Evening journal., 1910-08-02
FINDS STATE
PROGRESSIVE
Former Delawarean, Now
From Missouri, Says Del
aware Has Shown Him
WRITES OF IMPRESSION
AFTER VISIT TO OLD HOME

Special TO THE EVENING JOURNAL.
DOVER, Del. Aug. 2-Recently
Lionel c. Gooden. editor OF The Par
nell MOI Sentinel. came back here
to Delaware after an absence OF
twenty years for q visit TO his father,
Former State Librarian John G. Good
en-, who is now living in Dover While
here, Mr.. Gooden, who was surprised
at the development the State has
made, made an inspection Of about
every point OF interest his native
State had to offer. from the fruit and
potato farms OF Kent and Sussex, to
the attractions, shipyards and railroad
lines OF Wilmington He says, this
week. I'm his newspaper:
"ln our last letter to the. Sentinel
from Dover. Del, June 20, we stated
that we were bothered almost to death
with the warm weather and mosqui-
toes, but for the last few days we have
had the same experience with the
warm weather but thank goodness we
have not had single 'skeeter.'
Delaware is much more progress
sive than when we left the State some
twenty-three years ago. Farming is
I'm higher state Of cultivation. We
took many drives over the country
and found corn. wheat, oats and other
crops looking fine, In fact about the
same as I'm Missouri, especially the
northwest part.
THE first ride In the country was
/ with our father, John G.. Gooden,
where we visited an uncle, Albert
Gooden. about eleven miles from
Dover, where we spent few pleasant
hours. Farmers have almost done
away with fences and I'm their place
may be found fruit trees of all kinds,
such as pears. apples and peaches.
None Of the land Will produce very
much unless fertilizer Of some kind
is used This ranges I'm price from
S13 TO S25 per ton and they use from
300 to 500 pounds per acre. Scarlet
clover is used by many OF the farmers
TO enrich their soil. This is similar
to our red or white clover, but has
10 be sown every year. They harvest
two crops each season and pillow IL
under for fertilizer. The seed sells
from SO 10 $40 per bushel Another
new crop they grow since we left
there is COW peas. This Is grown In
abundance and is very valuable for
stock. Every foot OF land Ia farmed
/ One farmer we visited had 400 acres
He had 30 acres In COW peas. as acres
/ I'm peaches, 125 acres In apples, 60 In
corn, 80 IN tomatoes, "a In wheat, 10
| I'm asparagus. 10 I'm strawberries, IL
| in hlackberries. In raspberries, and
/ 20 in pears, making 400 I'm ali, or
more acres than he had ground. Thii
is because he put I'm two crops thu
same year on the same ground. Som
of the poorer classes of land sell
for from $40 10 $50 per acre, Will
other land sells for from SEQ to $50
per acre.
Z zone day we spent at Bower
b Beach, a famous watering place 0
the Delaware Bay. We gathered
few sea shells and waded in n
briny deep TO our knees just for oil
times sake. Here we stopped at
hotel and partook Of fried oyster fri
ters, a favOrite dish with us.
ION July 4th we, with our brother
in-law, Charles Culver and tw
daughters, went on the steamer, job
p. Wilson, TO Augustine Park, Del
where we spent several hours at thi
famous pleasure resort on the Della
ware river.
ION our return 10 the wharf wher
we started from we heard the new
OF the Jefferies-Johnson fight Neai
Augustine Park is Fort Delaware. W.
did not visit the place but could SCI
the island out In the river.
THE next day we went to vii
mington, Del, where we visited rela
tives and friends two days. Here II
where the biggest ships Of the worlt
are built and the greatest gunpowdei
works I'm the world. II is also q
| railroad center"