Milford chronicle., 1892-06-03

A StupeuuOu5 4 w.
The Peach Fellows ComnEHE'n
have come and gone-but have l,sE
their ear-marks behind them, whit
shows an astonishing amount OF b. |
porance or incompetence.
/ can point out more trees-un-
marked in my orchard in five mini
utes that have the yellows, tnan that
august trio did in five hours or
whole day.
The above looks like strong lam
quage. but I'm prepared to prove
every word Of it by actual demon
stration. If any one should enter
tain doubt about the above state
mentlet HIM call and see for himself
7 will not detain him more than five
minutes and will show him something
that will make him open his eyes.
Now | hold that men so grossly
blind as these "Peach Fellows Com
missionersn have shown themselves
to be. are not the right kind ofstock
to have in a peach orchard; for if
they don't know a diseased tree when
they see it; it follows, of course, that
they are liable to condemn sound
trees. Now / am not opposed to q
.Peach Fellows Law per Sc, for if
peach tree is once affected with
the yellows, it is certgin death but
I'm opposed to the way our present
defective law is carried outfit the
law as it stands is not uneonstitu-
tiongX it is, to say the least OF It,
oukfageously arbitrary.
GJust think of the labor and expense
-fof planting, and then tilling an or
chard ten or fifteen or twenty years
l-innocently thinking they were
yours; chat you we're lord of the do
main; and then without a moment s
notice. have these absolutely "colol
lblmdn men appointed by the Gov
ernor-not for any special fitness foi
the work in hand but for some pOllt
ical jugglery they have helped topusl
through-bolt right past your door
without ever stopping to say show
, DIDO" or, by your leave anC
plunge into your orchard with car
and carriages, crop or no crop, anC
cut and slash as above stated.
! TThe above article was handed t.
4 us this week by prominent farme
' who resides near the Tub Mill, an'
! who probably wrote it while he wa
: provoked. It is peculiar view t.
= take of the case, and one that appeal
s to the wrong sentiments. He frs
e presumes that the commissioners ar
e -or should be-infallible, and
: therefore disappointed that they di
d not mark each and every disease
s tree in his orchard-which would b
l. difficult for its owner, who is we
y familiar with it, to do. He invites
d visit to his orchard, but refuses t
= sign his name to his article, or Civ
n his address--so it is evident that hi
0 invitGtion is not sincere. But a
evidence Of wormwoodis seen in hi
d fisg at their method of appointment
y Z: by the Governor. In this "
I. think he is mistaken, for our know
! edge Of the Governors make-u
s makes Us believe that the men he al
It pointed were named, not because {
e their political yiews-as one, If nc
v all, are Republicans OF independer
!, voters. Our correspondent is lik
d lots of hospitable well-to-do farmer
s Of Kent county-he does not fame
n any person coming upon bis farr
, and spending several hours, withou
n going to the house and eating wit
y him; and we venture to predict, tia
n if the commissioners had have wer
e to his house and did ample justice
T. the fine chicken pot-pie, his walls
e wrath would have been turned t
1t the perfume of Ophir. The peae
it yellows law may be defective, but
/ is certainly the only remedy we nov
K have to check the spread Of peac
g yellows.-ED.