Evening journal., 1912-12-06
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FUTURE FOR
The FARMER
New Roads Ought to Increase
Tonnage Ten Times Over
MIR. Harrison Says
NEED MORE LIVE
MEN TO TILL SOIL

Special 10 THE EVENING JOURNAL
GEORGETOWN. Del. Dec 6.-That
the spirit Of progressiveness has
gripped the Peninsula farmer be
comes more and more apparent as the
farming train of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company winds its way
from day to day through the vast ag-
rioultural fields of Maryland and
Delaware.
From station to station. from state
to state as the train speeds along the
crowds grow larger and the interest
more intense Last year twenty
eight stops were made during the
first four days the special was oper-
ated and the attendance at the larg-
est meeting was 1900 This year only
twenty towns we're visited in the
same period. but more than 1900 per
sons heard the lectures At Que
ponce yeterday there were SO many
people present when the train arriv-
cd that both lecture cars were occu-
pied 10 their full seating and stand
ing capacity. while the station build
Ing was transformed into an aRricul-
fural school house 10 accommodate
tho score of boys and girls who could
not get into the coaches. In the
evening an illustrated lecture on corn
Improvement and poultry raising was
given to several hundred enthusiastic
farmers and their wives IN the pco-
PIES theatre at Georgetown.
In one of hia talks on board the
train Yesterday. Orlando Harrison OF
Maryland. who ie one of the greatest
authorities on orchard development,
and who with his brother maintains
ri Berlin perhaps the largest apple
and peach nurseries In the East made
the following pertinent remarks.
This rs an age of advancement We
are quick 70 notice the change from
an old building to a new bne. from
mud road 10 one of concrete. but
we are slow 10 realize the changes In
our soils. the changes In our crops,
the need for different crops, the
great changes la our markets and
their demands and the improved
methods Of growing and handling
crops. The refrigerator cars and the
ice plants have made fruit growing
81 permanent business They have
done more for the farmers Of this
Peninsula than anything ! can recall
in my twenty years experience N
fruit growing Our development has
not been finished by any means The
field Is ripe for harvest now as IN the
past. but II ie 10 be occupied by
another class Of workers, men whit
me willing by their energy and IN
duetrv to transform our barren an'
nnnrodrrtive farms into proftahl
orchards. The railroads are Eivin
etioient service on our Peninsula an
thew will continue 10 do 80 and vii
even extend their tracks when III
frafnc mstihes A.. With the rapi
construction Of macadam and con
crete roads. this peninsula should IN
crease ten times its present Tomas
Ia the next decade because there ma
heen greater progress made IN foa
building in the past ten years ina
ian The previous ninety years There
fore let us cooperate with the raj
road In making this the greatest pro
ducing section IN the United State'
What we want Is less acreage an
more tonnage. less varieties an
more profits. less fertilizer bills an
more cover crops less talking an
more doing. less dead men and NOR
live ones 10 tn the soil"
The train schedule for today II
Filendale. $50 q. M. Oakley. 1910
m. Greenwood 1tb0 q. m, Hickman
1 20 %. m. Tuckahoe. 215 p. m, an
Doimar 500 p. m The schedule fo
Saturday Is az follows Federalehurl
$50 a M: Cannon. 1850 a. m, Vol
los % m. and Cheswold, S.o5 p. n