The daily gazette., 1875-06-15

Annapolis passed this morning. "A
Letter from Samuel Townsend.
For the Gazette.
Mr.. EDII Some DAYS ago T com
mented Ill the GAZETTE on what seemed
to be an editorial in the Epesy Eveni,lg
on The Peach Business the Best Mode
OF Marketing" according TO the writer's
ldeas-he citing the Jerseymen as Patron
Saints in the business. My reply to that
Dosh ON peaches was pub shed in the
DELAWARE GAzET rE, Middlctoaon Tran
script. and the greater portion of it was
also ai published in the SUSSEX Journal.
Since then, this same ritter in the Fperv
Evening. on the 9th inst, has been Der.
mitted by the ee'tor to use his editorial
column again. In this last article he
says that he is "glad Mr.. Townsend's
peaches paid SO well last year, and think
he must have forgotten it when he said
to us last fal that the fruit business
was over-done on this peninsula" Now.
IN reply, you thought you would be q
l'ttle lrorical, and insinuate that L did
not tell the truth. Now, sir, 1 think
you know enough OF me to know nv
practice is to tel the truth and defy the
as / stated, one dollar per basket. and
one of my neighbors, l am informed
cleared one dollar and thirty five cents
per basket; he had only some middle va
r1etles that was not affected SO much by
the Jersey peaches. And because peach s
es from this place cleared one dollar
last year was that any reason that nv
assertion that the peach business on
tnls peninsula was over-done was not
correct? Last year all peach men know
there was only partial crop raised, and
we, near this station, had the good luck
to have more than some other places.
But, sir, think the crop this year will
prove my assertion correct--that the
peach business on this peninsula is over (
1one-for it may now be pretty certainly
counted ON that there will be Eve mil
ions OF baskets of marketable peaches,
out whether or not that many will be
hlpped is another matter, or that these
buyers that this writer talks about in
he Every Euening will ever come and
'uy his peaches and pay him forty cents
. basket whilst he sets back and receives
he money and smokes good cigars and
Irlnks good liquor, What o healthy
Torld it would be if such fellows could
ct in the shade in hot weather and re-
e1ye profitable returns. Now, sir, your
Ielghbors' orchards are as full as yours,
nd suppose all OF you to be equally
lzy and anxious to get big returns to
llow you to loaf around at your ease; 81
! these buyers were to come would not
here be a beautiful rivalry among YOU
o sell? And what do you suppose you
'ould .getP Nothing, or neat to it! / M
ave often stated that when q few OF us
roWers got line open to New York,
nd to do that we had to form an asso-
lafinv1 of -
aat an impression could better be made
n the railroad companies between this
eninsula and New York. We succeed
i, and to-day there is not another such
each line in the world; but hundreds
growers were either too mean to Join
le association or to contribute very
nall amount to help keep up expenses
nd hunt up and open new markets.
ONE of them when called on would
we'll up like toads and d-n the associa-
on; but they take good care to avail
of the facilities we have ar Z
anged for them to Jersey City, thus
sing the cars we had perfected and en-
loyIng the same commission men to
I'll for them. But the year 1875 has put
| an appearance of five millions of bas-
cts of peaches. Now how about fol-
wing to Jersey City? How much do
ou suppose they will sell for if 200, $50
: 800 car loads a day are shipped there:
1d how will Philadelphia shine with
robably thirty or forty boats day, Of
cam and sailing? Where would be
lese smart Jerseymen and orchard buy
3 if we have abont five millions of bas-
cts to sellp But right here let me tell
lis writer in the Eue1y Eveq,ing that
lese Jerseymen back of New Brunswick
} not sell their peaches in the orchard,
he represented, but they do as we do,
md their peaches to New York to be =
I'D. My commission men sell for some
these very Jerseymen the years they
ave peaches. Now / have given de-
ription Of the condition the peach
'owers of Delaware and the Eastern
hore OF Maryland find themselves in
oout the middle of June, 1875, and
eat deal of it caused by meanness and
IN comprehensivencss of great many
zach growers in not uniting with others
the same business and having the
me interest; that is, to get the most
oney out OF our peach crops. And the
st thing is, in my opinion, to find out
10 country where the frost has killed "a
e crops; that is, where there are no
,aches. The next is to establish lines
take the peaches to said places. If
iddle and southern Ohio have, as is
ported, failed in her peach crop, the
altlmOre ana OnlO hal uoaQ Company y
,uld fix up cars as the p, w. 4 b. X. Il.
have done, and then by steam
s and sailing boats large quantities of
sachos could be shipped from the Eas-
IN Shore of Maryland to Baltimpre,
Id thence by the Baltimore and Ohio
abroad shipped out West; from Will
ington and Philadelphia North, and
ON New York East. But mind, to do
is requires energy on the part of the
oper, and not as the writer in the Every
cening proposes, to set on his hinder
lrts and wait for people to come and
ly his peaches in the orchard and bring
IN the money whilst he sets and smokes
ng mines and drinks mint julips. Pro-
dence has given us great crop and if &
e are too dumb OF too lazy to properly
arket it it is our own faults. 1t is re-
,rted that there are no peaches in Ohio,
Michigan, New York and
oper Jersey. Therefore, take the whole
op of last year and the crop of this
ar, there is probably not as many
,aches us there was last year, but what
Iere are is on this peninsula. So that