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a few weeks, is made to extend over the whole year. 

 Formerly, a third of the peach crop did not pay for 

 taking to market, and fine fruits of other kinds were 

 frequently given away on reaching the city, the 

 glut being so complete that no buyers were to be 

 found. The canning and preserving establishments 

 are now so numerous as to check these gluts and 

 prevent these losses. From this brief reference to 

 them, the reader will learn something as to what 

 becomes of the enormous amount of the smaller 

 fruits transported over the railroads, as well as of 

 the propriety of going to work at producing them. 



Leaving Delaware for Maryland, a very similar 

 condition of things is found to exist. The quantity 

 of land for sale is enormous. The firm of Messrs. 

 R. &quot;W. Templeman & Co., of Baltimore, control 

 more than four hundred farms, to which they are 

 inviting the attention of settlers. Some of these 

 contain thousands of acres in a single tract, and 

 could be advantageously divided into smaller farms. 

 Others contain only five to seven acres. Every 

 possible variety of property is embraced in the ex 

 tensive catalogue which these gentlemen control, 

 while the locations are as various as the different 

 tracts. Many are within easy reach of Baltimore, 

 a city whose daily wants require the products of a 

 large extent of country. In that market, all that 

 the farmer can produce, the fruits and vegetables 

 especially, command highly remunerative prices. 

 Around that city there are farms having fifty acres 

 set with strawberries alone. Some of the first 

 pickings are distributed among northern cities as 



