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Show PEACHES AND TOMATOES. A HI Oro ml Iho teller Make ap for the Failure ml Ihe Olr-er. WaMiNoroK. Del., ()-t. aa.Thn entire en-tire poach crop which wa manifested over the Delaware railroad this year consisted of two basket and on crate of very Indifferent fruit. This virtually represented a total failure of th peaches, peach-es, with an attendant to to th grower of million of dollar. To a certain extent, ex-tent, however, the absence of peaches has been compensated by the unusual growth of tomatoes. The crop tills year ha been really phenomenal, and cann-erlct cann-erlct were put In operation In nearly near-ly every prominent town or villaga Id the lower half of Newcastle county, In Kent aud Sussex. The canneries have now completed the work of raonlug tomato, to-mato, and many of tbctn ar engaged In canning pumpkins Just exactly how many tun of tomato hava been canned In Little Delaware this year I difficult to determine, but the nunilwr of can prepared for th market will probably not rxeeed 8,000,000. Thes are 8-pound cans, which would mean in. 000. Ooo pound of tomatoes. A ton of tomatoes, a they coma from the field, will till from 4 to 411 can, on this basis a prnduat of 8,000,000 can mean that I'J.fioO ton of tomatoe aern purchased by the canneries in the stale thlsyeir. Tho low from cleaning and preparing, and from rot In wet weathsr will reduee the number of ton put np to T.'iOO. The tmnatoe that bate been cauued do not Include the entire tomato crop. Many thousand basket were sent directly to the Irurk market and were consumed at once. Beside I'ist. the nauiiers of Baltimore and elw here came to Delaware to get soma of their tomatoes. |