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.” The death knell was ready to sound for many farms, when Philip Reybold revolutionized Delaware...
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