Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-08-06
REVIEW OF THE PEACH CROP
The Eastern Shore Counties
Will Yield Heavily.
WELLINGTON THE SHIPPING POINT
This Section Will Equal the
June Estimates.
Baitimore's waterways are Attracting n
Very Large Amount of the Peninsula
Peaches--The Trees in Good Condition.

Very Large Amount of the Peninsula
Peaches--Tbe Trees in Good Condition.
Correspondence Public Ledger, Philadelphia,
CHEsTERTowN, KENT COUNTY, Md,
Aug. 3.--Kent county will not produce
as large crop of her staple fruit as the
neighboring county of Queen Anne,
from which she is separated by the
Chester river. But the yield will prob
ably be much heavier than the same
area in the peach districts of Delaware.
Kent has grown peaches longer than
her neighbor on the south, and the yell
lows have made greater progress.
The eastern part of the county and
the "necks" along the Sassafras river,
an arm of the Chesapeake, to the north
peach districts of many years standing.
| There disease has spread badly through
| the orchards. Still Pond neck has been
famous for its good fruit, as has Sassa-
fras neck, across the river in Cecil
county. In both localities the yellows
have obtained good foothold, and the
fine orchards must die out in the course
of few years.
Most of the peaches from the western
part of Kent county, along the numer
Gus water courses, will go to the Balti-
more market. That city is short
distance away, almost straight across
the Chesapeake. Two or three steam
boat lines and scores of schooners
and other small sailing craft carry daily
cargoes of the fruit to the Baltimore
| wharves.
Thousands Of baskets of fruit from
the orchards along Wordell's creek, the
Sassafras river and the Elk river in
Cecil county, are carried to Philadel-
phia through the Delaware and Chesa-
peake canal by steamers OF the Ericsson
line. These boats carry much good
fruit, but they also touch at points in
Cecil county where the yellows is
spreading, and consequently have
carried considerable premature fruit.
During last week two boats day car
ried cargoes of 5000 to 10000 baskets
from the points named to Philadelphia.
Add to this the fruit from points on
Delaware bay that finds its way to
Philadelphia by boats, much of which,
it is said, is of an inferior quality to
that shipped by rail, and an explana-
ton of the low prices that h ave been
ruling in Philadelphia may be deduced.
The impression must not go forth that
Kent county has but small crop. 1t is
only in the comparatively small district
affected by disease that the crop will be
shortened. quarters of the county
will have nearly as full crop as Queen
Anne will have.
,, Sudlersville, in Queen Anne county
! is nine miles east of Prices station, the
: prospects of which point were described
I in the letter printed yesterday. The
/ vanguard of the yellows has reached
within a mile and a half of Sudlersville
where some orchards are badly affected
, In the immediate vicinity of the town
the disease has not yet affected the tree!
i to any extent Five or six carloads O
! fruit a day We're shipped from this poin
= last week, an estimate of 100000 basket
: for the season was considered fair.
t THE LARGEST SHIPPING POINT.
Millington is a town of perhaps 30t
inhabitants, situated in Kent county
5 close to the line of Queen Anne county
/ The town is IL miles from Townsend
Del, the eastern terminus Of the Queer
> Anne and Kent branch of the Delawar
{ railroad. II aspires to be the larges
=, peach shipping point on the Peninsula
Z and presents figures to prove this claim
o More has been published about til
= orchards near Millington than those o
Y any other place on the Peninsula, be
I cause the extensive orchards of ex Gov
ernor Biggs of Delaware, who is con
y sidered an authority on peaches, ar
y grouped about the town.
- The town has also been brought int
T. unpleasant notoriety by the publishe
u statement that two carloads Of prematur
{. peaches, shipped from there, weI
n returned by order of the PHILADELPHIA
IL board Of health. This statement III
n agent of the railroad company at Mi
le lington and other interested persons il
$; dignantly deny. They claim that it is
"a lie made out Of the whole cloth, circl
=, lated by some newspaper correspor
10 dents In search of a sensation, and thi
% if fruit unfit for sale had been shippe
o 10 Philadelphia il would have found /
70 way to the refuse heap or garbage dun
le and not back to the shipping point.
VI One man asserted that though the
10 was considerable premature fruit
= the orchards of the locality, not over 81
II; baskets of it had been shipped. +,
= the last two weeks Millington hi
shipped an average of three carloads
early varieties a day. Eight cars we
shipped last Thursday and seven Il
~ day before. The number will increa
u, from now on until the middle Of Angus
- when the shipments are expected to a
II. gregate 20 to 80 cars day.
ne The orchards about Millington a
NJ bearing full crop, many of them
5jin heavy one, and the only diminution in Il
III Weld will be from the yellows. NJ