Middletown transcript., 1875-06-05

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the Railroad Company reduce freight
said be, .1et as all say nothing unit
eur, peaches are ripe, and then tell th' i
company we will not ship q basket un
less they carry them at a price dictated
| by us i told him Thought that ex
! pertinent would be a little ike the fell
fellow that cut off his, nose to spite his
face. We have in this peach business
a lot of visionary gentry who would
like large profits with very little labor
or trouble for themselves, and they
often tender their advice very rgratuit-
ously. We would be a pretty set Of
fools to raise peaches and let set ol
men buy them at their own prices,
which they would do five set ourselves
1 down and depended on men coming in
July to buy, No. sir; I do not be-
lieve in any such doctrine. We Dela-
ware and Maryland peach growers have
beat the Jerseymen in the production
of good peaches, in better and cheaper
baskets, and better ventilated cars to
carry them to market. and. shortened
the time Of getting peaches into New
York markets from Delaware and the
Eastern Shore Of Maryland to the time
it takes Jersey peaches to get into mar
ket until peach. raising in Jersey lis
played out, except small district
northwest of New Brunswick, and there
they only succeed about once in three
or four years; last, year they had a
crop, and one full crop on the Jersey
trees exhaust them so that afterwards
they bear a few premature peaches and
then die. What we need for Delaware
and Maryland is plenty of markets.
Open up routes to other places beyond
New York, and also to northern PENN
sylvania and western New York and
ship our peaches to all those markets;
and also ship with the first peaches our
young, sharp men to stay and attend
to the selling Of the peaches during the
peach season, so that the Srowsn and
shipper will getall they sell for. clear
Of freight and commission There is 4
new scheme that certain New York and
Philadelphia commission men are try
ing to fasten on tho peach grower, and
there is q set Of men in Delaware who
as general thing are out Of business /;
these commission men Of Philadelphia
and New York take hold Of these men,
and say to them, if you will blow and,
brag Oh our firm we will give you three
per cent. for all you get shipped % rs"
These men in Delaware and Maryland |
then 60 around to the grower and ship
per armed with cards and stencil plates
and tell the grower that Mr.. So-and so |
is as rich as Cresus. and that if you
will only ship to them you will get big
prices, that yea have been cheated all
your life, that they have been all but
shedding tears for you for some time,
but your troubles will be over and you
will be rich man at the end of the
season if you will only accept this stem
cilsplate and cards and ship to their ad-
dress. The season over, the grower
inds that he has been paying extra
three per cent to fellow at home for
= recommendation to some com mission
man in New York OF, Philadelphia to
'ake the balance Of his hide of. There,
fore l say to peach growers and ship
pers, beware of country or home three
per cent. recommenders; send your
sons and others you have confidence in
% the head Of the market to help sell
md see what your fruit sells for. Then
you will get what your fruit sells for
'lear. and you will BY that means bring
lp and learn the young men Of Della
ware and Maryland to be good sharp
alesmen for the States they go from,
md besides it is more honorable than
o be braggers for men whom they often
upposs are good honest men and re-
ommend them as such, and at the end /
f the season in many cases they are
'lamvd BY their old friends atyhome
rho through them have been robbed by
hess commission men Of New York and
'hilsdslphia. All north and east Of
he Allegheny mountains is, our legiti-
rate market for the peaches Of this
'eninsula, and We can beat any other
pot in North America raising peaches,
re are more certain Of crops and grow
etter peaches. Cheap facilities and
ew markets and our men to 60 and !
Ill or. help sell them is all we need
q need no lessons from Jsrseymen or b
ther outsiders. p:.sa53a sa.asssa b
SAMUEL TOWNSEND. d
Townsend, Del, May II, 1875. t
2, S.-With regard to the prices
nat peaches cleared last year in New Y
ork, after deducting freight and COM q
ission, mine cleared me 81 per basket, a
od | have neighbor who had some +
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