The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-12-31
HERE AND FHEigM

Items of interest prepared by Del
Mar-va Eastern Shore Association.
Kent county enjoys the distinction
of being the home of Maryland's
champion cow. She is Bess Cloth
idle Pontiac Burke, 677,S79, and is
owned by Norman Pennington, of
Kennedyville, one of the leading
members of the Kent Boys All
Calf Club. Young Pennington be-
came, a member of the Kent Boys
Calf Club in 1921 and shortly after
ward his first club heifer was Bess,
which he purchased from his father,
Edgar H. Pennington, prominent
Holstein breeder, for $65 made from
growing tomatoes. At the age of 3
years Bess, which had won blue
ribbons at Maryland State fairs for
the best in her class, as well as at
other exhibits, broke the State
record for a seven-day milk test, her
mark being 1855 pounds of butter
and 606.1 pounds of milk So far
as is known by County Agent
Horace B. Derrick, this has never
equaled in Maryland.
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Seven miles of State Highway will
be paved with concrete in Northamp-
ton county in 1927. This addition
will greatly attract tourists to the
Eastern Shore of Virginia and the
Del-Mar-Va Peninsula.
The State of Delaware has con
cluded it's road building for this
year. Ninety-four miles of road
were built. The years work in
Guided So miles of concrete, five
miles of sand asphalt, 10 miles Of
Stag road, 101a miles of road widen
ing, and an eighth of a mile of
amiesite.
The new $4,000 armory was for
maily opened in Centreville on the
evening of December 23 by Company
tx" First Infantry Maryland Ma
tional Guard. The opening was
marked by large Christmas
Military Bail.
According to plans now being
made, E. E. Walton, who recently
purchased property on the Chesa-
peake Bay side of Love Point, has
formally named the location Wal
tona Beach," and is planning the
opening of new resort by next
season.
Ocean City will have modern
ocean pier next season with front
portion of the pier containing a
theatre and bowling alley. This
section of the pier will seat 1000
people. The pier will ex t n d
$50 feet into the ocean, the
whole project costing approximately
$15O,OOO.
Commercial fig growing in the
Del-Mar-Va Peninsula is at last
beyond the experimental stage.
Wallace Quinn, of Crisfield, produc-
ed enough figs this season to encour-
age him to put in this fall from 40
to 60 acres and to arrange for a
preserving factory next season. Figs
have been grown on the Del-Mar-Va
Peninsula since colonial days but
this endeavor of Mr.. Quinn's is the
first known commercial project.
John H. Chambers, of Bloomfield
Farm" near Centreville, captured
the first place in the corn growing
contest. sponsored this year by the
firm of E. s. Valiant & Son, with
a production record of lib bushels
of yellow dent per acre.
Muskrat trappers are preparing
for the opening of the season on
January l. Much activity is found
in the counties of Maryland along the
Chesapeake Bay, where this industry
has become very extensive and
remunerative.
The Agricultural Committee of
the Salisbury Wicomico Chamber OF
Commerce is sponsoring through
w. Upshur Polk, Superintendent of
the Baltimore, Chesapeake 4 At
lantic Railway Company, the opera
zion of Livestock Train" over that
division within the next few weeks
The train will be operated from one
terminal of the Division to the
other, making stops in various towns
anroute to exhibit specimens of
borough bred AYRSHIRE, Guernsey
erssy and Holstein. Plans are on
cot fo~ the operation OF similar
rain on the Norfolk Division of the
pennsylvania Railroad and it is be
eyed that any future trips are de-
pendent upon the success of the
,-st.
Students of Washington College,