The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-01-03
Peaches.

Chester county recommends ~peacl
culture in that region as a cure fol
"hard times" among farmers
Peaches are good and may be they
can be raised abundantly in southern
Chester county and may be they
can't. The peach is precarious
crop. But whether successful or moi
in producing the fruit in any appre-
cable quantities, as remedy fol
the wide spread distress in the farm
ing world, peach culture would have
no more influence on it than q DROP
of water in the Chesapeake bay
would have on the tide.
Mr.. Hickmans' picture has alto
gether to much peach blow color in
it. The peach line recedes rapidly
1t has left Cecil, Kent and is now
below Queen Anne's, and the outlook
is that erelong the peninsula between
the bays will cease to be a profitable
peach country. Peaches have never
been raised with any degree of GER
tainly this far north unless protected
from sudden and severe changes OF
climate. On the shores of the great
lakes, between the Chesapeake and
Delaware bays, near the great water
ways of Virginia and North Caro-.
lima, they are a reasonably sure
crop Seventy and eighty years ago
the peach was as abundant as apples
in the hill regions of Cecil, but thou
sands of acres of protecting forests
shielded the buds from sudden
changes from warm to cold. If the
peach is leaned upon as staff to
support farmers in Chester or any
other neighboring territory, it will
prove broken reed. Occasionally
good crop may be made in favor
ed, sheltered situation, but disap-
pointment and blasted hopes will be
reaped in tenfold measure.
The era of speculation and gam
bling greed which has been fostered
aad encouraged by the Federal
Government in many ways, will have
to be broken up before hon est in
dustry comes by its own.
Tie Press does great injustice to
the farmers of both east and west
when it says "The farmers of the
East who erst INDUCED in a clamor-
Gus demad with the granger of the
west for cheapened railroad freights,
have at last discovered they have
leveled their own citadel in helping
on a merciless competition
They complained of unjust dis
elimination. The farmers of the
west we're first robbed by the rail-
roads of their crops, by heavy local
freights, to collecting points. No
farmer could get cars to ship bushel
of grain to eastern markets. When
the railroad rings had got all the
grain into their own hands, they
shipped it east often for 10 cents a
hundred between Chicago and New
York, thus running our eastern
farmers. And worse than this,
thousands of car loads were shipped
east that were never put on the
manifests, the transportation rings
swindling both farmers and stock
holders. There were called "phan
tom trains" by the statistcans who
discovered the fraud. Our halls OF
congress were filled by the men who
were partner in this wholesale rob.
berry and the government was made
to assist the gambling and specula-
ton which has brought honest indus.
try to the brink of ruin. The farm.
ers and grangers justly complained
of this two fold robbery. But we
would not discourage any we'll direct
ed efforts in trial of new crops.
Plant peaches and try pears, but the
enemy who has stolen the wheat
grower poor, If allowed to remain
undisturbed will steal the peach and
pear grower poor also.
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