Milford chronicle., 1926-08-20
HERE and THERE ON The
DEL-MAR-VA PENINSULA
Items of Interest Prepared By Del
Mar-Ya Eastern Shore Association.

Mar-Va Eastern Shore Association.
H. A. Littleton, cashier of the Ac-
comac Banking Company, BlOxom,
Va, offers the following as authen-
tic information in remaining irish
cobbler potatoes: 1.-THE first potatoes
known to the Old World were taken
to England from Roanoke Island, tit-
ty miles from Elizabeth City, N. c.,
by Raleigh's cOlonists. Later the
crop was grown successfully in Ire
land from which place it derived its
name, Irish Cobbler."
While not generally known per-
haps, the farmer on the Del-Mar-Na
Peninsula has no idle months. Dur
ing the winter lettuce and other
green vegetables may be ground un-
der glass and winter plowing, corn
shucking and manuring of burrows
is carried out.
During the last eight years soy
beans have become very important
crop in the Del-Mar-Va Eastern
Shore. The seed brings a good price
and the vines plowed under provide
a splendid fertilizer. The average
soy bean takes but IS days to ma
ture and soy bean hay makes excel
lent cattle feed.
Distribution of permanently i'm
proved highways on the Del-Mar-Va
Peninsula, based OH figures obtained
previous to worw of this present sea-
son show Delaware to lead with 7z6
miles; Maryland with 579 and the
two Virginia counties with Al.
Samuel B. Field, president of
Stuart, Keith and Company, Balti-
more, Md, holds the original King
George grant to the whole of ASA
league Island which will probably
become an important point in the
proposed Ocean Boulevard from
Lewes to Chincoteague.
The largest single block of apple
trees in the world-1,000 acre--is
owned by the Townsend Orchard
Company, near Bridgeville. This or
chard was formerly the property OF
the Delaware Apple Company and is
located on the Bridgeville-GeOrge-
town State Highway, five miles east
of Bridgeville. It contains 10000
trees, 10 to IA years old and the
prospects are that it will produce
this season one-quarter Of million
bushels of apples.
Inquiry has been received by the
Del-Mar-Va Eastern Shore Associa'
ton from the owner of one of the
largest foxhound packs in the coun'
try for information relative to
suitable location for fox hunting
Location must provide an opeI
stretch of approximately six square
miles with little or no wire fencing
and with a minimum of heavy under
growth and woodland.
The Del-Mar-Va Peninsula ship!
all the year round, early March;
turnip, spinach and broccoli; April;
spinach and lettuce; May: aspara
gus, strawberries; June: strawber
ries main crop; July: Irish potatoes
cucumbers, wheat; August; canta
lopes, Watermelons, apples ant
peaches, potatoes and tomatoes
September: sweet potatoes mail
crop, soy beans; October: late white
potatoes, sorghum; November: lat
white potatoes main crop; Decem
ber: holly wreaths. During the who'll
year poultry and fish are marketed
In the winter clans and oysters arr
tonged and marketed.
The bank resources Of the Del
Mar-Va Peninsula total $2O2,445,
6S6.33.
The hatchery center Of the PENN
sula is Georgetown, where 45O,0Ol
chicks are Matched every three week.
during the season.
According to the 1920 census, tn,
two Eastern Shore counties Of Vir
ginia are the richest in America al
to crop value per acre Of farm land
The DeI-Mar-Va Peninsula has ;
total shore line Of 1,750 miles. Thu
Chesapeake Bay and tributaries con
tribute 1,175, the Atlantic Ocean
Delaware Bay and Delaware Rive
575 miles.