Smyrna times., 1882-07-05

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EMS bonnets and esseslooking dilapi-
dated enough.
At Clayton large crowd of negroes
got into drunken fight, and though
pistols and knives were used freely, we
have heard of no one being seriously
hurt. The day more than ever seems
to be passing from q patriotic to a
vicious observance. y
PENINSULA FRUIT GROWERS MEET
ING.-A meeting of the Peninsula
Fruit Growers will be held tomorrow
at one o'clock, in the Court House
at Dover.
The meeting should be largely atten-
ded by all fruit growers, as the objects
for which the meeting is held, if fully
attained will prove Of incalculable adj
vantage to the great fruit growing inter
ests of this Peninsula, and give fresh
hope and renewed vigOr to all of those
persons engaged in its culture. There
is no sort Of doubt but that this whole
Peninsula is peculiarly and especially
adapted to fruit culture of all varieties,
and being favored with all needed
| facilities both by water and railroad
communication to all the larger mar
kets, coupled with proper attention,
more skill and careful cultivation, there
is but little doubt that it can be made
more profitable to theagriculturist than
any other crop not accepting the great
staples OF cotton and tobacco, grown in
! our Southern States. But while all of
these advantages and facilities are APP
/ parent TO the careful observer and
ought to be fully realized bv active and
| energetic cooperation of all fruit grow
ers, yet there seems to be il want of
a proper appreciation of these advan-
tages and lack of effort to obtain the
best results from the capital, labor,
skill and industry of those engaged in
fruit culture on the Peninsula. Hitherto
growers seem to have been satisfied
with shipping their fruit to Philadel-
phia, New York and Boston, where it
usually arrived and was sold the second
or third day after it was put in the
cars, direct from the orchards: but
recently a new light Electric perhaps
seems to have daWned on the OPAQUE
vision of the fruit growers and they
now seem 10 rc wri"%liuI and fully
realize the advantages and absolute
necessity Of employing other routes
ana markets i0r the transportation anC
sale Of their fruit, than those that have
been tricd and f0ERd ICdAfiRg.
The object of the meeting tomorrow
as we understand it, is for the purpose
of considering the advantages of send
ing their fruit by the Shore RaiIrOdC
Route to Boston, instead Of by the New
York & ErW England railroad. thu
route now used, which has not proved
entirely satisfactory to the growers b,
reason of too slow time and delay il
delivery of the fruit in Boston, some
times as late as II and - o'clock in
stead of 6 or 8 in the morning as agreed
f upon, thus entailing q serious loss Il
the growers. Also to consider thu
proper time for running the train
having in view the necessity of ampl
time for the growers to gather thci
fruits and deliver it in the cars. r.
urge upon the proper railroad official
the Importance Of quicker time an
, more prompt delivery of the fruit t
the markets where it is intende
for sale To have the fruit delivers
in Boston, shipped from the Peninsui
early i'll the morning of the next da,
after shipment instead of as heretofore
the second day, SO that it may b
, there, sold i'll time for dealers to handl
and reship to all markets East. access
| BILE by railroad in Maine, New HamT
) shire, Vermont, Rhode Island an
| Massachusetts,. Owing to greater raj
. road facilities and quicker runnin
{ time made by them, this can readily b
done, so that with one eye half-cockeC
| anyone can see what extended MAJ
0 kets the growers would have for thei
7 fruits and all doubts as 10 unremuneri
a tive prices banished at once. AnOtht
0 object of the meeting, very importaI
n to every grower, is to get reductiO
/ in the freight charged on peaches t
# New York and Boston. The freigf
G charged on strawberries from Clayto
t to Boston is one dollar and twent
c cents per hundred pounds, while, Q
/. peaches it was one dollar and fort
/, cents per hundred pounds. At til
$ rate of $l.20 per 100 pounds, the freigl
O on a basket of peaches would be iu
c 3G cents while at 81 40 per 100 pount
n it is just AZ cents. Why is this difie
r ence which seems too apparently il
IS CONSTANT? The figures don't explai
It The growers believe and so feel thi
v they are entitled to at least one ha
Ie the price the fruit sells for as their in
r proportion, the other half being take
It to pay freight and other charges al
'e therefore they contend with all reasC
ID and equity in their favor that $75 fora C
rt load of peaches to New York and ST.
g to Boston, is all they can afford to pa
e taking Dover as q starting station III
)" prorate from all others along Il
Delaware railroad. The business h
been SO unremunarative, they sa
owing to high freight charges and IL
w certainty of the crop, that over n la
20 million trees have been pulled o
nt during the past five years, in Ne
\ Castle county, alone, and the groui
IN titled in corn and other farm croI
d And finally and lastly another Obie
10 of the meeting is to appoint a comm
of tee OF active earnest and determln
men who mean business all the tiI
,rt and will stick to it to confer with t
N proper railroad officials and urge up,
,g them the importance of cooperate
of with the growers and the necessity
L making such arrangement for the traI
nd portation'of the prospective large pea
nv crop as will result in remunerative
at turns to the growers for their fir
,se and make them more hopeful for {
nm future. 1t is to be hoped the meeti
Iid will be numerously attended by
X growers and that they will act prom
ly, efficiently and wisely.