The juicy peach revived southern Delaware agriculture
The juicy peach revived southern Delaware agriculture Michael Morgan Southern Delaware farmers were near despair. In 1838, a correspondent for the Delaware Register observed, “In a tour through Sussex County … I was grieved to … witness the manifest deterioration of the quality of the soil. "Even in my favorite hundred of Northwest Fork … I saw many fields, either abandoned altogether, or covered with meager corn stalks, many of which had not acquired sufficient strength to bear an ear....
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