The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1899-03-04
NEWS In BRIEF.
Local Matters Boiled Down for HaSty
PeruSal by Busy Readers.

PeruSal by Busy Readers.
Mr.. Abraham Kirk, OF near College
Green, succeeded in saving :; r0yey of part
ridges by placing chnr and quantity of
wheat where the birds could get it.
Rev. W. H. Mowbray, pastor OF Zion NJ.
L. Circuit, preached sermon in Calvert
Church on Sunday afternoon to Baun' r
Council, No. IL, o. U. A. NJ, of Calvert.
-Summeriield Kidd, Of near College
Green, will move in the spring on the farm
now occupied by Mrs. Annie Thompson
Mrs. Thompson will move to Rising sun.
John l.. Crothers and Jesse Hambleton
were delegates from Rising Sun q. A. r. Post
to the G. A. II. convention held in Baltimore
on Tuesday and Wednesday Of last week.
A bill will be introduced In the Delaware
Legislature providing for co-education at
Delaware College. 1t is said that the bill
has large number Of advocate, in various
parts OF the State.
The owners of the Hollingsworth Spoke
and Wheel Factory of Wheel Postotflce, Har-
ford county, which was destroyed by fire
some weeks ago. are having it rebuilt as
rapidly as possible on the same site, and it
will be ready for work about the middle Of
April.
Mise Eleanor G.. Walton, OF Wilmington,
whose reputation as brilliant writer is fast
becoming national is just now filling the
vacancy in the Journalistic field caused by
the sad and untimely death of "Bab." which
was the nom de plume OF Mrs. Mallon, who
once resided in Elkton. In this line Miss
Walton is doing some excellent work. She
writes under the pen name of "Portla.'
But little hope Is entertained for a peach
crop in Delaware this year and growers are
very gloomy. The recent terrible cold wea-
ther inflicted fatal blow, SO IT Is thought, to
peaches and all kinds OF small fruits, except
to the Lucretia blackberry and Strawberries,
the vines Of which are hidden under the
snow. number Of growers have expressed
themselves as feeling sure that peaches are
badly damaged. Branches that have been
cut from trees Of both white and yellow
varieties have been examined and the buds
have been found to be black inside. Conser-
vative growers are OF the opinion that all
buds above the snow are killed. A few
growers contend. however, that there Is not
enough sap In the trees Mt this season OF the
year to cause them to freeze hard enough to
kill the buds. The majority of growers scofr
at this theory for the branches OF the trees
were so brittle that they would snap like pipe
stems. The Red Miller raspberry is I'M
doubleday killed, for the vines are very tender
and easily killed. Growers are greatly cha
grined at this fact, for this berry is the m ast
profitable small fruit grown in the State.
The Wilson blackberry is badly damaged as
are all other varieties except the Lucretis,
and the crop of small fruit will accordingly
be very small.
The tidewater section OF the Eastern
Shore of Maryland furnishes many and
divers mean of earning a livelihood, the
most novel OF which is that of frog raising
for the market, an industry which is being
successfully carried on by Jacob FoutZ, Ct
st. Michaels. The bull frog has recently be-
come more and more prominent until t
present 1t takes place at the table of Il Q
epicure, and along with the other delicate
productions OF the Chesapeake bay such as
Ine famous ulutlOuu-DhCh ltTEdDlu anu CdU-
vas back duck. Several years ago Mr.. Foutz
was engaged Ito a small exten) in catching
and shipping frogs to market dressed. His
method Of obtaining them was the one in
vogue many years ago-that of using piece
OF red flannel on a pin hook or shooting
them with the small cat and rat rifle. Several
cases of poisoning were reported as attribut-
able to the eating of frog meat that had been
shipped to the city. An examination was
made at once by the State Board Of Health,
which revealed the fact that the meat OF the
frog is so delicate that within IL hours aftCr
their death the meat, from a cause peculiar
to itself, becomes unwholesome and, there
fore, unfit for the table. This state of affairs
put a stop at once to the killing Of frogs and
shipping them to market. 1t was this fact
which prompted Mr.. Foutz TO conceive the
idea OF frog pond for raising and shipping
frogs to market alive. He at once procured
the ground and pond quarter Of an &c c
in area, ON the suburbs of st. Michaels,
where for the past few years he has been en-
gagged in this novel enterprise, which he
claims is a more lucrative business than
longing for oysters, which gives employment
to majority of the people there. Early in
the spring Mr.. Foutz employs several men,
who scour the ponds and woods for small
frogs with which to stock his pond. This Is
continued until at least five to seven hundred
frogs are harbored therein. Then begins a
most interesting task-that OF feeding and
caring for this band Of croakers.