The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1924-06-12
Cold Weather Has Delayed 1t,
but Prospect Is for Apples
and Peaches ApIenty.
ABANDONING TROLLEY LINES
Psssaic Board Votes to Stop Job
Taken by State to Cut Priee-selie-
vile viii Take Up His New
Militia Duties at Once.

es from New Jersey this season, ac-
| cording to the report on late May or
/ chard conditions by the Jersey Fruit
! Growers Cooperative Association.
! Cold wet weather of the last four
weeks has delayed the crop in the
central and southern New Jersey fruit
belt by five days to a week, but frost
damage is reported negative, and in
sect injury has been considerably re-
dLced by weather conditions unfavor-
! able to the development of orchard
pests.
The detailed orchard survey Of the
association, the members of which pro-
duced last year a third of the apples
and a fifth Of the peaches grown in
! New Jersey, indicates an early apple
crop at about 80 per cent of last year,
/ with conditions spotted throughout the
/ state The total peach prospect, how
ever, is for 80 per cent of the large
/ crop Of last season, with midseason
4 and late varieties promising produc-
/ ton fully equal to that of last summer.
/ The outlook for quantity crop OF
! both early apples and peaches is in
dicated in the report of James E.
4 Klahre, manager Of the Jersey Fruit
/ Growers. He says:
/ Anxious consumers need have no
4 doubt about a good crop of New Jer-
/ sey fruit this summer. Cool weather.
although delaying the progress Of the
bloom and the set of fruit, has re-
4 Earded the usual spread of insect
pests which comes with warm
spring.
I'm addition, the leading growers
4 throughout the New Jersey fruit belt
/ have sprayed their trees as consist
emily and thoroughly as weather con-
ditions permitted. Unless unforeseen
developments take place. the quality
OF both early apples and peaches.
When properly packed and promptly
marketed, should be excellent.
THE organized growers have in
creased their membership this year
to the point that they may secure the
( joint services Of their association in
the improvement of production meth
DDS, as well as In their efforts to elm
1 mate the waste in old-fashioned mar
keting. This will enable eastern con-
sumers to secure the products Of east
ern producers with the same assur-
ance of quality. grade and pack as in
the case of apples from the northwest
and citrus fruits from California and
Florida
Abandoning Trolley Lines
In the application of the Trenton
a ad Mercer County Traction Company
tt the Public Utility Commission for
omission to abandon operation Of
It's trolley line between Pennington
I'D HopeweIl is to be found evidence
Il at the trolley companies realize that
tie notorious is more economical and
quite as efficient for transportation
service in the rural districts and are
acting promptly in making the change
which VIII save to them the business
they have established.
The local traction company says it
has been losing money yearly in OPP
Grating the Pennington HOpewell
branch, the deficit last year amount
ing to $1,000; that continued operation
of the branch line will mean the spend
ing of $4,000 within the next few
years for building payements in the
two boroughs, and that there is no
hope Of an appreciable increase in
traffic between them. Under the cir
1 cUmstances the company has pursued
/ the wise course.
Pennington and Hopewell and the
residents along the fve-mile stretch
of road between them will not be left
without transportation service. The
trolley company will operate motor
! buses. and in addition there is the
4 service of the Philadelphia and Read
! ing Railway Company. besides the au-
/ tomobiles of the residents. With all
/ these facilities there is little danger
/ that the people most interested will
4 be put to serious inconvenience if the
4 abandonment request is granted.
4 Thirty years or more ago there was
a craze on the part of promoters of
( electric railway companies to secure
I franchises covering suburban towns
as well as city streets. Trenton suf-
i fered seriously because of this craze,
which was abated only when the pro-
/ moters found themselves In financial
difficulties. At present the trend is in
the other direction. and several branch
trolley roads in this section have been
/ abandoned, and there are others to
4 follow.
Passaic Board Moves
Another conflict between the road
/ committee of the Passaic County
Board of Freeholders and the State
Highway Department developed at
the freeholders' meeting in Paterson,
and as result County Engineer Gar
wood Ferguson was given authority to
sop the paving work being done by
| the state department In Main avenue,
Clifton, If he saw fit TO do so. The
authorization was on the engineers
charge that the department was using
plan which does not meet with the
specifications which the department
expects private concerns to meet in