Evening journal., 1888-07-16
PROJECTION IN DELAWARF.

that, while projection benefits the
manufacturers, It is Il anything det-
riment to farmers This notion is being 1
rapidly disipated, but it Is still too
common IN Delaware and in other
trucking areas for The good Of the coun
try. Independent cf che fact that many
things which are produced on the farm
are protected, nothing can be more
patent 10 the ordinary reader that rais-
ing fruit snd vegetables is not profit
able unless there is a market for II
The Manufacturers Record recently |
contained an able editorial on this
question which we reproduce. II is
as follows.
1t is a popularity OF the truck and
fruit trade that IL has neither begin
ming nor end. Before the products Of
Northern farms and orchards have been
absorbed by the markets OF the coun
try, shipments from Bermuda, Florida
and various points on the Mexican
gulf begin. The sequence OF shipments
from the market gardens Of the Gulf
states, beginning early in February
and continuing until June, is sub
stantially in the following order;
Green peas, snap or string beans,
asparagus, early cabbages, Irish pota-
toes, eweumbers, summer squashes,
egg plants, okra. While this is in
progress strawberries are forwarded in
refrigerator cars; then in their
turn cherries, peaches, early apples
and pears, and grapes and MELONS
follow. As the season advances
Charleston, Wilmington, Newberne
and all the country bordering the
Atlantic coast line, the Albermarle
counties OF North Carolina, Norfolk
and the FARMS Of Delaware and the
Eastern Shore have their innings
The furlher north from Florida the
greater the quantity and variety OF
products shipped. From Atlanta west
ward the bxlk Of these early products
Of mafket gardens and orchards goes
TO the Ohio valley and 20 the North
western states. The number Of
carloads 81 these periahabIe goods
sent North from an Southern
points between February and sugust
4 exceeds 100000, according 20 esti-
mates Obtained from many reliable
sources. while the net market value OF
these products will average at least
800 per ear (taking the highest and
the lowest prices as base Of compu
tations) making the return to the
South for It's truck and fruit business
fully $50 Geo 600. Estimating the coat
Of transportation at tho low price Of
SIS per carload. there is earned by the
express. railroad and steamship COM
psnies that do this business a total Of
81 500 0oe snnually. To show that
these figures are not too high, it may
be mentit ned that from one farm
alone in Eastern Virginia $4,000 bar
rels Of ksle have already been shipped
this sessOn, while from the same farm
$4,000 barr, Is OF Irish potatoes will be
shipped. besides other vegetables. The
earliest fruit and vegetablesare bought
only BY the wealthy, because the
prices ara too high for others, but al
the season advances and with it tn,
quantities Of products, prices fall, and
then all bat the very poor indulg,
freely in these things for which spring
weather creates a craving. Atleast 81
per cent Of everything, from Nortl
Caroline radishes and Norfolk kale Il
Southern grapes and peaches. is bough
by the families Of clerks, mechanic
and the better paid laborers.
A huckster living in a Connection
manufacturing town, who was buyin
a supply for the next day from com
miesion houses on Greenwich stree
and Park Place. in New York, sait
<'In my city there are i
least s.000 families Of well t
do mechanics, the latter earnin
from $3.50 to IS per day. These bu
all their supplies from the local grocer
who keep meats, vegetables and frui
as we'll We supply that class {
kxadc. Ny partner goes the rounC
every morning and delivers what the
ordered the day before and takes II
orders for the morrow. He keeps n
busy here buying and shipping all Il
week. It's clear cash trade for us
When asked what the trade in his lii
would amount to in his city OF IS ,0l
inhabitants il manufacturing were
cease. he replied: "It's impossible
say. Not only the families dependel
upon the wages earned in the factorie
but many more would be great
staighten d, and be ce compelled TO /
duce the st Of living by buying not
ing they could along without. had
chance to see the effects upon my ira
during ths general depression betwel
initiation and a return to specie pa
nnents, and is was 3 dissgreeable e.
perience / never wish to have 7
peated." suppose the Mills bill we
70 become a law asked the inquire
sswhat eff ct would it have upon 20
trader "Oh there's no danger
shat" said the huckster. "If thoue
it possible, we would sell out M
while everything is prosperous,
when protection goes every princiI
industry in my part Of the count
would have 10 stop, or else cut do'
wages to an extent that would kill /
trade -
Our eouthern truck farmers a
fruit growers who rely upon Northt
mnarkeHa have never been accustonl