Milford chronicle., 1911-10-20

frigeratOr cars loaded with lusciou
strawberries 60 out daily in the sea
son. Sixty-four carloads went ou
from one station in a single day. Il
the fall and summer heavy trainload
of apples are sent to all parts of tn
continent. The early apples are tn
finest grown in any part of the world
con Manhattan Island and acros
the river are 3, 958, 600 people. Draw
a circle fifty miles in diameter from
City Hall, New York, and you pu
a line around 100000 people-a.
many as you will find in all the
states of Nebraska, North and South
Dakota, Colorado, Wyoming, Mon
tana, Idaho, New Mexico, Nevada,
Utah and Arizona. Not three per
cent. of these people raise any fruit,
depending upon the farmers to raise
fruit to send them. 1t is the great
est fruit eating section in the world.
Now draw a line up the Hudson
river to Albany, and thence straight
east to the Atlantic ocean, and you
have II 100000 of people, a dozen
or fifteen of the richest and most
luxurious cities in the country cities
which have mans wealth and mans
demand for fruit and vegetables Of a
high quality. You have the greatest
fruit market known in an equal area
on the face of the earth, and the de-
mand for fruit is increasing wonder
fully.
"And vegetables are not behind
the fruits. Especially garden truck.
such as asparagus, tomatoes, onions,
cantalOupes, watermelOns, cauli-
flower, cabbage, kale, white and
sweet potatoes are raised with profit.
The New York, Philadeldhia and
Norfolk railroad handled over two
millions barrels of white and more
than a million barrels of sweet pota-
toes in 1910.
"BOth in population and in wealth
all of the eastern cities are steadily
increasing. The people live more
luxuriOusly every year, and the man
who is in position to cater to this
luxuriousness is usually sure of his
income. The peninsula farmer is in
the best position to supply these
markets with the most delicate and |
perishable products, for, in point of !
transportation, the extreme lower
end of Delaware is nearer to New |
York city than half the state of
New York.
"This region always has been and
llways will be primarily agricul-
ural. Other industries are there,
md very rich ones too, but the
country was so evidently laid out for
illers of the soil that it would be
to struggle for supremacy
n lines of endeavor where others
AVE an equal chance, when nature
las given the peninsula such
Iandicap in the fields Of agriculture,
After alluding to the general ex-
ellence Of the soil and the climate, ;
he publication describes the expert I
rental farm Of the company in Y
ussex County this state and says
"After spending some time in |
for land located not too '
for visitors, but which i
lOuld be incontestably as poor as a
ny on the peninsula, the company t
1rchased in January, 1910, about a
rty-three acres near the little sta d
on of Bacon, Delaware. If any 81
le has doubts as to the railroads Il
ncerity in looking for the worst b
nd to be found, he has only to n
TX to the natives of that region. d.
ley were at first rather doubtful g
the project, and many of them IL
40 have not seen what has been
ne are still skeptical as to the re
of making that particular bi
sce Of land pay for itself they all w
rec, however, that they thought gi
nc
The railroad officials themselves fa
re somewhat frightened when VI
ey saw the tangled waste they tn
d untertaken to redeem. It was ba
tn some inquietude that they pl
Ied the farmer whom they had pi
ured for this purpose if he could
lily make the proposition 60. In an
te of the rank growth of sassafras; lu,
and weeds, with which ne
former owners had let this land the
'ome Overrun, the agriculturist an
: the inherent value of the soil to
! undertook the task.
'Straightway the work Of clearing ate
3 begun. When the thicket was tur
eled, roots and few stumps torn hol
, the wood was burned and the lar
left upon the land. As soon as hie
sible the ground was broken and anC
er crops put in. Only twelve cul
IS were dressed with manure, and wei
more than ten tons were used to loc,
acre. For the rest the only fer der
er used was the green stuff that ter