Milford chronicle., 1917-11-16
FARMERS STORAGE 8 WAREHOUSE co.

The Farmers Storage and Ware
house Company of Dover, OF which
H. Ridgely Harrington, of Dover is
president, was launched about one
month ago, somewhat in the light OF
an experiment, and its great success
has even exceeded the most sanguine
expectatiOns of its hackers. In fact,
from present indications, it bids fair
to become one of Dover's leading in
dustries. The company was incor-
Dorated at Dover a few weeks ago
with a capital stock of 100000, and
purchased the old Levy Distillery, on
the western edge of Dover, which has
been idle since Kent county went dry
ten years ago. There are eight build
ings on this property, including a
large brick warehouse in which liquor
was formerly stored, and the COM
pany proposes to utilize each of these
buildings.
Under the governments bonded
warehouse system, by which farm
er can store his farm produce and use
the money invested In it, instead Of
having to wait until the crop is dis
posed of, the company is enabled to
do a business amounting to hundreds
of thousands of dollars upon small
capital. In fact, its capital is unlim
tied, for the more goods stored in the
warehouse the more capital is at the
disposal of the concern. For instance
if the company buys a carload of pO-
tatOes from a Virginia or Delaware
grower, the potatoes are placed in the
bonded warehouse and a bonded ware
house receipt is issued. This receipt
is then discounted at the cOmpany's
bank, the Bridgeville Trust Company,
and can be re-discounted at any Fed
eral Reserve Bank, and the same cap
ital can be used to purchase another
load of potatoes which goes through
the same procedure.
At the present time the company
has more than thirty thousand hamp
ers of sweet potatoes stored in the
brick warehouse, which is heated by
a special heating plant, and has been
remodeled in the interior to give per-
feet ventilation. The dry, circulating
heat serves to keep the potatoes in
prime condition, and the building is
large enough to hold many more
hampers of potatoes, it having three
floors with a ventilation chamber on
the fourth floor. Special hoisting
machinery has been installed to hoist
the hampers and barrels to the Vari
Gus floors.
The firm will handle thousands Of
baskets of white potatoes.
One entire building is filled with |
empty barrels waiting to be filled with |
white potatoes. In another building /
five thousand baskets of prime apples |
are stored for ripening purposes, and |
already have a flavor that would be /
hard to excel. These apples are from |
Mr.. HarringtOn's own orchard near
Dover. Later on a cold storage /
plant will be erected on the property
and the produce of the large orchards
of the Delaware Apple Company, con-
sisting of $4,000 trees. will be stored.
The company will make its own ice,
by a process by which 33 tons of ice
can be manufactured from one ton of
coal, and an apple sauce plant viii be
erected near the railroad.
The company is also able to use all
slightly decayed or unfirm apples by
them into denatured
alcohol. The old machinery, with all
necessary to manufacture
the alcohol. is still intact and will be
utilized for that purpose. Another of
the buildings on the property will be
used as a granary, and the company
expects to fill it with grain, both corn /
and wheat, within the next week.
The Farmers Storage and Warehouse
Company is assuredly no longer an
experiment, but is a successful bust
hess enterprise that is bound to ben
sfit both the farmers and the town of
Dover. {