100 PEACH CULTUEE. 



THE DELAWARE FRUIT EXCHANGE. 



This was organized a few years ago. Its headquarters 

 are at Wyoming, and it is establishing branches at prom- 

 inent points throughout the Peninsula, And during 

 the recent summer of 1887, the "Bureau of Information 

 and Distribution " has been organized to co-operate with 

 the Exchange. The objects of both are the same, to 

 obtain a good market for the fruit, but the methods are 

 slightly variant. 



The Exchange seeks to induce all growers to unite, and 

 agree to sell their fruit at the various stations through the 

 Exchange, so that buyer and seller may meet face to face 

 and at the home of the seller, where the fruit is raised 

 and shipped. The sale is by auction, and a commission 

 of a cent a basket is charged for selling. The trouble 

 heretofore is to get all interested in, and to join the 

 Exchange. Wherever put in operation it has worked 

 admirably and given great satisfaction. 



The "Bureau" is more thorough and comprehensive, 

 and much more elaborate and complicated. It has the 

 same aim as the "Exchange," and proposes to work 

 with it ; but it assumes that all buyers will not come to 

 the "Exchange," and, consequently, that all the fruit 

 cannot be sold at home ; and, therefore, that other means 

 for marketing it must be sought, hence it proposes to 

 unite all growers in one grand organization for mutual 

 advantage ; and to secure the best results the following 

 scheme is proposed by its author, John P. R. Polk, 

 esquire: 



1. — Said Bureau shall have an Executive Committee, 

 composed of seven members, who shall be elected an- 

 nually on the second Thursday of May of each year, at a 

 meeting of the members of the Bureau, then to be held 



