Milford chronicle., 1927-07-01
STATE APPLE CROP
SMALLER BUT BETTER
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The State inspection will not permit
officials to open package to see
what it contains, whereas the
government inspectors may open a
box, carrier or barrel and dump the
apples out if they wish to. If a
grower pays for Federal inspection,
he will not need the State guarantee
or brand because that will be at
tended to BY the government in
spector and the package will be
branded just the same.
Scores of growers have applied to
the Bureau of Markets for either
State or Federal inspection and this
will probably begin some time early
next week. The most important
thing to the grower, If he has the
right kind of fruit is to mark it and
apparently at this time there is moth
ing to be concerned about. There is
not an over abundance of early
apples reported from any section, so
that with a light supply and nor
NAL demand prices should be salts
factory.
The strawberry season just over is
believed from cursory accounts to be
the best the State has ever expert
enced. There was one week during
the season when the prices fell Off,
but they rallied the next week TAX
ing the season as a whole, growers
who had good fruit received a salts
factory price.
While definite figures are not
available at this time, it is generally
believed that the crop was much
heavier than last year when upwards
of 100000 quarts of berries were
produced in Delaware. One OF the
"life-savers" in the strawberry busl-
ness is the cold pack house. W
until few years ago a farmer had
to depend on the commission man
for the sale of his berries. Ii the
berries were soft and unfit to ship
he had no market for them. But
now, with the cold pack houses IN
operation, farmer may have berries
that would be good for "a hours II
they weren't jostled about in a train
or refrigerator car and these placed
on ice become firm enough to be
picked and put in the huge casks
used in the cold pack process. In
this way; unless the fruit is abso-
lutely mushy, grower stands a
chance of breaking even when the
market is glutted or the fruit not OF
fancy calibre.
Wheat was harvested in lower
Delaware all of this week. Until II
is threshed no one will know how
they have Jared. But according to
reports from many fields cut, the
heads appear to be quite heavy and
the yield should be very satisfactory
One of the things that is helping the
Delaware farmer is the scientific
treatment of the seed in order to
prevent various diseases that have
in past year destroyed the grain
Through the skill of experts from
the University of Delaware Exten-
sion Service and the State Board OF
Agriculture, farmers are being aided
in the prevention of many of the
diseases that in other years have
sometimes destroyed practically
their whole crop.
Reports coming to the bureau oi
markets about peas indicate that il
was the best season, if not the most
profitable ever for Delaware grow
ers. The weather made the vines
grow rapidly and produce abundan-
tly. There were some instances
where the vines did not do so good
because of the low ground, but they
were few and far between. The pea
louise had little chance to live be-
cause of the frequent showers that
washed him from the vines.
The work of planting tomatoes
which began week ago did not gel
off to very good start because OF
the dry condition of the sofl in many
places. Some farmers found il
necessary to replant but according
to reports the last day or two, the
plants are all doing nicely.
Owing to the cool spring, and early
summer, corn has not grown as well
as in other years. There are few
fields where the stalks are much
higher than a foot. In other years
when the early spring has been
warm the stalks have been several
feet high by the first of July. AS
all farmers know, corn demands hot
nights for it's successful develop
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