Smyrna times., 1927-08-24
WEEKLY FARM NEWS CLEANED
FROM DEL-MAR-VA PENINSULA
NUGGETS OF FACTS OF GENERAL
INTEREST TO THE FARMERS
Gathered and Compiled by the Del.
Mar-Va Eastern Shore Association
at Salisbury, Maryland


The ruling of the Oregon State Live
stock Sanitary Board requiring GER
tification which shows that a test of
Matching eggs, baby chicks, growing
stock and breeding stock, has been
made by the agglutination method to
prove freedom from bacillery white
diarrhea, has been upheld by the U.
S. Court for the district of the State
Of Oregon. The Must Hatch Incuba-
tor Company of California held that
the enforcement of the regulation
would do damage to the company to
the extent of S150,000 annually as it
shipped one million day-old chicks
into and through Oregon. The court
said in part: "There can be no ques-
tion of the power of the State Legis-
lature to exclude the importation Of
eggs or chicks that will result in di-
sease to the poultry of the State
A dispatch from Chicago states that
watermelons are coming on the mar
ket at the rate of a carload every
minute and half day and night. The
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
added that shipments had reached the
highest point in the season, and that
carlots could be had there and at near
by cities at 80 to 40 cents per melon
wholesale. It is also pointed out that
prices are liable to advance as the
mid-season is past. More than half
the present supply is coming from
Georgia.
The Del Mar Va Sweet Potato
was thoroughly discussed from its
bedding time to its consumption, at
Conference of Farmers, Buyers and
Bankers of Delaware and the East
ern Shores of Maryland and Virginia
and officials of the U. S. Department
of Agriculture, and the State Market
| ing Officials of Delaware, Maryland
and Virginia, held at Pocomoke City,
Maryland on August 9. More than
fifty per cent of the production Of
sweet potatoes in the United States
are grown on the Del-Mar-Va PENN
sula
AS a result of organized effort, p
600 families have been located in the
State of Oregon on unoccupied farm
lands. The new settlers have brought
about S12,000,O00 of new capital into
the state and have probably increased
the annual buying power of the farm
population by $3,OOO,00O; it is report
ed by the Bureau of Reclamation of
the Department of the Interior. This
work was carried out by the land set
tlement departments of the Portland
and the Oregon State Chamber of
Commerce, and was financed by the
Statewide Oregon Development Fund
raised especially for this purpose.
This indicates the trend of population
from the cities to the country. While
the total number of new farm famil-
les is not enormous, the total of such
transfers for the United States might
show an increasing tendency of city
folk to move to the country.
A recent report of the U. S. Board
of Indian Commissioners states that
the Cherokee Indians Of North Caro-
lima are cultivating patches of fields
that slant at an angle of so to 60 de-
grees, and accomplish much of their
farming with hoes or with a small
hillside plow. When these Indians
were first seen by white men they
were living in huts in the mountain
valleys, supplying their needs by hunt
ing, fishing, and by raising corn, beans
and other produce on small patches.
No Fords or radios are reported.
Export of Foodstuff from the Unit
ed States in the last fiscal year
amounted to One. Hundred Million
Dollars over the previous year total
ing Eight Hundred Three Millions of
Dollars. Nearly half of this amount
was accounted for by grain and grain
products.
Vetch, a winter legume, is a de-
sirable cover crop, we'll adapted to
many sections of Maryland, and when
planted in combination with some 9TH
er winter-growing plant such as rye
or wheat, will provide good pasture
in early spring or hay if cut later in
the season, says F. w. Gutenberg,
specialist in agronomy for the Uni
versity of Maryland Extension Ser
vice.
Five Hundred All boys and girls
who attended Club Week at the Uni
versity of Maryland from August 2
to 9, listened to Walter Johnson, of
the Washington American League
Baseball Team, tell some of his ex-
periences on the farm and on the
baseball diamond. He emphasized the
Importance of knowing how to work,
and of keeping physically fit to work.
He particularly warned his young
hearers against the temptations open
in "being good fellow"