Evening journal., 1913-08-01
STATE FARMERS
lNSPECTJERSEY
Find Some Soil TiIIerS Pro-
crossing by Leaps and
Bounds
OTHERS NEAR BY
SHOW NO PROGRESS

DOVER, Del. Aug. with a view
Of bringing home lessons for the
Delaware farmers from the remark
able progress being made through
the state Of New Jersey, President
Grubb and corresponding Secretary
o. A. Newton. of the State Board Of
Agriculture, vice-President n. L.
Wesley Webb spent much of week
on a thorough inspection Of the
farms across the bay.
The great lesson Of the trip oenters
around soil management business
methods in farming, drainage where
the land is wet good tillage, filling
the soil with vegetable matter by the
use OF legumes which also draws
fertility from the air, and using COM
mercial manures literally and intel
ligently.
Southern New Jersey has recently
experienced a notable development IN
growing white potatoes and other
vegetables in apple and peach
orchards and other fruits, in poultry,
and in comfort. convenience ana
beauty of the country home. Chem-
fcals and clover. intensive methods
careful guarding against diseases ana
pesis. cooperative marketing tell the
story.
Won By New Methods.
The farmers who have followed
these methods intelligently have made
money. Southern New Jersey mas
barren sand, but not so barren but
1GVtfmpC and
chemicals may easily and readily
make them fertile and profitable. Il
Is true that there are lands in the
world that are naturally more fertile
than these sandy lands In southern
New Jersey there are spots OF abso-
lutely barren sand and right along
side of these spots are farms made
from the same barren sand that are
producing the most luxuriant crops
at a great profit
Those farms were not made fertile
In a minute: and they were not made
fertile except by the investment OF
capital and labor-iR them. OF course
Il would be folly for any one to pay
as much for the barren sand as he
would pay for the fertile, productive
farm alongside il. but there is really
no excuse for the sand remaining
barren for It will amply repay the
sum required for its purchase ana
the larger sum required for It's I'M
proyement
Gained 10000 Through Farmers.
A NIGHT and the following afternoon
we're spent at Nineland. Fifty years age
Nineland was but a stretch of sandy
Waste now II is town OF nearly lOOu'
people Along the business street, whicl
Il wide. houses and stores are crowded
close together, but outside Of this stree
houses are scattered. each standing II
iho midst OF little park, and all abou
ihc town are small farms of five or te
ceres. and occasionally twenty acres o
moro. Nearly al of these farms are de
voted TO poultry and to peaches or othe
fruit Peaches are becoming very popu
lar and very profitable. Probably two
thirds OF those engaged IN the poultry
business are making a decided succes OF
il, and ehis is rather remarkable because
oil the fact that a large proportion OF
those who have gone into the business
are town people or city ptople who had
no experience in the country One OF
the most striking sights near Nineland
is the famous duck farm OF S. Huey
More than forty thousand ducks have
already gone to market from this farm
this season. The focks OF white ducks
remaining cover acres of ground around
pond. and one would almost think that
there we're millions of them instead oi
thousands.
Growing More Peaches.
The Barton Brothers take the lead IN
growing more peaches by their methods
which include spraying with self-boilee
lime sulphur solution. Their orchard
are annually well loaded with fruit
They also raise apples and vegetables
with marked success. They find vetcl
a good cover crop for their orchards an,
SOW it rather early in the season at tn
rate of 10 pounds of seed per acre
Grows Beans in Orchard
Horace Roberts might be said to max
a speciality OF apples, except for the fac
that he raises great quantities o
peaches, strawberries, tomatoes, strin
beans, watermelons and other crops wit
the same marked success as he raise
apples. The beans are grown in the OF
chards and do not interfere with tn
cultivation of the orchard. the spraying
or with the yielu of fruit. They ar
shipped TO distant markets by the cal
load. Tomatoes are grown down th
strawberry row the first year. In otht
growing the land produces crop of I,
matoes
Not One Specked Apple.
Besides the fruit and vegetables this
are sold at the nearby exchange.
shipped in carlots. Mr.. Roberts keeI
teams on the road hauling his goods
the Philadelphia market He also hs
an auto truck that takes about Il
bushels 10 a load and makes sever,
trips per day. OF apples. he has man
eaylr and summer varieties and fin,
the 6ravenstein one of the most pr
ific and most profitable in his orchard
Ills spraying is SO thorough that n
visitors did not find a speckled app
on the trees, on the ground among Il
fruit that was ready for markets. n,
even among the culls The produc
OF all the Roberts farms last>vear so
for $4,000 When asked how he a
tended to all the details of so much bu
mess. Mr.. Rberts replied, "Why no
have nothing else to do"