Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1873-07-25
FARM AND FIRESIDE
Marketing Fruits
ADVERTISING RATES.

ported in the "Prairie Farmer" afforded
some vigorous statements relative to he loss
by shipshod management. After recon-
mendations by some that canning establish
ments be erected for disposing of the great
quantities of surplus fruit which could not
be sold, DR.. Hull, who is we'll known for
Sthe excellence of his crops through good
culture, and who always obtains high prices
remarked
II have figured on canning peaches,
and am convinced that at present prices you
cannot buy peaches at a dollar bushel and
can them with any profit Now, I have a
better plan to propose than canning peaches,
or drying peaches, that is, don't raise any
more poor fruit, to get rid of which you all
have to 60 to the expense of putting up
canning or drying establishments. If you
can't raise peaches which will be worth
more than dollar bushel, cut your trees
down and put in something that you can
make pay you Unless you mean to take
enough pains to raise the best peaches, and
only the best peaches - large. high.col.
ored, without worms-theu the most scien-
ti6c course left for you is to grub the trees
up. call those second grade fruit men
who only saw their peach trees back. con-
tented to 60 OF in the old haphazard way,
raising peaches every year at a loss Make
up your minds to raise the finest fruit or
else 60 out of the business altogether
Don't food the market any longer with
worthless fruit, which will not pay the cost Of
handling. and break down the price of good
fruit Some of our fruit-growers don't even
have enough good peaches to line all the
cracks of their boxes
To these remarks, Mr. Challacombe ex
claimed THAT'S me have never had
enough to 60 all the way round, and am
going to give it up. know how to raise
wheat and corn, and hogs, and potatoes,
too. when the bugs will let me alone, but |
always expect to have two worms to every
peach. I went to Dr. HulPs last summer,
and never found the first worm in any of
his peaches
Mr. Hllard objected that, if all took
DR.. HuIl's advice, we should soon have an
over supply of good, high priced fruit, and
the evil would be as bad as before but
Mr. Miller thought there was not the slight
est danger on that score, as but very few
could ever be found who would take the
necessary pains.
The discussion continued as follows:
M'Pike said: Zone thing more. l am con
WINGED there is soms double handed dealing
on the part of our commission men.
think it runs after this fashion Here is q
large commission house receiving fruit by
| the car load, there store 80 filed up with
boxes hat you have to mount four story
I ladder to axe them down They are selling
By the block and making quick sales. The
largest purchaser is firm across the street
who sell more leisurely they buy your
peaches and mine Of ten mrs q box. and
sell those same peaches at fry cents a box.
Now what cha ge is that your commission
house, not satisfied with their regular ten
per cent commission on cheating you, is
quietly interested in that store on the other
de OF the street they make one cent
box as their commission for selling, and
then forty cents box through their confed-
crate.
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to the honesty Of Chicago commission men.
[ have always beer fairly dealt by
Barler-I have always been satisfied
with my dealings in Chicago
Hull-Les US hear both sides in this
matter. What right has any one to expect
fair dealing from another, unless be himself
deals fairly You. put up a box of peaches;
it looks fuely every crack is lined with
handsome peaches you send them to COM
mission man to sell for you You have
cheated 10 putting up those peaches they
are not what they seem to be, and now you
want your commission man to cheat his
customers, and still expect him to be honest
to you,
l}arler Now, suppose you had two
peaches, one large and the other poor.
which would you put on the top Of the
basket
Hull say, make the top of your bas-
ket exactly what the rest is /; if the whole
basket is filled with small peaches, by all
means put small peaches on top if with
fine peaches, put fine ones on top. Be
strictly honest in packing My plan has
been this: sorted all my peaches tho
best were packed ia egg boxes, each peach
in separate compartment the next best in
baskets with my name on the cover, and the
last in baskets with only my number on
them. [ have had no trouble in selling my
crop of peaches at an average of three dol
lars bushel through the season, and the
more | have had, the better they have
sold
Stewart We need study the demands OF the
market, raise the kind of fruit that will sell,
and then see to it that we send it to market
in an attractive shape. 10 shipping black
berries last season, I took especial care to
have all the boxes we'll filed with no soft
berries, each box covered with fresh leaves
so as to preserve the freshness of the fruit,
and the result was that my cases were all
sold before their arrival, and it paid me
we'll.
KEEPING HoNEY.-T keep honey all the
year round. let it run through a sieve to
separate it from particles of wax, then boil
it gently in an earthen vessel, skim off the
foam which gathers on top, and cool it 10
jars. After covering these tightly, set
them away in cool cellar.
! KNOX GINGER CAKES. Five cups of
flour, four eggs. one cup Of sugar, one Of
butter, one of sour milk, half cup of molas.
SEES, one tablespoonful of soda. Roll out
and bake