Milford chronicle., 1949-11-25

Eastern Shore farmers still plow-
ed under sweet potatoes or fed them
to available stock or "kilned" them
or stored them under more modern
protection with a speculative eye
on the pOst-Christmas season.
Eastern Shore sweet potatoes
have now established themselves in
American households and though
twenty-three states are estimated
to have a production of over 81
million bushels this year, the Eas-
tern Shore will supply over so Der
cent Of the market demand for can
ned sweet potatoes. If Eastern
Shoremen can stand a few dry sta
tistics Well mention that in 1927
only 100000 cases Of canned sweet
potatoes oozed into the nations
market places. This year, 1949, the
output will be nearly 10000
cases. This means more American
families will be able to enjoy baked
Sweets" "candied sweets" sweet
potato pie and sweet potato biscuits
whenever the family has a yen for
sweet pOtatoes-not merely when
the local newspaper announces:
Sweet potatoes are in the market. Z"
Consumers are growing food
value" conscious and have learned
that the sweet potato is a prize
package at reasonable cost. It is a
rich source of vitamin A, provides
worthwhile quantities of vitamin
&c, and small amounts of B, and
minerals. 1t is a better provider of
food energy than the white or Irish
potato for it gives about $50 cal
Ories to the spud's 100. And, the
city housewife knows that canned
sweet potatoes are a First Aid"
to. the family budget.
How this has been brought about,
would be easily understood by Eas-
tern Shore farmers if they gave the
"once over" to the inside of the
Dulany plant at Fruitland when
sweet potatoes are making the first
lap on the road to the family din
ner table. Readers may get a clue
through the pictures of the modern
machinery and close supervision
which protect food values and guard
the sweet potatoes for the ulti-
mate consumer. Perhaps, Dulany
keeps in mind Christopher Column
bus remark when he presented his
sponsor, Queen Isabella, with a
carefully wrapped bundle of New
World sweet potatoes. Sweets to
the sweet" said Chris, "and, food
At for a queen!"
Though focusing it's attention on
canned sweet potatoes as an as
set to Eastern Shore agriculture,
Dulany has cOOperated with the
farmers in finding markets through
the processing route for anything
and everything our farms would
produce. The food commodities
which have gone from the fields to
John II. Dulany and Son, Inc, reads
like an alphabetical list in a U.
S. Department of Agriculture bro
chure7-"A" for asparagus to rs"
for sweet potatoes.
AS the Eastern Shore farmers
have expanded production of vital
foods in infinite variety. the Du-
lany organization has kept pace
with it's business and community
obligations to stabilize this output
of the farms. It has developed bet
ter processing techniques, utilized
all sources of research and mar
keting, and it's management and
employees constitute well-limit
force of 1000 persons as deeply
concerned with a prosperous Eas-
tern Shore as any group. And, Du-
lany appears to be quite an asset
to the region it serves. It is in
teresting to learn that it's combined
payroll and payments to farmers
last year for products used at Fruit
land turned $1,9OO,0OO into Shore
circulation. This would seem to
emphasize the interdependence of
Eastern Shore agriculture and the
processing industry, as typified by
John H. Dulany and Son, Inc.