Evening journal., 1902-09-04
FARM PRODUCTS
FILL THU MARKET
Tomatoes SHd Beans Are
Plentiful and Cheap
Peaches Are High and The Best Of the
Crop Has Been SOld-Oiher
Fruits Plentiful

Although the summer season is
waning. the market still presents a
good appearance. The products look
fresh. but they are not as plentiful as
they were a few weeks ago. The prices
of goods are still high for some ar
ucles. while others are low.
Tomatoes are down to % cents a bas-
ket. and those that were seen in the
market yesterday were extremely nice
looking. The farmers say the tomato
crop is good, but many OF the much
desired vegetable are beginning to rot
This cannot be accounted for. Some
farmers think the warm sun does 1t,
and others think the rain cracks them.
Nm reference to the market, Frank Ell
mer. OF Marshallton. said: THE crops
have been very good, but their end is
now drawing near. Potatoes, which
are selling for 40 cents a basket, have
been plentiful, and the purchasers are
beginning to lay in their winter supply.
Tomatoes are also plentiful and are
cheap. / get % cents a basket for
them. While the crop Is good, / find
that many OF the tomatoes have begun
to rot. / nor any OF the other farmers
can account for this. Several have adj
vanced opinions, but | think 1t is the
hot suns rays that cause them to
burst"
Fruits. such as apples and pears. are
plentiful. Beans and cabbage are also
sold in large quantities. Lima beans
are cents a quart, and just now are
plentiful but the crop will soon be
exhausted. M @ta
Gus Crossan. of Falkland, during
a conversation. said today:
"The fruit crop is good, and the
growers get a fair price for their pro-
ducts. Pears are selling at Is cents a
half peck, and apples bring 30 cents a
basket Lima beans are plentiful at
cents a quart. Cabbage is bringing so
cents barrel It is not likely that
the lima bean crop will last much
longer, although they are plentiful just
now"
There were a few low-priced peaches
in market. but they were of poor quail
ity The best fruit was offered at
prices ranging from 75c. to s1.45 bas-
ket The higher-priced article was ex-
cellent Both the white and yellow
peaches were sold and some of them
were unusually large.
The Old Mixons peach, which Is a
free stone, large and of good appear
ance when preserved, was sold in large
quantities to housekeepers who intend
to put them up for the winter.
Some preferred the Crawford yellow
neach to the white fruit. and many OF
this variety We're sold, but the Old
MiXons held their own.
Dealers predicted that prices would
remain about the same during the week
as good fruit is scarce in Wilmington,
and there Is no trouble in securing
good prices for it.
Plum Crop a Failure
AS previously reported, pears are
fairly plentiful and Of good quality
throughout the greater part of the sec
ton. Plums have ranged from light
yields to an entire failure. Peach ship
ments lave been free in the West dur
ing the week, although a
light TO very poor crop is
reported there. In counties where
the orchards have been most produc-
tive. the crop is now nearly marketed.
Apples are very poor in some locali-
ties. better than earlier expected in
Others. and an occasional report indi-
Gates an abundant yield Some cider
is now being made.
Garden Needs Ram
Sweet corn is yielding well for home
use and canneries. and the ears are
well filled. but rain Is beginning to be
badly needed. Tomatoes are ripening
rapidly and moving steadily to can
neries; the late crop is of equally as
good quality as the early crop, but it
will not be as large; some growers look
for average returns, but many expect
not more than half a crop; very little
blight is reported this week. String and
lima beans are plentiful with nicely
filled pods Early potatoes have been
dug, with fair to good yields: late pO-
tatoos need rain badly to make .tubers,
and are expected to yield poorly In
many places Sweet potatoes are also
unpromising, owing mostly to INSULT
cient moisture. Late cabbage is failing
in the dry districts, and will give
short Yields Cucumbers need rain.
lnrnips cannot be sown until more
moisture is received, and the seed late
ly put N the ground has not germi-
mated in many places. Grapes are
plentiful; the quality is generally ex-
lcellent. but in some localities the in
dividual grapes are ripening unevenly
some being fully maured and others
lstill green on the same bunch. The
chestnut crop promises TO be good in
nearly all districts.
Five Men Crushed by Big Tank.