Evening journal., 1922-04-22
SPARES
STATE fruits
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in some sections may be slightly
hurt. Dean McCue looked the or
chards over on the university expert
mental farm this morning and said
he found little indication OF much
damage. Speaking OF his investi-
CATION on the university farm Dean
McCue said: Apples do not seem
TO be hurt any. There may be a
little damage to peaches, but very
little, and this is also true OF pears
Sour cherries are apparently not
hurt TO date. Sweet cherries may be
slightly hurt and Il IS likely that
plums are also hurt a little, but
do not think any OF the fruit is
damaged 10 a large extent" Nu-
merous other farmers and fruit
growers OF this county. who were
spoken to seemed TO form about
| tho same opinion as Dean McCue as
to the possible damage by the frost.
In the grape district in the Vi
cinity OF Smyrna the weather last
night was apparently more severe
than It was in other sections Of Kent
county One farmer near Smyrna
]
OF the possible damage to fruit last
night said: There was ice this
morning and fairly heavy frost
which has done some damage. al
though nothing like the freeze in
April OF last year, that killed practi-
1 cally all fruit. Keifer pears are hurt
| badly and apples damaged some.
/ Grapes are not far enough advanced
apparently TO be hurt much, al
though the full extent OF the damage
will not be known for As hours"
The opinion OF John Buttery, one
Of the largest grape growers in
northern Kent county. but whose
home Is IN Marshallton. is that the
grape crop Is by no means destroyed
although 4s hours may show that II
has been hurt to some extent Mr.
Buttery says he has seen the cror
come through equally as rigorous
weather in past seasons.
While asparagus that was above
ground has been hurt this will moi
affect the new crop coming on every
few days, although It may make q
scarce in the local markets for few
days
Former Senator oliver A. Newton
OF Bridgevilie, who owns a large farm
near that town and who Is also man
ager OF the Delaware Apple Com
pany with mammoth orchard
near Bridgeville said this morninl
that there was no frost or Ice there
last night and in fact II was not a.
cold in that section OF the State as {
was Thursday night.
Mr.. Newton says there has abeo
lutely been no damage done 20 dat
by the weather 20 the tree fruit croI
OF his section. He said that he wa
in the Delaware Apple Companys
orchard and his son who manages
his farm for him was through theil
orchard today and saw no indica
tions OF any damage. "Strawber
ries" Senator Newton said. 'wer'
slightly damaged Thursday night bu
there will be plenty OF them"
]. Leonard Soper, n former rep
resentative IN the General Assembl.
OF near Magnolia said this morning
that tree fruit has not been dam
aged IN that locality He does no
/ grow berries. Mr.. Soper said he wa
out early this morning and saw NJ
| indication OF frost.
At the home Of Frank c. Ban
croft a large fruit grower nea
Camden II was also said that ther
\ was no frost or Ice this morning
I and that fruit in that section ha
/ not been hurt.
/ Municipal Court Judge Daniel Q
/ Hastings who went to his farm nea
! Dover this morning also said tina
there was no indication OF fruit be
/ ing hurt IN that vicinity.
/ Farmers attending the sire,
7 markets today were divided as I
+ The harm done in their sections b
last nights frost. One trucker frol
near stanton reported that the froi
was severe enough 10 kill off h
pconies and he was inclined 10 thin
that the fruit crop in that sectio
/ lad been hurt.
The light rain OF last night wa