Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-10-12
MONDAY OCT. y. 1914


DELAWARE FRUIT GROWERS AND HARD TINES
7 the Washington Post find the following in re-
laton TO apples going to waste in this country:
Twenty per cent Of the apple crop Of the United
States which It ie estimated will reach close 10 So
100000 barrels this year will lie in the orchards and
later be fed TO the hogs said former state Senator
William Campbell Of Charlestown W Va. al the VIII
lard This condition, OF course. Us due 10 inc au-
OF a market Last year apples selling fog
SO to 81 a barrel and while it is that the crop o:
1913 not big as this years tna OF 1912 was al
most large and prices were ac high az ip 1913.
rlf housewives want 10 practice real economy and
prepare for the inevitable high prices in general that
will exist this winter they would take advantage OF
the low price of apples and preserve some for COM
inc cold davs Appos arc not rcgarded as brcakfas,
food but If they advertised such people would
md that they are just as paatable and whole lot
nourishing than grape fruit or oranges There
are so many ways in which apples can he preserved
for tho winter months that with tho low prices now
prevailing the highest price s $3.50 barrel mo
household need be without apples hNcd IN somo form
highly attractive
"Withu radius Of twenty-five ndos of Charles
town the apple orchards will show crop this year OF
LVV0ooV barrels ana yet iherc H not an orcharuls.
in that section who can count on any profit from bis
crop. Many thousands of barrels have boon placed
IN cold storage, but all available storage room has
been exhausted and In instances the farmers
building cold storage plants on their farms 10 seems
almost the irony of fate that With prospects OF one
half the world wanting food during the approaching
winter millions of barrels OF good apples should be al
lowed to rot on the ground under the trees
What is OF the United States in general and Of
West Virginia in particular, also is true. in pro-
poruonate sense. OF Delaware We have in our state
thousands of baskets Of good apples that being per
mited to fall from the trees and rot because there
no profitable market for them The cost OF the labor
and PACKAGE the expense of transportation and tho
carriage and commission charges eat up the whole
profit with the low prices prevailing Because OF
conditions prevailing, Delaware fruit growers Jared
worse this year with bumper crops than they Jared
in previous years with much smaller crops That
scrton applies not only to apples excepting the very
early ones but also to peaches grapes and other
In ra1lf tho
has been small or completely wiped out
Democrats contend that the distress the Delaware
fruit growers this year has been due to the fact that
the supply has exceeded the demand. That is true
hut they fail to add that the demand has been de-
creased by the fact that. owing to Democratic tarn
and other policies, hundreds of thousands of fruit
consuming wage-earners have been thrown out Of
work and have ceased buying fruit until better times
come them. In normal times the great bulk OF
Delaware fruit is consumed by women and
children who dependent upon daily wage for
the necessarics and Injuries of life With their
wage-earning power destroyed by Democratic tarin
legislation other agency, they cut of fruit as a
luxury and consequence. the markets become
gluttod low prices prevail and in the returns from
The commission men and in the unharvestod fruit in
the fields the farmer gets his bitter taste of Demo.
cratic hard times
We have had bountiful fruit crops this year, it is
true
With Republican prosperity prevailing in our state
and in the industrial centres within the Of dis
trbution, they would have been profitable ones
AS it is they constitute merely a hollow mookery to
the fruit grower, whose returns show him what a
Wilson administration do to him by destroying in
the great commercial centres his best most proda-
Bile markets
If the Delaware fruit grower desires prosperity him
self he must stand for and for those things which
make for the prosperity those who when they are
able buy his fruit living prices do not begrudge
him fair profit from his investment and his labor
INSTITUTE LIBRARY AND RURAL DELAWARE
the past the great educational and recreative work
OF the Wilmington Institute Free Library has
been restricted to Wilmington and its immediate vi
cni'y Thanks the parcel post and the enterprise of
l. Bailey the librarian that no longer is TO he true
MT Bailey recently announced that any properly
'ouoned-ior resident of Delaware may borrow books
rom inc library. receiving and returning them lv
paio' post Tho plan provided e. that each borrower
enah deposit with the librarian an amount of at least
~ 10 deray tho expense of parcel postage al this end
ana to renew such deposit when il is exhausted nv The
mailing Of books. The Of the books IS ahsoir,o,
Tree The postage charge on a book is five cents FOR
the first pound and for each additional Mound
or fraction thereof. borrower may keep book from
four to twelve weeks the latter time being subject 4,
certain reasonable restrictions.
The Institute Free Library is the biggest thing q
its kind in the State Of Delaware It has MANY tbon
sands Of books on its shelves. They have been 81
lected, with painstakng care, for their educstona
and recreative usefulness The people in rural Della
ware are fortunate. indeed. in having those thousand
Of volumes made available their free use under IN
liberal policy adopted by the library management
which in reality has converted it into State nstu