Milford chronicle., 1913-07-18
THEY PRACTICE WHAT THEY PREACH.

THEY PRACTICE WHAT THEY PREACH
The three members of the State Boarc
of Agriculture are not only successful
farmers, but they are business men Of
ability and have shown a deep interest
in public affairs. Oliver A. Newton.
the president of the board, has twice
been a member of the Legislature and
was a member of the Taxation and Rev
enue Commission during its existen
He has one of the best farms in Sussex
County, located near Bridgeville After
having had experience in farming n
New Castle County and in Virginia. he
bought a small place and from time to
time has added to it by purchasing ad-
joining land. His buildings are commc-
diOus and very conveniently arranged.
and his dwelling is equipped with an
modern cOnveniences. His stables are
supplied with running water and are fit-
ted up with all sorts of labor saving de-
vices. Last fall he built poultry plant,
large enough for several thousand hens,
built bungalow for the foreman. with
a cellar for mammoth incubatOrs, also
laying houses, colony houses and brOOder /
houses. He was one of the first farm /
ers of Delaware to grow small fruits on /
a commercial scale, especially straw /
berries. blackberries and deWberries, I
and these have been his profitable crops. I
He is systematic and exact in all his /
farm operations, doing everything in 4
the most thorough and painstaking man
ner. giving his crops intensive cultiva-
tiOn, high fertilization and expert and
scientific treatment in every particular.
AS an example of his thOrOughness he
has large field planted to Candy straw
berries, the land being somewhat low
and having a clay subsoI, was first well
drained and then pulverized By dyna-
mite. At the present time the field is
absolutely free from weeds is kept
friable by frequent cultivation to pre-
serve the mulch on top. and the long
straight rows are already an indication ,
of what the patch will be when it comes
to fruiting next spring Mr. Newton
practices diversified farming. growing q
apples, peaches, pears, potatoes, sweet :
potatoes, sOybeans, c3wDeas, buck (
wheat, wheat and corn, and keeps a t
Moderate sized dairy, sending the milk
% the creamery at Bridgeyille Finan-
Tally, Mr.. Newton has succeeded be- Y
rond his expectation. 9
Newton l.. Grubb, vice president of ,
The board. lives on a fine farm in Bran .
Iywine Hundred that has been in the Q
irubb family almost since the country y
vas settled. Upon the place are a sub y
tantial stone house, barns and other u
we'll adapted 70 the needs of :,
he farm. Mr.. Grubb's leading speciality =
dairying and he has a fine herd of 2,
and grade Hoistein cows, y
Il of which are fed carefully balanced p
nd full ration of grain and forage. Mr.
rubb will keep no COW that does not q,
ield a liberal flow of milk and does not St
ay handsome profit. He is also en- ia
aged in the poultry business. which, "
)wever, in reality is Mrs. Grubb's y
)ecialty. His fields are all thoroughly
led and have been brought to a nigh
ate of cultivation by the wise use of
manure that has been made on the
nm, supplemented by the use of a lib
al supply of high grade fertilizer. Mr.. no
rubb has adopted four year rotation
wheat, hay, pasture corn. Following Su
e suggestion of AgrOnOmist Grantham 20
the Experiment Station. he has
opted the plan of spreading mis- stable "a
anure on the wheat stubble. which NJ!
increases the crop of hay.
d this fed to his dairy cows increases rih
e quantity of stable manure and also o1
proves the pasture and leaves the
our in good condition for corn which VaS
lows the pasture. Commercial ferti- O
er is applied to the corn, also the Do oqI
o crop which is grown upon a mOder- :
area. Naturally many interesting
torical events cluster about this old D5Ss
ne. In the house is a family Bible
nted in London in 1873 that has been y
the Grubb family during all this time. en1
=. Grubb also has an account book of
ne local merchant whose name. how udy
r. has been lost as the first two pages
the book are missing The accounts auti
with leading families of Brandywine -,
ndred and date back TO I740 This MIS-
k is of unusual interest and reveals
ch of the custom of those early days. "a
. w. Jenkins, secretary of the board. "''
a truck farm close to Dover and it n,
model of its kind. Mr.. jenkins no,
nds much of mis- time in Suffolk, Vir- - ~ t
ia, near his extensive fertilizer fac 5ay
7 and trucking land. as those inter non
require a large portion of his time. 1avt
has had wide experience in the fer stat'
er business and in growing market fonr
iening crops, and is a close student fo,-
urrent events ard public questions. . II