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Milford chronicle., 1931-08-14
GOOD PRICE FOR WHEAT
IF FED TO THE HOGS
Feeding Wheat 10 Swine Returns
90 Cents Per Bushel

! That the feeding of wheat TO pigs
is more profitable method of mar
keting wheat than selling wheat on
the market at the present low price
is demonstrated by an experiment
carried out by the Delaware Agri-
culture Experiment Station. With
pigs at cents per pound, live
weight, the pigs in this experiment
returned so cents per bushel for the
wheat fed.
The experiment was conducted
over a period of 103 days and in
volved four lots of ten pigs each.
The pigs were fed in dry lot as no
forage was available. The average
weight of the pigs at the beginning
of the experiment was so pounds.
Whole wheat and tankage fed to
one lot produced an average of LA
pounds daily gain and required 464
pounds of total feed to produce 100
pounds of gain. A similar lot of
pigs fed shelled corn and tankage
averaged 1.04 pound daily gain and
required APT pounds of total feed to
produce 100 pounds gain. In spite
of the slightly smaller quantity of
feed required to produce 100 pounds
of gain with shelled corn, the cost of
producing pork with whole wheat
was less because of the lower mar
ket price of wheat as compared with
corn.
Whole wheat, supplemented with
soybeans as the protein supplement
produced slightly lower daily gains
than whole wheat and tankage, but
the feed required per 100 pounds
gain was somewhat less.
COarsely grinding of the wheat
did not improve it for swine efed
ing according to this experiment.
The group of pigs fed ground wheat
and tankage made III pounds daily
gain and required 469 pounds of to-
tai feed to produce 100 pounds of
gain. The increase in daily gains
on ground wheat as compared with
whole wheat was not great enough
to pay for the cost of grinding.
The price of wheat at the present
time is between As and so cents
bushel in Delaware
In this experiment where whole
wheat and tankage was fed to pigs,
it took rs bushels of wheat to pro-
duce 100 pounds of gain. .7.6 bushels
of wheat at so cents per bushel
would be worth $3.50. With pork
at the present price of $500 per 100
pounds live weight, the 7.6 bushels
of wheat returned $6.9S after de-
Quoting the cost of the tankage used |
to supplement the whole wheat. This /
amounts to $3.1S for the 7.6 bushels /
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Milford chronicle., 1931-08-14
GRANGERS' RALLY
WELL ATTENDED
Leslie R. Smith Makes
Address At Field Day
Near Camden

At the field day meeting of Kent
County Pomona Grange held on the
lawn of Frank c. Bancroft, past
State master of the State Grange of
Delaware, near Camden, last Friday,
fully 500 people attended the days
outing.
L. J. Taber, national master of the
National Grange, was unable to be
present because of engagements in
other parts of the country.
Former Governor Robert P. Rob
insOn, master of the Delaware
State Grange, who was present at
the meeting, read a telegram from
Mr.. Taber expressing his regrets on
not being able to be there.
The address of the afternoon was
made by Leslie R. Smith, member
of the National Grange.
Mr.. Smith spoke mainly of coop
Grafton by the members to their
oranges. This, he claimed, was eth
er the making or undoing of the
grange.
He compared the work of the
master of the National Grange and
others active in the work of the Ma
tional Grange to the work of the
President of the United States, that
of constant anxiety over the affairs
of the National Grange and the
work to be done He urged support
for the national leaders in all their
Milford chronicle., 1931-08-14
FRANCES ANN MCCARTHY
BRIDE OF J. E. ABBOTT
Duluth Girl Weds Milford Man At
Home Nuptials

Simplicity was the keynote of the
lovely wedding of Miss Frances
Ann Mccarthy, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas Francis Mccarthy, to
John Evans Abbott, of New York,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles David
Abbott of Milford, which was sol
emnized at o'clock Thursday after
noon of last week at the home of the
brides parents by the Rev. Noble S.
Elderkin, of Akron, Ohio, formerly
of Duluth. Vows were exchanged in
the living room before background
of greens of Southern smilaX, Flor
ida palms and ferns interviewer with
white gypsophila and marked with
tall baskets of garden flowers and
candelabra of cathedral candles.
The wedding march from Lohen-
grin and that by MendelssOhn were
played by a trio, including Miss
Agnes Thompson, violinist; Miss
Marie Cranmer, cellist, and Miss
Laura Gundry, pianist. During the
ceremony the same trio played "Ave
Maria" (Gounod) and Swing Song
(Barnes).
Inc Drlde, VINO was given Ill mar
riage by her father, wore q gown of
white satin, fashioned with long
sleeved, close-fitting bodice and
fiOorlength full skirt, which eX-
tended in a long train in the back.
Her long veil was of needlepoint
lace and fell from a clOse-fitting
lace cap. Her flowers were a shower
of white gardenias and
lilies of the valley.
Miss Mary Elizabeth Mccarthy
was her sisters maid of honor and
only attendant. Her gown was of
pink net, worn with a French blue
velvet sash and an Empress Euge-
MIA hat of pink trimmed in ostrich.
Her flowers were a shower arrange
ment of garden flowers.
John Hummer, of Baltimore, Md,
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Milford chronicle., 1931-08-14
DESTROY LARGE STILL
IN SUSSEX COUNTY
Salisbury Men Taken In Raid Near
Greenwood On Saturday

Prohibition agents Elmer Riggin
and Norman E. Jett, accompanied
by Constable Edgar B. Belts, of
Greenwood, Saturday afternoon
raided a place in the woods about
three and One-half miles from Sea-
ford and arrested Herman Lane and
Herman Fooks, both of Salisbury,
Md.
The officers found and destroyed
a 15O-gallon still, 26 gallons of al
legged whiskey, 500 gallons of mash,
5 kegs, ten-gallon pressure tanks,
2 gas burners and 2 pumps. Samples
of the alleged liquor were taken and
the still and other equipment was
destroyed.
The accused men were taken be-
fore Magistrate William J. Mustard
and held under $1,000 each for the
Sussex County Court on charges of
manufacturing and possessing liq-
uOr. In default of bail they were
committed to the Sussex county jail.
Milford chronicle., 1931-08-14
LIMA, BEAN PACK HERE
is BELOW NORMAL
First Quarter Pack Averages Only
500 Of Normal. Expect Better Later

Milford Gamers of factory lima
beans are now completing their pack
of the first seasons cutting of this
crop. In the vicinity of Milford
four paintings are made each year
and it is the first planting that is
now being canned. The average for
this portion of the crop is only about
60 per cent of normal here. The
Gamers expected that the second
cutting will be a little better, with
possibly a so per cent yield. The
heavy rains of this week have great
ly aided the crop for the third and
fourth paintings, and it is believed
that normal yield will be secured
from these two crops. Should this
prove correct the years crop will
be a paying one for the growers.
The quality of the beans the first
cutting was not up to the average,
but beans brought in this week have
been better. Reports from eighteen
of the twenty packers in the Della
ware, Maryland, New Jersey district
are to the effect that only about
60 per cent yield of beans will be
packed this year.
Milford chronicle., 1931-08-14
ABANDONS BAY SWIM
SIXTMILES FROM GOAL
ride Forces Stauffer To Quit After
12 Hours, 35 Minutes

Unsuccessful after IL hours and
35 minutes in the water and six
miles from his objective, Earl Stauf-
fer, of Lancaster. Pa, abandoned
attempts to set a new record for
swimming across the Delaware Bay
last Thursday.
Bucking tidal backwash for more
than two hours without progressing
more than a quarter mile led him to
abandon his attempts to shatter the
mark set in 1927 by Charles Dur
borrow, of Philadelphia, who swan
the 12 mile bay in IA hours and Is
minutes.
Accompanied by his trainer, J. j..
McDevitt. and two expert fishermen
in a launch, Stauffer took to the
water at $50 a. m. last Thursday
from Cape May Point At 11:30 a. m.
he was within two miles of his goal,
Cape Henlopen. Flood tide, however,
then struck and carried him to
Brandywine Light. With the return
of ebb tide at p. m. he reached the
breakwater but was unable to pro-
gress farther.
Milford chronicle., 1931-08-14
CONFER BEFORE STATE
BOUNDARY CASE
Conference On Dispute Between
Delaware And New Jersey In Dover

A conference preliminary to the
reOpening of hearings in the bOun-
Diary dispute between Delaware and
New Jersey was held on Monday at
Dover by Attorney General Reuben
Satterthwaite, Jr., former Attorney
General Clarence A. Southerland
and number of oystermen.
Mr.. Satterthwaite plans to have a
number of the oystermen testify on
behalf of Delaware, when the hear
ings reopen in Philadelphia, August
"a, before William L. Rawls, Bali-
more attorney, who was appointed
special master in the boundary dis
pute by the United States Supreme
Court.
Mr.. Switzerland is special counsel
assisting Mr.. Satterthwaite in pre-
sentation of Delaware's case.
The hearings are expected TO be
concluded by the last of the month.
The attorneys general of both states
will then submit briefs. BY the end
of the year it is expected that Mr.
Rawls will submit his findings to
the Supreme Court.
The dispute involves the boundary
line of the two states III the Della
ware River and the Delaware Bay
and centers about the question of
which state owns the valuable oys-
ter beds in the bay Ownership OF
the oyster beds has been a question
of nearly a century standing that
has at times caused the breaking
out of bitter fights among oystermen
Of the two states.
Milford chronicle., 1931-08-14
REFERENDUM ON
HOLLAND LAND
Milford Citizens Will De-
eide Whether Site Shall
Be Bought Or Not

Voters of the City of Milford will
decide at a referendum election
whether the Holland property shall
be purchased for municipal pur-
poses, or whether the opportunity
to acquire the place shall be passed
up. This decision was reached at a
mass meeting held in the Council
Chambers on Tuesday night. The
referendum election will be held on
Friday, August 21st, between the
hours of ~ o'clock noon and 4
o'clock in the afternoon. At this
time the citizens of Milford will vote
on the question of whether or not
the Holland property shall be pur-
chased for municipal purposes.
Those sponsoring this movement
believe that the property can be ac-
quired and concerted into a park and
building at very little out
lay of cash to the city. Milford now
owns property which can be sold
FOR money enough to make a very
good part of the payment which
would have to be made for the Hol-
land property. The opportunity to
purchase this centrally located land
and mansion house for pulic pur-
poses will probably never present it
self again, and it is for the purpose
of acquiring definite knowledge as
to the sentiment in the city that the
election will be held The members
of council will be guided in their
action by the result of the referen-
dunn next Friday. Those favoring
the project should vote and express
themselves on the matter.
Milford chronicle., 1931-08-14
u. S. CONSIDERS CLOSED
SEASON ON WILD DUCKS
Secretary Hyde Studying Problem
OF Wild Fowl Shortage

A closed duck-hunting season this
year is being considered by the De-
partment of Agriculture because of
the progressive ten-year drought in
the duck-breeding grounds of Mani
toha and Saskatchewan.
No recommendations have yet
been submitted to Secretary Hyde,
but H. P. Sheldon, chief OF the di-
vision of the department, believes
that drasti caction is necessary.
That the step would have the
support of sportsmen is seen in
many communications to the de-
partment which urge action to save
the ducks"
Mr.. Sheldon believes that several
years of careful conservation will be
necessary before the flOcks that in
former years. have migrated to the
fall and winter feeding grounds of
this country are replenished. He is
giving study to conservation meth
ods, ranging from a greatly reduced
bag limit this year to ban against
any duck shooting this year and
reduced kills for years to come.
Biologists of the department, who
have toured the drought-affected re-
gions, report that the great sloughs,
ponds and lakes of the prairie re-
gion where the ducks breed are
about SO per cent dried up.
Where in former years there were
vast numbers of mallards, pintails,
red heads. canvass backs, blue bills,
and teal, only a few dozen small
broods of "quackers" were seen.
So far as can be determined, the
ducks have found no other more
remote breeding grounds. While not
all the ducks shot in the United
States come from the affected Cana
dian breeding grounds, the great
majority of them do.
There are large duckbreeding
grounds in the United States. but
these are suffering from the effects
of last years drought. In South
Dakota, where, heretofore, mallards
have bred plentifully. no ducks have
been found this year.
Milford chronicle., 1931-08-14
HOLLOWAY GIVES
DATA ON SCHOOL,
AUDITORIUMS
Superintendent of Schools
Gives His Ideas Of Prop
er Methods Of Building
CONDITIONS VARY
Combination OF AuditOri-
ums And Gymnasium Ad-
viSable At Times, He Says

In a special report made to the
State Board of Education, DR.. H.
V. Holloway, State Superintendent
of Public instruction, discusses the
subject of auditOriums for public
school buildings especially as to
Newark and the Mt. Pleasant Dis
trict in Brandywine Hundred. An
addition TO the Newark school is
now in course of erection while
new building is to be started soon
at the Mt. Pleasant District. DR..
Holloway makes recommendation
as to the size, the auditoriums should
be in these two districts. The report
follows:
"The necessity of getting pupils
together for common purposes
makes an assembly hall or auditor
ium an indispensable part of every
modern school building. These pur-
poses vary with different schools,
but the most frequent are as fol-
lows: General assemble school en-
tertainments (not public), study,
lectures to pupils and faculty, mu-
sic practice, school sOcials, radio
programs, special holiday celebra-
tions, school exhibits, etc. When
thus used the auditorium should
have sufficient seating capacity for
such children of a building as it is
desirable to have assembled. This
number will, of course, depend upon
the age and grade of the children
housed under the same roof. 1t will
rarely be desirable, for instance, to
have first and second grade pupils
in assembly with high school pupils.
Pupil groups for auditorium pur-
poses should be homogeneous at
least to the extent that they belong
to the same departments of a given
school. Therefore, a school that is
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Milford chronicle., 1931-08-14
FARMERS TOLD
TO RELY MORE
ON THEMSELVES
Congressman Houston
Addresses Annual Sussex
County Meeting
RAP BIG SALARIES
Says Too Many Are Liv-
ing Beyond Their
Means
RAP BIG SALARIES

The annual Sussex County PomO-
ia Grange meeting was staged at
the Del-Mar-Va Camp Grounds, two
miles north of Laurel on Saturday
by approximately ESQ persons main
ly farmers from all parts of the
county, attended the affair.
Asa Reynolds, of Georgetown,
master of the County Grange, serv-
ed as chairman. Former Governor
Robert P. Robinson, head of the
State Grange, and Mrs. Robinson
were present. Mr.. Robinson intro
duced the speaker, Leslie Smith, a
member of the National Grange
Committee from Massachusetts, who
substituted for Louis Taber, Ma
tional Master. Mr.. Smith spoke on
"The duties of the members" declar-
ing a good member can get more
out of one grange meeting than out
of a month at the movies.
Congressman Robert G. Houston
in brief address discussed living
conditions. He said he believed too
many were living beyond their
means, spending too much for gas
oline and automobiles and then
crying about hard times. He said
the farmers should not expect Con-
gress and the State legislatures to
solve their problems but should
solve them themselves. He also said
that salaries of officials of most Op-
erations are much too high, Great
ing a top-heavy condition.
Singing was led by County Agent
c. Russell Snyder. Frank Bancroft,
of Camden, one of the State Grange
officials attended the meeting, and
there was large delegation present
from Talbot county, Md.
Milford chronicle., 1931-08-14
STATE W.C.T.U. TO
HOLD CONVENTION
Organization Will Meet
In SeafOrd On October
Z, 8 And 9

DR.. Ella A. Boole, New York City,
world and national president of the
w. c. r. u, will be the principal
speaker at the banquet which will
feature the opening of the annual
convention of the State organization
at the Methodist Episcopal Church,
Seaford, October 7, 8 and 8.
This will be the first time in II
years that the State group has been
honOred by the presence of ma
tiOnal president. DR.. Boole was
made president at the world con-
Vention in Canada in June.
Another out of town speaker will
be Mrs. Ella P. Black, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania state president of the
w. C. T. U.
Mrs. Anna Lee Waller, of Delmar,
State president of the w. C. T. u,
and former president of the Della
ware State Federation of Women's
Clubs, will preside at the confer
ence. The call to the convention will
be issued by Mrs. Waller about the
middle of this month.
At least 1000 members from all
parts of the State are expected to
attend the convention. The w. C.
r. U. has a Delaware organization of
more than 5000 members.
Announcement has been made by
Mrs. Waller that the group is TO be
divided into prayer bands of about
so members each. These groups will
pledge themselves to sponsor noon
tide prayers for the cause Of prohi-
hilton. Reports of the praying bands
are to be made at the observance of
the Goth anniversary of the w. c. T.
U. to be held in 1882. Mrs. Ella
Cordray, of Harrington, is State
chairman of the project.
State officers of the w. G.. T. u.
are Mrs. Waller, president. Mrs
HG;cE w. Simpson, Wilmington. vice
pre-: ident; Mrs. Lucy COmwcil, Of
Dover, treasurer, and Mrs. Katie L.
B. Dockety, secretary. Mrs. Bertha
Foster is president of the
Young Peoples Branch of the w. C.
T. U.
Milford chronicle., 1931-08-14
M. E. BOARD FLAYS
MRS. WILLEBR ANDT
Government Accused OF. Fostering
Industry In Wine Production

Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt,
former assistant Attorney General,
and the Government have been as
sailed by the Methodist Board of
Temperance for their actions in
connection with the sale of grape
concentrates convertible into wines
by home treatment.
The attack was made in an ar
ticle in 1.-The Voice." a board publi-
cation, which said it was discon-
certing that Mrs. WillebTandt, for
merly in charge of the Federal pro-
hibition enforcement division of the
Justice Department, should become
counsel for Fruit Industries, Ltd,
manufacturers of the concentrates.
Through loans from the Farm
Board, the article said, the Govern
ment was accused of fostering ma
tion-wide industry in partially man
ufactured wines. 1t added that it
would be difficult to suppress the
traffic" since the Government
would not find it easy to obtain
warrants for the search of homes.
1T may well be-" the board said.
JudJ IL Aldy pe HeCeoShi ~ ahtSlu
the Volstead act requiring that fruit
juices be protected from fermenta-
ton before being sold"
Recalling that Mrs. Willebrandt
had raised an eloquent voice" in
Methodist conferences and in the
councils of dry leaders. the board
declared:
"She it is through whom the gov
ernment has been won to this be-
nevolent attitude toward a traffic so
inimical to temperance. She it is
who has convinced the government
that this traffic is not in fact vio-
lation of the terms of the VolsUead
aot "
Milford chronicle., 1931-08-14
MANY CARS HAVE
NOT BEEN INSPECTED
Only Two Weeks Remain Before
Arrests will Be Made

Only AZ per cent of the registered
automobiles in Delaware have been
inspected and there remain only two
weeks before the state and county
highway police will make arrests
for driving uninspected cars.
According to Walter Dent Smith,
director of the car inspection cam
paign being conducted by the Sec
retary of States office in cO-Opera-
ton with the Delaware Safety Coun-
Gil, 5,678 cars passed the safety test
these were reported from New Cas-
tie county which shows 81 per cent
registered inspections. In Kent
county only 81 per cent of the reg
istered cars have passed the safety
test and in Sussex the percentage
is still lower, 27 per cent.
The director of the campaign calls
attention to the fact that motor We
hicle deaths, accidents and injuries
in this state to date exceed the total
of this same time in 1880. He calls
upon all good citizens to cooperate
with the state and with the Safety
Council in order that the remaining
months of the year may show more
favorable trend. In the nation as
a whole motor vehicle deaths have
increased per cent this year and
to date in Delaware SO persons have
been killed in motor vehicle acci-
dents whereas at the same time last
year 36 persons had met death. The
increase in this state is 5 1-2 per
cent.
In speaking of the car inspection
Mr.. Smith says:
"The basic theory of the Delaware
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Milford chronicle., 1931-08-14
NINTH ANNUAL
GRAPE GROWERS
TOUR MONDAY
Special Program Has
Been Arranged For Kent
Vineyard Owners
PROGRAM COMPLETE
Will Assemble At Farm
Of B. B. Chase At Nine
O'clock In Morning
PROGRAM COMPLETE

At a meeting of a committee of
grape growers that was held in the
Kent county extension office last
Saturday evening plans were com
pleted for the ninth annual grape
tour which will be held on Monday,
August II, and which will include
the commercial grape districts of
Dover and Wyoming where there
are over a thousand acres of bear
ing vineyards.
In addition to planning the
itinerary of this tour in cO-Opera-
ton with county agent, Russell E.
Wilson, this committee consisting Of
Ed Willim, John M. Roe, B. B.
Cahse, Denny PleasantOn, N. w.
Taylor and S. Short, also has ar
ranged for special program
during the noon hour at which time
brief talks on grape disease and in
sect control and other subjects of
interest to growers will be given by
DR.. T. F. Manns, plant pathologist;
DR.. L. A. Stearns, entomolOgist; and
Director C. A. McCue, of the Uni
versity of Delaware.
All the grape growers throughout
this section of the country are cord
tally invited to attend this annual
tour, the itinerary of which is as fol-
lows:
9 a. m.-GrOwers will assemble at
the vineyard of B. B. Chase where
a fertilization experiment has been
since 1924 to determine
the kinds and amounts of CONNER
cial fertilizers that should be used
to obtain the most profitable yields
of grapes.
1O:OO-Vineyard of H. c. Richard
son near Magnolia.
1O:30-Vineyard of e. c. Pleasan-
ton near Rising Sun, where expert
mental work in regard to grape ber-
ry moth control will be explained
by w. r. Haden, assistant entomO-
logist in charge of the insectary at
11:3O-Visit to the insectary at
Camden where life history studies
are being conducted on the various
orchard and vineyard insects.
12:O0-Vineyard of Denny Pleas
anton, between Wyoming and Dover.
While at this place the results OF
he experimental work with refer
ence to leaf-hopper control will be
discussed by l.. l.. Williams, assist
mt entomologist, who has charge
If the insectary at Camden.
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Milford chronicle., 1931-08-14
DENTAL HYGIENE
CAMPAIGN PLANS
Office Is Opened In Dover Prepara-
tory 10 Work In State Schools

Satisfactory progress has been
made in preparation for the dental
hygiene work to be undertaken in
the schools when they reopen next
month, according to a statement is
sued on Monday by DR.. A. c. Jost,
Secretary and Executive officer of
the State Board of Health
Miss Margaret Jeffreys of the
Dental Hygiene Department of
Pennsylvania, who will assist in the
work in this State, has made a sum-
mer roundup of children intending
to enter the Smyrna schools in Sep
tember.
Office of the Director of Dental
Hygiene has been opened at 25
North street in Dover. Six assistants
who will aid Miss Jeffreys will re-
port for duty on August "a. AS
now planned two of these assistants
will be detailed to schools in Sussex
county; one, with Miss Jeffreys,
will remain on duty in the schools
of Kent county. and three will be
placed in the New Castle county
schools.