The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-19
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.
Prospects of the Growing Crops All
over the Country.

AOoRoSNo Va WV SWiHk SAOPo 6h
Over the Country.
Sr. LOUIS, Mo-, April lS.--The Republic
will print tomorrow report giving the
fruit and vegetable prospects OF the whole
country. The reports have all been writ
ten during the present month by the best
informed parties in their respective States,
and, no unfavorable weather having inter
fered, are considered rs reliable as though
written today, and therefore OF especial
value Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas, Ten
nessee, Texas aud Mississippi furnish very
full and complete reports. The peach
crop will be The largest ever grown, the
peach buds being alive at this time in
every State in the Union and the
season being now so far advanced II crop
is assured in the West and South, and al
though too early to safely predict full
yield in the East, as good crop is ex-
pected. 1t may be said here advisedly
that unless the growers in the Southwest,
or those having access TO Western mark
cts, remove three.fourths OF the fruit from
the trees, the heavy yield. almost visible
now, will prove more OF misfortune than
a benefit, since the fruit II permitted TO
remain on the trees will be small and in
lerior sizes, and In all cases only the ex-
press and transportation companies will
receive benefit from the crop.
Fortunately for apple growers the crop
Of apples will be much smaller than that
Of last year, II being the oil year for n crop
at many OF the bigshipplng points, notably
Western New York, q section that can
flood every market in the country when u
full crop is gathered.
The strawberry crop is hardly up TO the
average, yet much larger than that of 1888,
which was the lightost in many years.
The pear crop will average light through
its great enemy, the "blight."
The grape crop in the West and South
has been favored with such mild winter
that but little injury has been inflicted
/ and though late frosts are not yet all gone
nearly double the yield Of last year 4
looked for. In Ohio and the great grape
growing regions in New York and Penn
sylvaniu good crop is anticipated. Til,
| general crop OF other small fruits will no
be large, being at many points rather neg
/ lected.
The general vegetable crop, which is at
/ tracing more attention, labor aud invest
crs generally, especially throughout thu
| Southern States is reported fully. Flor
| ida is now the most formidable rival OF al
the other Southern States Ms a shipper o
early fruits and vegetables, getting int
every market East and West before AM
other State by several weeks, and she 80
cures prices so rcmuneratiyc that the busi
ness OF fruit growing and truck farming i
spreading there with surprising rapidity
Her orange crop promises to be larger thai
that Of last year, the heaviest oI
record. California, II seems, is dry
ing and cyaporaling her fruits {,
a much greater extent since the intcrstat
commerce law raised the rates 10 distan
markets, yet the almost unprccedente,
low prices prevailing for dried and eyap
GRATED fruits now and for months past viii
discouragu operators and reduce th'
amount Of frdit 80 saved largely In th'
States. As q result large quantity o
fruit will bo permitted to spoil in ever!
orchard In the country. However, tina
promises fair returns will be marketed
and says this will apply TO green an'
oyaporated fruits.