Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1891 — Good Fruit Prospects. [ARTICLE]

Good Fruit Prospects.

After such a famine year for fruit a 9 it was the lot of this country to suffer under last year, it is comforting to get these hopeful words from the Minneapolis Northwest Trade: Reports from fruit growing centers this spring are much more favorable to a large crop than last year at this time. Indeed, California, Southern Illinois, Michigan, New York, Maryland and the Peninsula give fairly flattering indications of a Dretty good harvest unless climatic conditions should change in an unexpected and unusual way.

In Delaware especially the farmers and fru't growers who have recently visited Philadelphia are reported by the Record of that town to say that they have prospects of 7,000,(04 baskets of peaches this year. In all the o chards the trees are loaded with buds, in a good healthy condition, and not too far advanced to be injured by any ordinary frost The buds cling closely to the branches, and it takes considerable energy to knock them off. Old peach growers like ex-Gov. Biggs, the Cumminses, John P. R. Polk, and Col. Wm. H. Burnite, look for one of the largest crops, from present appearances, that there has been on the Peninsula for years. In any event it now seems quite improbable that there could be such a dearth of fru.t as in the season of 189 a