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Milford chronicle., 1924-08-08
FARMER RECAININC
ECONOMIC PLACE.
BANKER DECLARES
{. R. TitlOw Addresses Five Hun.
dred Agrarians AT Univer-
sity Of Delaware.
ORDEAL Is NOW PASSED
George E. Farrell Calls Delaware
A Great State In Which To
Live.

The University of Delaware Ex-
iperlmental Station and grounds was
the scene of activities of some $500
farmers, together with their wives.
VINO took part in the program of
Farmers Day, an annual affair in
the department of agriculture on
Tuesday.
Z. r. Titlow, president of the Fed
eral Farm Loan Bank, Baltimore, in
his address, declared the farmer is
steadily regaining his place in the
economic world and prophesied the
continuation of this progress. The
morning was taken up with various
tours of inspection under the direc-
tiOn of members of the Agricultural
College Staff.
Mr.. TitlOw, said in part: "No other
business or group of business men
could have gone through what the
farmer has gone through
during the past four years and come
out of the ordeal with any degree of
safety. The test has been one of the |
most trying at any time in the his
tory of this country and only for the |
of the operating expense
Of the farmer and of his willingness
70 do with the most dire necessities
mas he been able to succeed.
Economists" said the speaker,
have offered everything for the ills
If the farming business and have
gone the length and breadth of the
and with panacea for every i'll.
some have advocated legislature
,ure, saying that Congress should
egulate matters that the farmer
nay have his business placed on a
aging basis; other shouted diversi-
Lcation of the farmer of "do not put
II of your eggs in the same basket
nd you will always have something
hat will sell at a reasonable profit"
t the same time other wOuld-be re- I
1rmers were saying specialize. In t
he industrial world experts are I
aIrying on business successfully, he S
aid. Why not the farmer? Again the c
economist told the farmer there I
ere too many little farms to be op- c
rated with any degree of financial F
access; that they should combine n
n economic reasons, and on the p
lme breath he told farmers that the
ouble was that the farms were too S
rye, that they, should be of size d
,nvenient for one man to handle.
continued on page seven) K
Milford chronicle., 1924-08-08
Board OfAgriculture Makes
Rules For Poultry Business
Certified Hatcheries And Accredited FZocks
Are PrOUided For In NetU Regulations
Just Formulated By State Board.

Realizing that the day-old chick
business is becoming an important
industry in Delaware and that this
business as organized and carried on
by few unscrupulous dealers and
hatcheries in the United States, con-
stitutes a menace to the poultry in
dustry of the State of Delaware, by
selling and offering for sale infer
iOr chicks of poor quality or mixed
breeding, and that many breeders
and hatcheries within the State who
are exerting every effort to maintain
the quality of their products at a
high grade are forced into unfair
competition with this class of stock;
the State Board of Agriculture has
established the following rules and
regulations for f1Ocks~and hatcheries
in Delaware which are to be known
as Delaware Certified Hatcheries
and Accredited FlOcks.
Rules and Regulations For Certified
HatcherieS
Any and all hatcheries operated
within the State of Delaware will be
puDllSQeu upon the C6TJlueQ llSL, |
provided, upon inspection by an au-
.horized inspector of the State Board |
Of Agriculture, it is found to meet !
he requirements and maintains the
'ules as hereinafter set forth
throughout the Matching season. Re
Inspection will be made from time to
ime.
1. No eggs other than those pro-
duced by Accredited Flocks, duly
inspected and passed by an au-
thorized inspector of the State
Board of Agriculture shall be
used to produce chicks for sale,
and Certified Hatcheries must
use eggs from Accredited Flocks
only.
2. No chicks bearing the trade
mark of the State Board of Ag- i.
riculture shall be sold for re-
sale as day-old chicks.
B. Containers used for the ship )
ment of chicks must be approx
ed by the inspector and contain
Milford chronicle., 1924-08-08
4O-MZLE TRAIN
OF DYNAMITE
Would Be Required To Transport
The Du POnt COmpany's
Record Contract.

The &. 1. du Pont de Nemours ,nd
Company Of Wilmington. has enteroJ -,J
lnto contract with the United
states Department of Agriculture for
the manufacture of one hundred mil
lion pounds of explosive known &c
pyrotol, from surplus war materials
II would require a freight train for
" miles long, if hauled at one time
to move this huge amount Of exnIoo
sives. P1"-
Inc explosive. which will be fur-
nlshed to the State highway com
missions through the Bureau of p,1b
lie Roads of the Department of 40
IicuIture for use in road construc-
tlon' VIII also be furnished to the
farmers of the country for clearin@
land, and will be distributed through
the State agricultural colleges. The
Department has announced that If
will not accept individual orders.
The explosive will be packed 50
pounds to the box and containing $50
cartridges to the box. The No. 6 dv-
1amite cap is to be used with this
explosive.
1t was stated at the department
hat the price of the pyrotol will
vary according to the point of pro
luction, owing to the difference in
reight rates. The principal point
# distribution in this part of the
ountry will be from Repauno, New
ersey. Other points of production
7ill be at Barksdale, Wisconsin, and
uPont, Washington, it is stated.
Milford chronicle., 1924-08-08
GRANGE FAIR HERE
SEPTEMBER 1920
Committees Have Been Announced
To Plan For Milford Grange
Fair This Year.

The Milford Grange Fair will be
held in the new Grange Hall on Fri
day and Saturday, September 10 and
20 this year. The grangers hope to
make the affair this year more elab-
crate than any yet held by them, and
with this in view have appointed ac-
tive committees to work for the fair.
AS has been the custom in the past
the display and exhibits of poultry
will form large portion of the fair
this year. Milford being in the centre
of the poultry industry of the State
it is only logical that the poultry
pens should be attractive drawing
cards for the fair. The committees
as announced follow:
Booth Building-Fred Corbett, L.
N. Hearn, N. B. Downing, Howard
Hager, c. NJ. Vibbert, Oliver Balsley,
J. G.. Elliott.
POlice-Henry Clark.
Fancy Work-Mrs. c. e. Grove,
Mrs. H. Hager, Miss E. Barker, Mrs.
Medford Jones, Miss Mearns, Mrs.
Meeker, Miss NJ. Num-, Mrs. ]. S.
Purnell, Mrs Walter Reed, Miss NJ.
Roosa, Miss Anna Ryder, Mrs. Annie
Mrs. Chas. Barker, Mrs. o.
Mrs. F. Corbett, Mrs. N. B.
Mrs. E. Hudson, Mrs. c.
Mrs. G. Higman, Mrs.
E. j. Lewis, Miss Helen Lewis, Mrs.
Titus, Mrs. J. Temin, Mrs. Fred
Smith, Mrs Howard Sapp, Mrs. Har-
" Van Kirk.
Salad-Mrs. w. E. Lank, Miss Car
lie Houston, Mrs. S. P. Griffith, Mrs.
Farber, Mrs. Mag, Mrs. Sammons,
Mrs. A. B. Peet, Mrs. Elliott, Miss
2Oosa, Mrs. J. H. RoOsa.
Bake-Mrs. A. E. Num-, Mrs. H. R.
4emex. Mrs. Jos. Calhoun, Mrs. How
rd Moore, Mrs. A. B. Peet, Mrs. J.
J. Roberts, Mrs. Eliza Bennett, Mrs.
luther Cubbage, Mrs. J. G. Davis,
Irs. J. ]. Deputy, Mrs. Mark Tat
nan, Mrs. Mary Watson, Mrs. Jas.
Warner, Mrs. Mary Warren, Mrs.
larie Carre. :
CONTINUED on page seven) ]
Milford chronicle., 1924-08-08
S. c. R. 1. REDS AT FAIR

The first cock bird was a big long
bodied bird, well supported by pair
of strong legs, with low well furnish
ed tail of glossy green color. He was
decidedly the best bird that has been
shown in Delaware for many years.
This fine bird has broadest back and
widest tail-this tail is completely
covered by a profusion of lesser sic
kles. His color is rich dark brilliant
red with a very bright sheen. His
undercOlor is strong hot red and alb
solutely sound and his hackle is a
perfect blend. The judges final re-
marks were: "a most wonderful bird
will hold his own in the strongest
competition.
The above bird is owned and was
exhibited by DR.. Roberts of Milford,
and will head his pen Xxx of breed
ers this coming season.
Milford chronicle., 1924-08-08
Scientists Killing Beetles
By Parasites And Poisons
Sprays Proved Effective In RiUerton Orchard
Without Harnaing Fruit -EntonoIOgists OPP
tin1istic After Day Of Investigation.

Ways to control the Japanese bee.
tie have been found.
That was announced when the
Northeast EntOmologists met at Riv-
ertOn, N. j., last week. A call was
sounded for every one to help con-
quer this dangerous insect invasion
from Japan.
The scientific visitors, from all the
States east of Michigan and north of
Virginia, passed the day journeying
along the battle front where success
full war is being waged against the
destructive invader.
Because the invading hosts had
succeeded in crossing the Delaware,
aided by favOring wind, an embar-
go was ordered against all ship
ments of fruit, flowers, vegetables or
nursery stock from Philadelphia ex-
cept to points within the 700 square
miles in Southern New Jersey, Nor
thern Delaware and Southeastern
Pennsylvania, where the japanese
beetle already has established itself.
Loren B. Smith, in command of the
United States Governments fight on
the beetle, hopes the ban may be
temporary.
Balls of Beetles
The entomologists trudged in the
hot sun, down long orchard rows
near Riverton, where the technique
)f the war against the insects is be-
ng worked out.
In the trees in one row were point
I'd out greenish-gold balls, hanging
rom the Ibis. Plucked, each ball
suddenly took wing-5OO or 600 bee
les flying off and revealing beneath
partly-eaten peach. The leaves of
hese trees were riddled. There the
Milford chronicle., 1924-08-08
NOTED GRANGER
VISITING DELAWARE
Louis J. Taber, Master Of Nati-
Onal Grange, To Make Three
Addresses In State. =

Louis J. Taber, of Columbus, o.,
master of the National Grange, Pa
irons of Husbandry, arrived in Will
mington on Wednesday to attend a
series of meetings of the Pomona
Grange of the three counties. Mr..
Taber addressed the New Castle
County Pomona Grange at the State
Fair Grounds on Thursday after
noon. The grange held an all-day
picnic.
Robert P. Robinson, master of the
State Grange, presided and intro
duced Mr.. Taber.
On Friday, Mr.. Taber and Mr..
Robinson will address the Kent
County Pomona Grange on the lawn
Of S. H. Derby at Woodside and on
they will address the Sus-
sex County Grange at meeting in
Oak Orchard.
Mr.. and Mrs. Taber and their two
will be the guests of Mr..
md Mrs. Robinson while they are
,isiting in this State.
Milford chronicle., 1924-08-08

ers of a make approved by thu
international Baby Chick AssO
citation shall be the basis of ap
pTOval.
4. All incubators must be thor.
Oughly disinfected after eacE
hatch and every effort shall be
eXerted by the accredited hatch
cry to produce only healthy and
high quality chicks.
5. The following records must be
kept by each certified hatchery:
(a) The number, variety, name
and address of purchaser, and
the date of each shipment of ac-
credited chicks. (b) A complete
list of their accredited flocks in
spected and passed by the State
Board of Agriculture. (c) Num-
ber of eggs purchased from cer-l
titled hatchery fOcks.
6. The following listed reports and
such other special reports as the
State Board of Agriculture may
find it necessary to require from
time to time must be filed with
that Department. (a) Number of
chicks sold bearing the State
Trade Mark. (b) Copy of all ad-
vertising in which mention of
the State Board of Agriculture is
made. This shall be filed prev
ious to the publication or circu-
latiOn thereof.
Upon complaint of the violation of
hese rules and regulations when the |
State Board of Agriculture has good |
'eason to believe there has been
uch a violation by any hatchery up
N the certified list, a hearing shall
De granted and if in the opinion of
he State Board of Agriculture such
Procedure is justified, they shall be
ropped from the certified list and
he reason or reasons for such ac-
ion published. No individual or hat
hery who is dropped from this list
hall have the right to use further
upplies purchased through this de-
CONTINUED on page seVen)
Milford chronicle., 1924-08-08
PAGEANT PARADE AT
FAIR WAS INTERESTING
Prizes We're Awarded For Best
Floats And DispIays--MiIfOrd
Club A Winner.

The parade and pageant, depicting
the agricultural progress of Della
ware, held at the Kent-Sussex Fair
Friday noon, August 1st, extended
entirely around the half mile race
track and included more than so
floats and walking groups with a to-
tai OF 300 farmers, boys and girls
club members and vocational agri-
cultural students. Despite threaten
ing weather the largest crowd ever
attending the Fair in the forenoon
was on hand to witness the parade,
which barring a few accidents to
floats started on time promptly at
1880. The parade and pageant was
under the general supervision of the
Agricultural Extension Service of
the University of Delaware, which
celebrated on this occasion the COM
pletion of the first decade of extern
sion work in the state. The long pa
rade passed in review twice before
the filled grandstand and the crowd
ed race track to give the public full
opportunity to view The educational
floats and to allow the judges time
to finish their difficult task of plac-
ing the pl:zes. One of the prominent
fair officials was heard to remark,
this is the biggest and best thing
which has been put on in lower Del
aware in many a day" The prizes |
$50000 were offered by
he Kent-Sussex Fair Association.
The parade was headed by the
oenn's Grove Band followed by the |
lanticoke Indians in full dress in
,harge of Chief Russell Clark, the
iff1cials of the University Extension
the State Board of Agricul-
CONTINUED on page y
Milford chronicle., 1924-08-08
AUTHORITIES HOPE
TO PREVENT RURAL
SCHOOL HARDNESS
Half OF Grammar School Pupils
In Rural Schools Start Late
Each Year.
VISITING TEACHERS BUSY
Will Visit Farm Homes During
Aug. And Urge Parents To Send
Children To School Promptly.

4 Plans for campaign to improve
the attendance of rural schools of
delaware are being made by mem
Ders OF the State Board of Education.
Due TO shortage in farm labor, too
many pupils, according to officials of
the Board, are either tardy or abb
sent from school sessions.
With a view to remedying these
conditions, DR.. H. V. Holloway, State
Supervisor of Education, conferred
with DR.. Richard Watson Cooper,
director of the education bureau of
the Service Citizens, and four visit
ing teachers, Mrs. N. B. Mousley,
Wilmington; Miss Leila Thomas, Do
yer, Mrs. H. B. Lewis, Laurel, and
Miss Edith Jones, Georgetown.
1t was decided that the visiting
teachers should begin their yearly
duty '0f calling at the homes of de-
linquent pupils at once and not wait
until school sessions are begun in
September.
According to data assembled and
compiled by DR.. Cooper one out of |
every two boys and one out of every |
three girls in the rural districts of |
the State are from one to thirty-five
days or more late in starting for
school and during the Fall and
Spring school terms. Fifty-eight per
cent of the boys and forty-two per
cent of the girls in One-room rural
schools have been found to be late in
getting to school, thus retarding the
general standing of the States edu-
,ational system.
The chief reasons given besides
needed at home for work on the
arm" are parents Indifference,
,ther work, illness and out-of-town.
Truancy, poverty, quarantine and
play very small part
n the non-attendance. t
At least one-third of all white {
chool children in the State reside in
o-called strictly rural districts, t
5hich do not include such towns as {
Georgetown, Laurel and S
CONTINUED on page seven)
Milford chronicle., 1924-08-08
DAGSBORO WINNER
In WELL PLAYED GAME
Milford Boys Put Up Game Fight
But ScOtt's Pitching Held Them
At Bay--MiItOn Tomorrow.

The Milford boys journed to Days
bOro last Saturday where they met
defeat by the hands of that team in
well played game, by the score of
4 to 0. The local ball tossers played
snappy game and showed Dagsboro
that they had to play ball to win.
Considering the fact that DagsbOrO
has team that plays almost every
day and has pitcher who formerly
played with Easton in the Eastern
Shore League, the local boys played
good ball and deserved a better fate.
The 4 to 0 score doesn't tell all
the story as DagsbOro had several
good breaks which let at least three
of the four runs in. Once Steele
threw over second base, which let in
run, and once on a force play at
the plate Lynch's throw hit a run
ner in the back, which more than
likely would have resulted in a dou-
BILE play, thus retiring the side with
out a run.
Scott, for Dagsboro, pitched
a very good game-sixteen of the To-
cal boys tanning the breeze. Baynum
also pitched a good game, but his |
team mates couldn't touch Scott.
Milton will be here tomorrow, Sat-
lrday, and a good game is promised.
This is the first game here in two
weeks and the fans should come out
and show the local boys that they
ire back of them and will always be
f they keep on fighting like they did
asst Saturday. Local fans want to
Zee the old fighting spirit and if the
DOys fight like they did at Dagsboro,
he fans will be assured of good
anne. So come out ye fans and show
he boys that you are with them in
efeat as well as victory.
The score:
Milford chronicle., 1924-08-08
BOYS ARRIVE AT
PLATTSBURG FOR
MONTHS TRAINING
Delaware Boys Are To Be Found
In Each Company For The
Month Of August.
MILFORD IS REPRESENTED
Local Boys Are Entering Into
Spirit Of The Course With
Much Energy,

Delaware boys from all sections of
the State have taken advantage of
the opportunity offered them by the
United States government to secure
a months outing and at the same
time be instructed in the rudiments
of military life. The August quotas
were filled some time ago, and on
Saturday the boys from the Diamond
State commenced to arrive at Platts-
burg for their training period. AS
these youngsters, with their airs of
military knowledge and self impOr-
tance, were assigned to their several
companies and quarters on the open
ing day. They are just 5000 raw re-
cruits, excellent specimens of Am
erican boyhood. Before they leave
for their homes, however, they will
be 5000 soldiers, standing revielle,
lining up for Chow" polishing rifles
and in a thousand other ways acting
just as our men did when, six years
ago, this country called upon them
and sent them to far off France.
Delaware's representatives in this |
formidable and invincible army of |
young men are:
First Battalion
Company A-Donald F. Shockley,
Milford; Louis E. Wilkinson, Del
mar; George T. Reed, Jr., Milford;
William A. Spicer, Laurel; James
Strausburg, Milford; Edward J.
Scanlon, Dover; Hugh Martin, Jr.,
Bridgeville; Vance A. Neugebauer,
George G. Galloway,
Laurel; James S. Smith, Wilmington.
Company B-Walter V. Johnson,
Houston; William D. Kelleher, Will :
mington; James A. Kelley, Delmar;
Albert A. Novinski, Wilmington;
L. Cahall, Harrington;
James W. Cannon, Milford.
Company Crank H. Clement,
Harrington H. Burgess,
harrington; william L. Hill, George
own.
Company D-Claude Denney, Mil
Continued on page seven)
Milford chronicle., 1924-08-08
BEETLES FOUND IN WILMINGTON

Two Japanese beetles, the first
found in Delaware, were brought in
to the Office of the Beetle Bureau in
the Federal Building last Wednes-
day by William Volko, 101 East
Fourth street, Wilmington, who pick
ed them from an empty truck bear
ing New Jersey license tag. The in
sects were turned over to R. R.
Geer, superintendent of field forces. Z
Milford chronicle., 1924-08-08

hungry beetles, each a third of an
inch long, brilliant greenish-gold
and extremely handsome-had been
feeding, too.
But the encouraging part of the in
spection journey was that the leaves
of the trees in the adjoining rows
showed scarcely a nibble, the peach
es still were lustrOus and unharmed.
The explanation was that one row
had been left unsprayed, while the
peach trees in the next row had been
sprayed with arsenate of lead, in the
proportion of two or three pounds to
fifty gallons of water. Apple trees,
with tougher foliage, had been spray
ed with four pounds of the chemical
to fifty gallons of water. Eighty-five
per cent of the beetles that eat
leaves thus sprayed die from the
poison.
Apples Fit to Eat
''Will I die like the beetles if 1 eat
this apple?" asked one non-entomo-
logical member of the expedition,
regarding a tempting apple
picked up from under a tree.
mot unless you eat bushel," was
he reassuring answer-fOr the
offers no menace to eaters
If the fruit.
Another valuable campaign meas
Ire against the Japanese beetles
vas escribed-introduct of par
site insects from Japan.
One reason why these beetles have
multiplied so rapidly since their ac-
idental introduction into New Jer-
ey some nine years ago is that the
atural parasites which keep their t
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Milford chronicle., 1924-08-08
BIG THURSDAY AT BOWERS

The second Thursday in August,
the 18th, will be Big Thursday at
Bowers Beach. The third Thursday
in August, the 21st, will be Big
Thursday at SLAUGHTER Beach.
Milford chronicle., 1924-08-08
MILFORD
Totals ~.

2 base hit: Litzinger. Double plays
.-Denney to Johnson to Gibson;
Kirby to Denney. Struck out: by
Baynum z; by Scott 16. Base on
balls: off Baynum 1; off Scott 1. Hit
by pitcher: by Baynum (Smoot).
Umpire-Clendani
CONTINUED on page 10)
Milford chronicle., 1924-08-08
OBITUARY
BEHLES

DLIll4ILC
Mrs. Theresa Bellies, wife of An
drew Bellies, died at her home in
Lincoln City, Saturday morning, Au-
gust 2, 1924. Funeral was held on
Tuesday Morning at St. Johns Cath
olic Church, Milford. Interment made
in Holy Cross cemetery, Dover.
LENT
Clarence A. Lent died at the home
of his daughter, Mrs. Geo. Dieter, of
WOodmere. Long Island, on July Is,
1924, after an illness of more than
two years. Mr.. Lent was 70 years of
age and a veteran of the Civil War.
He is survived by one son, Victor N.
Lent of Sorrento, Fla, and three
daughters, Mrs. Bernice Hartford, of
Stamford, Conn; Mrs. Guy Vande-
roef of Richmond, Va. and Mrs Geo.
Dieter with whom he made his home.
He resided near Milford for several
years and will be remembered by
members of the Grange and other
friends.
SIMPSON
Emma Hester Simpson, wife of
William l. Simpson, died at the home
of her son, George NJ. Simpson, on
morning, August 5, 1924, in
the list year of her age. She was the |
daughter of William and Comfort |
Jane Pierce and was born February
q, 1854; a sister of Mrs. Thomas F.
Hammersley and Annie J. Pierce,
DR.. ]. o., William Nutter and George
Fisher Pierce, all deceased. She is
survived by her husband and three
sons, ]. Pierce, George NJ. and 1.
Thomas Simpson. Funeral services
will be held this afternoon from the
home of her son, George NJ. Simpson.
nterment will be made at Odd Eel
ows' cemetery.
Milford chronicle., 1924-08-08

There will be festival at Slaugh-
ter Neck M. E. Church Grove, Thurs
day and Friday evening, August IA
and Is. Proceeds for the church. All
are invited.
Milford chronicle., 1924-08-08
NUPTLALS
CHANEY-HOLSTON

Mr.. Chester L. Clancy and Miss
Frances NJ. Holston, both of Milford,
were married on Saturday evening,
August 2, 1924, by Rev. G. P. Smith,
at his residence in Dover.
Milford chronicle., 1924-08-08
FESTIVAL IN SLAUGHTER NECK

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