davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Washington times., 1930-04-10

$3.75gS. few higher; large size. rough,
$2W2.50.
Toma toes-Four Florida arrived: re-
consigned; u cars on track. including
broken. Supplies moderate: demand
slow: market dull. Florida. by freight.
6s. green and turning. wrapped. fancy
count, $2.5O93; choice count. sl50d ?.
IS. ripes, wrapped fancy count. 81
Q2.25; choice count. 81 LIS.
Turnips -- Supplies light. Nearby.
u -bu. hampers, washed, 500 75C.
EGGS
Market steady. On the Baltimore
butter and egg exchange there were
no sales. Nearby fresh gathered firsts
offered 2Glsc; bid 26c Receipts--But-
ter, 1927 tubs; eggs. 3.617 cases
LIVE POULTRY
ChiCkens-YOung, colored as TO size,
50 q 36c, young broilers, c"lored, as to
size, 3S@42c; young brolers Leghorns.
as to size. 35d sic: old and heavy. 20
q soc; old and medium. ~ soc; old
Leghorns and other light. 25q27c: old
rOnsters, 10000.
Guineas-Two lbs. mad over, 7O975c;
smaller, soc.
Ducks-White PekIns, lbs. and over
2s q 30c; Muscovy. 4 lbs and over, "A
9@Gc; Puddle, lbs. and over, - a Csc;
all kinds, small apd thin, Is q zoe.
W. EDGAR HARRISON
Local Representative
The Washington times., 1930-04-10

in the market valuation of qou
pont, which is the PRINCIPAL
holder in the stock of the forIaet
organization. The ambitious. ok
pansion program outlined for the
present year is indicative Of ! the
progressive trend followed by tie
management. ar.
General American Tank Car
The bullish statement by The
president of this company to~tbe
effect that the volume of haaS-
ness and profits for the fist
quarter of this year exceeded Ety
an appreciable margin the sflotE
ing for the like period of 1886,
is one of the major reasons Why
sponsors Of this stock have az
tanned good success in their ,o92;;
erations in this leading .fail
equipment. Dividend return OF
S4 annually in cash and 4 pet
cent in stock are indicative Of the
liberal policy adopted to st9eE'
holders.
The Washington times., 1930-04-10
NEW YORK

NEW YORK. April 9.--Produce:
EEGs-Market irregular. Nearby
hennery whites closely selected extras,
32ia a 34i2c; aveAage extras 500 sic:
extra firsts, 27ia 2sisc; firsts. 26 n q
&c; nearby hennery browns. top
quality 2a1s 9S3c: nearby gathered
browns. extras 29c; extra firsts 81 q
csc; gathered current collections mixed
colors closely selected extras, ESQ 29tz &c:
extras. 27N27%c; extra firsts. 261. a
26%c: firsts, 25A q 26c; Pacific coast
selected extras. 35g SIC; extras, 321a q
34'ac; extra firsts. 3S@34i4c.
salted higher score. 39A 639ic; extra
t92 score). 3S%c; firsts (9O-91 score),
81 z @3SAc; firsts (ss-S9 score). 351s
ii SIC; seconds ts4-s7 score), 3:i. @
34l3c: lower grades, 31GS2c.
Cheese-M arket holdings barely
steady. New York State held. fancy to
sspetia 24925c; fresh fancy, $50
1Slac.
Live Poultry-Receipts light heavy
fowls scarce, supply moderate: market
steady with fat colored fowls in de-
nand. Fowls: Colnred., 3O@35c: leg
horn. 26G27c. Broilers: Rocks. 36 a
4@c: reds. 336$7t; leGhorn. ~ q sac.
Capons. 45@ @55c: slips. S0a 35c. Pigeons
per pair, 40G soc: squads. per pair, so
m60c: jumbo squads, 75c: ducks Long
Island. 2Gc; other nearby, 24Q2Sc
The Washington times., 1930-04-10
PHILADELPHIA

PHILADELPHIA, April g.-Produce: {:
Butter - Easier. Quotations: Higher
scoring, 4o24 a43Ac; 81 score, 39la q
3994c; 81 score, 3S1sc: 90 score, 3Sc !:
50 score. SIC; IS score. 35c; 81 score.
sic.
Eggs-Flrmer Extra frsts 2sisc;
firsts. in new cases, 26iac: firsts in
secondhand cases, 26l2c; seconds, 25
q 26c.
Cheese-sold fairly and ruled steady.
Quotations: Whole-mil longhorns,
round lots. 20la 21c; single daisies.
fresh. 2O1a a20Ac.
Live Poultry-Fowls. not leghorns.
fancy. fat 32c; exceptional lots
higher; ordinary. % q30c: leghorp
fowls. fancy. ESQ 2Sc; ordinary, 27d
3lc; winter chickens. fancy, soft
meated. 35 q 37c. fancy roasting chick
ems. weighing pounds. soft-meated
~ q 33c: fancy Plymouth Rock, broil-
Rrs. II q 42c; do, mixed colors, fancy,
fancy leghorns broilers. 34I35c: small,
weighing l pound, 30931c; unattrac-
tive and barebacks, lower; STACEY
young roosters, 24G25c old roosters
lSI zoe: turkeys, fancy. young hens,
33D36ci young toms, 2SC: old COB
biers. 25c; ducks. fancy; white Pekfng
26c; mixed CuIors. 2S 2Tc: Muscovy.
IS 27c; pigeons, per pair, 4Sc.
Dressed Poultry--Quotations: Fowls
fresh killed, in boxes. weighing
pounds or over. sl932c; 5 pounds. sc
to -. pounds. aoq2lc: ga pounds
rs SG30c; under ga pounds 27Q CSC;
chickens. stays. according to size
20 26si old roosters, dry picked, West
ern. pounds or over, 2ic; under
) pounds, - q 23c,
The Washington times., 1930-04-10
Kreuger g. Toll

Important foreign buying has
been evidenced in this outstand-
ing European investment trust
for some time. and it has been
moving steadily into new high
ground without any of the &C
customed fireworks of other mar
ket favorites. Earnings have in
creased sharply in recent years,
with net earnings for 1929 OF
$40, 100000 considerably above
the S21,000.000 reported in the
previous year. It's efforts TO
diversity its financial interests
augur the continuance of sus-
tanned growth in earning power.
Woolworth
More than one brokerage house
is advising the purchase of Wool.
worth at current market prices
IN anticipation of an appreciable
npttrn with the approach of the
Easter season. The company has
enlarged it's scope of operations
to include stores in leading Euro
pean centers, and further ex-
pansion in foreign countries is
contemplated.
Dupont
To those who are adverse to
entering commitments in the
motor shares, the widely heralded
resumption of bullish activity on
large scale in General Motors
should find immediate response
The Washington times., 1930-04-10
Market Gossip

NEW YORK April 1O-Boh the industrial and utility stocks
old thighs" in Yesterdays 00Othare market
declining of important sections of national
cent decrease in Operaons of the steel mills
falling off building permits for the first quarter
buh carried the field against all Oppos
tiOn.
important points out that business
who have been complaining OF business in their
particular lines have been buying stocks the exchanges
accounting the strength the stock market
though business whole has not shown definite upwag
trend Needless bull markets must have good business
and expanding corporation profits to sustain them otherW
they built like house of cards. to be topped the
first real wind OF adversIty. sho
One of the big stock exchange houses which called the tn
of last years reaction said yesterday that consolidating its
advance the market might be expected to cancel about on
third of its gain This equivalent IL points the and
statistics Reactions which
always moderate than those which the form of
occasional big break which dstresuI
they injurious to business. Good offef
the most attractive prospects at this time. Hsa
The Washington times., 1930-04-10

2115 IA zonite Prots l.6O.. 2OT3 2O15 2O72- q
Ex dividend ! Ex rEhtA Plus ~ IN stock Pay.
able SCRIP Plus 80 Paid regular
playable stock. Payable when earned. Pay
stock. Plus 10ss stock Plus Sc in
stock. h Plus 2Ts In stock Plus Sc in stock * Plus
1gs M 2-3Ts q Plus 20 q stock
p approval stockhoIderA Plus ZUn
than 100 shares.
The Washington times., 1930-04-10
Leading Produce Markets

Beets-Supplies light: demand light;
market steady. Texas, Western lettuce
crates, punched. S3.25QS.75.
Cucumbers-Supplies moderate; de-
mand light; market dull. Indiana,
dozen cartons hothouse, Fancy $2.75a 3:
extra Fancy. So. u3..5; double extra
fancy. 81: Ohio, baskets. hothouse .
dozen. So; a0s, $2.75; 36's. S25O
Spinach-Supplies light; demand light
market steady. Texas. bushel baskets
Savoy type, mostly $1,25; nearby Mary
land, bushel baskets, Savoy type, ST.
Oranges-Supplies moderate: demand
light; market steady. Florida, boxes
No. ], medium size. $sd8,50; large
size sra 40; California boxes Navels
1858 $696.50; 1908 $71750.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-12
Sundez0 Preys on Insects.

tors causing this movement is the loss of water
from the cells on the exposed side, causing those
cells to shrink and allowing the plant to bend
in that direction. Possibly chemical substance
given off by the insect causes a shrnkage OF
the cells closest to the insect, thus making the
hairs bend in that direction
The sundew is very small plant, with long
stemmed, round leaves, lying close to or upon
the ground. Not only the leaves, but also the
leaf stems, are covered with the long, fine, red
filamentS or hairs" The red flower stem is
erect, smooth and bears one-sded cluster of
four to six tiny white flowers that open one
at time in the sunlight. Sundew sap stains
paper ruddy. madden purple.
The sundew is extensively distributed over the
Northern temperate zone i'll bogs and marshes.
Darwin and other famous naturalists spent
many hours of study over this interesting, inno-
cent-looking plant, which has developed such
unplantlike, bloodthirsty habits. 1t has even
been suggested that it might be cultivated a
house or garden plant to capture flies and mos
quitoes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-12
Msbrunded Dog Remedies

THE cure-all for dogs has been found to be
no more effective than the cure-all for
man. and the Department of Agriculture is out.
through its food, drug and insecticide adminis-
tration to see that the misbranding of medi-
cines shall be stopped, just the misbranding
of human medicines has been largely elimi-
mated
There is no drug or combination of drugs,
according to the department experts, which can
be offered for sale a cure for distemper run
ming or barking fits. black tongue demodectic
or follicular mango for all types of worms.
Amy medicines labedel misbranded, &C
cordng to the department.
While there are medicines known to BE- effec-
tive in Kidding dogs of certain types of intes-
final worms, these drugs are more or less spe-
cific and cannot be recommended for all types
of worms. Mango remedies, similarly, cannot
be properly termed mango remedies without
specifying the type to be treated, for follicular
mango SO far has evaded any known remedy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-12

THE sundew is plant that takes its nitrogen
any way it can get it. If the ground
doesn't provide it, it reaches up into the air and
helps itself through the medium of flies and
other insects which are unfortunate enough to
come in contact with its leaves.
The leaves are covered with tiny, harlike
processes, each of which is capped with drop
of honeylike substance that glistens in the sun
light-hence the name, sundew.
Insects are lured and retained by this sticky
substance, and while the victim struggles TO
free himself other "honey-dew" laden hairs
bend over. clasp, completely envelop and soon
smother it to death.
Certain juices are secreted by those hairs,
which digest the prey that it be used
by the plant. When the digestion is completed.
the ensnaring hairs bend back and permit the
remains to be blown away.
The question in most peoples minds at this
point is: Does the plant have voluntary
troll over these ensnaring hairs?" Some scen-
fists credit the plant with highly developed
nervous system. but most believe the process is
q mechanical one.
Plants bend toward the sun. One of the fac
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-12

IL MoorS.
10 Agree.
81 Dessert.
% Sound to call
attention secretly.
% Collection of facts.
"a Born.
81 Drop bait gently
on the water.
81 Portable bed.
81 Capable of imag-
NATIVE creation.
80 Frozen water.
"a Feminine ending.
IS Edge of a garment.
81 Makers of mems
clothes.
80 Speechify.
80 Sew loosely.
40 Uncanny.
AZ Informal
conversation.
43 Scandinavian.
At Guided.
40 Five-dollar bill:
colloq.
SO F'iniS.
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AZ Turned the front
wheels.
A. Take a seat.
As Possesses.
46 Verbal.
48 Having life.
81 SiameSe coin.
So Three times three.
So Baking
compartment.
Sd Golf term.
SIS Legal paper.
Sc Vibrating part OF a
clarinet.
Down.
l Automobile.
2 Liquor.
3 Talk specifically.
4 Desire eagerly.
5 Southern
constellation.
6 Frolic.
z Revoke a legacy.
8 SprinkleS with
dirty water.
. Frequently.
10 Is afraid Of.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-12

101 Mans name.
1O3 Conceited.
1O4 Compounds Of
arsenic.
los Pertaining to a
valley in ArgoliS
where games were
anciently played.
1913 Unauthorized.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-12


Across.
l Supports.
6 Sword.
IL Floating in the
water.
16 Rib: combining
form.
81 Soiree.
% Kind of fig.
% The people.
"a Rabbit, in French.
25 Musical drama.
&c Measures of
paper.
81 Mans name.
% Allowed to fall.
30 Strife.
80 Walk again.
81 Turns aside.
33 Suffix denoting
lone Of"
"a Apparition.
81 Restrained.
80 Greek letter.
AZ Pertaining to
footrace course.
A Grave.
As Ascertained
bearings of.
46 Electric poles.
% Greek letter.
40 Placed in even
row.
so Recede.
53 Perfumed.
SIS Perceived.
ST Wooden pin.
go South African.
81 More strange.
63 Help up.
GA Small room.
IS Wandered.
81 Self-esteem.
II Pocketbook.
II Left out.
76 Prohibit.
IT One of a society.
81 Love, in French.
81 Measure of
length.
50 ScoldS violently.
"a Pertaining to q
tailor.
SO Observe.
80 Ineffaceable.
93 Foreign.
"a Greek hero.
81 Fillet.
80 HiatuseS.
80 Herded.
100 Granite or quartz
porphyry.
106 YaWn.
lot Roman bronze.
lO8 Female writer.
ITO Clarified.
112 x.
1I3 Famous Greek
geometer.
ia Chinese shrub.
116 Dreary.
118 Squalls.
121 Taut.
123 Poorest.
127 Lyric poems.
1913 Lecturers.
100 More offensive.
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dvy INlC
131 Deed.
1872 Value.
1874 Vertical shaft in
glacier.
1876 Perish.
1877 Article of virtue.
lao Make a speech.
141 Annexed.
l42 Unfolds.
144 Hindu demon.
las One who fixes
values.
146 Hector.
lat Rabbits.
148 Cut of meat.
149 Boxes.
$50 Slaves.
ISL Untidy.
Down.
/ Titled.
2 Mend.
3 Overtax ones
strength.
4 Through.
5 Ocean.
6 Sung to others.
z Beverages.
8 ThrobS.
9 Ants.
10 Reprieved.
IL Native of French
province.
IL Relinquished.
Is Was 1ndlSpOSed.
II Heavenly body.
Is Nervous
paroxySmS.
16 Freed from
obligation: abbr.
II Propeller.
18 Ruined.
19 Walk quietly.
20 To purpose.
80 Florid
ornamentation.
80 Old-fashioned
piano.
IS Suffix of medical
words meaning
morbid condition.
SO Waterfalls.
80 Burmese demon.
40 Germ.
Al One of the United
States: ABR.
AZ Grant use OF.
As Medley.
Al Horse.
40 Particles.
SO Masculine name.
81 Gimlet.
So Mass of ice.
81 Unit of work.
Sc Out of use: abbr.
ST Persian fairy.
So Noted operate
character.
So Dale.
81 Tells.
81 Swearing.
&C Devil.
So Fat.
50 Stories.
10 Bay.
IL Becomes boring.
10 Hebrew measure.
IA The parSon bird.
Milford chronicle., 1930-10-24
STATE TRAPSHOOTERS
START SERIES MATCHES
First Shoot OF TrapshOOting League
Held At Milford Yesterday

Yesterday afternoon the newly
created Delaware State Trapshoot-
ing League shot off the initial match
Of the circuit at the Milford Gun
Club. The Milford Club, together
with Bowers. Dover and Milton Gun
Clubs, are the competitors in this
league. Each club will have two at
home matches during the season,
making a total of eight matches.
The schedule is as follows:
October %, at Milford; February
26, 1881, at Milford
At Dover: November 20 and
March 2G, 1881.
At Milton: December Is and April
%, 1881.
At Bowers: January %, 1881 and
May n, 1881.
Post series shoot and awarding of
prizes, June 4. 1881.
The program at each league
match will consist of so 16-yard tar
gets.
Team scores will be based on the
five high guns of each team compe-
ting, and the club with the highest
bird fall at the completion Of the
schedule will be awarded a silver
trophy emblematic of League Cham
piOnship hOnors.
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Milford chronicle., 1930-10-24
KENT FIREMEN In
MONTHLY MEETING
Necessity OF Observing Fire PreVen-
tiOn Week Is Stressed

At the monthly meeting of the
Kent County Firemen's Association
held at the Camden Wyoming Fire
Company building, all the compa-
nies in the county were represented
by delegates and alternates. J. e.
Haddaway, president of the Kent
County Association, who presided
at the meeting, called attention to
the necessity of observing Fire Pre-
vention Week, which was generally
observed throughout Kent County.
Past State President of the Della
ware Firemen's Association, w. w.
Pettyjohn, who is chairman of the
Board Of Directors, reported that the
committee is already forming plans
for the entertainment of the State
Association which meets in Dover
next July as guests of the Kent
County Association.
Considerable discussion was had
on the resolution which was passed
at the September meeting of the as
sociatiOn concerning the formation
of a Mutual Benefit Association for
protection of firemen while in active
duty. The matter will be discussed
and probably passed upon finally at
the November meeting.
Visitors present at the meeting
who spoke of the different phases of
the firemen's activities included J. n.
Jordin, of Richardson Park, State
State Treasurer J. G.
Guyer, Richardson Park; Past State
President Cross, of Cranston
Heights, and Past State President
w. w. PettyjOhn.
A supper followed the business
session, at which several brief ad
were made, by r. D. Sim
mons, John w. Argo, Thomas E.
Baker, w. d. BOyce.
The next meeting of the County
Association will be held in Smyrna,
on November 19.
Milford chronicle., 1930-10-24
AGAINST DRY LAW
Mrs. Henry RidgeIy Says Statute Is
Um-Ameriean

Mrs. Henry Ridgely. of Dover, who
is a member of the Advisory COun-
Gil of the Womans Organization for
National Prohibition Reform, is in
terested in her present work for the
repeal of the 18th amendment be-
cause she considers the amendment
un-American, and because, as she
views it, of the effects of this un-
American principle and its attempt
ed practice not only upon the daily
lives of the growing generations,
upon what they do and say and think,
but upon their fundamental ideals
of life and government.
Mrs. Ridgely is the daughter of
Charles Fisher and Philippa Lloyd.
She has always been an Independent
Democrat. Her wide range of inter-
ests is we'll known throughout the
State. Besides many public welfare
and local historical activities, she
organized and was first president of
the Delaware League of Women
Voters. She has studied architecture
under Arthur Lyman Tuckerman of
the Beaux Arts. New York, and has
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Milford chronicle., 1930-10-24
4947 IN STATE
OVER 65 YEARS
More Than Z Per Cent Of
Delaware's Population
Beyond That Age

More than per cent of Della
wares population has reached or
passed the age of siXty-five years,
according to data compiled by the
Director of Census at Washington.
On April 2 last there were 4,947
persons between 65 and rs years of
age in Delaware.
The preliminary figures show that
the total population of the State last
April was 23S,3S0, comprising 1928
persons under 5 years of age; 22,321
from to years; 22,614 from 10 to
IA years; 21,173 from Is to 19 years;
2O,122 from 20 to "a years; 1924
from 25 to 80 years; 1887 from 80
to 81 years; 34,190 from 35 to A
years; 27,161 from 45 to 54 years;
1862 from 55 to Ga years; 11,731
from 65 to "A years; 4,947 IS years
and over, and 13S from whom age
was not reported.
Of the total population of the
state, 27 per cent are under Is years
of age; 17.3 per cent are from Is to
25 years of age; 29.5 per cent are
from 25 to A years of age; 1872 per
cent are from As to 65 years Of age;
and IL per cent arc 65 years of age
and over.
Milford chronicle., 1930-10-24
THREE TICKETS
IN KENT COUNTY
Liberal Republicans File
Candidates For But
Two Offices

Three tickets have been filed in
Kent County for the coming election,
Republican, Democratic and Liberal
Republican parties. The latter tick
ct contains but two names, Thomas
f. Bayard for United States Senator
and John P. LeFevre, for Congress.
The list of candidates on the other
two tickets excluding those for State
offices follows:
Democratic ticket Sheriff, Austin
D. Smith, Smyrna; Coroner, Wilbur
Pearson, Milford; Clerk of the Peace,
Ernest c. Macklin, Milford; Record
er or Deeds, Robert Harry Wilson.
Dover Register in Chancery and
Clerk of the Orphans Court, William
Virdin, Wyoming Receiver of Taxes
and County Treasurer. Nelson
Slaughter, Dover; Levy Court Com
missiOners, first district, Edward Fl.
Donovan, Brenford; second, Fred P.
Parker, Harrington; third district,
Charles r. Brown, Wyoming.
State SenatOrs-First district, Dr..
Clarence Raymond Cummins, Dover;
third, Frank C. Bancroft, Camden;
fifth, J. Harry Lachum, Milford.
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Milford chronicle., 1930-10-24
WINTRY WEATHER HERE
WITH FIRST ICE OF YEAR
Thermometer Registered % Degrees
On Tuesday Morning II

Old Man Winter made his appear
ance in Milford this week bringing
with him temperatures far below
the normal for October. Heavy
frosts were noticed beginning with
Sunday morning and on Tuesday
morning the official government
thermometer in Milford recorded 25
degrees. Ice of considerable thick
ness formed on small containers
having water in them. The temper
ature was several degrees cooler
than normal for this date. The av-
erage temperature for October 21 is
Sc degrees in Milford. Milford and
lower Delaware escaped the SHOWS
and blizzard conditions which ac-
companied the wintry weather as it
made its appearance along the At
lantic seaboard. In many of the
states severe suffering was caused
by the sudden onslaught of the Win
try blasts. In northern New York
State snow fell in some places to
the depth of four feet and many
deaths were reported as a result OF
persons becoming stOrmbound in
their automobiles.
The cold weather has caused 10
great inconvenience in lower Della
ware. The crops were far past the
danger line from frOsts or freezing
and the farmers have welcomed the
cooler weather.
Milford chronicle., 1930-10-24
State Po~ltrymen
On Tour Next Week
GrOIUerS VIII Assemble At State Board Of AgricuL-
tHre Headquarters On Tuesday Morning. viii
Visit SUSSEX County On Wednesday

Poultrymen throughout the state
will receive this week the itinerary
and program of the fifth annual state
poultry tour which will be conducted
through Kent and Sussex counties on
October 2S and 20, under the au-
spices of the Delaware Stale Poultry
Association, the Extension Depart
ment of the University of Delaware,
and the State Board Of Agriculture,
and it is expected that a large
group of poultry raisers from al!
sections of the Peninsula and ad-
joining areas will be in attendance
to inspect some of the representa-
tive broiler and alyer plants in these
two counties.
The tour will assemble at 8
o'clock on the morning of October 2S
in the poultry disease laboratory of
the State Board of Agriculture in
Dover where a demonstration will be
given showing how blood is tested
for bacilliary white diarrhea, and
charts shown to explain how much
this blood testing program has low
cred the chick mortality and reduced
the number of reactOrs in poultry
hocks during the past two years.
Milford chronicle., 1930-10-24
GROWERS SUFFER LOSS
Sussex COuntians Completing Dis.
pOSal OF Crop Alter Drought

Sussex county sweet potato grow
ers are completing the handling of
their crops at what will be a heavy
loss, due TO the drought during the
latter part OF the summer.
The Sussex county crop will
amount to about 100000 hampers
this year, one grower said this week.
The average crop runs between $780,
600 and 100000 hampers.
The growers are obtaining an
average Of but from 60 to IS e bas-
kets of prime sweet potatoes, per
acre, as compared normally with
from $50 to 400 baskets per acre.
Very few of the growers will make
any money from their crop, and, in
fact, most of them will handle their
sweet potatoes at a loss. it was said.
The sweet potatoes are now selling
at IS cents per 5s basket, while nor
mally they bring from 55 to 60
cents. 1t is expected that before the
week ends, the price of sweet pota-
toes may be higher.
The normal profit per acre for
sweet potatoes is $50. On the whole.
the crop will show no profit this
year, it is claimed.