Proceedings of the Farmers' Club. G39 



tnre is, there will be very few Harrisons planted for market, and the 

 Early Rose will supplant the Early Goodrich. 



Storing Potatoes. 

 Potatoes for table use should be stored in a cool, dry, dark cellar. 

 They will keep better if a small quantity of soil is mixed in with them 

 at the time of storing. When potatoes are left exposed to the sun- 

 light they soon turn green, a bitter principle is developed, and when 

 cooked the tubers have a nauseating and unpleasant taste. Every 

 observing farmer knows that it often happens that a portion of the 

 potatoes in a "hill" are left exposed to the light by the earth wash- 

 away, or by careless hoeing* The exposed potatoes soon change 

 color, and are worthless for table use. This kind of exposure also 

 hastens decay, no matter where the potatoes are kept. Even when 

 purchased for family use in small cpiantities, say a bushel or barrel at 

 a time, thej^ should be kept in a dark corner of the cellar until con- 

 sumed. 



Delaware Peaches in New York Market. 

 Mr. C. W. Idell, a well known fruit dealer in Washington Market, 

 called the attention of the Club to the abuses and dishonest practices 

 of the great railroads by which the peach crop of Delaware is 

 brought to market. The number of car loads this year has been 

 3,800 containing two million baskets. This vast product is hurried 

 forward to the city by special peach trains, and rolled into Jersey 

 City at a little past midnight. The accommodations at the station 

 are anything but what they should be, and the disposition of the 

 employees of the road anything but obliging. The yard is dark ; the 

 peach dealers are obliged to employ a special police to arrest the pil- 

 ferings of catch-carmen, and even the ferries, though they receive 

 $15,000 from this crop, are exorbitant and unjust to the trade. 

 Prices were very moderate during the entire season, in fact so much 

 so as to make the trade monotonous, and the net sales realized by 

 the farmers was about fifty cents per basket. In 1867, the largest 

 number of cars that arrived in one day was fift^'-five, and those com- 

 pletely glutted the market, causing a general stagnation for some 

 days. This season we had 175 cars in one day, and they all sold at 

 good rates. In addition to the quantity received, as above stated, 

 there were two large and one small steamers engaged in this business, 

 making a daily line from Delaware. The quantity they carried has 



