Evening journal., 1922-01-09
SHORE FARMERS
EARN PROFITS
General Picking Up of Mar
ket foRPeninsula Profits
Seen
FARMS SUPPLIED
WITH LABOR NOW

SHARPTOWN. Md. Jan. s.--The
farming and trucking outlook on
the Peninsula has rarely been
brighter at the beginning OF the year
than az present. To start with
there are thousands OF hampers Of
sweet potatoes now selling at fair
prices, and when these are all pack
ed and shipped out it will be time
to start preparing for new crops.
The price Of fertilizer has been low
cred and freight rates very much re-
duced. and the facilities or market
ing are much improved by the intro
duction Of the motortruck.
The mechanics, laborers and
young men who rushed to the cities
a few years ago to get easy work
and high wages are now returning
seeking almost any kind OF work
Many tenant houses, idle for years,
are occupied. and men. women and
children are clinging TO the farm on
this peninsula as never before.
Again wages have been greatly re-
duced with the return OF wage-earn-
ers and farmers have no difhculty
in getting an the help they need.
and many are planning to greatly in
crease the acreage because OF the
opportunity OF getting needed labor.
The sweet potato crop still con-
tinues 20 be profitable, and with the
added experience as 10 time OF
planting and marketing, greater re-
suits may be expected The art OF
keeping has been simplihed and the
expense reduced TO minimum.
Much OF the land. especially in the
tidewater sections and toward the
ocean, seems especially adapted 10
the growth of sweet potatoes, and
the land may he planted several
years in succession with the same
good results.
Again the tomato will be largely
cultivated on the Peninsula this year
While the market has not absorbed
all the canned tomatoes. Il is active
and the general impression is that
the canneries will be run this year
at the capacity OF n few years ago
and that this will afford n convenient
market for the crop. The same ad-
vantage OF labor and reduced prices
OF fertilizers that apply to other
crops will apply to this.
Farmers. large and small. have
greatly developed the poultry bust.
ness as side lines. and this has
proven 10 add greatly to income. Tn,
soil and climate are we'll suited tc
the growth OF poultry, and so fai
/ there is almost absolute freedom
from epidemlcs among fowl. Nearly
every farmer has enlarged his poul-
try houses and extended the feeding
ground.
Added to the farmers prospects
may be included a general revival OF
timber cutting For months the
lumber mills and stave mills have
been idle owing to the low prices
prevailing, but the surplus stock is
being largely reduced and a slight
advance has been made in prices.
The factories manufacturing fruit
shipping packages have unloaded
the surplus stock and will soon be
running on fun time and with full
forces, as many dealers are already
placing large orders for packages.
For the last few years the black
berry and strawberry crops have
brought large returns and an in
creased acreage was put out last
season, and this will increase the
field products. The melon crop has
given good returns for a few years
and 1t viii receive the usual atten-
/ tioz.
with the abundance OF carpenter'
4 and mechanics returning from the
cities more building will be done thii
year than for several years past
The vast marshland, the oyster an,
grabbing waters and the fshinl
streams viii yield their good profit
as usual.