Milford chronicle., 1962-11-02

ADULT School bells
are ringing for 55 adult Students
at Caesar Rodney High. T h Sc
adult students are enrolled in var
ious courses to satify the inherent
urge for self improvement.
Glasses in Shorthand, Converse
tional Spanish, Art, Bookkeeping,
Sewing and Typing started tn
week of October 18th and will con-
tinue thru December 20. No fur
ther enrollments are being accept
ed for this term but reservation
may be made for the second SEM
ster by calling the Caesar Rod
ney High Schools Office.
TRUST FORUM = The Trust
Section of the Delaware Bankers
Association will hold its Ninth
Biennial Trust Forum on Wednes-
day, November IA, 1862, at th
Mapledale Country Club in Dover.
The program will begin at 4:3O
PM. with a panel discussion of
current problems concerning trust
companies. Following dinner n
speaker will be Mr. Bertram Zu-
meta, an economist with the Phil
! adelphia Reserve Bank of PhiladeI-
phia
Walter ID. Mertz, Vice President
of Wilmington Trust Company, is
! Chairman of the Committee ar
ranging the Forum.
HARD TO BELIEVE FACTS
ABOUT FARMING = In the 195O's.
output per manhour in non-agri-
cultural industry rose about two
per cent annually compared to 6.5
! per cent for agriculture.
The farmer gets less than three
cents for the wheat that goes into
a 20-cent loaf of bread. Farmers
have twice as much money invest
ed in machinery as the steel in
dustry and five times as much as
the automobile industry.
Each worker bees task is so de-
manding that it wears itself out in
80 days. A laying hen yearly pro-
duceS eggs which weigh six to
eight times as much as she does.
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1T TAKES A GOOD WHILE
to assemble farm income and pro-
duction statistics. But farmers and
others will be glad to learn that
the 1861 Delaware facts are now
available from the county agents.
The report credits Kent county
1 "a G, fol
s21.5 million dollars, up almost $50
from 1860. But the extended
drouth in 1862 will probably drop
| the figure again this year.
Almost 500 was earned from
crops: 1870 from corn, 16.5%o from
soybeans, 1919 from potatoes, 14.4
| % from vegetables, go from small
grain, and $50 from fruits.
AS for livestock and animal
products, fluid milk totals 1870,
Broilers 119o, other poultry 458o,
cattle 31a, and sheep less than
.05%o. Government payments for
the soil bank and for conservation
practices make up 396.
WILLIAM III. GODSHALL = of
Dover and George G. Simpson of
Houston were among the fifteen
Kent county folks attending n
Land and People Conference of the
United States Department of Ag-
riculture. The two day Philadel-
phia meeting drew better t than
1000 people to hear Mr. Orville
Freeman, the secretary of agricul-
ture, and other rural leaders dis
cuss farm issues.
The above are cited because
their presence was completely vol
unbary Mr. Godshall serves as a
member of the new Delaware State
Planning Commission, and Mr.
Simpson, as the manager of h
Delaware State Fair and as chair
man of the agricultural committee
of the Delaware Bankers Associa-
tion.
The development of recreational
resources on farms was the high
light of the sessions. Land taken
out of production because of farm
surpluses can be diverted to such
uses as camping sites, fishing
ponds, hunting lodges, vacation
farms, and picnic grounds. Strong
emphasis was given to planning
and zoning our land areas for their
best use. Flood plains, for example
were given as poor sites for homes.