Smyrna Times

New Crops for Delaware.

We repeat what we have several times before said, says the Farm and Home: If the failure of peaches shall open to the farmers of Delaware, Maryland and New Jersey new industries, better methods or such diversity in their specialities so as more surely to provide against adverse circumstances, then our great loss will not be an unmixed evil. By our exchanges we see that the canners from Baltimore, and buyers from other cities, are purchasing tomatoes down the Peninsula at a price that nets the growers about $9 a ton. This is an advance of fully 50 per cent on the prices of the several previous years, and awakens the question: Are farmers benefited by contracting their crops before these are grown? We notice what hope Dr. A. T. Neale gave the farmers of Kent county, Delaware, concerning the future of sorghum growing. With more leisure our growers have been able to demonstrate in different localities what science has announced for some years that the black rot in the grape and the leaf rot in the pear can be controlled. Silos and ensilage and herding and butter separators and improved herds of milch cows are extending over those states the area where gilt-edged butter can be made. Our farmers have now more than their usual labor and incentive to study these and kindred subjects, and the more progressive are taking hold in a way that will tell for the good in the near future.