Milford chronicle., 1883-01-12
POuOSl GRANGE.

Pomona Grange met with Fruitland at Cam
den on Jan. 4th 1888 Worthy Master, C. Bar
ker in the chair.
f. H. Bancroft said in his welcoming address
that it behooved the farmers to urge onr Legis-
lature to give US some additional regulation OF
freight tariffs on lines of transportation. II it is
not possible Tor us to receive Railroad Commits
s;oners, let them order a full schedule of freight
rates to be posted in each freight depot, that
may not discriminate between shippers, or mill
tate against one location to the building up Of an
other.
B. Hydorn, in response to the address Of vel
come. took occasion TO accord heartily with the
expressed sentiments OF a necessity for some reg.
ulatlon Of ireghts.
During the afternoon session B. HydOm
offered tAe following resolution.
Res0lUed.-That it is the sense Of this meeting
that the practice of Commission Merchants
speeHlating on goods consigned TO them is al
ways to the detriment Of the producer or manu-
faeturer, and that patrons are cautioned against
consigning to houses guilty Of such practices.
Adopted alter an earnest discussion that exhibi-
ted much cause in the lower counties for such
action.
By resolution, J. G. Brown was requested to
state what he considered the principal mistake
made in shipping fruit at our stations and tho
principal difficulties met by the grower ire --
ping. u ship
He said that growers were themselvosto F'ame
for much of the difficulty. He had beed ih.
formed that one grower had shipped on one day
TO as MANY as twenty commission men in one
city, thus the shipper had done his best to set
twenty houses at work to break the market on
his sole shipments. Agents at the depot were
another difficulty. On one day these worked on
commission and on another day, without knowl-
edge of growers, they would be spectators
Thus their representations were seldom TO be
trusted. Combination was the remedy. T.. H.
Bancroft offered the following:
Resolued, That the Fruit Exchange suggested
BY Worthy Master Rosa is feasible, and would be
beneficial to Fruit Growers and Fruit Packers.
This was adopted after discussion that brought
out the difficulties to be overcome, especially IN
the management OF unmanipulated fruits.
A committee of five members was constituted
to see what might be done to overcome the dim
cuties IN way of shipping fruit.
Messrs. E. H. Bancroft, S. B. Cooper, John }
Rosa, Robert C. Barker and Jacob G. Brown
were nsmed as such committee with instructions
to report at April meeting.
By request Mr. ]. G. Brown spoke of reiriSer
ator cars, a method of Transportation that he wa
very favorable to.
S B. Cooper gave fatterins report OF the
Delaware Grange Mutual Fire Insurance Com
pany. Its gradual and satisfactory growth is al
assurance that it cOmmends itself to all farmers
Mr.W. R. Cahoon offered the following;
WHEREAS, at the recent meeting Of the Stat
Grange, the newly elected Worthy Master anC
Past Worthy Master, were appointed commit
tee to prepare and circulate petitions, and SCI
that a proper bill was presented to the Legisla
ture for the appointment of commissioner
Agriculture for the State Of Delaware, therefor
Pesoloed, That this Pomona Grange recon-
mend tothe Subordinate Oranges connected will
it. active vigilance towards carrying out the ap
pointment Of such Commissioner, and that sai'
Commissioner be also Commissioner Of lmmigra
ton. Adopted.
The 9Th Degree was conferred upon sevel
members.
Milford was named as the place for the Apr
meeting.