PEACH AND THE PEAR. I3I 



knows absolutely nothing of the sale of his fruit in a 

 hurried crowd and a distant market, over which he has 

 not the least control. As to the buyer, he has great 

 advantages, too. He deals with the producer, he gets 

 his fruit fresh, he buys through the Delaware Fruit 

 Exchange, or ought to, and has the benefit of inspection 

 of the fruit by a sworn Inspector at the point he may 

 happen to buy, and, above all, he sends his fruit to his 

 market in good order with no re-handling or transship- 

 ment. " Bring buyers to your stations ! " should be the 

 rallying cry of the Peninsula Fruit Growers, and I sin- 

 cerely believe that, to a man, they should take up the 

 Delaware Fruit Exchange, elaborate it, and bring it 

 to the perfection its enterprising originators are striving 

 for. A successful shipment to Europe was made this 

 year by one of the Messrs. Cochran, of Middletown, in 

 individual crates, and I learn it was in every way 

 successful. This would make a desirable outlet for 

 fancy fruit. 



THE DELAWARE FRUIT EXCHANGE 



is a corporation of the State of Delaware. Capital 

 $300,000. Capital stock, 30,000 shares, at ten dollars 

 per share. W. H. Ridgeway, President ; A. N. Brown, 

 Secretary. 



Its objects are, first, to bring buyers to the railroad 

 stations. 



