The daily gazette., 1875-06-21
FIRST EDITION
The Peach Crop.

ton at Middietown-El,ornious Crop
Estsmatca---Arraagements for Opening
AIcD Markets.
Saturday afternoon an adjourned
meeting of the Peninsular Fruit Grow
ers' Association was held at Middle
town, for the purpose of making ar
rangements TO open new markets for
the reception OF the coming peach
crop.
There now remains not doubt but
that the peach crop Of the present. sea-
son will be the largest ever raised on
the Peninsula.
The p, w. & y. Il, Il. Co., calculate
that about 100000 baskets will be
shipped over their road alone, and have
made arrangements to transport this
amount. From Middletown station
(whcrc one grower alone, Serack Il.
Shallcross will shipabout 100, 900 basll-
ets) tho shipments arc estimated at
100000 baskets; from Mount Pleasant,
100000; Dow +. 1900; andjlrom the
Kent County and Queen Anne'a and
Kent County Railroads Cumming
through the Eastern Maryland peach
distriCt) 100000 baskets, Continue
this estimate, in the same proportion,
down the Delaware railroad, u nd the
number Of baskets which will be slip
ped to New York gaa the Junction g
Breakwatcr Railroad and the Old Do
mnion steamships, and the 2,000 600
baskets which will be sent to Philadel-
plia and Baltimore by water, and it
will be seen that the peach crop of the
Peninsula, the present season, will
closely approximate the immense mum.
Der of 10000, 600 baskets,
With such an extensive crop on
hand, the growers fad it IN imperative
necessity To open new markets, in order
to prevent the fruit from becoming
drug and a dead loss. Therefore
special meeting of the Association was
called to discuss this important sub,
jeot
The meeting was organized by the
election of Geo. Lockwood president
and j, Thos, Budd Secretary.
Governor Cochran, who had issued
the call for the convention, stated that
The growers present, representing near
ly two millions of baskets, had been
called to make arrangements 10 ship to
points in the interior of Pennsylvania
and New York and to Boston, In re-
gard TO the latter route report was
made to the convention that arrange
mcnts via the North Pennsylvania,
the Lchigll Valley and other roads
route could be opened to Binghamton
and thence to Albany, from which
point easy communication to Boston
could he lad. The cost per basket by
the route would he forty cents, and the
fruit would be delivered in Boston at
O'Clock on the following day, il
shipped at o'clock p NJ. The con
vcntioh decided thst such IL route was
desirable, and the growers signified
their intention to ship their fruit over
it, Governor Cochran submitted a
schedule of rates and time from the
Philadelphia and Reading and the
Lehigh Valley roads, making a mater
al reduction in both time and rates.
Every facility, in the shape of ex-
cellent cars, quick time and smooth
roads, was guaranteed by the compan-
ice. Hon. Benjamin T. Biggs stated
that arrangements had been made to
run about ten cars day to Pittsburg,
Harrisburg, Reading and other points
IN pennsylvania, and number of
growers, upon resolution of the con-
ycntion. agreed to ship car each per
day to the cities named, making an
aggregate of 10000 baskets per day to
be shipped to these cities alone.
The meeting, after the appointment
OF a committee to represent them in
New York and elsewhere, adjourned
to meet at the same place ON Saturday
next when other shipping points will
be arranged for and a fuller list of
shippers be made. The results of this
convention are Important. The open
ing of this long-desiredlo o lte to Boston
will Tighten the New York market
Ssensibly, and tho arrangement, on so
large scale as Is proposed, of routes
to the interior of New York and Penn.
ssylvania will make large difference
III tic price Of fruit,
a startling experiment, which, if
successful, will rcvolutionizc the peach
business, is TO be made in Middletown
the coming summer. A gentleman
from New York, IL. Killer, Esq, who
has had largo experience in the ship
ment, in cold.air tanks, of meat from
Texas to New York and Liverpool,
proposed at cost OF $25, 900 10 erect
a mammoth peach Gtore-housc upon
thc same plan, keeping the tenipera-
turc ut one degree above the freezing
point, and claims that he can keep the
1rnit by means Of this cold-air current
1or any length OF time, from ono day
10 SIX months. Many of the growers
have engaged to meet blm half way,
and the erection of the necessary build
lngs will be commenced Immediately
and be completed by tho 10th of Au-
gust The object OF the storage will
be TO hold the fruit until u good price
can be obtained, and then ship to
desirable points. II is claimed that in
smaller fruits andpcars the experiment
has proved very successful, and the