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I would have cleared at least thirty cents more per 

 basket on my fruit than I did clear. This financial 

 argument is strong- enough for me to wish for the 

 advantages of the Delaware Fruit-Exchange. 



There are some things which operate against the 

 success of the Exchange, and one is, the interference of 

 the local middle-men ; and again, all the farmers not 

 selling through the Exchange ; and again, the lacking, 

 in some instances, of absolute good faith, or in other 

 words, of strict honesty among the growers. 



Use the Exchange, cultivate absolute good faith 

 between buyer and seller and between growers ; do 

 everything to extend the Exchange to all points on the 

 peninsula, and the whole thing will be a graud success, 

 morally, physically and financially, and this new system 

 of disposing of the products of our orchards, this grand 

 purveyor of good faith between the buyer and seller, and 

 between man and man, will add thousands of dollars, 

 yearly, to the coffers of the good people of the peninsula ; 

 will raise a lasting monument to the good and true men 

 who conceived it, and will be another round, scaled by 

 this Heaven-favored region, on the glorious ladder of 

 modern progress. 



The fruit not sold at the stations, or wharves, is 

 shipped to the great market-centres, Boston, New York, 

 Philadelphia and other points, and is sold by commission 



