Evening journal., 1912-12-04
GROWING OF
APPLES ON
PENINSULA
SOper and Harrison Give
Farmers Benefit Of Their
knowledge Of Fruit
Industry
TRAIN END LECTURES
HEARD BY CROWDS
Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL

Special TO THE EVENING JOURNAL
SALISBURY, Md, Dec. 4.--rho
corn belt and fruit raising centers OF
the Maryland-Delaware Virginia PEN
insula were visited yesterday by the
Educational Train which the Penn
aylyania Railroad Is operating this
week through the farming districts Of
Maryland and Delaware In the two
days that the special has been on tho
road over fifty lectures have been
given In ten towns. The lecturers
covered wide range OF agricultural
subjects of especial interest To the
different localities. and a record Of the
attendance kept by tho rallrOa, Of
fcialH on the train sAows that nearly
one thousand persons have thus far
ATTENDED the day sessions on board
the cars and the night lectures az OK
ford and Salisbury. These Statistics
reflect the growing tendency OF the
lpreaent-day farmers to learn all they
possibly can with O view TO doubling
fheir crop production and, consequent
hy. Increasing the earning capacity Of
hhe land
f.. NJ. soper. known az the Apple
king" OF Delaware, and Orlando Har-
rlson who bears the same sobriquet
I'm the State Of Maryland, we're two
most interesting lecturers yesterday.
MIR soper started In the apple busi-
mess thirty-four years ago when he
had an orchard of 20 acres worth
about $4,000 Today he owns between
500 and 5000 acres of apple trees vail
hed at more than 100000. Both "Ap-
ple Kings" gave the farmers the fun
benefit OF their expert knowledge OF
khe fruit growing industry, and ex-
hibited several qualities OF apples and
pears raised on their fruit farms.
w Oscar Collier. the corn expert Of
the Maryland Agricultural College
told how TO produce good corn crop,
advocating particularly the testing Of
seed corn before planting TO insure a
vigorous and profitable crop Illus
frated lectures we're given in the
Court House at Salisbury In the even
ing. Several hundred residents of the
city saw the interesting pictures on
the screen which were shown in con-
nection with talks on corn improve
ment by Mr. Collier and poultry rails
ing by c. l.. Opperman of the Mary
land College. After each lecturer
concluded his talk a number of Ques-
tiOns were propOunded by persons In
the audience which we're gladly ans
wcred by the speakers.
The railroad representatives on Tho
train yesterday included W. a. N
Willis. division freight agent; NJ G.
Broughton. freight solicitor, r. r
White. assistant trainmaster. A. C
Bennett manager demonstration farm
of The Delaware Division. W. a. Polk
superintendent OF the NJ. ID. & V. Ry
and r. Murdoch. general freight an,
passenger agent of the M d. & "
and b.. c. g. A. Ry. r. " N. 7sey
superintendent the New York Phil
adelphia and Norfolk; W. s. NAPLES
freight solicitor and j. j. Restein
trainmaster OF the n. Y. p. a. ~ r. r
The train schedule for today is
Fruitland. S25 a. m. plttsville 1914
n. m; Whaleyvllle. 1890 p. m. Hurs
ley p. M. and Snow Hill. s d. m
The schedule for Thursday. Decem
her 5th is as follows Queponco. s 25
Dagsboro. 1910 a. M Cool Snrinp
l255: Milton. 3.05 D. M. and George
town. p. m.