Evening journal., 1914-06-16
Praises. Sussex At
FARMERS DAY RALLY
Judge Conrad Tells Of $685.
600 Trainload Shipment
of Strawberries
COMMENCEMENT TO
BE HELD TOMORROW

United States Senator Willard Sauls-
bury would preside at the commence
ment exercises tomorrow morning.
The address to the graduates will be
made by United States Senator Joe
T. Robinson of Arkansas. Senator
Robinson will be the guest Of sena-
tor Salisbury in Wilmington tonight
and the two Senators will come to
Newark tomorrow morning.
President Harter gave his annual |
reception 10 the graduates and their
friends at his home on Quality Hill |
last night. All Of the graduates
were at the reception.
Many Alumni members are in
town and the prospects are that the
Alumni parade this afternoon and
also the reunion at the Deer Park
Hotel tonight will be better attended
than last year.
With nothing to mar the occasion,
Farmers Day at the college farm
ended shortly after o'clock yester-
day afternoon just as successfully as
il started in the morning. The Wis
itors all seemed pleased.
1t proved an exceptionally busy day
for Dean Robinson of the new Wo-
mems College who made many
friends. At her invitation many per-
sons visited the women's college
buildings now in course of erection.
Governor Miller, who presided at the
afternoon meeting in his Introductory
remarks, commended Professor Harry
HAYWARD, director OF the Experiment
Station. and other officials of the col
lege for the excellent work that is being
done in the agricultural department. He
smoke of how the work is extending and
how farmers from other states are COM
ing here on Farmers Day to see the
experiment work that is being carried
on
The Rev. Warren II. Wilson. Ph. D.,
Professor of Rural Sociology at Colum-
bia University, dwelt at length on the
part that the country church should
play in bettering conditions in the rural
districts. DR.. Wilson advocated
united church for the country as
means of getting the farmers closer to-
/ gcther.
DR. Thomas n. Carver. formerly Pro-
fessor of Economics at Harvard Univer-
sity and now chief of the new govern
ment Bureau of Markets. spoke on "lhe
Organiation of the Rural Community"
He suggested the appointment of COM
mttces in the rural districts to study
all possible ways of improving farm
production. The next problem and the
most acute problem of the day for the
farmer is how to market the produce
1.-THE speaker coutended that the success
ful way to market the production OF
the farm is to sell on grades, where the
name sells the article. He suggested
that the goods Of the farm be stamped
or n trade mark placed on the packages
and never let an inferior product 60 out
and the produce will then sell on grade
DR.. Cyril G. Hopkins, Chief OF
Agricultural Chemistry, at the Uni
versity of Illinois andNSecretary OF
the Southern Colonization and De.
velopment Society of Baltimore, made
an address on "Soil Fertility in Rela
tion to General Prosperity" DR.. Hop
kins told of 10000 acres of farming
/ land in Delaware alone and man.
! hundreds of thousands In othel
States being abandoned agricultural.
Z during the last census decade II
suggested that it be made possible
for the local Experiment Station L
: make more experiments in soil fev
tility throughout the State.
The last speaker was Judge Henr
i c. Conrad and his subject was "Sus
u sex. the Old and the New" Judg
e Conrad gave some figures relative
d Sussex county, which proved of grea
e interest to many of his hearers. H
q said in part: "A good many of yo
good people don't know how big we ar
l. Sussex county has a total. area of 81
p square miles or 5S4,320 acres. II
7. about 85 miles wide and the same
20 length. In the county there are 5
sos farms, the average size being
= / acres. According to the census
~ 1910 the total value Of all farm Ian
N was 500 .223. OF the men opera
~ ing the farms, 81 per cent. are nati'
y Americans, GO per cent. Of the farm
D. are operated by their owners, and
per cent. by tenants OF the farm
operated by owners, 70 per cent. al
. reported free from mortgage. In q
= old days It was not unusual for a ma
" TO own 500 to 1 900 acres of land, ar
- here and there in every communi
81 we're individuals whose holdings
sa land would go up to 1000 and 80
~ acres. 1t retarded instead of a
10 vancing the rural communities. III
-, land fell into disuse, and much OF
" was not cultivated. The division
- the land into small tracts has had
ts salutary effect, and particularly
,f this shown in the localities whe
,r farming has been advancing most r
to pidly' ~.
% tenths of our people are plain tillers
.. the soil. But we are not pOvert
~, stricken, we are not appealing for q
We are well able to take care of OF
- selves. Until fifteen years ago TN
bo were only two banks in the county,
-eI Farmers Bank at Georgetown and
~. First National at Seaford. Today
~ have nine national banks, one state ba
IN land eight trust companies, n total
- eighteen banking Institutions in
roI county and the last reports Submit
81 bv them show an aggregate Of indiv
&c ual deposits in these Institutions
80 $4,000 75S. For n community aim
M wholly agricultural and with no la
~ centers of population and really
h,s manufacturing establishments I th
,ar this showing is truly marvellous. So
are justified in being proud Of our hnl
cial showing
. Judge Conrad told Of the differ
his crops OF Sussex county and how
vas county was famed for its peaches.
he conclusion he told . the famed Sus
his county Strawberries. He said: u
vear i'm single day 35 carloads
.,r- stroxvberries were Skinned from Sci