Evening journal., 1902-07-24
LOCAL MARKETS
WE'LL SUPPLIED
Farmers in This County Say
That Year Has Been
a Good One

The local mar6et looks Is tho0aSh
the hour Of plenty had emrtied into
lit. All crops this year are the largest
he farmers have had for years, and
they have not planted more because
they could not get the help necessary
to harvest them.
The farmers say every one is moving
into the city and all complain of the
scarcity of help. David Heyd, of New
Castle, said in reference to the subject:
Farm help is scarce and all the farm
ers complain about it. While the
rops are good we cannot handle them
properly with short help. Now we are
going to have a tremendous apple
crop. The trees are bending under
their burden. Fruit of all kinds is
going TO be good. Lima beans, string
beans and peas are growing fast, and
will hold their own with the rest of the
vegetables. Berries of all kinds give
good promises, especially black ber-
ries. which are very thick on the
bushes"
The heavy rains in some parts Of the
country have been doing much dam
age, but in this section the farmers say
the rain has been doing much good and
making the crops look better than they
have done for a long time. One thing
that greatly pleases the farmers this
year is the scarcity of worms and bugs
that in former years gave them so
much trouble. A certain kind of bug
has disappeared altogether.
A E. Rittenhouse, of State Road
station, is one of the farm
ers who is greatly pleased
with the prospects. He said:
Crops have not looked better for
forty years and the rains we have
been having at regular intervals of
twice a week for some time have been
doing lots of good.
THE seeds and young sprouts are
not washed out of the ground, but are
reshened up and made to grow.
THE thing that pleases the farmers
most is the scarcity of destructive
worms and bugs on the plants. There
re fewer of these this season than
have known for a long time. Currant
worms that formerly swarmed in
thousands. are not to be found, at
| least / have not seen one. This, of
course saves us much work, because
when the insects are numerous it keeps
a man busy killing them
Apples and tomatoes seem TO be the
whole market as far as quantity goes.
There are baskets upon baskets of ap-
pies and tomatoes in market, and
more to come. The growers say their
fruit Orcnards are full and the tomato
vines are bearing we'll
During a conversation, George w
Webster of Brandywine hundred, said
to a reporter for the Evening Journal:
"Our orchards are full and all the
trees are loaded down with fruit. Why
trees in our orchads that never had
apples on them before are bearing fruit
of the best kind Pears also, are grow
ing well and we will have a big crop
AS to our other products, they also, are
doing weil. Corn is fine and the fire.
Quent rains will help the potatoes, and
make a good crop. Blackberries pro
mise an extra big crop. They are
lripening fast, but there are still any
amount of green berries on the bushes.
+ nothing happens corn will be very
nice. but then we are liable to have a
hail storm at any time which will cut
it all up"
The farmers are getting better prices
this year for their products than they
have received for a number of years.
The scarcity of help has a tendency to
cause an advance in the prices OF farm
products. The New Jersey truckers
are still pouring their goods into the
ocal market. but the Delaware farm
ers say they do not suffer so much
from them.