The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-08-31
DELAwARR's mo PEACH CROP.
More Peaches thnn Com Re Probably Sold
or Ueed-Exen the PIGS Sntinted.

| or Used-Even the PIGS Sntiated.
| WILMINGTON. Aug. 3O.-The bottom has
| falon out OF tho peach business this season
and some OF the growers are beginning to ool
| uron tho great Delaware fruit rs a delusion
and snare. go far as profit Is concerned
| There Is no end OF renches and they arc still
| coming into tho market. Housewives have
| "put mp" peaches by thousands OF Jars and
| tho demand has noarly ceased. The best
| peaches ever grown on the peninsula have
sold for 40 ccnts a basket. A few years ago
$3.50 was not M unusual price for them.
SO lar this year, II Is estimated. the Delaware
Railroad has carried TO market about 2.00U. 900
baskets. Then the Gamers and dryers have
| consumed much II tho fruit Oue firm OF cnn-
ners at Dover alono has absorbed about 1000
baskets. Tor some of their fruit. tho pick OF
tho peach bolt they rnd 10 cents n basket: but
so Ga b. hoss
by water or Of, tho MARYLAND ,peaches on this
baskets to the number. and there are perhaps
l,H0O.OOO more baskets to come.
low FELTON,. MY miles south OF this city, At
that That poin. is what the growers call the dead
queen. Anns county, Md. on the Chesapeake
Bay. Beow that line il is forty mi 9! to the
promised 10 yield l,OO0ooo la, kets A heavy
frost on that day killed the Sussex fruit, What
dis,rlct in Mary and.
There are several eanses ,or the unsa,i.,ac.
frat Is that in their eagtrness to redeem them-
selves from T The failure Of peaches for two
Honest John ssn'Sp peacho so to mark.s
that is. premature fruit that did not look 10 DO
dissasisd, Then tho ials 50 iepors was cir:
eulated thnt tho spread Of FELLOWS had
bought premature ,irait which is mostly made
M mp OF tp.z desayed srots. skin and large pit.
Sas ket at Who esals 80 Then e came h The rains.
neaches would Be- shi q i hard and sound.
he dryness caused by the moving cars kept
sapossd Tor sas Il r"ited rsnidis SesinnHR
feet, but the peaches would not open WELL Tho
week all Of the city markets have BEEN gnt.
ted. pr ces falling correspondingly The men
but those who shipped on Commission wers
frequently eompelIed to puy the freight with
tho decit The o oser sna
t ii Sssk Rs III ga SlanS q PASSING empty
new ones. Owing TO the absence OF peaches
business and those who have kept at 1t have
boon unable 10 supply tho demand. Prices
basket. Man, baskets Of peaches have been
sold for ~ gents wholesale ut the railway sta
sna p Sssxs s ,S cs% w ,h
tho margin otploAt was small in such In
The great yIeld OF flne pears. plnms. and
apples on this PENINSULA. to say nothing OF tho |
great crops in other States. has helped depress
ID force the bottom out Of the peaoh
so eIcctually that hundreds Of baskets of
r,r irpt are being fed to tho pig.
up Their shouts at the hes, fruit.
aware drink. without, which no, Delaw arean's
he wants OF the State for several years. Peacn
,rnndy properly mixed with hcn"y and water
RI. su"py Of II
,retty we'll exhausted now. but the lovers Of
he Diamond State beverage are aiready
,leasures to como.
Tho growers, on the eastern shore have had
'een the absence Of cars in which 10 sh p their
r,nit. Tho situation is one that is hardly
he rsacS
,ad Investments: that, was done in 1875.
was n snS Sa:las rsTs
more at Wholesale; hut tho bottom fell out i.i as
outraged The greed to cet a. as
ible Tor peaches in 1915 caused premature
ruit to be shipped to market. and the growers
uttered. Tho growers this year wore advised
o destroy all premature fruit and hold back
he peaches until they were roori. They were
ESQ advised to thin out the peaches on the
rees. The advice was not taken Each
.rowcr was afraid that his neighbours crop
you'd :ail. and he held 10 all that he had IN
iRht. The conservative mon are now adj
Using growers to keen their trees, but to re-
nemb Der the lesson Of this year.
# 1891 in Delaware will bring into the State
early sl.O0o.00o., The berry crop was good
nd profitable in the spring. and the Delaware
nd Mary anl farmers on this peninsula. ex-
ept those in Sussex county. nre in better
oAdttion financially than six months ago.