The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-04-27
SCARCE IN
EVERY STATE.
Letters Received by Department Of
Agriculture Show Crop in Other
Peach States Is Damaged
from so to 90
Per Cent

Georgia is not alone this year III 1indinS
q short peach crop on hand. Every peach
growing state in the country reports
reduced crop as the result Of had wealth
er conditions ranging from 30 to 90 per
cent below the average.
Ta;s Information has last been s2e'lf-
Cd by Tie department of agriculture ana
wl within 4 fcw days lie published IN
official bulletin form.
At the instance OF the Georgia 1l5it
growers. Commissioner Q. L. Stevens
wrote letters to the commissioners OF az
riculture Of all the important peach
growing states of the country, and mas
receive replies from practically all o.
them except California, wnith VIII prom
ably be heard from within a day or two.
Colonel stevens gave the information
that Georgia would do well 10 market %
per cent of average crop thus year.
and asked the commissioners of the other
states what yield they expected and what
had been the extent Of the damage from
cold weather.
The replies show that there is a posi-
bility of something like 81 per cent OF
an average crop throughout the entire
country. In some states the crop has
been almost wholly destroyed, in others
there is only 10 or 10 per cent promised
while several expect to get as high as 90
per cent of an average yield.
The conditions as reported are indlca-
i've Of the fact that there will he ready
and eager market found for what peaches
can be secured and the Georgia growers
who are fortunate enough to have even
part Of Il crop left will undoubtedly make
q good thing out of it.
What the States Report
Georgia, as has been stated, Will do
well if p per cent OF an average crop is
secured. while Colonel Stevens and State
Entomologist Scott are inclined to think
The figures will not 90 quite 50 high as
this
The reports from the other states as re-
ceived ut the department Of agriculture
are as follows:
Massachusetts-Ih peach crop has been
devastated by severely cold winter and
spring and hardly peach VIII be mar
vested
New Je,vey-The destruction of the
peach crop is surely 30 per cent. and may
run as high as - per cent 1t IS dill
cult to tell the entire extent OF the dam
age yet as the effect of the more recent
cold weather is not fully known.
Nirginia-The peach crop will be larger
than was thought a week or two ago.
though nothing like a full crop. The
damage is thought to be fully so per
cent
West Nirginia-There will be about 10
per cent of an average crop of peaches III
this state, and all the other fruit is re-
ported damaged by the cold weather in
the same proportion.
North Garolina-Only about 80 per cent
of Il crop is reported, and it may be con-
siderablV less than that.
Ohio-On the list OF Apri 1.-THE prospect
was Z per cent of am average crop. Since
then there has been some severely cold
weather and this prospect will no doubt,
be considerably reduced.
lllinois-Fhere are no peaches in the
northern ana central parts of this state,
though it is reported unofficially that
there is part of crop in southern Hi
noiS
Mssouri-Thcre is q prospect of - to
80 per cent of a crop Of peaches i'm south
ern Missouri. but there is no fruit in
the northern part Of the state and the
%icld for the whole state Will, il is stat
cd. be not more than 10 per cent of an
average crop.
Texas-There will be about half crop
OF peaches in this state. The fruit was
badly damaged BY the late cola.
The foregoing states with California
constitute the principal peach growing
states of the country The Indications
are, it would seem. that the price OF
peaches Will be somewhat higher than has
prevailed for the last two years