Milford chronicle., 1907-05-10
THE KENT COUNTY POOR
FARM MAKING MONEY.

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The Levy Court and county officials
of Kent county went out on an inspec
tion trip to the Kent county almshous,
farm last week and held a joint meet
ing with the Board Of Trustees of the
Poor, which board was in monthly
session there. The report of President
George NJ. Stevenson and his Board Of
Trustees was full Of interest, particu
larry to the farmers OF Delaware.
The 32S acre farm is now in high state
Of cultivation and is equipped with the
most modern farm buildings, particu.
larry its spacious barn, and agricultural
machinery. The property is valued at
nearly $50, ,OO0-the institution and resi-
dence buildings being valued at SIS, ,OOO
and the farm itself at $4,000. The
stock includes seven horses, four mules,
one horse colt, one mule colt, nine mllch
cows, four heifers, two calves, 275 chick
ems, fourteen shOats, four brood sOws,
five ducks and six turkeys.
This farm, with this stock and the
help Of those inmates who felt like
work, produced the following market
able property for the year ending on
Thursday, May 2nd
Wheat, 1900 bushels at 20 cents, SlO50;
corn, $500 bushels at A cents, SlO5O :
sweet patatoes, 500 baskets at IS cents,
$50 white or round potatoes, 400 bas-
kets at 80 cents, S120 scarlet clover seed,
26 bushels at S., $780, cabbage, 5000
heads, at 2 cents, SIS; turnips, IS
baskets at lOcents, 81 80, hay (cow peas
and clover 75 tons at Sl2, $500 straw,
value, $40 long fodder. $3.50 pumpki ms
five tons at 81, $40; pork, 5000 pounds
at 6 12 cents, $3.50 cord wood, twenty
cords at So $50 buckwheat, 600 bushels
at 50 cents, $500 butter, 1904 pounds at
20 cents, S21S 80; eggs, 6Sl dozen at l6
cents, SlOS SO lard, 1000 pounds at II
cents, SllO; peaches, S4S45 A; apples,
$45 80 pears, S135 A tomatoes. Sl41. IS:
Strawberries, $3.50 tomato plants, S4
calves, $40 so; hogs, S45 48 cows, Sls5
beef steer, $50; turkeys, S2O.1O. Total
products sold for cash, S6,02l.72.
Permanent Improvements have cost
$76O5l supplies and new equipment
for the farm cost s., ,26O 81 supplies for
the family and household and helpers
at the superintendent's residence cost
50, ,459.67 the always necessary "out
side relief" which is paid to persons
who do not have to become wholly
charges upon the county, $,55427; the
salaries and miscellaneous bills So, 500 20 |
The total receipts for the year were
$12, ,685. SO, and with these funds the
trustees paid notes in Frederica Bank,
81 800. II, and there is a balance in favor
of the institution of s15OI2.
The women inmates Ofthe Institution,
too, are industrious and during the year
they made: Pillow slips (bOlsters) s
bed mattresses, 9; pillow slips, 1O3
sheets, AZ quilts, 80 gingham aprons,
q night gowns, 2 chemise, II hand
towels, u; dresses, 24;women's drawers,
l2 or 297 articles. There were seventy
inmates during the year, 45 whites and
25 negroes.
The cost to the county for its institu- {
tion and the clearing of this debt dur
ing the year was 50 500, paid in various s
The institution is in charge Of the 8
Kent Board of Trustees George M. t
Smyrna, president Harry
=. Johnson, Clayton, secretary Victor
F. Danner, Dover, treasurer, and Trus
ices Thomas V. Keith, Second F.; Charles S
T. Luff, Fourth Robert Freidel, Sixth q
Willard NJ. Harris, Seventh William
7. Creadick, Eighth Curtis S. Morris, s
Ninth John H. APPEL, Tenth. e