Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1904-07-30

An article in another column In re-
gard to the Produce Exchange is OF
interest to our readers and only
worthy of their notice because OF the
many inaccuracies therein. In fact,
the writer is mistaken IN every
charge made by him against the Ex-
change, but notably, in the conclu-
sion he arrives at based upon the re-
port of the Fruit and Produce News
and in proof thereof, we submit, as
the record of the Exchange will snow
that not Il barrel of potatoes was
shipped to Cleveland on the days
named on consignment, and n"' q
dollar was lost to the people OF the
Eastern Shore by the break in the
mnrket on those deys While true
that several cars Of Eastern Shore
POTATOES were in Cleveland III the
days designated, the charge is rot
correct that they were dumped
upon the market" by the Exchange.
The manager sent them there be-
cause of the demand for them at
prices satisfactory TO him, and the
error in Judgment, therefore, was not
due to bin but to the commission
merchants of that city who mao
bought them and upon whose
authority they were forwarded 10
them. AS name ger, it was his duty
to put our potatoes In the market
where the best prices could be 90
tanned for them, and this was doEe
by him. If mistake was made, II
can be put down to the STUPIDITY aud
ignorance of the commission mer
chants in Cleveland in buying more
potatoes than they could hand {
with profit to themselves. In M X
ing the distribution" ofour potAtoes
the manager must necessarily be
governed to great extent by the
prices he is offered for them and dis
tributlon must be accepted as prop
er" in the market, where the highest
prices are paid for them.
In regard TO the proof which the
writer would submit, that potatoes
went into Cleveland at the same time
from Cape Charles, were bought on
rape Charles dock and paid for al
$185 to $780," it is enough to say,e'
the record of the Exchange will show
that the manager of the Exch' nge
Cd the date to which lac refers, solo
POTATOES apd paid for them as blgl
as $2.1O per barrel to shippers II
Northampton and to shippers in Ac'
comac for inferior potatoes from 81 s;
to 81 80 per barrel.
The writer is mistaken too In say
ing, that we do not want our produce
sold st home. On the contrary We
have always insisted that every bar
this could be done, If Jiioe hXcnaEg g
could have con rol of all our produce
because in that event buyers would
have to get them Of us, and they
would always be up to the hig est
and not to the lowest bidder as they
now frequently are. The writer il
even mistaken in the statement
that the more buyers and the
larger outlet we have the better fol
the farmers" We had plenty of buy
ers and outlets, when before the Elk
change was organized, we received
postage stamps IS returns for oul
potatoes, and we would have toe
many now as we did then, but for
the safeguards which the Exchange
throws around the farmers, thereby
enabling them to secure reasouab, c
compensation for their produce.
That the EXchar &c has been a
blessing to our fan m9rs this season,
we Insist and are prepared to prove
it by comparison of the returns of
those who shipped through and out
eide of the Exchange this season, dts.
pite any and all assertions to the
contrary, and believing as we do
that in ard through it Lot only our
farmers but everyone else on the
Eastern Shore must look for pros
perity in the future, we cannot too
often al d too earnestly urge all f
cur people to stand by 1t and help it
10y their united action to a gre-ter
success.