Evening journal., 1895-09-04
THERE'S CORN IN EGYPT
Fruit and Vegetables in Great
Abundance.
POTATOES AT 20 GENTS A BASKET

Luscious Bartlett Pears Down as Low MS
seventy-avs osuts oe L ess-choicest
Grapes Down to Five Gents Pound.
Retan-Good Report From All over the
Peninsula.
To-day will be remembered by the
housekeepers OF Wilmington as one OF
the most remarkable for the prevalence
OF low prices ever known to the market
people Vegetables and fruits have not
been cheaper in twenty years, said ex-
Levy Courtman Sutton, who was selling
some fine Delaware tomatoes Of his own
raising In market this morning
potatoes are away down, he said as
he pointed to a bushel OF ,oice tubsrs
that had sold for 90 cents bushsl The
average white potatoes sell for 20 cents
basket.
Bsets OF the best vsiites. sold for 3
cents bunch. Among the other two
for-fve vegetables we're lettuce
radlsh bunches. hard cabbage
and egg plants Small oniors
for purposes OF putting up, brought 10
cents q quart Lima beans sold in the
pod for cents a half peck, or hulled for
cents a quart There were more beans
in the half peck than in the quart
measure, hulled
Tomatoes were higher 20 day, selling
for % cents a basket, or 10 cents
half peck for Delswsrs's
The Domestic Fruit.
Delaware grapes were exposed for sale
ia abundance They brought 20
cents 3 small basket Best Crawford late
peaches brought one dollar basket
and they were beauties. Birtlett pears,
and the bsst at that. brought 75 cents
basket Catawba grapes sold readily at
cents pound. Seckel pears brought 80
cents a basket.
Some Foreign Fruitf.
That we're most popular in to days
market were also exceptionally cheap.
Bananas sold for and 10 cents a dozen
Malaga grapes were, ,plenti ful at 25 cents
a small basket, although they usually
sell for twice that much. Oranges were
the only high priced fruits In market.
but the best Of them are only worth %
cents a dozsn.
Result OF This Abundance.
The large crop Of corn and potatoes
produced this gear, which leads to lower
prices, may be discoursging, the result
being that those who have large yields
will curtail the area TO both corn and
pat tees next year. This course has
been always pursued by farmers, and
they have done so only to find prices
higher the next year, when they then
begin TO produce more because prices
oiIer Inducements for 30 doing
Looking at the matter now it is safe to
affirm that less corn and potatoes will be
grown next year, but the farmer who is
wise will repeat bis crops OF this year.
II may also be stated that there Is no
prospect Of better prices for potatoes Rt
present IS long az farmers are endeavor
ing to sell the bulk Of their crops before
Winter. The proper thing to do Is 10
provide storage facilities 80 as 70 assist
in supplying the demand daring the
Winter and early Spring, whan potatoes
may reach 7e cents or dollar bushel
Condition OF Delaware Crops.
General intelligence from the lower
part of Delaware to. day Is TO the effect
that plowing has been delayed by the
dry weather. Corn Is looking we'll In
many places and cutii1g will soon begin.
On the whole the crop will be short. FOd-
der Is being saved. Young clover in
Wicomico county was killed by the
QANnkuls AcNnANr Improving
Tomatoes were injured bv drought ard
will not be a full crop L,Ce tomatoes
will be improved BY the recent showers
A coed crop Of potatoes Is rsp-rted from
Cecil county, bat not from other Sec
tions Turnips show improvement since
the rains. Fruit is still abundant Llrgs
shipments OF peaches are being made
at Milford
George Balderston. Of Colora, writes,
In reporting TO the Maryland State
Weather Service: Potato harvest has
been the rule of the week Some
narrowing wheat ground, which is still
too hard to plow where unbroken
Thermometer down nearly to frost line
on 2i A shower on the evening Of the
31st laid the dust, and has freshened
vegetation. but 10 has not reached ploW
depth. Much hay is being packed and
sold
Albert e. Aoworth, writing from
Madeline Springs, Wicomico county,
rays: Up to tho 3lst the weather was
dry and hot, with fresh winds, and corn
that had held up suddenly broke down
aud showed the effects of drought The
rain OF the 3lst came from a general
thunder squall, with many bresks, but
gave 60 more rain than the who'e pre-
ceding month which Is over n inches
behind the average OF seven years The
rain was followed by a Thermometer at
65 degrees, with a sharp northeast wind
Young clover is killed pastures bare
crops short
| j. Y. Foulk, OF Milford, writes: "Our
crops are suffering very much for want OF
rain The showers to-dav Saturday will
help them very much. But little asten-
tion given to anything Just now except
| peaches, which sre being shipped from
here in large quantities and at good
/ prices.
The Plans OF Municipal Government
The Municipal Commission appointed
by the last General Assembly to form
ulste a new charter for this city b as
gone actively to work investigating the
plans pursued by other cities throughout
the United states A vast amount OF
information has bsen collected The
commissioners viii meet regularly on the
frst Monday OF every month. It Is
probable that when the proper stage Is
reached public meetings Of the board
will bs held to give citizens and tax