Milford chronicle., 1928-04-27
PENINSULA GROWS
LARGE PERCENTAGE
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES
rCOntinued from first Sags]


tire United States was from this
Peninsula. The only other state
shipping anything like this amount
was North Carolina, which shipped
45S cars during this month.
"The shipment of strawberries
from the Eastern Shore Of Maryland
during June, 1926, was S77 cars
from Delaware 612 cars, from the
Eastern Shore of Virginia $50 cars
or a total of 1919 cars, as compared
with a total of 1921 cars for the en-
tire United States. The only section
in the country shipping anything
near the number of cars shipped
from the Peninsula is Missouri,
which shipped 1135 cars. This shows
that approximately 4026 Of the total
shipment of Strawberries during the
month of June came from the Del
Mar-Va Peninsula.
"In the total shipments of sweet
potatoes in 1926, Delaware shipped
1928 cars, the Eastern Shore of
Maryland 1871 cars, and Virginia
6053 cars. Most of these shipments
were made during the months Of
September and October, during
which time the Eastern Shore terri
tory shipped 6012 cars, out of to-
tai movement for the entire United
States of 1868 cars. This would in
dictate that approximately 1910 of
the movement of sweet potatoes in
the United States during September
and October comes from this terri
tory.
in the shipments of Irish pota-
toes, it is found that during the
month of July, 1926, the Eastern
Shore of Maryland and Virginia
shipped total of 10,S5S cars, as
compared with the total shipment
of the United States of 20,310 cars
in that period. In other words, the
Eastern Shore of Maryland and Vir-
ginia during the month of July
were shipping more than 500 of the
potatoes shipped throughout the
United States. During certain weeks
the percentage of white potatoes
shipped out of the Eastern Shore Of
Maryland and Virginia amounts to
as much as $50 of the total ship
ment of the United States.
while the movement of apples
and peaches does not constitute such
a high percentage of the total ship
ment in the United States, the move
ment of early apples, from Delaware
and the Eastern Shore of Maryland
is very important, and the movement
of peaches and late apples consti-
tutes a considerable volume, and lis
of course highly important to the
producers and shippers of these pro-
ducts from the Peninsula.
"For the past two years there has
been a limited Market News Service
available to the producers and ship |
pers of agricultural products on the
Del-Mar-Va Peninsula, which has
been available through the co-opera- |
ton of various private agencies on |
the Eastern Shore with the State |
Department of Markets of Maryland |
and the U. S. Bureau of Agricultur-
a Economics. In 1926 the PENN
sula Produce Exchange. located at
Pocomoke City, and the Extension
Service Of the University of Mary
land, each contributed funds to en-
able the U. S. Bureau of Agricultur-
al Economics to establish a Market
News Service at Pocomoke City for
a period of approximately three
months and covering strawberries
and Irish potatoes.
'In 1927 a similar service was es-
tablished at Pocomoke City by CO.
operation between the Marketing
Bureau Of the Del-Mar-Va Eastern
Shore Association, the PocOmokR
City Chamber of Commerce, the
Maryland State Department of Mar
kets and the U. S. Bureau of Agri-
Economics. In this year the
service covered Irish potatoes, can
-aloupes, cucumbers and a limited
service on sweet potatoes.
"In view of the figures above quot
I'd, it is apparent that the volume of
originating in this terri
DRY deserves that there be estab-
ished a permanent Market News
Service, supported by public funds,
Independent of contributions by To- ;
al or State organizations extending ,
Dver approximately six months, and )
including service on strawberries, 7
arly apples, Irish potatoes, cucum- ,
ers, cantaloupes, peaches, sweet po- :
atoes and late apples. Efforts are
low being made by the Del-Mar-Va f
association and the Market Bureaus r
f the States of Delaware, Maryland
nd Virginia to secure a federal APP c
for this purpose" r