Milford chronicle., 1891-11-13
Farmers IN Convention.


The regular monthly meeting Of the
Kent c iunty Farmers Institute was hela
in Gra ee Hall, FELTON,, on "Wednesday
afternC Of this Week and was one
the iare st atteudances since the orgaul- |
zation the institute. Thomas B. Oour
sew. pr sideiit of the institute presided /
aud w ley Webb took his place az tne
table secretary. The meeu'g was
called order promptly at m Win /
the 70 owing gentlemen among tnose
preseni
T. /. Coursey, Maulove Hayes ]. a. |
Fulton. b. +. b. Woodall, Joseph Friedel' |
A. T. Neale. n T. Underwo d, W. r. /
Killen. Andrew Fl olden, T. +. Scabinger |
II d. Learned, Benjamin Goodeni Chas' |
Bastiau. T. T lakes, w. T Case, Riley |
Melvin. I. G. Brown, G. w Killen, J !
B. Connor. Daniel Murray, Z. II. Sauis-
bury. w. i. Davis, George NJ. Bastian,
S. ii Derby, A K Cole, NJ ajor Haruug'
ton, Z. II Bancroft, E. L Martin, Rev.
T. II. Havues, Mrs. S. J.. Peck and Mrs
Smith
Mt. Underwood was enrolled as a
new member, and routine business was
dispensed with after which Mauloye
HAYES was introduced and opened the
principle subject before the meeting, VIZ
''The New Market, Train" recently Pnt
on bv the Pennsylvania Railroad Coni-
2any over their Delaware DIVISION ior
The accommodation Of the agricuiturists
and farmers generally along the line
The speaker opened his remarks by re-
minding those present that the peach IN
dustry had been depended upon and relied
uDon bv the farmer as the principle
source Of revenue and profit in the years
zone bv but it can no longer be relied
upon as a certainty as the past few years
Wal show And It will not be long be
fore this Industry will be completely
wiped off this peninsula by the yeliows.
In New Castle county it has already
rlaved hav, G with the orchards and III
mapv instances did so much damage that
tbe trees all had to be taken up. This
dread disease is rapidly working its way
down the State, aud i'll a very Jew years
what is now known as the peach belt
will be almcst entirely wiped out Ihe
majority If the farmers now recognize
this fact, as all the researches ana inyes-
LEGATIONS ofscientific men have failed to
find cure for the malady, for such II
really is.
Now the thing for the farmers OF Della
ware to do, is to look around Tor some
thing to take the place Of the peach. The
railroad company has taken the first step
in this direction by putting on this mar
ket train and endeavoring thereby to ell
courage trucking in this State. lhey
not only have the best Of service attached
to this train in the way OF rapid trans
portation but furnish good market Tor
tue produce carried over the road at the
new Thirtieth street market house re-
Gently put mp at the cost Of one anc one
half million OF dollars by a stock conf
pany, The railroad company having
taken the first step, let the farmer follow
by giving their patronage aud supporting
the project as far as now lies i'll their
power, select some profitable branch OF
this WORK cf trucking or in other words
decide Oh some varieties OF vegetables 10
,,l,S'g on them, select good seed, and be
careful that you get good ones as more
failures have been caused by the selection
OF bad seed than from any other cause.
This done prepare well yonr ground.
For early vegetables seiect deep soil,
manure well, then success is assured
The speaker said that he was not an ag-
ricultnrist and could not advise those
present what kind of vegetables to plant
to be the most profitable but that his
remarks we're intended to excite inquiry
aud investigation. He then took up the
subject of trucking in New Jersey and
read extracts from a worg by I. L. Baker
on the subject which tended TO show that
tine business was profitable one If car
ried on largely and properly.
In presenting proofs statistics were
used BY the talker to substautiate his
remarks. He then read from Barker's
work the manner III which SOME of the
early vegetables were grown AID pre-
ered for market which was a;tentively
ed to by all present Mr.. Jakes
listen, "rmers along the line Of
urged the Ia. NOT o"Iy iook le
Delaware road L, -" mead
for a means Of euuv the Few
venture but encourage 1t now by shipping
eggs, potatoes, apples, chickens, pork,
beef and i'm fact any cdiblcs that now
are consumed in the city markets, As
he was not well posted on the conditions
under which the train was being run, the
freight rates, etc J. T. Jakes was called
to explain this side of the question. That
gentleman then took the flo aad in-
formed tnose perseut that he had rented
stalls III the new Thirtieth street market
house and i'll the Twelfth street market
for the sale of produce and shipped by
the new market car The whole service
is as complete as it can possibly be. A
farmer eau load his CO. ds on the train,
get on himself and accompany It t" its
destination at the Thirtieth street mar
ket where it is unloaded and put where
he wants it wi.hout any extra expense.
The train runs directly into the building,
the compal having built tracks for the
purpose, and is unlOaded before your
ewes. Under the old system man had
to pay carriage from the freiah- depot to
tie Dock street market or any market
| he chose to sell III. The advance III
| freight charges over the regular slow
| freight is only TWO cents per cwt provided
the goods are accompanied by the peison
to whom they are co sigued on the other
hand if they are not accompanied an
advance freight of 25 per cent is charged
or in other words it costs rs per cent less
TO send your go ds than it does to take
them. The terminus of this train-the
new market house at goth aud Market
streets. Philadelphia the most COM
plete place of the kind ever visited by
| Mr.. lakes. They have a Id storage,
which, by the way, is free to those VINO
rent stalls aud i'll fact all the modern
appliances for the safe keeping of meats
and vegetables, that it is a profitable
place to carry the produce, said the
speaker, is shown by the fact that there
are oyer I7s,ooo peoele in West Phila-
delphia to be fed AID now that this place
is opened to the public it will be depended
upon to furnish the greater part Of the
provisions used by these many persons
as SION as it is known.
The expense Of a stall for the two days
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