Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1888-07-07

Opera House ct Dover, with lArgi
number Il Interested parties present
John II. HoffsokeE, OF Smyrna, wa
called 70 the chair and Colonel Wilbul
a. Bur- ite elected secretary. The OBJ
ject OF the meeting was explained BY
Manlove Hayes, the secretary of the
Delaware Railroad and president oI
State Board Of Agriculture, v ho stated
that In View OF the lmmensity Of the
crop in prospeotit wsH necessary thai
the growers and all others interested
should unite onthe same plan for mar
ketinK 1t.
Erwin F. Smith OF the Govern menl
Agricultural Department, who spent
two months last Fall In invest eating
the peach ''yelloWs," read q paper
which, 10 feet, stated that nearly all
the orchards In New Castle and Kent
Counties were affected, but very few
In Buaaex. He agreed that the disease
began In the North and travelled S1uth.
BE had not gone far enough to suggest
any remedy.
W. N. Brown, secretary, gave q de
tailed account OF the workings OF the
Delaware Fruit Exchange. This insti.
tuition has been In existence four years,
aud In that time IL has succeeded 10 a
measure in revolutionising the manner
OF marketing peaches. A resolution
asking the Commissioner of ARricul
ture TO reappolnt Mr.. Erwin II. Smith
TO continue his investigation OF the
''yslloWs" this year was adopted, As
was also resolution thanking Senat u
ELL baulsbury for the additional AppEo.
priatlon he had Inserted In the Appro.
priation bill in tho 8 nate.
The following resolutions were
adopted:
"RssOlved, That auction sales Of oon.
venient lots Of fruit that have keen
honestly reported and Legally inspected
give the best results to both buy ers and
Bellerb; aud that this method Ia most
salutary in redeemlnR the business
from Its earlier lottery like featares.
Resolved, That the transportation
lines, whioh are interested alike with
growers and dealers In profitable mar
ketlng OF all this crop, should aid this
year to emOnBtFRts that the oncominR
orchards have cause to exist, and these
lines are thus Admohished that q reduo.
tlon Of 20 per cent. in freight rates on
this product would do more to solve our
problem than solicitors OF bureaus or
seoTetaTieo Of exchanges oAnvABsing the
season through, or conventions Assem-
bled, however harmonious, systematic,
buslneos'llke or energetic.
Resolved, That co operative effort Ia
necessary TO hunt out new markets, to
perfect the connection OF railroad
routes thereto, aud to Introduce to the
Deople Of such markets the special
claims Of the peach"
Mr. ID. P. Barnard, secretary of the
Stats Agricultural Society, read the fol,
LOWING:
WHEREAS. the Delaware State
Board Ut AEIiouitute has called this
Convention for the consideration and
hNmonizlng Of all methods for the
profitable marketing OF the immense
frult crop now promised In this PENN,
sula, estimated at from 5000, 900 10 10
600, 900 baskets; and,
WHEREAS, much merit 10 found In
both the systemH Of the Delaware Fruit
Exchange and In the Fruit GroWers's
Bureau of Information aud D.strihu
ti0n, We deem It wige to employ both
Of them to dispose OF our unprecedented
crop OF fruit, AB we think they are not
antAgonistiO in their purposes. We,
therefore, emphAtioally recommend ali
fruit growers to sell as much or their
product at their home exchanges As
may be possible and to ship the surplus
beyond that amount through the Agency
Of the Bureau Of Information and Dis
trlbution until some better method
shall be devised. -
j. p. Il Polk, OF the Bureau Of Infor
nation and Distribution, stated that the
exchange, with all It's branches, could
not sell ct home over coo. 600 baskets,
AM the bureau proposed to look after
the other $500. 600 which would be
shipped over the railroad. In view of
the statement by an official OF the Penn
sylvAnia Railroad Company that cars
could not be furnished to points In
OaDBdN, Mr.. Polk offered the following,
which was also unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That The peach growers In
the Convention assembled At Dover,
Del, this 9Th day of July, 1888, respect
fully but earnestly request the Penney.
YaniA Railroad 10 announce that they
Will permit oonslgnments Of peaches In
their oars TO any Of the towns east OF
Chicago and gouth OF Montreal"
The meeting adjourned at D p. m.