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consume, at paying prices, the President of the Associa- 

 tion, shall have authority to distribute the said cars, 

 judiciously, among the many hundred towns to whic^ 

 the Pennsylvania Rail Road will deliver them. Thus, 

 gluts can be avoided, and an intelligent supervision be 

 established and consequent remunerative rates be main- 

 tained. The Association should select, in every town, 

 the most reliable firm, early in the season, and, if possible, 

 obtain security in some shape, or a guarantee of their 

 payments and general fair dealing. Some such organiza- 

 tion will soon become imperative. 



SHIPPING PEACHES TO EUROPE. 



That peaches may be shipped to Europe, and the 

 experiment prove profitable, Mr. G. A. Cochran, of 

 Middletown, has shown. He shipped tomatoes success- 

 fully last year, but did not try peaches until this season. 

 He packed them in the individual ripe-fruit case, each 

 peach packed by itself, thoroughly ventilated during the 

 transit, and shipped them by the fast steamers of the 

 Cunard line, as the Oregon, the Umbria, and the Etruria, 

 either steamer making an average passage to Liverpool 

 of under eight days. Mr. Cochran picked peaches at 

 Clayton, August 20th, shipped them by ordinary freight 

 to New York, and put them on the steamer of August 

 22d. They were landed in Liverpool on the night of 

 August 30th, and were sold the next day, eleven days 

 after picking at Clayton. They were in fine order. 



