to state, how
sr, that all this difference is not due
The increased crop, but partly to the
of factories to risk the
rket with so great expense as last
.r.
he Easfoa Ledger states that many
.ch orchards in Talbot county have -
sady been sold at forty cents per
ket net.
he Transcript states that the fruit Of J
srol peach n. orchards Sdan .o, in sassafsas He
ffty cents q basket, the grower to Pr
n 't G, W. ideli ofNew YORK, writes Ia,
I1ps grown zl along s7 the Hudson 4 % TiVer, % at