Daily Republican., 1890-02-10

~ 5 251f63k = ~ &hoGk ~ peach
= E1iS5kt - Is Z 11antslilL Is Il !
4 l1lfls (65lo q 4Snvesg1s3qe With hin.
: r. Go36sios y ~ largest tsdfyideAl
\ |11&Sf OF poaeh teeea IL The United etstss.
y ~ buns snd controls oscr ono bnndfod
Il {>oQaao1 troes, Which arc scattered over
(! Nf1S ~ Ecnt and New Castle cotntiee,
s 5(sWare. nd Kent, Queen Anne ana
lfo1ine countlss, Maryland. There
K I'VE been very few seasons since peAehea
Unfs arst shipped from Delaware, IN
101H, that Governor Rigss has nct reapcd
/. < hat dsome pro1t ft0a this source.
In answer 10 NE question whether ne
peach crop va ruin@l ~ Delaware. he
+ No man, however. can predict q this
ilme iust what tho crop Will BE-. 1t Will
.Eail depend upon the future, end that
alone. The weather We have had Il very
a favorable for large crop. have been
" over the peach country from George
(; (pWn. Sussex County. up to MiddIcloWn,
New Cattle County. aid the Eastern
Ghose Of Maryland. ! found every
{ss1Ythnrd ID very promising condition.
here h only one thing to fear, though
aVe havc no reason to feel apprehensive.
s J rtisr % . sudden and sharp frost At
eesept the buds are not In . sufilciont
p 56vAsced state 70 be damaged By de-
e ,sEesso Of Temperature.
ssThe greatest crop that wss ever pro
81 lnced On the Delaware Peninsula was In
$500 - k1.nsn v<rrx,la M : "a
1llkipe about the mildness OF this winter
g <l1Ii turn back % chat yesr they will End
hat the average tenperatnie was much
h haKhsr than II has been tho present year
Ouribe that winter We had considerable
y rain weather and some very sharp and
suddsn frcsts. Well, what Was ths
fosult? Why, when the season opened
he trees were 20 full of peaches that tht
1lmbs broke down under the grea
{ Wight
s'jn the light Of pest experience pre-
s 6ies that II there are no serions setback
during the remainder Of the season TIL
eountFy Will be flooded with the crop o
p aska fEom the Delaware Peninsula
considered With considerable sAtisfaction
and that ID there viii be lots Of money II
1t We growers OF the Peninsula havg
been acting very intelligent'y and sys
= tematically recently, aud the result Il
that nearly all possibility Of . glut ha
boen removed Insterd Of depending
upon two or three cities In which TO sel
our crop we have opened up markc.
1r0m Omaha TO Boston. We have poi
1ected the shipment 80 that no one cit
will receive more peaches than can
disposed Of in single day.
"The peach 10 the king OF fruit Il
sweetness and lusciousness, and to de
the cultivation OF it pays more than
ligent management crop may bs grow
that Will yield fair profit every year.
Aas been the salvation Of many Of GU
farmers when wheat and berry croT
have failed. The sill OF the Peninsula
particularly ada pted to their cultivation
and 1t will be many years before
ceases to DO the peach mart Of the coui
THE great evil that conironts US
ahc disease called the 'yellows,' viii,
has become prevalent within the last a
81. ysarf. So DISASTROUS have been its resul
shat very few orchards remain In N,
4 Castle County, Delaware. Many in ke
County, alb we Smyrna, have also be
a Affected. The disease will commence II
angle tres, and In year or 80 the orchs
viii not bear 0 peach worth marketil
1sloW smyrna the farmers have be
enabled TO keep the ycllo~s out Of ID
orchards. "A soon ks y tree IL affected
h torn up and carried away.
"As yet 70 remedy has been found
The evil, slthough dozens have been ST
gested. The United States Governme
has had an expert among US for over T.
years trying to find out something to CT
the disease. but his success has not b.
apparent Even with this inipedimen
am sanguins of an uppreccdentedly 10
crop next season."