THE VALUE OF PEACH GROWING. 



There is no crop that can be raised with less la- 

 bor and expense, and a quicker return, than that 

 of the peach, and none that will give a greater re- 

 turn for the capital and labor employed. The peach 

 farms in Upper Delaware and Maryland, have re- 

 turned to their owners the most fabulous amounts 

 for their investments, far exceeding in profit any 

 other staple crop that has been raised in the Mid- 

 dle States, and on a scale never before heard of in 

 this or any other country. Some of the orchards 

 containing from 1,000 to 1,800 acres have netted 

 their owners from $20,000 to $30,000 annually. A 

 peach orchard in New Castle county, Delaware, of 

 400 acres, netted the owner in one crop, $38,000. 

 One in Kent county, Maryland, of some 600 acre?, 

 produced a crop paying $31,000, and the same or- 

 chard in 1879, yielded $42,000. In 1873, the Dela- 

 ware Peach Growers' Association, reported that 

 there were sent from the Delaware peninsula to the 

 northern markets of Philadelphia, and New York, 

 1,288,500 baskets of peaches, or 2,577 car loads by 

 the railroad. Adding the quantity shipped by 

 steamers and sailing vessels, and the amount canned, 



