Evening journal., 1909-06-23
MR.. MESSICK A
MAN OF ACTIVITY
Makes Success of Every Bust
ness Enterprise He Un-
dertakeS
LOOKS AFTER 5000
ACRES OF FARM LAND

epeclal to THE EVENING JOURNAL
DOVER. Del. June 2S-President s.
Harrington Messiclk. of the state
Board of Agriculture, State master of
the Patrons of Husbandry Estate
Grange) and president of the Sunday
School Association; director and hard
worker in the Delaware College and
State farm board, is described as a re-
markahle man in this issue of The
Delaware State News. in an article
written by Marion Dawson, State Oh
ganizer of the grange.
In this description of Mr. MessioS,
II will be seen that he is a high ideal
OF a Delawarean and an American
TO be presented to the boys and young
men of to-day A man who got littlo
or nothing of a start in life beyond
that given by fond and painstakins
but hardworking parents, and who has
wrought out for himself such a lfUn.-
inent and successful place in public
life, raised a splendid family and has
acquired the successful ownership OF
5000 acres of fertile land is, unques-
tionably, as Mr. Dawson says, the kind
of men that little Delaware wants To-
/ day,-thousands If she could get them
Mr.. MessiclS has 5000 acres of land
to look after. He has 1.750 acres in
his home tract and the residue of his
estate is within easy driving distance
about the countryside.
While fruit-grower of experience
and deep study, Mr.. Messick is a grain
and hay grower, also. While he is
still firm believer in the peach and
has 100 acres of land planted in three
and four-year-old peach trees, he has
no peaches this year. Not at all ruff
fed at this, the versatile farmer simp-
ly smiles and says that he never saw
peach trees in such a generally health
full condition. If be should be so
lucky as to get crop next year or
the year following, there would be a
yellow channel of gold flow to his
bank.
With all this tremendous agricultir-
al undertaking and the public service
this man is rendering his State, Mr.
Messick keeps well up, every night.
with his correspondence. The writer
would have felt the need of half a
dozen stenographers in handling this
mail.
Mr.. Messick finds time. however
amid all these real cares of his TO be
a family man." He reigns in his
home and it is a reign Of love. His
family consists of his wife, three
daughters and two sons. The writer's
visit to this home was one of the
green spots in life's sometimes barren
journey.
Sussex county and lower Kent GER
atinly reflect the differences in mar
and their dispotion Of the talents
which God gives them. There arc
some fine fields of wheat, some med.
ium and some very poor. The sam,
with corn. in this year of exceeding
great prices. On some places, Low
lands much of the time under watel
have caused the farmer to stop work
ing his corn and tomatoes until tn,
fields have gotten into somewhat Of
tangle.
Strawberries did not pay the fortune
that was expected, but canteloupe.
are fine and dandy. Everything will
have to take care of itself for tn,
coming week, however, for # is gen
eral harvest.
James J. Ross and Son, the larges
land owners around Seaford and
among the largest farmers in tn,
State, have eighty acres in potatoes
To plant eighty acres in potatoes, foul
hundred bushels Of expensive seeC
potatoes had to be used, necessitatini
a cash layout of hundreds of dollars
They have, also, fifty acres in cante
loupes, and both potatoes and cante
loupes are looking like winners
The farmers Of this section ar
probably the only agricultural peopl
outside Of certain favored sections Il
New Castle county, that have per
manent good roads. All roads leading
from Seaford are covered with shells
coating after coating having been pu
I on until the roads. beaten down b,
: trafic and settled by the rains. ar
= now the best in the peninsula.