Milford chronicle., 1922-10-13
BANKERS AND FARM
ERSOF SUSSEX COUNTY
ARE HOLDING JOINT MEETINGS NEAR
LEWES-DISCUSS FARMING AND
FINANCE PROBLEMS.
MEETINGS WELL ATTENDED
INTERESTING AND INSTRUCTIVE TALKS
WERE MADE BY SEVERAL LEADING
BANKERS AND FARMERS.

county was given a wonderful bOOs
last week at Cedar Grove Schoo
House, near Lewes, where the SUISSE,
trust Company staged the second o
its series of agricultural Booste
Meetings" Between seven and eigh
hundred people were in attendance
and eagerly listened to the practi
cal addresses on subjects of vital in
terest to improved farming and com
munity building.
1t was an out of doors meeting
-Four big blazing camp fires on rus.
tic pedestals, seating arranged camp
meeting style in the grove about the
school, with big crowd, inspirations
al music and a beautiful moonlight
night made it a picturesque and en-
Joyable meeting. The social features
consisted of instrumental music by
Brinser's Orchestra: l. S. Brinser and
S. G. Pierce, trombOnes; c. T. Peter
son, violin; Harold Hooker, cornetist;
VIM. Hooker, banjo; and Miss Mil
dred Prettyman, pianist, Vocal selec-
tion by a double male quartet,
Messrs. Samuel c. Pierce, VIM. T.
Roach, James E. Magee, George C.
Chambers, Jos. L. Marshall, Samuel
Marshall, Harvey Phillips and Thos.
R. Ingram, caught the crowd and
were called a number of times. Lun-
cheOn of ice cream and cake was SER
we'd following the program.
Thos. R. Ingram, cashier of the
Sussex Trust Company, opened the
meeting and among other things stat
ed, the purpose of the bank in having
these meetings to be that of putting
our section on the agricultural and
business maps of the county. He said
the more the bank considered the mat
ter of farm developments, the greater
the vision of its possibilities in this
section, and also expressed apprecia-
tiOn of the interest and cooperation
of the farmers.
M. o. Pence, county agent leader
of Newark, detailed the plan of the
farm survey to be held in this COM
munity in December, under the aus
pices of the University of Delaware.
One of the principal speakers was
A. L. Cooley, County Agent of Glou-
chester county, New Jersey, on the
subject, How we grow tomatoes in
Jersey" This address was delivered in
was closely followed by the farmers.
He grew crop of Jersey tomatoes
right on the rostrum, giving every
minute detail from preparation of
seed bed to the marketing of the crop.
He advocated growing an early crop,
for the big money. His address will
doubtless prove great local benefit
in tomato growing.
Edward Willum, of Dover, gave a
talk on the Farmer and cooperative
canning" incidentally adding his ex-
perience in successful grape growing. !
His opinion summed up was, that the |
farmer would get the most satisfac- |
tory results, by being his own can
ner, and he was very ably backed up |
in this opinion by the experience of |
the Dover farmers, told by Mr.. Sny-
der; who, himself is a farmer and al
so secretary and treasurer of the Do
yer Farmers Cooperative Cannery.
Harvey Hastings, grower and deal
er in sweet potatoes at Laurel, gave
some of his experience in growing
them, and had on exhibition slip seed
and his marketable potatoes. The
crowd was interested and many ques-
tions on growing the sweets was ask
ed the speaker.
Ex-Gov. John G. Townsend, Jr.,
spoke on the Gamers relation to
Grower" This was a popular theme
and the address revealed to the grow
ers many of the conditions confront
ing the Gamer, out of which grew I
much of the misunderstanding and I
between the Gamer s
and farmer. Among the very peril t
lent things said by the governor, one /
vas, that Sussex county would either a
nave to produce more tons of tOma- i
oes per acre, or discard the tomato a
,rop. He backed his statement with F
he fact, that the production of 1if- n
cen to twenty tons per acre in the G
vest, gave the western growers and Il
anners so much advantage in the
market, that Sussex county would be
Inable to compete and be- eliminated
rom the market. He further sug-
.ested direct dealing of Gamer and
armer, eliminating the costly middle q
nan.
DR.. U. w. Hooker, director of the
jussex Trust Company, spoke on the :, L
ubject, Growers relation to the Can
er," or the opposite side of the ques-
ion from Gov. Townsend, and sue r.
eeded in showing that most Of the a
grew out of condition NJ
under the present plan
marketing the products. He fur W
ler urged business methods in farm e7
lg, and suggested complete cost ac- te
ounting of the three year average of
rowing a crop, thereby putting a Sc
roducer in position to know what he IT
IN sell for and make profit. he
County Agent M. C. Vaughan re- he
1rted on lime tests of a dozen or
ore local farms and urged the far u
ers to use the test as a basis for 90 90
cal lime treatment. ~
Prof. Tnos. Entwistle, of Milton, So. Eo
He'd attention to the fact, that many 70 70
rmers in surrounding districts were 90
anting extremely poor seed wheat. ..
e has tested out quite a lot of the gi
ed being used and found it infer u
r grain. demonstrating the folly of nc
ch planting. Vi
The business people of .Lewes are
ing aroused to the Importance of We
ese meetings and quite a few of
em were in attendance.
Many visitors were present from
lton, Georgetown, Laurel, Milford -,
d Dover. ~ ~
The date and place of the third Oc
,o+i,,er ,of fha series. which will con- Dll