BED-TIME Am HARVEST* 
I 
It is the cheapest, comparing first cos-t, 
fuel and labor with quality and quantity of 
product turned out. 
It is the best, on account of its structural 
or philosophical superiority. The only 
Pneumatic Inclined Flue Evaporator on the 
market. Thoroughly protected by patents, 
and the only machine you want to buy at 
any price for general farm purposes and 
profit. 
To enumerate the list of articles that may 
profitably be evaporated, would furnish a 
catalogue of farm, garden, and orchard 
products, as well as anticipate the wants of 
all climates and people. 
Our readers would be benefited and in¬ 
terested in reading the treatise on evapor¬ 
ating fruit, published by the American 
Mfg. Co., Waynesboro, Pa., which is mailed 
free on application. See advertisement in 
this issue. 
Peaches on the Eastern Shore. 
Mr. J. W. Keer, of Denton, Maryland, 
contributes the following information con¬ 
cerning the coming peach crop to the 
American Farmer; 
The first great anxiety of peninsular 
peach growers is over, and the prospects 
for a fair crop of this wholesome and lus¬ 
cious fruit are as reasonably certain now as 
are any other earthly prospects; true, you 
will occasionally find a peach grower whose 
inclinations to grumbling are slightly akin 
to a certain old farmer who had an innate 
propensity for lamenting upon imaginary 
defects in his crops: Having an extra fine 
field of corn, all safe up to gathering time, 
a neighbor, who was quite familiar with 
the ‘ old farmer,” thought for once the old 
gentleman was certainly debarred any and 
all chance for complaint, but after compli¬ 
menting him on the enormous quantity 
and perfection of the ears, was not a little 
astonished to hear this old man reply: 
“Y-e a-s. it’s a purty good crap, but some 
o' the ears mout a had a few more kernels 
on the pints.” So, too, an occasional peach 
grower can be found who is bound to find 
room somewhere for a little grumbling. It 
seems to be a pleasure, a relief to pent up 
fears, to long suspended hopes, to get off 
something that smacks a little of manly 
defiance or independence. While most of 
the melocoton class of peaches have but 
light crops, the assurance given thereby 
for fruit of extra size and quality should 
counterbalance any disappointed hope for 
quantity alone, as there is certainly more 
profit in getting but one basket of fruit 
from a tree that readily sells for one dollar 
and fifty cents than there is in getting three 
baskets that sell for only fifty cents per 
basket. 
