Smyrna times., 1882-07-05

NJ. CoLBoURN g. Co., of Seaford, call
the attention of farmers to their shell
lime.
HEADS of wheat from g. to inches
long are reported from some of our
fields
QUEER reports come. of some ladies
as well as gentlemen at the Beach on
the 4th.
WALTON, WHANN & Co., of Whining
ton, call the attention of wheat grow
ers to their Diamond Soluble Bone, the
merits of which are stated in our ad-
vertising columns.
A REPUBLICAN Club was formed in |
this town on Monday night with the |
following officers President John II.
HOffecker, Vice-President VIM. ii. |
Baggs, Secretary and Treasurer VIM.
A. FAIRIES. They have rented Cooper's |
Hall, for the campaign season.
The estimated number Of baskets of |
peaches growing on the trees in the 7
vicinity of Smyrna, is $4,000 and the
number to be shipped by railroad is
estimated to be $4,000 baskets the |
remaining 100000 baskets to be shipped |
by water and to be evaporated.
SOME people have q queer idea of
business. A farmer bought of one of
our firms a self-binding reaper, cut the
crops of two neighbors, and ON his own
until he found he could finish it with
his old one, and then sent it back to
the shop saying it wouldn't work He
perhaps didn't know he was purchas-
ing law suit as well as a reaper.
THE Gamers began to look gloomily
last week upon the tomato prospect
the coming autumn with the possibility
of not more than third of q crop, but
happily the rain yesterday has enabled
the growers to set out many. thousands
of plants to-day. 1t is very late in the
season for transplanting but favorable
weather will bring the fruit in time to
succeed the peaches.
THE MIDDLE MEN.-The man in the
city who stands between the producer
and the purchaser is the one who makes
the money, rather than the farmer. 1t
is no uncommon thing for a peach
| grower who gets rs cents q basket for
/ his choice old MiXOns or CraWfords to
/ find them selling in an uptown market
for 81. 80 per basket. The city people
say they don't know how it is, that
peaches, apples, &C., are quoted SO low
where they are grown, but when they go
in their market for them they are always
high. The rapid rise is somewhere
between the shipping station and their
market basket. This applies to all
kinds of marketable articles. Last
week peas sold on the wharf i'll Phila-
delphia at % cents per basket while in
the market stall they retailed at 20
cents per halfpeck. The city purchas-
er has to pay nearly double more on
the average for every thing he buys
than the farmer gets. The question of
how to bring the producer and the pur-
chaser nearer together, is one that has
never been solved, though it has occa-
stoned much discussion. 1t is poor
satisfaction for the man who has spent
months of anxiety and labor in pro-
ducing a thing to see another derive
more benefit in just passing it from one
hand to another. If this middle link
could be thrown out the farmer would
get more and the purchaser would
/ nave W pay lcSS.
A CORNER THAT WASN'T MADE
The farmers, notwithstanding the i'm
mense crop of wheat-the largest that
has ever been grown in the State
mostly got it cut last week. The
weather and everything favored them,
and the friction in the way of labor
was not so great as expected. The
I
: and shockers 50 per day. A good story
comes of one farmer whom the laborers
thought to force in corner" He
went to town day or two in advance
of the harvest and engaged from q
house where the "darkeys" cOngregate
the required number of binders. They
were promptly on hand at the time
: named, ate their breakfast and went
I into the field and mounted the fence
I apparently to give the reaper time tC
| get the work laid out. The farmer cut
' clear around the field, back to the start
Y ing point. He started again, supposins
/ of course they would follow, but OIL
! getting around the second time, III
n found them still on the fence. HI
said, boys isn't it time you are going
to work" 1--WE will, )" said they ''wheI
a you will agree to give us 81 a day
g "Oh! that is what you want; wei
n you Just sit there until | return" ant
= on completing his third round he drOv
5 out of the field telling the men to 81
d still, that he would soon be back. Tn
d morning was pretty we'll wasted whel
n he returned, but when he entered tn
r. field instead of drOpper" he had
st cord binder that dispensed entirel
g with the services of the men who wer
trying to " force a corner" He simpl
directed them to sit still and when h
1t passed through the gate on his way
g dinner his last admOnitiOn was to 81
k stilp' and enjoy themselves, that h
R. would not be gone long.
or PERsoNAL.-LeVinI Trying Handy ha
ct gone to Princess Anne for few day
ne visit to his uncle, Judge Irving, bJ
II. will spend his vacation mainly on I'll
w banks of the Hudson.
i'd Mrs. Ellen Allen, of Wilmington, hi
been spending the past two weeks wit
friends of this town and Dover.
r. Miss Nettie Waugh left on MOnda
to for her Virginia home to spend Il
g, Summer vacation. On Saturday h,
Vn music class presented her with han
nd some copy of Longfellow's poems.
ne Miss Lizzie Mcdowell has gone
,le Wilmington to spend the Summer v
it cation.
ut Harry Riley and Charles Rawley I
i'd. turned from Pennington Seminary la
on week.
MIS- /. i. Eisenbrey and wife of Germa
his town, Pa, are on visit to friends
in this section. Mr.. Il. lived here ov
twenty years ago marrying during
residence here Miss Fannie Clouds.
45 Rowland Cox, Esq, and family,
lal Plainfeld, N, j., are on "homt
nd visit to the family of Robt. Hill.
we Miss Minnie Clement, of Philad
phia, and William T. Clement, of NJ
York, are visiting Mrs. r. d. HoffeckC
Miss May Gilman accompanied The
in a short visit, enrOute for Milford.
J. p. r. Polk, of Wilmington, a
Arthur L. Frenzel, of Boston, are que
of d. J. Cummins.
Olin Uric, representing Philad