Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-11-19
THE NEW TRAIN TO MARKET
Discussed by Kent Farmers
Institute.
SOME NOTIFICATIONS ASKED
In the Freight Rate and Stall
Rentals.
The Farmers Review the Legislatures
Record but Little Lobbying--Mr. Full
tou Charges Wilmington Papers With
Yennlity.


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Special Correspondence OF Gazette and journal
FELTON,, Nov. l2.--'rhe regular monthly
meeting of the Kent County Farmers In
stitute met in grange hall, yesterday after
noon with the president, Thomas B.
Coursey, in the chair. The attendance was
the largest since the organization of the
institute. The only new member enrolled
was N. Il. Underwood of Kenton.
After routine business had been dis
pensed with Manlovc Hayes was intro
duced and opened the first subject to be
brought before the meeting, the new
market train, which was only few days
ago put ON by the Pennsylvania railroad
to convey vegetables and farm produce
generally to the Philadelphia market.
Mr.. Hayes reminded the. farmers that
for a number of years past they had
depended largely upon the peach crop as
source of profit and revenue but now that
the yellows had secured such a hold on the
trees of Delaware that in New Castle
county they had destroyed immense
orchards SO that the trees had to be taken
ont and in Kent this much dreaded
disease was gradually working its way
down until it would finally wipe out what
used to be known as the great peach belt
And as the farmers generally recognize
this fact it is now time that they begin to
look around them for something to re-
place the peach. 1t is and has been con-
ceded fact that the farmer has been handi-
capped by not having a sufficient and
proper means of sending his produce to
the city market but now that the Pennsyl-
vania railroad had put on this train for
the express purpose of accommodating the
farmers and agrculturalists of the PENN.
sula, the latter should encourage the pro-
ject by patronage. This tram opens up an
entirely new business for Delaware truck
ing. This department of agriculture has
OF course been carried to a great or less
extent but now is an opportunity for the
farmers In this section of the country to
enter into this line of work and as it is
profitable when carried on largely ii may
in . few years supplant the peach and
trucking may take the place of peach
growing
The speaker went into an explanation of
the manner in which trucking was carried
on III New Jersey, quoting from Il work
prepared by T.F Barker and giving figures
comparing the amount of soil titled in
that state and our own and endeavoring to
prove that trucking would eventually take
the place of fruit growing.
The rate of freight charged oii ,ae new
market train is only two cents more on
the hundred pounds than the regular
freight rate and the service is much
quicker and besides puts your goods right
inside the new market house at Thirtieth
and Market streets, Philadelphia, which is
one of the finest, largest and best equipped
place of its kind in the east.
I.t.Jakes. who has already availcd him
self of the advantages of the new means Of
rapid transportation of farm produce, was
next called to explain to the farmers
and members of the institute Just how it
could be worked to an advantage. He said
fInt hn trdt In 10 gnlAn Ind fnr dls sfs
and Fridays. A farmer can get his produce
ready, put II on the car, purchase q
ticket-at a reduced rate-and accompany
his goods to market. Then he could rent
stall at a nominal fee-something less
than 81 per weeI-and sell his own
produce, or he could send it to a commits
sion man to sell for him, in which event
he would have to pay a commission Of b
per cent to the wholesaler or double this
fee to the retailer. Then another fact: if
you do not accompany your produce to the
market You are compelled to pay an adj
vance freight of 25 percent over the freight
otherwise charged on this train. The
speaker then proceeded 10 show the ad-
vantages of the Thirtieth street market
and advocated it strongly. Mr.. Jakes has
n stall in this new market and also in the
Twelfth street market.
Later in the session i. II. Bancroft
offered the following resolution in connec-
ton with this mntter
Ressipsd, That the discrimination between
tho rate charged those who accompany thcir
goods to market and those who do not should
be rescinded.
These resolutions were also passed:
Hsssiu,d, That those who engage in this
operative marseting and rent stalls should
havo froe railroad transportation when freight
on their truck amounts to S..
Resoiped, That this meeting snggo9t the pro-
priety 10 the owners of the market house in
Philadelphia known as tho lhirtieth street
MIA ket, giving retail stalls rent free for six
months
]. Alexander Fulton, as chairman of the
legislative committee, next made his
report which was read from manuscript
and consumed nearly an hour. 1t was u
lengthy discussion of the bills passed by
the recent session of the Delaware Lcgis-
laturc, the full proceedings of which have
already been published The report started
out by paying the members of that body u
high tribute for their honesty, integrity,
fcnrlessness in standing for or trying TO
down n measure, as their Judgment die
tated Legislators should depend upon
their own good Judgment and not be inilu-
enced by lobbyists, and right here he said
there was less work, or at least accom-
plished. by the lobby at the last session than
| ever before, as far as his observation went.
| The entire work of the session was gone
over and some of it was commended while
some was objected to. Among the bills in
| the latter class were especially noticeable
the meyers Voting Machine and the
Equalization of Taxation BILL the his
| tory Of both OF which are well known to
every reader of the proceedings of the last
session as appeared in EVERY EVENING.
The latter bill, Mr.. Fulton said, was OPP
| posed by every paper in the city of vii.
inington with the possible exception of
one, and ii was all owing to the fact they
were all owned or gained their support
from capitalists. This was intended as a
| hit at the daily press Of Wilmington for
| interfering with this pet scheme of Mr..
Enlton's.
The report also made hit at the bill
appointing an assistant secretary of State
ut salary of $500 when the secretary gets
! the best salary of any officer in the state.
| The writer contended that it was an UNI
necessary burden on the tax payers Many
other bills were singled out and unfayor-
| ably commented upon.
NEW CASTLE COUNTY FARMERS INSTITUTE.
NEWARK, Nov. 13.-'rhe regular monthly
meetings of the New Castle County
| Farmers Institute, for the season 1S9i-'92,
were resumed yesterday afternoon, in the
college oratory, with President j. j. Black
| of New Castle in the chair. There was a
| very fair attendance of well-known
| farmers from this part of the county, but
the number present was not up to expocta-
ton. probably because OF the threatening
weather.
Dir. 5. II. Johnston, the director of the
| Connecticut experiment station and pro-
fessor of agricultural chemistry in Yale
College was introduced and for an hour
| and a-half talked ON How Plants Feed
and Grow" being aided very materially
by the charts, liie-sized plates, &c, which
he exhibited on the platform. He dwelt
long upon the importance to plant de-