Show SEND PEACHES BY AUTO TRUCK Delaware and New Jersey Growers Eliminating Railroad Cars Oars By fly SAM BAM E WHITMIRE Universal Service Staff correspondent peach 4 Peach TRENTON N J r AU Aug 4 of New Jersey and growers ware are trying trying something now new new this year por their peaches In automobile trucks Instead of ot by railroad 1 cars The advantages advantage claimed are that the he fruit will reach consumers In shapo shape better of ot the tho quick direct haul from the orchards to New York or Philadelphia The only handling necessary Is limn lifting the crates on to the tho trucks In the I 01 orchards and lifting them off oft at atthe the market In former r years while by rail the peaches were II loaded on spring wagons In the orchard and hauled to the railroad I station then h trucked on wheelers heelers to empty cars Often the cars stood Ion on a siding for two or three throe days daysI waiting for tor the tha load to 1 lia be a com com- completed completed com completed I and when finally oft off to lo the city was ws sometimes sidetracked I and other otherwise Is delayed untIl tho the fruit would bo be soft sott and I rotting when delivered to the con con- consignee consignee con signee Loss to the tho shipper was often heavy Reaching the city the peaches were unloaded from the tho cars cOors to city express wagons I ons or trucks and hauled to the tho salesroom of the commission merchant All of ot this necessitated lifting lifting- of the crates crate or six to n a dozen times from the orchard to the city Orchard men figure that the tho ex- ex expense ex expense pens pense of ot shipping chipping by motor trucks Is from 26 25 per pel cent to 60 per cent lees les tes than than by rail They run no risk of losing fruit because of slow forwarding They will receive better bet bettel better tel ter average prices for their peaches peache I because of the freshness of the tho fruit picked from the tho trees thru thru- thru out out the day and carr carried to the big I markets during the cool ot of the t Tho change from railroads 10 auto aulo trucks will wm cut quite a chunk out of the tho profits of the Handling of peaches peacheR peach In to past years wo was a big Item with the railroads In the months of ot July and August They had hall specially specialty constructed cars care for the peach trade which will now bo be used III other brother other fields Tho The Jersey Fruit Growers corpor corpor- corporation corporation atlon oo representing operatively co-operatively the organized organised poach peach growers ot of New Jersey opened an office on July 1 at Newark N J In charge lot of Kenneth Hankinson of the Now e I Jersey state bureau of ot markets Similar offices were opened by the New Jersey and Delaware op co-op co growers at the other large consuming point points These Those are In line with the special policy polley of operating co-operating with growers the in eliminating waste to tn the marketing Of ot this highly perishable crop by direct representation which important can Prevent delays at tant eastern A fleet of ot high powered motor Is IN employed for delivery of nit aU peaches within a a radius of ot nita miles tl sot of or tho orchards orchard By Dy the tha auto system a s em of ot delivery Jersey Jeney and Dela Dela- Delaware Delaware Delaware ware peaches cos reach New York con con- consume con consumers n sume sumers sometimes in twelve hours fter after atter picked from the tho tree and the tho average time required Is only elgh eighteen eighteen I Iteen teen hours against as Against t from three tl days to a a week Weak when the tho railroads I wore Were the only d dependence |