Milford chronicle., 1889-02-22

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this association has already done. The cor
0l porators named are William Q. Carter, ,Chas.
'e T. Maull, David L. Mustard, David Hall
d Hiram Burton, John H. Dodd Franklin
c. Maull, William H. Virden aud Robert
Arnell; capital stock, $4,000, in shares Of
e chase and run steamboats, and sailing YES
IS sells, and TO have, hold and enjoy, i'll consid-
GRAFTON Of making or erecting said wharf or
Il pier, any beach, cape, shore, landing and
n marsh, the property whereofis in the State, "
e with the sand, gravel timber and other ma
.. terials thereon.
e THE CONVENTION BILLS.
e Representative Downham introduced the
n lBradford) constitutional convention bill.
The great stumbling block is the district
feature Kent county, for example has nine
hundreds, but is to be given only eight del
egate districts This throws two hundreds
# into one district Four times worse is the
convention in Sussex, with its nine delegates
p to spread over I3 hundreds. Already at
, least three of the Republican members have
n expressed preference for the Eckles' bill,
4 which avoids these local disputes by giving
one delegate to each hundred throughout the
State And the same preference was strongly
expressed by Geo. Y. Massey, Esq in adj
dressing the caucus.
The Republicans are united in a determin-
"a eeto pass a convention bill of some kind
SS7Bp smittee on constitution reform is
? me; forgot Messrs. Downham, w. L. Davis
raid lodge, and the two latter will see that
the Eckels bill gets fair show
The apportionment of delegates in the
: Bradford bill was made upon the basis of the
census offS6o, as follows: Rural New Castle
county, population S,22S eight delegates,
being one to 4,4o5 inhabitants; Kent county,
population 32 o74, eight delegates, one to A. 100
inhabitants Sussex county, 36,otS, nine del |
j Puqteg la Do inhabitants lie
of Wilmington was accredited with a present |
population of6o,ooo, and considered as five |
municipal districts Of u, 600 EACH a munic- |
ipal district being thus accorded one-third |
the representation OF corresponding rural |
! community. In addition, as previously |
stated, each county is to elect five delegates. |
al-laIge. The delegates are to be elected on |
the hrst Tuesday Of November next, and the |
| venvention is to assemble on the first Tues |
day Of January, 1890.
A PARTITION BILL.
Representative Lodge introduced bill
which provides that hereafter, in anv pro
| ceeding for partition, whether in the Supe-
nor Court, tile Orphans Court, or the Court
of Chaucery, the right of the party seekiug
! partition to institute and prosecute the same
to final Judgment shall not be questioned or
impeded on account of the quantity Of inter
est he may have in the lands held in COM
mon coparcenacy or joint tenancy, but anv
interest whatever shall entitle him to iusti
tute and maintain the same If however
the lands TO be parttioned should embrace
more than one parcel, il one or more Of
which the applicant has no interest. the court
may restrict partition to the parcel or parcels
in which he has an interest
TO WHOLESALE BY THE PINT. =
The title to amend section S, chapter 416.
Volume AlNp Delaware Laws, looks inno- /
cent enough and the bill which it describes
merely substitutes the words, "one-eighth" d
iQr one-halt, but when one puts the pro- [
posed amendment in the following shape its T
significance becomes as plain as the nose on
your lace ANY person of full age and Of
good moral character, who is a licensed re-
taller OF goods, wares and merchandise +
may be licensed to sell Intoxicating Il
liquors in quantities not less than q,
one-eighth of a gallon" As the law now B
stands oue-halfgallon is the minimum auan- S
tityi though doubtless a customer known to
be sale can generally buy less.
EXPERIMENTAL STATION WORK.
Prof Arthur 7. Neale. director of the aeri.
cultural experimental station of Delaware "
College, addressed the members ofthe Leeis- in
lature last week After describing the ex- B
perimental station and its equipment. and TO
explaining that it has been demonstrated in "a
other States and other countries that the lii
most satisfactory results are obtained where 26
the experiments, instead of being confined to
10 a central station, have been distributed
oyer the greatest possible number Of differ o
-nt points the speaker said II seems to me eli
ne most important work we can at present lii
undertake deals with forage plants Many
u these VIII grow whele clover will not Il all
S my plan to select, say ten plots ofone acre L,
,aeh III each county, to plant aud engage the tic
armers thereofto take care of. Some mem of
yer OF our station will trayel from farm to all
arm and note the results. Alfalfa is one of ri;
he forage plants would like in this wav TO ztl
est III thirty different localities of the State b
Il the same way we shall attempt the study
= iuits. Ihat will be the field of the sta
ION hoTuculturst The land will have to
e hired from the farmers and their services 49,,
aid for by the State. Another part of this
'ork VIII be the study of plant diseases iea
he station bacteriologist will have to act
cry much as the physician acts; studying {
lseases While attempting to cure them. II -,
us way French and Amerirau investigators hul
ave studied the black rot in grapes, ascer- par
med It's cause and found the remedy, aud wol
Ut bulletin Will explain. the same and its a.
lpheahon and likewise give hints on the -
shting OF mildew and other diseases CT the Pm
ape. c
OF course the study of peach yellows will ifv
very important part Of our work. To =
y MIND this resembles disease which has oyi
zen creating much trouble in Europe. and en'
hich, IN some parts of Germany, has made Sol,
e cultivation Of the sugar beet almost I'M
,ssi6le. Twelve years ago in one German -
'y,there were twenty eight beet sugar man
actores, where now there is not one. It
IS said the trouble lay in the surface soil
ienists tried to locate it by many experi
ents. but failed miserablY. Then they
ed the subsoil, with the same result Abort
4 years ago young chemist took samples
diseased earth, divided the m
20 two portions and subjected one portion
three or four days baking. The other
ruon ne left uutreated. In these samples
then planted beets. Those in the baked
-th turned out healthy; those in the un
zed were thoroughly diseased. From this
lple experiment he reasoned that this was
ase, not for the chemist, but for the biolo-
l. The biologists took up the inyestiga-
n found that the disease was caused by a
rini studied the worm, and are now in a
7 way TO master the trouble. So with
sch yeilowsi our experiments will FIRST be ,
einpts 10 locate the cause of the trouble
tins end we have sent out letters ofiuouifv
- sss Peacs!;. growers yFsi5se addresses We
r. When we have located the probable
q IN which to work eur chemist ehto
iogist or other specialist will be called on
'ush the inquiry further.
n the Hatch act there is a clause making
art OF the legitimate business of the sta
] TO introduce new plants. For several
IS l have been devoting attention to
shum, and have reached the conclusion
. plant which will produce 5000 pounds
hemically pure sugar to the acre is worth
lying Four years have brought great
ances IN the machinery for extracting the Thi,
ar from the cane. have no doubt that streng
can develop here profitable domestic than {
AZ industry. With the latest machinerv ai ooainpe
ian extract 90 per cent Of the saccharine ,s ~
Ter and make Is per cent Of this into Street