Milford chronicle., 1912-10-04
HARRINGTON is FINE
POULTRY MARKET.
Farmers Wives In That Section Reap
Big Harvests From Sale of Their
Poultry. Public Schools VIII Be
Opened With Appropriate CeremO-
nies. Mrs. Hayes Dead.

The tomato crop has been in ample
supply tins sea-On, and especially for the
past three weeks, but the present. week
will practical Y end the canning season
for tomatoes Ia 1912. The crop has been
n profitable me, generally speaking,
altho' few growers report a failure from
local reasons The Gamers in this part
Of the county do not contract for tOma
toes to be gre wn, but depend upOn buy
ing in the open market as they need the
tomatoes. This saves the annoyance to
the growers OF witnessing a neighbOr sell
ing his tomatoes at high price while he
delivers his crop at fixed minimum
price.
Sweet potatoes were never finer in
quality or size than they are this season,
and this means much TO the growers in
this vicinity and the lower part of Kent
county, for there is a very large acreage
grown, and the farmers frequently make
this crop their main money winner, and
ia fact it is a very profitable business.
Hundreds of carloads OF sweet potatoes
are shipped from Harrington each year,
and each large grower of sweets owns a
large storage house in which the potatoes
are kept until the middle of the winter
These houses are built especially for this
purpose, and are so arranged that they
can 5e heated by a stove ald tempera-
lure of sixty degrees can be maintained
in them.
A Young lady, who attempted TO run
Rwav from her home in Laurel last Sunday
afternoon, was arrested by Railroad Off
Ger Minner at Harrington, when the
north bound train arrived here She was
a verv pretty young miss OF seventeen
wears, and she was attempting to get to
Wilmington. Her parents asked that
she be arrested and returned to Laurel,
which was done in charge Of the officer.
No reason was assigned for her running
away. ., .,,
The new public school building will be /
the scene Of appropriate ceremonies on .
Friday. October 1Ith, next week, when {
1t will be officially opened for school pur- !
poses bv the Board of Education. The ,
State Board of Education and the Coun-
" School Commission OF Kent county.
and other prominent people will be pres
ent and take part in the ceremonies,
which have been arranged for that after
noon. A program Of music and addres
ses has been made for the occasion.
Governor Pennewil has been invited.
and an address from Henry Rdgley,
Esq., is expected.
Poultry ls one of the most important
factors in the profits of those engaged IN
farming in this part of Delaware, and
some of the very finest stranes OF poultry
are found on the farms about Harrington.
The EGG business throughout the year Is
the source of a great deal of money, winch
is generally used by the housewives tor
their own purposes, as is the sale Of poui'
trv. The sale of young chickens, ducks,
gnineas, not to mention turkeys, IS count,
ed by the tons during the summer and
fall seasons. From now until the hrst OF
December shipments Of ton lots OF dress
ed poultry by the farmers and buyers
will be common everyday affairs About
banksgiving and Christmas, the turkey {
crop goes to market, and that is the time ,
when the wives of forehanded farmers
draw their checks for large amounts; one
faFmer's wife last year sold geese and
ducks to the amount of 5000 worth last
Christmas, and sales amounting to SlOO
worth are frequent. There are two large
poultry dressing plants here, both OF {
which pay the city market price for i've 9
poultry, and frequently a cent pound
more for fancy lots and then dress 1t here I
md ship either via the steamboats, from /
Milford and Frederick, or by the railroad {
o the city markets, their fancy marks
BRING the top quotations for poultry.
This is one of middle Delaware's best j
poultry interests. f.
Mrs. Mary Hayes, aged So years, died j
at her home near Greenwood a
ast Thursday She was the wife OF Frank r
Hayes and mother Of Mr. Hayes, OF the
Inn of Murphy & Hayes, the mill men q
# Harrington. She was a sister to Mrs 5
Garrett Harrington, and one Of the great
y respected women of this part OF the a