Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-12-30
Marketing Peaches.

sHALL THE PEACH GROWER RULE HIS INTEREST,
OR THE HUCKsTkRs PA PLAIN STATEMENT OF
THE CAsE-PUBLIo MEETING TO CONSIDER THE
MATTER.
Sam Townsend has called meeting Of peach
growers at Middletown, upon his own RESPONSE
bility, for the 4th of January, the object OF
which meeting is to consider new routes for
shipment and to devise some means whereby
the growers may free themselves from carriage
charges at Jersey City and the imposltions OF
middle men. Mr.. 7. says
Peach growing has assumed enormous pro-
portions, and without cheaper freights and bet
ter management and new markets, this interest
is likely to die out as fast as 1t grew up. In the
first few years Of this business, all that some per-
sons weuld do was to plant peach trees and grow
peaches and follow the pioneers in the business
to Jersey City, until that great market has brok-
en- down.
New markets should be opened to relieve Jer-
| sey City 30 that the growers would not be at
| the mercy OF the buyers; the four cent carriage
| on all peaches sold at Jersey City should be
paid by the purchaser, as IL was agreed three
Years ago to have been done. Lines should be
| opened from Jersey City acrosst the North River,
| East other lines to the Middle, North and West
Of Pennsylvania and New York and sheds
| should be built at Broad and Prime, Philadelphia,
| by the r. II, Co, and the market for peaches
/ shipped by railroad to Philadelphia should be
| made at Broad and Prime, and thereby save the
carriage of four and five cents per basket to
| haul them to the Delaware Front to be sold, and
| then hauled back, (or the greater portion Of
| them) as one half OF the population OF Phila-
| delphia lives west of 10th street, and, besides,
| at Broad and Prime there is connection with the
| Pennsylvania railroads.
This carriage at Jersey City and Broad and
| Prime is a robbery on the peach groweri and,
| further, our growers should not be 30 easily
humbugged and deluded by the travelling drum
mers of New York. AS soon as the weather gets
warm these men appear all but in legions, ma
king all kinds Of promises to inexperienced peach
growers. thus keeping them from closer alli-
ance with older and more experienced growers,
and at the end of the season the cry ID they have
been cheated and robbed. Now, this thing will
happen as long as they put confidence in these
drummers.
Another evil in the business is these three per
cent. shippers that are hired by the New York
commission men to give them high sounding
name to induce growers to ship to them. All
shippers that ship to these men pay ID per cent.
| for selling; 10 per cent to the commission man,
| and cents further to him to pay his cents q
basket country agent, then cents to the COM
mission man for his teams to haul them. There
FORE il peaches sell in Jersey City for $l.OO the
charges are 10 cents for commission in New
York, cents to pay his country agent, and
cents for his Teams making II cents out OF the
dollar II the peaches sell for so cents at Jersey
City, 10 per cent % cents) cents per basket te
country agent and cents per basket for haul
, ing, makes IL cents out of 30, leaving 3S cents
Then, say 20 cents freight, and you have left II
cents per basket Now, lop off cents in the
freight, for hauling, and to the country agent
aud you have a net saving Of 13 cents, and tina
added to the IS cents makes 81 cents clear TO
your peaches il they sell at 30 cents; 5319 cent
clear if they sell for rs cents and 76 cents clea
if they sell for $1.O0 per basket
II the same state of things is allowed to go OF
as it did at Jersey City in 1871 and 1872, you vii
/ cease to see buyers of peaches come among yol
t at the shipping stations, for the simple reasol
that they can, at your crushed market at Jerse
i City, buy them at much better advantage tina
t here where they are grown but Il you selee
a new markets. guarantee new lines C6 cars will d
q to start a line anywhsre) you will get clear Q
o imposition, and obtain fair prices for your fru
8 both at home and in the markets you ship t
s The plain simple question is narrowed down
n this Shall the peach grower rule his interest
a or will he let the hucksters rule him, and us
him as a slave to their interest | hope no
It Therefore come to the meeting at Middletown o
3 the 4th of January and help inaugura.e polio
that will protect the peach grower against sharE
Q ers and travelling soft sawder drumming hucl
10 sters