The daily gazette., 1879-07-19

trolIed the Philadelphia market, struck
ct me with their whole force, 80 dis
continued for . while, to breathe, the
at thez same time telling this combina-
tion thatI would have their hides on the
fence besore l was done with them. l
Talked around and found that the sales
men sent up by the peach growers in
Delaware and Maryland and living
along the water who shipped by boats,
were dead against the railroad, and were
lend all their aid to try to break us
down /; and the. route from Phila-
delphia to New York was held
by the old Camden g. Amboy
kailroad Company, by the railroad TO
wharf, and then by reshipment and boat
to New York, also the Camden Il Am
boy Railroad to New Brunswick but
would not carry peaches that way be-
cause another company owned the rail-
road from that place to New York. As
l stated, the road from New Brunswick
70 New York was owned by a separate
company and managed by Walcott Jack
son. In,the year 1868 the Adams Ex-
press Company succeeded in arranging
to 60 to New York by all rail, uia New
Brunswick, but the Camden & Amboy
and the hucksters still kept us back.
went to Philadelphia 10 see Mr.. FELTON,,
just before peach gathering, about the
New Y ork, and he told me the Adams
Express Company had broken through
to Jersey City, aud for me to 60 right
down to the Office, on Chestnut street,
and see Col. Bingham. told him l did
not know Col. Bingham. Mr.. FELTON,
sat right down and wrote me letter to
Col. Bingham, and went and arranged
for car day by express. There were
four express cars on passenger trains,
and had one of them. 1t paid me
heavily, and / began TO make the hucks-
ter monopoly If buy rs .quirm. asked
them how they liked it, and if they
thought '.scared worth cent. These
four cars daily this year will sicken your
huckster monopoly that has controlled
Philadelphia, and next year Philade[
phia will cast you out as the whale did
Jonah. You will be: down the Della
ware Railroad buying peaches" Next
year, 1854, We, the peach growers along
the Delaware Railroad, arranged a
through line after the committee-Dr.
AsiokVACJS 4Ouu, 1hOOCiL Nuu-
Minis and myself-went 10 Newark, New
Jersey, and personally called upon WAL
colt Jackson, and arranged with him
for his road, and having then all but
the middle link from Philadelphia to
New Brunswick, we with the P. w. g.
b. r. r., President, Mr.. FELTON,, helped
to force our way through. The recital
of all the negotiating aud talk would fill
book. Eaough to say, however, that
the 1854 through arrangement struck
CONSERVATION amopg the hucksters that
controlled Philadelphia aid drove them
out and broke them down. They had
often braj ed 10 me and taunted me as
far as they dared, that they bad driven
Reybold out and they would drive me
out too, and all the other Delaware
growers along the line of the Delaware
Railroad. But have lived to see these
peach sharks dispersed might all but
say TO the ends Of the earth, for one,
their leader, went to France, and when
he ca me back he said he would not 60
into the business again. Markets have
since been opened to Boston, Buffalo,
Chicago and other places. shipped
the first through car load Of peaches
from Delaware to Chicago, also the frs.
to Buffalo aud to Pittsburgh. think,
however, the peach business on the
Peninsula has grown to be great busi-
ness. Some districts may fail while
others may be full, aud the next year
this be reversed. New Jersev, as peach
growing place, went out and could moi
compile. The writer in the EnQuiI er is il
great error wi en- he state, the peach am
lip c led BY the basket, and the pickers, il
seasons .-of heavy crops, come up from
the lower part of the Peninsula.
Not so, they come ffom northern large
cities and are white people, mechanics
and workingmen out Of employment,-
called tramps. have had many smart,
intelligent men among them,-French,
English and Latin scholars, and they
oIten say that whilst the rich 60 to
Saratoga, Newport and Cape May, they
come to pick peaches, camp out and cook
for themselves In hot weather for health
and recreation, and 60 home to the cities
in the Fail with better health than the
rich, who have been froliciug among piles
fmoney,-and l guess they are hall
right. =
In planting out a peach orchard for
market growing 1t is not necessary to
have such great Dumber of varieties
eight or ten are enough. You want tue
best bearers and largest peaches aud as
there are not very large peaches at first,
nor can there be, the old early Troth,'
If pure is the first good shipping peach
that is'iipe. The "Hale's Early" was a
fraud the Plowden is the same peach
under another name, Il have tested that.
The Beatrice is diminutive humbug; the
Mountain Rose is really an old time
Early York. The Early Ysrk in this re-
gion was spoiled by budding it with the
Honest John, which was a red peach and
larger than the Early York and half
cling. There are few Early York peaches
planted nowadays from this reason.
They are large, tender and juicy
peach and do not carry well. Next in
ripening is the Early Crawford and if
pure, is a good sized red, and yell
low juicy peach puffed up. The
Northern peach called the Foster is
nearly q pure old Crawford's Early and
/ often plant them now for that variety.
The next peach Is the Reeves FavOrite,
o red aud yellow peach, large, juicy and
sweet. They always mature, no odds
how full the tree is. These peaches origi-
mated in the first largest orchards of the
Reeves and Ridgeways' near Delaware
City and takes it's name from Mr.. Reeves
one of the owners of said orchard. The
next Is Old Nixon, which Is an old and
and good bearer. No peach carries as
well as it does. For 400 baskets of about
an equal proportion of the Reeves and
Old Nixon. once IN New York got