Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-10-12
MONDAY OCT. 2. 1914
tLAwARr rRuIr GROWERS AND HARD TIMES


DELAWARE FRUIT GROWERS AND HARD TINES
= the Washington Post We find the following In re-
1 laton TO apples going waste in this country
Twenty per cent Of the apple crop Of the United
States which, It Is estimated, will reach close TO oO',
100000 barrels this year VIII ne IN lne % St
later be fed 10 the hogs. said former state senator
William Campbell Of Charlestown. W. Va at the WI
lard. This condition Of course is due 70 ,, nv e. S
eence of a market Last year apples we're senlnS lot
SO to 81 barrel and while 1t is true that tne crop o.
1913 was big as this years that OF lslz was al
most as large and prices were as high as ID 1910
f'ff housewives want TO practice real economy ana /
prepare for the inevitable high prices IN generM has
will exist this winter, they would take aaVah.ase VI
tho low price of apples and preserve some TOT COM
ing cold days Apples are not regarded as pieaAlass
food but If they advertised as such people No1u
Ara that thew are lust as paatablc and whole lot |
more nourishing than grape fruit OF oiahse7' S
are so many ways I'm which apples can be p.eseINeu
for the winter months that WIN cue ao pharre,no
nrevailing-the highest price is 2l.oV a puIlel-lU
household need be without app'es "N0' " ~
within a radius OF twenty-five miles Of Charles
town tho apple orchards will show crop this year Oh
1000 GOO barrels and yet there Is not an orohbruls.
in that section who count any profit IRON ms
crop Many thousands of barrels have been placed
i'm cold storage but all available storage room mas
oen eyhausted and In instances the farmers are
building cold storage plants on tner FARMS. seem
almost the irony OF fate that with prospects OF one
half of the world wanting food during the approaching
winter millions Of barrels OF good appies snou'u We OF
What is true of the United states in general and OF
West Virginia in particular, also is true, in a pro-
portionate sense OF Delaware We have in our State
thousands of baskets good apples that are being per-
mited to fall from the trees and rot because there is
no profitable market for them The cost of the labor
and package; the expense transportation and the
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 Ihat as
scron applies only to apples, excepting the very
early ones but also to peaches, grapes and other
fruits In practically all instances the margin of profit
has been small. completely wiped out
Democrats contend that the distress Of 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 tariff
and other policies hundreds of thousands of fruit
consuming wage-earners have been thrown out OF
work and have ceased buying fruit until better timc
come TO them In normal times the great bulk o
delaware fruit is consumed by women am
children who arc dependent upon a daily wage TO
the necessaries and luxuries Of life With thei
sase-earning power destroyed by Democratic tari
legislation or other agency, they cut of fruit as
luxury and consequence the markets beeom
riutted low prices prevail and in the net returns ro
The commission men and In tho unharyosted fruit
the fields the farmer gets his bitter taste of Dem'
cratic hard times
We have had bountful fruit crops this year. it
true.
with Republican prosperity prevailing in our Stat
and In the industrial centres within the area OF di
fribution. they would have been profitable ones.
As il is they constitute merely hollow mockery
the fruit grower whose net returns show him what
Wilson administration do TO him by destroying
the great commercial centres his best and most profit
bio markets
If the Delaware fruit grower desires prosperity hin
self he must stand for and vote those things viii
make for tho prosperity OF those who, when they a
able buy his fruit at living prices and do not bcgrud
him a fair profit from his investment and his labor
INSTITUTE LIBRARY AND RURAL DELAWARE
the past the great educational and recreatiye Wa
OF the Wilmington Institute Free Library
been restricted TO Wilmington and its immediate
entity. Thanks tho parcel post and the enterprise
A. l.. Bailey, the librarian that no longer is be tr
Il Mr. Bailey recently announced that any proper
Nouched-for resident OF Delaware may borrow Doc
rom tho library receiving and returning them
parcel post The plan provided IS that each borrow
81 shall deposit with the librarian amount of at LEI
81 TO deray the expense OF parcel postage at this e.
and to such deposit when it is exhausted bv
mailing Of books The OF the books is absolut
The postage charge a book Is FIVE cents
the first pound and cent for each additional pou
81 or fraction thereof borrower may keep a book fl
A four to twelve weeks the latter time being subject
# certain reasonable restrictions.
al The Institute Free Library is the biggest thin,
I'd its kind in the State OF Delaware It has many q
II sands Of books on its shelves They have been
IA lected, with painstaking care for their educati
M and recreative usefulness. The people in rural
81 ware are fortunate indeed. in having those hous
OF volumes made available for their free under
81 liberal policy adopted by the library manager
ia which in reality has converted it into State ms