Smyrna times., 1927-08-10
WEEKLY FARM NEWS CLEANED
FROM DEL-MAR-VA PENINSULA
NUGGETS OF FACTS OF GENERAL
INTEREST TO TIE FARMERS
Gathered and Compiled by the Del.
Mar-Va Eastern Shore Association
at Salisbury, Maryland

How poor are they who have no
patience! What wound did ever heal
but by degrees s:-Shakespeare Patti
ence, Mr.. Farmer, Patience!
Is the farmer business man? He
is seldom given the opportunity to
bargain. He usually has to take what
the market offers him for his pro
ducts. The most useful relationship
that the farmer can have to business
and at the same time have an express
sion in the business of his community
and section, is to become affiliated
with his local Civic or Commercial
organization. Such a relationship is
offered to the farmers Of the Dell Mar
Va Peninsula thru the local Cham
bers of Commerce. It has been said
that the Eastern Shore Of Virginia
Chamber Of Commerce has the most
complete Programme Of any Organi-
zation in an agricultural region. 1t
is backed by farmers, buyers, bankers
and business men.
R. w. Dunlap, Assistant Secretary
of Agriculture, in speaking before the
World Poultry Congress at Ottowa,
Canada, submitted the following fig
ures: The poultry and egg crops in
1926 for the U. S. were estimated at
value of one billion, one hundred
eighty-one million dollars. The dis
tribution Of the poultry industry is
country wide, as poultry fiocks are
kept in every State and in every coun-
ty. Specialized egg farming is par
ticularly important on the Pacific
Coast, and in the North Eastern
states. More money is returned to
the farmers in the State of Delaware
for eggs than for any other commod-
ity produced. More than one million,
eight hundred fifty thousand chiks are
Matched every three weeks on the Del
Mar-Va Peninsula.
Cooperative marketing of wool has
increased from nearly eight million
pounds in 1920, to over twenty five
million pounds in 1926.
Damage was done to the grain crops
of western, central and northern Eur
ope by storms during the week ended
July first.
Consumer demand, requirements of
health officials, and changing methods
of handling the milk supply of cities
are making it more and more essential
that producers maintain the most
sanitary conditions possible in their
plants, according to statement just
issued by the Department Of Agricul-
ture entitled Improved Sanitation in
Milk Production"
Possible acceptance of a new mixed
fertilizer, containing potash, nitrogen
and PHOSPHORUS may vitally affect
the German Potash Industry, accord
ing to a report received in the Depart
ment of Commerce from the Ameri-
can CONSUL at Frankfort-On-Main.
1t is possible that the new product, al
ready used in considerable quantities
by farmers on the Continent, will soon
enter international trade.
The Fruitman's Club of Florida has
accepted a plan for establishing a CO.
operative marketing organization for
citrus fruits which, it is believed will
put the entire industry of the State on
much sounder and more profitable
basis. The principal idea in the plan
is clearing house which will endeav-
or to control the distribution Of the
fruit, to avoid flooding markets.
Recommendation that live poultry
exchange, associated with a Union
Terminal, would eliminate certain
maI-practices in the local live poul-
try industry has just been made, as a
result of an economic survey of the
industry BY the Bureau Of Agricul-
tural Economics.
In the latest copy of Georgia, a
magazine devoted to the development
Of the greater Georgia, Walter L.
Wight, general manager of the Cane
Growers Cooperative Association of
that state, asks the question "does
Georgia need a standardization mar
ket to promote more profitable mar
keting? 2" 1t does seem that all the
states are catching the spirit of CO.
operation.