Middletown transcript., 1871-09-02
FIR tie ASaiieowH Transcript.
PEACH rs AND PEACH DusaN Ess.

This year has proved. what l forcsaw
three or four years ago, that one Of two
things must be donc-cithcr stop planting
peach trees, or make arrangements to cross
car loads Of peaches over from Jersey City
to connecting railroads beyond New York,
for the time would come, and has come,
aud did in 1869. but worse this year. that
too n,nny peaches center or stop there. II
has now become what Philadelphia was
ten years ngo. SO many peaches stop
there thst the seller has but little TO say,
the buyer all, and dictates his own terms,
as was proven last year. A committee Of
threo--Chnrles Brown, llora,io Willetts
aud mysclf-was sent from the Peninsula
Association TO New York to do away with
the hauling Of peaches. Mt four cents u
basket expense to the Delaware shippers,
after they were sold at Jersey City. The
committee met the commission men aud
arranged that thereafter all snlcs Of peach
cs at Jersey City should be final, and clear
from all cartugc or expense from the mo-
mcnt Of sale. a few statesmen who did
not attend said meeting Of the committee.
set themselves against the arrangement We
had made, and made false representations
to few growers and shippers. particular
ly one in Smyrna. and he, 30 this sales
could sell us he pleased. This salesman
ran around the market, aud no doubt he
and others put the Eastern shippers. when
they arrived in New York, up to not pay
ing this four cent carriage. They bough,
peaches, then held back paying, unless the
four cents were deducted. My son and
his partners, who sold for me. collected
full price for first shipment to Jersey Ci.
,y; or in other words, made the persons
they sold to pay their own carriage. bu,
others cavcd in and did not pretend TO
carry out the agreement My salrsricn
wrote to know what they must do. | wrote
back to do as others, that no one house
could carry out n reform measure without
honest corporation of ether growers and
shippers. tha, il Delaware growers and
shippers had no better sense ,han TO haul
other peoples peaches about n, their own
expense, we must submit, until reason
aud common sense prevailed, aud other
arrangements be made. Now this is
four cen, robbery acqucseed in which
ough; not TO have been; but sometimes
accumulated wrongs move the dullcst in
tcllccts TO thinning. and thereby bring on
revolution. and we nced that now in the
peach business. and | have only been
waiting for year like the prcscn, - open
the eyes of the -hort-sightcd.
Some Delaware shippers ven, ihcir
spleen on the salcsmcn iu New York, just
as they did ten years ago on the fhiladel-
phia statesmen Then 50 many peaches
were sent to philadcl phia that it was not
selling. but to see who would take them
on their own terms then, after that, fire.
qucn,ly come back on the seller aud tell
him he must knock down. that they. the
buyer, as lie was called, did not do 80 well
as he expected, aud for fear this takor of
peaches would take Of some other person,
this styled salesman would take oil the
price whatever this peach lakcr demanded.
Aud now it is getting nearly or quite us
bad ut Jersey City. from the fac, that
more peaches nrc suffered 10 stop there
than ever ought to, and more than ever
contemplated when frs, worked SO hard
to get by Philadelphia to Jersey City. |
expected within three or four years after
VIC got to Jersey City TO have passed New
York with part Of the crop. and not, as
has been done this year, concentrate twice
as many peaches at Jersey City us ever
ough, to stop there for twenty or thirty
years to come. The New York salcsmcn
have done all they could. with some ex-
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the quantity OF peaches aud the disadvan.
tagc they labored under, fer they have.
when the train. reached lT5 to 200 cars
per day, been wholly at the mercy Of these
shippers beyond New York, sci Of 10.
Gusts that come from all over the Eastern
States and Canada--ihc men who refuse
to pay for hauling their peaches after they
buy them nt Jersey City, but make the
Del. and Md. growers aud shippers do i,
for them.
Now, ! have shown the error of conccn.
trating too many peaches ut Jersey Cit,
and the i'll effects for the last three years
and every grower may calculate the cv
TO incrensc and grow worse aud worse ey,
cry year, as the crop is likely to Increase
judging from the trees already planted
unless a portion be cut down. Onr sys
tenn Of marketing must be improred or II,
trees cm dorm. This, think you all vii
admit. Now for the remedy, and the way
to corrcc, the impositions prac,iccd on III,
peach business. II is fully proved thu
this Peninsula does, and can grow ,h,
finest peaches, and can to mn unlimited
amount II properly marketed. they pa,
better than any other crop We can grow
therefore common sense would seem I,
dictate thnt our common interest shoult
throw us together. so We can ward of .y
; cry unjust imposition put on the peach bu
sincss. First, elect men to our Lcgisla
ture who will repeal the tax layed on ,h,
Del. II. X. aud make ii as the originator
intended it-a free hiyhnay to take on
products to market. II State tax be re
quircd. lay il fairly and justly upon al
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