Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1928-04-13
MILK INDUSTRY GROWS
In SUSSEX COUNTY
[COntinued from first bage]

Vaughn, then County Agent, anC
now associated with the Eastern
States Farmers Exchange, began tt
work on the project of building vi
a dairy business in Sussex County
He had the assistance of many far
mers, especially in the Nassau and
Lewes sections, who were looking
ahead into the future and saw good
profits in the dairy line.
They commenced to plan a mark
ct for the milk, but the milk con-
Germs of Philadelphia declared that
it was useless to build milk stations
until the farmers had sufficient COWS
to warrant the erection of the build
ings and meet the demands for a
certain amount of milk to be ship
ped daily. Farmers answered the
Philadelphia milk concerns and said
that when a station was erected in
the Nassau and IseWes communities
that they would get more cows.
There the matter stood for several
months.
An idea hit the Extension Depart
ment to get the philadelphia Inter
state Milk Producers Association in
terested. Finally after several in
spectiOns of the Nassau ;and LeWes
area, a decision was reached that
agricultural experts were right as to
the fact lower Delaware was ideal
for dairying. A campaign was at
once started on the Philadelphia end
among some of the large concerns
furnishing milk; and at the same
time q campaign was started among
the farmers in the eastern section OF
Sussex County, extending as far as
Georgetown, to help in supplying the !
demands in order to get a fiEst-class |
milk station.
Finally thirty farmers we've lined
up who promised that if the milk
station located at Nassau they would
carry sufficient COWS to warrant its
location there.
The SUpplee-Wills-Jones Company
began negotiations and erected a
plant costing more than $4,000 to
cool the Milk. It is not one Of the
very few Grade-A stations through
out Delaware, Maryland and tne
ldSl6Iu OuOE6 III NlISAulhs
Other milk companies looked up
IN the project at Nassau and Won
Tered how, without any equipment
)r knowledge of the business, that
he farmers could get their milk up
o the test and supply enough to
,eep the plant busy and warrant its Z
there. {
The farmers, however, were as ~
God as their word. and they began -
D buy COWS which ordinarily were r.
OF seen in this section. Many of n
ne cows were imported from other r.
lrge dairy sections. Ii
Soon the farmers who were SELL
g milk and receiving handsome in NJ
)mes began to tell their neighbOFs M
ID relatives about the profits Derry TX
land others became interested and pf
ser trying it out along the lines OF to
cir friends were convinced that it pr
= a paying business. Soon the en- III
e section came to a realization of of
e fact that the dairy business sur oW
ssed all of their corn, wheat and RAJ
lex crops, and now many of them
2 devoting nearly all Of their lime MI
the business, except to plant is
ne grain crops to help out on the -
d bills. Thoroughbred bulls were
ported, and soon there was de-
nd for heifers growing in the
ssau section. This was also a
ing business for the dairymen, as
y received fancy prices for them.
he extreme southern section Of mas
county has become interested IN yea
cattle, and they have pro
n getting their start from the VII
ok grown in the Nassau and IioI
yes districts. Ine
is nothing unusual for many OF ers
farmers supplying milk at the Irol
sau station to clear over $4,000 pay
ear from their dairy herds. Their ters
ms have taken on different as SHY