Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-08-05
THE PEACH CROP.
J. T. Hals's Glastonbury Crop is Good
 for 5o,o00 Baskets.

: Hartford, Aug 5.-"Connecticut will
 have the best crop of peaches this year that it has ever had," said J. Howard
 Hale, the well known Glastonbury grower, yesterday. By the first two
 weeks in September there will be a
 lot of this choice fruit on the market,
 and it will be unusually fine too, in MT
 Hale's opinion. That's on account of
 the drought
 l There are more pea aches to tree in I the Connecticut orchards than ever be-
 fore and Mir Hale says that he has
 thrown away five ordinary crops al- 1 ready. For some time he has had ! thirty-five men busy on his orchards
 doing nothing put pick off the green
 frult so as to leave plenty of room for the remainder to grow in.
 Some of the early variety of peaches
 grown in Mir Hale's orchards will show up next week. the season will be well under way by the 2Oth and the biggest yield will be during the first two weeks
 in September, the same conditions hold. ing true all over the state. That last
 mentioned period is the time for the
 thrifty housewife to get busy and do
 some canning.
 Just now there is large demand
 for peaches and if the Connecticut crop
 could be distributed over a greater
 length of time there would be more
 money in it for the growers, but un-
 less something happens they will not fare badly this year. A wind storm shows up almost every season and blows down hundreds of baskets of the fruit, but unless very severe one comes along the growers can stand some loss this time.
 The crop from Mir Hale's Glaston- bury orchards is estimated at 5O.OOO baskets and is his biggest ever. All the other growers in that town will probably have together about the same amount. Among them are George H. Hale. HOllister X Bidwell Charles o. Tryon, Bartholomew Carrini. Albert Carrini. Joseph Zola. James Prey and John Gotta. As their names indicate several of these are Italians. They have bought up farms that were unpro- ductive under native management and have made them very productive.
 MT Hale's Georgia crop this year aA'puitVu, us Hidihcted, tO aDOuI SpN- enty-nine carloads, but owing to the conditions there was little money in the business. His Seymour orchards will have about 30,0OO baskets. but the trees there are not as full as in Glas- tonbury. Over there no trouble from lack of water has been met with The 1 flood that struck Bridgeport let down plenty of water up above, too. Down | in Glastonbury, however, rain is need. | ed. though not essential. Very little 1 fel there when this city got good | soaking early in the week. This | drought adds color and flavor to the fruit and even if no water falls until after the fruit is ripe no harm will | come to the crop. On the contrary it's flavor will be only the better. Rain | would, however, increase the size of the fruit.
 Another big lot of fruit will come from the Barnes Brothers orchards in firm which about 5000 baskets are expected. From half lozen others in that vicinity 100000 more should be marketed. In Middle field C. F. Lyman has good crop and other smaller growers about Mid iletown have good crops, too. The Connecticut Valley Orchard Co.'S trees Ire expected to supply 15.0O0 baskets md Root Brothers in Pennington have l good crop. On Shuttlemeadow noun ain the crops of F. Rogers and the Herriman estate are good. while Mill ord. Southport and Westport will all 'urnish their quota
 For the last two years the prices lave been high, as so many trees were ,illed by hard winter weather. This ear all the indications are for lots of .ood fruit at low figures.