Daily Republican., 1886-06-21
PENINSULA FONTS.

Wicomlco's strawberry crop was g.
1922 900 quarts.
Sleeps head fishing still keeps good
at the Breakwater. Many of the Ash
weigh frem 10 to Is pounds.
Salisbury has shipped 100 Car. loads
of strawberries, and 342 barrels and
thirty crates Of peas within the last two
weeks.
Chestertown, Md expects 10 ship
more peaches this season than any other
town on the peninsula.
DR.. j. W. Short, Of MillsborouRh,
has bought 583 acres of land near Hall
wood, Va, on which he is about to
place frst-class steam saw mill.
The strawberry season Ia over and the
special berry train has been taken off of
the lower division Of the D., M. & v,
r. h.
White potatoes of this years growth
have been selling at 81 90 per bushel in
the Georgetown market this week.
The army worm has made it's appear
snce on some of the farms in Little
Creek Neck.
j. Stanley Short, of Milford, has
bought the hotel at Slaughter's Beach
from George w. Male, for S., $50.
Some Of the Kent county farmers are
cutting and harvesting their hay crop.
The crop Is excellent and yield large.
| The fruit growers have had a splen-
did crop of straw wberries, the price o
which was low owing to the continued
wet weather.
The wheat heads are very heavy
the straw is beginning to turn, ant
farmers are auxiously looking forwar'
to harvest.
Strawberries the size of potatoes
mot small potatoes eitheI-have beel
lone of the features of the Middletowr
market this summer. The berries hav
been luscious all the season.
Owing to the fact that satisfactory al
Engagements could not be made with tn
railroad company, no train will be rul
from Ellxton or Newark to Dslswar
City to meet the steamer Republic, al
has been announced.
William Dyer, Of Dover, has q COW
half Alderney and half Devon, whic
. gives 1888 pounds of milk in seven days
: The milk is very rich, and he tbink
/ would make 20 pounds of butter. A fe'
Icows OF this kind would supply larp
e town, without the aid OF pump.
Il Jacob Friedel, of FELTON,, sh;ppe
lover 5000 quarts from one acre of beI
ries, which cleared over cents pt
Iauart, netting him about $3.50 for th
AGRA of land.
William s. Moore, of Laurel, has
acres in strawberries. hiefly Wilson
Q Mr. Moore employed 400 pickers, an
ldurinR the height of the season
8 shipped 507 thirty-two quart crates
Iday, which was at the rate Of crate
minute for the time occupied
= 'lpicking.
The wheat crop promises to be vel
d large one. The. fly, or the "little gre
Iworms" talked of some time ago do
" not appear to have done it any consi
{. cradle damage, and with good harve
b ing weather no better wheat yield cou
be desired. All farm crops are in
a. unusually healthy and promising &C
{. dition.
" A Frederica correspondent of t
milford Chronicle wants DR.. Alb,
at Whitley OF that town to be made I
democratic candidate for Congress,
1t. if the differences between Messrs. Biz
ar and Cochran, of St. Georges shol
lprove each others defeat, then he sho'
be made the gubernatorial candidate
Mrs. Curtis, Of Lincoln, Snsl
Uounty, saw heT - nara. s'-old ch
o,lplaying on the railroad, recently,
a, as n train was approaching. She
1s oe for the child, which was not seen
no. the engineer, but she was too late,
Ino h child was struck and buried from
track into q ditch. The train 7
reI rei stopped and all hands went back
"a "a pick up the remains, but instead 3
o. found the infant without bone bro
e H% or bruise on its body. 1t vas unc
~, sclous but it recovered speedily
iay Dover district has made a cred iti
4Shs advance on ministerial support
In in1 year. They have gone 81 500 beyt
lou last year. Harrington helped to 81
these figures by an.advance of 800 OF
pastors salary. The most renarka
9 advance was at Laurel, on Salish
sss;;' District They have added on
N Iover last year.