Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-06-11
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BditOr Gazette d. J0urRak. The Delaware
Fruit Exchange III now nm established
fact, notwithstanding that it was opposed
by some of whom we're supposed to be the
most intelligent and extensive fruit
growers of the State. It was by these
persons ridiculed, and they tried all they
| possibly knew to defeat the measure
which has since proved the wisdom of the
projectors, and, although in operation
only one season, proved beyond doubt
that it has done more for the fruit growers
| of Delaware than all the many meetings
of the Peninsular Peach Growers Asso-
citation of the last 20 years. The conf
dence in its effective work is such that
among its now active working friends
may be found some of its former
most bitter opponents. It has
been said that even the persons
who predicted it failure and had so
little confidence in it that they would
rather invest their capital in the ''raising
of Sussex bulls" now look upon it with
respect, Only for the untiring efforts of
few men who stood all the ridicule and
abuse that could be heaped upon them
il never would have been made success.
They had confidence in the enterprise and
stuck to 1t with the tenacity that the leach
does to the small boys leg while wading
in the pond stocked with them. They
travelled over many of our states, opened
new markets, prevailed upon the people
of the far off states TO visit our Peninsula
during the peach season. At the present
time nearly every peach grower has shown
his confidence in the matter by subscrib-
ing to pay certain amount upon every
basket of peaches sold during the season
whether sold through the exchange or
not. The shipping point at Wyoming
shipped last year over 100000 baskets
and the fruit growers of that locality took
home the money for each wagon load de-
ivered at that point and obtained u
higher price for their fruit than was ever
before obtained. There were no car loads
of fruit shipped from that point and sent
to glutted market to be sold for less
than the freight and expenses as was SD
frequently done under the old regime.
Not only Ind they under the old S. stem
which WINS almost giving their fruit away
but they had to send their checks TO pny
the expenses incurred. The writer has
been told by several of the leading peach
growers of the vicinity of Wyoming that
they expect to ship the present season
over 100000 baskets from that point. So
successful has it been there that growers
ID miles away propose to haul their fruit
to that point to find II market.
Now, Mr.. Editor, whit want still fur.
ther to inform the peach growers OF this
Peninsula about is thut the neiaWnr,
Fruit Exchange is the outgrowth o. tina,
much-ridiculed organization commonly
known as Changers. Any one who visited
the meeting held at Dover less than three
years since will well recollect how many
of the would-be aristocratic fruit growers
at that time did all that lay in their power
to stamp out this last vestige of life from
the enterprise. But the men who
were at the bottom of that en-
terprise are not made of that
kind of material to be bluffed by
any such methods as were adopted by its
opponents ON the occasion referred to.
They are engaged in a good work-the
regeneration and advancement of the
greatest productive industry of this
peninsula, agriculture. The word fail
has been obliterated from their diction-
aries. They are determined to go ON
until the agriculturists of Delaware stand
upon as high a business plane as any
| other industry in the State.
A PATRON OF HUsBANDRY.