Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1921-12-03
SHORE FRUIT GROWERS
In SESSION AT BERLIN
The Peninsula Horticultural Society
Opens Three-Day Meeting In
Worcester Town.

Governors, former Governors, far
mers, fruit growers, railroad traffic
experts and scientists from Mary
land, Delaware, Virginia and other
States are in attendance at the meet
Llg of the Peninsula Horticulture So
ciety now in session at Berlin.
Speakers, specialists in their sever
al lines, are urging proper grading
and packing of fruits for shipment,
the proper refrigeration of cars, more
careful of tree pruning and spraying,
more equitable freight rates and a
hundred other topics all of interest t.
the fruit growers of the Eastern
Shore Peninsula.
An effort is being made to get more
farmers to grow fruit for shipment.
The urge for this is being applied
particularly to the farmers of Wor-
cester county in this State and in
Accomac and Northampton counties,
Virginia, whose principal crop for
years has been potatoes.
Reports from Wicomico county indi-
Gated an improvement in the market
for cantaloupes raised in that county.
For a number of years, until the Sal
isbury Chamber of Commerce sue
cessfully established an auction block
Tor the sale of the melons, growers
were shipping under-ripe fruit in or.
der to benefit by the high prices of
The early season, with the result that
the sales of all Wicomico melons was
greatly injured.
There are indications generally OF
more careful packing and grading of
all fruits within the last year, and
this, some of the speakers on traffic
end refrigeration topics declared, had
greatly reduced the loss to both grow
ers and railroads.
Each of the sessions is we'll attend
ed. Delaware's peach growers are
particularly well represented. and
Governor Denny and former Cover
nor Townsend of that State were
present at the sessions.
At the Wednesday moning session
lir. Thomas ]. Headlee, Rutgers Col
lege, New Jersey, stated that new
remedy for destroying borers, especi-
ally in peach trees, is proving effec-
tive. William c. Travis, of the Un.-
versity of Maryland, told of his ex-
perience in controlling brown rot on
peaches in lage commercial orchard.
Frof. E. N. Cory, also of the Unive
sity of Maryland, spoke on spraying
DR.. j. F. Adams, of the University
cf Delaware, discussed apple-tree dis
cases. At the afternoon session w.
E. Sange, of Cordova, who has on dis
play an exhibit of box and barrel ap-
pies, gave talk on profitable COM
mercial varieties of apples for the pc
rinsula, while Herbert C. Richard
sen, a peach grower of Delaware.
spoke on the profitable varieties of
peaches"
C. A. McCue, of the University f
Delaware, discussed the future of
the fruit business for the Peninsula"
He spoke of the advance in methods
tf growing and marketing fruit in
recent years and said that Delaware
is rapidly coming ,nto it's own again
as a leading fruit-growing State
Former Governor John G. Townsend,
Of Selbyville, DEL, perhaps the larg
est strawberry grower and handler 1l
the Peninsula, gave talk on the f =
tue of the strawberry industry. He
ointed to the remarkable growth ana
improvement of his native section as
an illustration of what can be done
with Strawberries in this locality. He
said that it was no uncommon occur
renee for grower to receive $500 IA
acre gross receipts for his strawberry
crop, and said that whereas the bank
deposits of Selbyville were 100000
in 1918, they are today more than
81 100000 and that this is entirely
due to the strawberry crop.