Milford chronicle., 1932-02-26
add a few more.

the chicken business on larg
scale, keep any more hens than viii
prove sufficient in laying enougl
eggs for the family use; otherwise
it won't pay.
Don't think for an instant you arr
goin gto get rich off a few hens
They may not pay for the feed they
eat, but you have the satisfaction oi
having fresh eggs for breakfast oil
for cooking and if you raise a few
chickens, who also have the salts
faction of knowing that the chick
ems you kill are free from disease;
something you do not know when
you buy them in the open market.
1t is a great wonder that the wO-
men don't engage more extensively
in backyard poultry keeping. 1t is a
work that the ladies generally like,
and often make a great success Of,
and also helps them to become in
terested in home affairs, and not he
busy body who delights to gossip,
play bridge or other things which
, robs the homes of today of much
happiness which they would other
wise have. Get into the poultry
| business.
The State To Assist Landowners
In RefOreStatiOn Plans
The State is offering trees of diff
ferent kinds at very low prices
which will allow the landowners to
refOrest their lands at a nominal
| figure.
There is plenty of waste land in
| Sussex county that should be set in
young trees of some kind. In its
present shape it is an eyesoFe to the
passerby, but could be made by re-
forestation to look much nicer, ana
in a few years there would grow
some valuable timber.
Free advice is offered by the State
to the landowners, as how to plant,
&c, by the State Forestry Depart
ment. Dover. The law is: Persons
reforesting five or more acres Of
land, may apply for a tax emption
on these lands under the new forest
tax emption law passed by the last
General Assembly. Such land When
classified is exempt for 80 years.
Waste land in Sussex county can
be bought cheap, and young men
who can purchase enough, means to
nurchase some of this land will in
few years reap a rich harvest from
their investment. Those landowners
who are advanced in age may by
setting their land in trees, may adj
vance the value of their farm so
much that they will able to sell IL
at a good advantage and have some
thing to aid them in their old age.
The Teforestation of the waste
land of the State would be a grand
thing. and would not only advance
the value of the land but would look
much more enhancing to the hu-
man eye.
Let the farmers and others who
own this waste land, get busy while
the State is offering the trees at
such a low price and reforest their
lands at once. 1t will not only ad-
vance the value of the farm lands
but will increase the beauty of the
country as well.
Firemen Called Ont
The Glendale Fire Company was
called out twice the past week 10
subdue chimney fires. On Saturday
morning a stubborn chimney hre
broke out at the home of Jean Tue
ker and on Sunday they were COM
PEELED to go out into the country ana
subdue another chimney fire at the
farm occupied by John Harmon.
People in olden times used to
burn their chimney out once each
wear. A bunch of blades and a long
pole would generally do the trick.
OF course they selected a rainy day
when the roofs were wet. 1t was no
trouble in those times to burn out
the chimneys as fire places were
generally used, and it was easy TO
get material up the chimneys'
which would do the work. In these
DAYS when heaters and stoves are in
use it is more difficult to clean the
flues than it was in the days past |
and gone.
Death OF Mrs. Ida SalmOnS
Mrs. Ida Salmons, 72 years old, OF
Lewes, died in the Emergency Hos
pital, Milford, Saturday morning |
last, of pneumonia.
Mrs. Salmons had been out to Oak
ley for several weeks attending her |
sister and brother-in-law, Mr.. and
Mrs. John Banning, who are very
sick, when she contracted a bad
cold. She was brought to the home
of her sister and brother-in-law, Mr..
and Mrs. iona Ellingsworth, where
her cold developed into pneumonia.
She was removed to the Emergency
Hospital, Milford, where she died on
Saturday morning.
Mrs. Salmons was a most esti-
mable Christian woman, everybody
seemed to love her. She was kind to
everyone. 1t was a pity she had to
leave a world where she is needed
so badly.
Her funeral was held at her late
home in Lewes on Monday after
noon. Rev. r. C. Jones officiating.
Interment in the Methodist ceme-
terry. /.
She leaves behind, two children,
daughter and son, who reside in
Philadelphia, and three sisters, Mrs.
John Banning of Oakley, Mrs. iona
Ellingsworth, and Marshciena Wal
ker of Glendale Mrs. Salmons was
reared on a farm which her father
owned near here, and spent her ear
ly girlhood days there with her par
ents.
Some Things To Think About
Are you a progressive citizen?
Are you a fault finder7
Is YOUR word as good as your