Milford chronicle., 1914-05-01
Dry Goods Dept.
Furniture Dent.

! the central and southern states the pres
ent season. The State of Maine and the
/ Federal Horticultural Board proposed TO
carry out their inspection and certihca-
1 ton as follows I'll The State of Maine
will inspect all potatoes for shipment at
the warehouses II will certify as seed
: potatoes only such as are believed, as a
result of inspection. to be free from pow
| derry Scab. II will certify all potatoes
under any suspicion of contamination for
table stock only and it will certify no
! potatoes infected with powdery scab for
| shipment out of the state. Ii will re-
1 qulre all seed potatoes to be shipped in
sacks with label showing number of GER
tificate to be attached to each sack.
Reasonable effort will be made by the
Maine authorities to secure the disposal
of possibly contaminated potatoes at such
centers of consumption as will eliminate
as far as possible the use of such potatoes
for seed stock. % An effort will be
made to get the railroads.&c. to agree
definitely to accept for carriage only po-
tatoes that are certified By the proper
authorities of Maine: to report daily
to the Commissioners of Agriculture of
Maine and the Federal Horticultural
Board in Washington the original ship
ping point, the car number, and the des-
tination of the car, indicating whether
the potatoes are for seed or for table pur-
poses; in case knowledge comes to
the railroad later of any change of des-
tinatiOn of these cars, to notify at once
both the Commissioner of Agricultural
of Maine and the Federal Horticultural
Board: d to load potatoes only from
regular potato houses and not directly
from vehicles.
The NAV issue of the Delaware Farmer /
which appeared on Friday, May l, con
tanned the following articles: The Col. |
lege Farm Dairy Herd, BY Mr.. B. f. |
Hills, instructor in animal husbandry |
strawberry culture, BY Mr. o. A. Newton, /
president of the State Board of Agricul- |
ture; Transplanting Tomato Plants /; |
Mulches and Their Value The soiling !
system determining the fertilizer need |
ed the apple leaf miner combating |
the Colorado potato beetle definition of |
terms often misunderstood the spray
calender handling lump lime.
On Monday evening. April 10. Prof.
Grantham addressed the Grange at Hook
essin on grain growing The Depart
ment Of Agronomv IS receiving many re-
quests ~ WISH ldIulS at TINS season. I
During the past week Prof Grantham
visited the farms of Mr.. George Green,
Newark, and AIr. H. NJ. CANDY. Will
miugton. Mr.. Lintner on Thursday,
April p, inspected eight farms belonging
to the members Of the Grange at Har-
ringtou, Delaware
This department will conduct a num-
Der Of fertilizer tests on farms in various
parts Of the state during the coming
season.
Prof. McCue spent April goth with Mr..
Pinous, Secretary of the Jewish Agricul-
-ural Society Of America. They visited
farms owned by Jews who have vastly
AIKEN up agriculture in this country. Mr.. 4
2ailthorp during the past week visited /,
iarmers at FELTON,, Georgetown and Re-
loboth, arranging with farmers for CO.
operative work with tomatoes for the
coming season.
On the afternoon of Friday, April "a,
'rof. z. L. Smith, Of the Department Of
Modern Languages Of Delaware College,
ectured before the Newark High School