Milford chronicle., 1924-05-23
SUSSEX SOY BEAN GROWERS
ORGANIZE
Selling VIII Be On Business Lines,
Based On Accurate Estimates Of
Crops.


Farmers of lower Delaware will
start seeding their soy bean crOI
within the next two weeks and the
acreage this year is expected to bt
the largest in the history of the cOun-
ty.
A meeting of the growers will be
held at Rogers school, near Stockley
this week, at which time a movement
will be started by the County Exten-
sion Department, to ascertain the ac-
reage that will be planted this year.
in order that pools may be formed this
winter and next spring and market
established for the entire crop.
The little village of StOckley, four
miles south of Georgetown, is in the
heart of the soy bean region, and last
year, within a radius of few miles
of Georgetown, the acreage was be-
tween $4,000 and 100000; which result
ed in the yielding of thousands of
bushels.
A complete survey as to the acre
age will be made by County Agent
MOllOy c. Vaughn throughout Sussex
county within the next five weeks, and
before harvesting time, crop report
ers will give an estimate from the
various localities as to the possible
yield expected, and make reports to
the County Extension Department
which will be in position to advise the
growers what disposition to make of
the beans.
Threshermen will be asked tore
port the number of bushels they
thresh and with all of these agencies
working together, it is believed that
the Farm Bureau will be in position
to ascertain the entire crop yield for
the season. The crop reporters will
give their estimates a month before /
harvesting time and with this data in
hand the Extension Department will .
have something upon which to base .
an estimate as to the quantity that .
may be supplied the big seed dealers |
of the country.
The soy bean pool conducted by the
Sussex County Farm Bureau during
February of this year clearly demon
strated to the growers the advantage
of cooperation in marketing.
At that time the market price was
bean growers was called and it was
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able.
The Executive Committee of the
Sussex County Farm Bureau sought
the services of w. F. Allen, a well
known Seaford broker, to act as sales
agent and market the pool. Mr.. Allen
gave his services free of charge to the
cooperative project, and 2500 bushels !
of beans were disposed of in the first
pool; the price received being $3.25
per bushel. Three hundred bushels I
were sold for $340 per bushel, while a
several of the growers who entered S
the pool managed to dispose of their G
crop for $500. While in the pool, no I
objection was made to the individuals /
selling when they received their price. d
The result of the advanced prices t
received by the pools has so stimulat-
ed an interest in the crop that larger f
acreages will be grown and the coop O
erative plan carried out on much G
larger scale this year than was the 6
crop of last season. C
The ground work is already being b
laid, and within few months plans e
are going to be worked out for the Il
formation of a Sussex County Soy
Bean Association, which will certify P
The seed and have three large storage ii
houses erected in the county, which B
will be of sufficient capacity to handle B
if necessary-th entire crop of
,eans grown in lower Delaware bi
The warehouses will probably be of
,uilt in Georgetown, Seaford and fiji
4aurel. and will be under the direc- st
ion of the Association. "
recorded TransferS of Sussex Prop W. W.
erty ro
Realty transfers reported through ~
ut Sussex county during the past n.
eek are as follows: -. ~
Willard H. Handy, of Seaford, to -
erman F. and Ida H. Handy, also of nj,
eafOrd, 81 acres, in Seaford district, vo
4 road from Seaford to Reliance, &c. su
10. arr m
Elizabeth w. Brown of Seaford to vel
aTy B. TomlinsOn of Seaford district bic
small lot at Seaford, $1OO. vol
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred r. Bowden of in
ades to Mrs. Lille V. Fleetwood, al ]
of Blades, building lot on corner of agt
highway and Sixth in
rect, at Blades, $3.50. ter
'Ormer Congressman Hiram r. Bur- \
n of Lewes to Joseph Seymore, also tfol
Lewes, lot on Fourth street, Lewes, of
25 Sa,
Joseph L. Cahall, administrator of pie
illiam Irving Mace to Joshua Ed plet
lrd Mcdowell and Charles Mac \
well, one half interest in las acres ner
land, located in Seaford and North in
st Fork Districts, $3475. T
Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac o. Taylor, of fine
lrlOck, Md. to Joshua Edward Mac pre-
well and Charles Mcdowell, one R
If interest in 145 acres of land, To- has
led in SeafOrd and Northwest Fork pas
tricts, $500. o
James E. Satterfeld, of Cedar son
eek District, to Darland V. Smith E. /
i Grace E. Smith, also of Cedar o.
eek District, tract of land on road Seal
m Milford to StaytOnsville, Cedar and
eek district, $4,000. Oh
lanes E. Satterfeld, Cedar Creek Ter ,
trict, to Arthur J. and Dorothy B. Dav
BIB, also of Cedar Creek district, 20 II
acres with Improvements, on road and
m Staytonsville, to Hendricks lie s
|, in Cedar Creek district $4,000. baby
William Deputy, executor of Will Nj
n Fowler, late of Cedar Creek dis ago
It, to Charles S. Calhoun, of erat