Milford chronicle., 1927-09-02
!. FARM NEWS I
For Delaware Farmers

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For Delaware Farmers
makes firmer egg shells, bring
more cash, "COd-liver-On, mixed
with mash"
Last spring some cream was sent
to Philadelphia where the City
Inspector held it for two days,
thinking that the sweetness was due
to dope. The Inspector was not
familiar with the fact that certain
Cream is absolutely sweet. When
of this, an order for eight (S) car
loads was placed.
Due to the activity of the Mexican
fruit worm, and in effort to eradi-
cate the worm, the infested area of
Texas has been quarantined by the
Department of Agriculture Regula-
tiOns have been prOpoagated where
by the shipment of all fruits, ex-
cept grape fruit and certain other
approved fruits, is prohibited from
the infested districts of Texas.
According to dispatches from
Moscow, a delegation of importers
of the State Fruit and Vegetable
Union, and the State Export and
Import Department, is on the way
to California to buy fruit packing
machinery and study California
fruit industry.
The delegation is commissioned
by the Soviet Trade COmmissiarist
to open negotiation for the sending
of American exports to Russia to
aid in the development in the me-
chanical end of the fruit industry
there.
An editorial in The Washington
Post of August Is, says: From
the fertile valleys of California have
come many additions to the menus
served in the East, including the
California melons come in their own
skins, and California peaches, plums
and apricOts arrive skinless and in
cans. And now the Golden State
promises an entirely novel addition
to the food supply in the form of
dehydrated sweet potatoes, ground
up into flour. This California has
accomplished through the teaching
of an expert dehydratOr. In one
of the small cities of the State the
bankers got together, secured sup
plies of sweet potato flour and in
trOduced the new bread, without ex-
PLANTATION or excuse. Since the first
batch was offered the supply has
never been equal to the demand,
and the Chamber of Commerce of
that California town is now arrang-
ing to manufacture the flour in COM
mercial quantities and to spread the
news of discovery throughout the
length and breadth of the land" /
The Department of Agriculture
has just completed a report of a
statistical review of production of
potatoes, leading markets and their
sources of supply, time and volume
of crop movement, competition in
the markets, and the extent of
market requirements as they have
occurred during the six years 1920
25, with a review to assisting in the
solution of marketing problems OF
producers of the crops.
Potatoes made up approximately
25.5 per cent of the carload ship
ment of fruits and vegetables in 1925
and had an estimated value of $685.
1927, ,O0O> or 43.5 per cent of the total
value of all fresh fruits and vege-
tables, according to the report,
which was prepared by J. W. Straw
bridge, principal marketing special
ist assistant, Division of Fruit and
Vegetables Bureau of Agricultural
II
All farmers should make Especial
effort to secure a copy of U. S. /
of Agriculture, w. M.
Jardine's recent article entitled,
Farm Prices. In this
article Secretary Jardine states
that there has been a general
thought involved in the relation of
industry to agricultural prices, but
there is ample room for improve
ment. Some sections are far behind
others in recovering from the post 1
war slump. An increase in the do ,
mestic output of given group :
from one year to the next may not
present a surplus prob !
lem, but it may be correct for our
present purpose to say that bOunti-
full harvest of given crop usually
creates a surplus problem.
The secretary offers two lines of
to a solution: first, con-
trolling surplus that is due mainly
to weather conditions: second,
through a better adjustment of pro-
duction and marketing conditions.
By the latter is meant, the adjust
ment, in kind, quality, and means of
production. He said: "In handling
surplus due to weather conditions, l
believe that much can be done
through a commodity-stabilization
corporation, operated by the farm
ers themselves, or by their market
ing organizations under the general
guidance of Federal Farm Board"
"The essential effects of such
would be to take off the
market for a time a certain amount
of commodity to prevent the price
from falling to ruinOusly low
level"
CHILDREN OF TENANT FARM