RESOURCES OF DELAWARE. 53* 



This corn-bill is to go into immediate effect, and to continue until the month 

 of February, 1849 ; at which time a modification of it is to take place. It is un- 

 doubtedly a bill planned for revenue, as in the sequel will be demonstrated. We 

 will merely refer to the articles of Indian corn, Indian meal, wheat, and flour. 



Maize, or Indian corn, is charged with a duty to the quarter, of 8 bushels. Is. 

 Indian meal, per ciot. 6d. Suppose maize to cost, put on board ship at New- 

 York, 625 cents per bushel — a common price — or equal (taking exchange into 

 view) $5 per quarter ; or, say £1 sterling, the duty thereon of Is. sterling, per 

 quarter (or 25 cents,) amounts to 5 per cent, ad valorem on the prime cost of the 

 article. Corn meal is differently taxed, no doubt, in order to favor the English 

 miller. The duty on corn meal is 6d. sterling per cwl. or 10|d. on the barrel of 

 196 lbs. weight. The barrel of corn meal may cost $3 : the duty, lO.id. or 22 

 cents, is equal to 7 3-10 per cent, ad i-alorcm duty. Thus nmch for corn and 

 corn meal. 



Of wheat : This article has a sliding scale of duty. When wheat is at 48s> 

 sterling, and under 49s. 3d. sterling per quarter, the duty is fixed at 10s. This 

 sum amounts to Is. 3d. sterling, or 31 cents per bushel — making an ad valorem. 

 duty of 31 per cent, on the cost of wheat in New- York at 6s. per bushel. 



On flour the duty is calculated at the rate of 38 gallons of wheat for 196 lbs»- 

 of flour, at the sliding scale of 4Ss. and under 49s. per quarter ; the duty thereon 

 being 10s. sterling. This rate of duty on a barrel of flour of 196 lbs. is equal to- 

 es. 2d. sterling, nearly ; and rating the present price of flour in New- York at $4 

 per barrel, the ad valorem duty is at the rate of 38 per cent, to be paid by the- 

 consumer in England. 



The same scale of duties applies to all other grain and meal, barley, oats, Sec 

 After the month of February, 1849, the duties are to be reduced, but not lower 

 than those above set forth, of Is. 6d. sterling — the present rate on corn and com 

 meal. Consequently, the entire bill is for revenue, and we must come to ihe con- 

 clusion that in this bill Mr. Peel has shown himself equally adroit as he was in 

 fixing the income tax — as now all the people share alike — the prince and the- 

 operative. 



INDUSTRIAL RESOURCES OF DELAWARE. 



THE PEACH TRADE— ADVANTAGES OF TIDE-WATER FARM8 ON THE CHESAPEAKE BAY. 



Extravagant stories have been circulated as to the amount of business done 

 in peaches, of late years, in Delaware — going even so far as to set down the sale 

 of the fruit of a single peach orchard to a company in New- York for " fifty thou- 

 sand dollars," and to state that the purchasers netted $16,000. As well to cor- 

 rect such erroneous impressions, as on other accounts, the following sketch of 

 the peach business of that enterprising and improving State, from the pen of a 

 zealous and accomplished friend of Agriculture, will be interesting to the gen- 

 eral reader and useful to those who may desire to embark in it on the most re- 

 liable information. The writer, Doctor Thompson, speaks, as we happen to 

 know, from extensive personal observation and experience. Particular attention 

 may be invited to his suggestion about the cultivatiun of apples, especially the 

 pippin apple. To us it seems to merit the particular regard of those who reside 

 on the numerous and long tide-water courses of the Chesapeake Bay. 



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