Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1872-10-19
THE FRUIT GROWERS.
Annual Meeting of tue P. L. @. A -Nuoh
Talk but Little Work-New Markets
and New Routes.

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z. Cochrane, President, in the chair, and |
Sanford 5. Murphy acting as Secretary.
After the Secretary had read the minutes |
of the last meeting, aud they were ap- |
proved by the Association. Mr.. Charles |
Brown, Chairman of the Executive Com |
mittee, read long report of the operations |
of the Committee in relation to shipping
the fruit Of the past season, and of their
exertions In behalf of low freighis, ETC.,
but only succeeded in obtaining the same
rates rs they were required to pay in 1871.
a bill, for the expenses ofthe Committee
on New Markets, sos, was allowed, after
discussion, and ordered to be paid.
4 heated and prolonged discussion now
arose as to whether the Association should
pay bill of S95 which had never been
brought before II, and of the existence Of
which the Association had no official
knowledge. Although nothing was prop
erly before the meeting, the matter (pre
sumably the bii) was laid over till the
next meeting OF the Association.
Manlovc Hays thought that the Assocla-
ton should mako some regulations regard
ing the selling of fruit to commission men,
but his suggestion was not heed d.
Freighls, and the best means of getting
fruit 10 market, were the next things to be
solved.
Mr.. Townsend thought that matter
could be disposed Of hy resolving that $50
Is sufficient for car of peaches from
Dover to Jersey City.
MIR. Todd said it was all very well TO
pass those resolutions, tut there was but
one mill to 20 10 and they had TO pay all
the toll asked OF them.
Mr. Townsend said this proposition
would 20 before another road.
IL.
| that one acre of Delaware land was worth
/ two acres of pcnnsS lyauiu soil Mr.. &.
| thought the trouble was that We had too
many peach trees. Halt Of them should
| he cut down aud the Gro p reduced, and the
/ freight between Dover and jersey city
reduced to 10 or r. cents per basket. His
wheat. raised beside his peach orchard,
/ had paid him better this year than his
peach crop. lie would say To his friends,
take up half your early fruit and throw ii
away. and do likewise with your fifteen
year-od trees.
MIR. Brown thought the number Of
peaches some day would be so large that
The Pcuusy ivanil railroad would refuse to
allow them to 20 over the Jersey branch
of It's road, and this he thought would
cause growers to find new routes for ship
ping fruit llr believed that with proper
facilities for shipping the peach growers
could lind Good markets for 5000, 900
baskets of peaches. Many people are re-
puirud tu ray three times the amount Tor
the pouchr, they consume AZ the growers
receive. If the fiuit was properly distti-
hutod over the large cities the growers
would hr bcucn ted 10y increased returns.
provided they retalled the fruit, and would
then sell much below the prices eAactcd
hy the small dealers, lie was In favor
Of appointing "a committee of three To re-
port at the hcXt meeting on new markets
and new routes.
MIR. Townsend thought that if 50 car
loads of pcachc, were sent tO the Eastern
State each day, and as many to the in-
terror of Peuusy lvauia, there would be no
trouble; but If more than one hundred
carloads a day were sent 10 New York.
the market was plutted, and the fruit had
to De sold at "a very low figure. lie then
, rritrTld trau ast Us the last legislature
5 which practically imposed On each fruit
grower who shipped a carload of peaches.
the enormous tax Of 500. This he de-
bounced as au imposition.
Gco. ". Cummings said that il was
Jersey peaches of an inferior quality that
had elutted the New York market, aud
reduced the pnce OF that fiuit TO a mini
mum. lie was in favor Of placing IA,
Il whole Penn-u'ar peach crop in the hands
- of Que man tut disposal, for there were r.
. many irresponsible commission men.
70 Mr.. TuWnscnd was favorable to the lasi
I proposition, and be thought that shed,
, ought 10 be erected at Jersey City in which
, to stow peaches, and # the prices asked
I tor the fruit could not be Ohtaine il SHOULD
b he thrown Into the North river and thu,
o. rgulat, IN, price. lie also advised til,
/, same thing To he done at Philadelphia.
.. AMI Todd said il was nonsense To np
3 point committees TO get cheap rates, as ia,
/ fruit growers were in the hands Of % cor
y pnmuon " bach nud Teen aptl, describe,
Z. as body without soul.
q Mr.. Brown took the floor again and sal,
e be- Was hopeful aud believed the frui
.c brewers on an average had received a
% uuch for their peaches during the pas
c year as they ever had lie was oppose,
lf 90 the Proposition iust advanced To nn
If the Whole crop OF peaches la the hands %
t. one man for disposal.
I'D In Justice Ia that corporation. Mr.
p 1oWnsciid said the Philadelphia, Whining
Id ton and Baltimore railroad Company ha
%. always done toward the peach grower
ir what was right
Of Gcorgc ". Cumming. who had jus
t. been thanking God for llis hountcou
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,' "lIN'V "a ''"llh'll'o "l lhIuc on ne'
f ",, ago N'" routes
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"a stilln. 500 instead OF go The rusOluto
Is wa, 'h, ""'it'0 20 amended
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