Smyrna times., 1892-02-17
For the Smyrna Times.
ChesWold Items.
CANNING PEAS. - SOCIAL PARTIES. -
NEW YORK NOT TO RETURN BER-
RY CRATES. &C.

CANNING PEAS. - SOCIAL PARTIES -
NEW YORK NOT TO RETURN BER-
RY CRATEs.-PEACHEs &C.
The growth of peas is a new thing
with our farmers, but the CheswOld
Gamers, Assau. Baines & Co., are feel
ing confident of the acreage they want
of this product, and when spring opens
they expect to enlarge their plant, with
the addition of new machinery for pea
packing.
A verp large social gathering of more
than a hundred met at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. S. Hardcastle,
Thursday evening of last week. The
house being very rOOmy, there was
ample space for plays, games, music,
/ &c, which, according to the tastes OF
| those present, was heartily engaged
! in. Ice cream, cake, oranges, bana-
mas. &c. were served. Other than the
immediate neighborhOOd were friends
from near KentOn, SeVersOn's Neek
and Dover.
The association of Retail Dealers, of
New York city, have set the hair upon
the berry growers of this vicinity by
giving notice that they will NO longer
return their crates Our growers are
denOuncing the measure in the strong
est language. The free peach basket
ruling and other schemes of robbery
which they claim has been practieed
upon them is fresh in their minds.
$4,000 is said to be a small estimate OF
the loss to peach growers and shippers
within the range of CheswOld territory
alone for the year 1891, by tue free
basket system. Others, who have
friends in the large cities, claim to
have knowledge of the fact that
peaches for which they were returned
sc cents net per basket cost the con
sumner 81 per basket, with the basket
and Ofttimes growers bought their has,
kets again from dealers in car load lot.
) at 81 and IS per hundred. More than
this, many instances are said to b.
known where peaches were sold bN
lots or in bulk on board cars and boats
vet the charge for carriage always camt
with the account of sales If thes,
and other grievances are suffered bv
farmers why don't they form grow
ers association to resist this arbitrary
demand by the retail dealers for a non
returnable crate, and in a manly wa,
meet what to them seems an outrage
in the start.
y The amount of loss involved to thu
CheswOld growers alone if the schem
was carried out would amount in dol
! lars somewhere in the thousands, and
:, taking berry growers as a whole,
would he many thousands in the pOck
. cts of the New York machine. ShOul
the growers sustain loss of one tent
the amount involved by the nOn-r,
y turnable crate demand by an industr
at home. they would be on its track
( like bloodhOunds.
y Peach growers are very generally
e the opinion that the peach buds al
badly damaged Minos Conway think
; two thirds are killed and that the kill
i" ing work was done one foggy and yer
frosty morning the latter part Of Jan
uary.
- Rev. j. A. B. Wilson, who is iu
now famous throughout this Peninsula
alighted from the is A. NJ train a
Cheswold last Saturday morning viii
a, the mercury registered IA with
r piercing wind and walked to Lpipsi
in four and half miles, to hold Qua
~. terly Conference.
A. CheswOld was enlivened MOnda
In evening by a masquerade party held
.. the home of Mr.. and Mrs. S B. COope