The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-01-05
FARMERS IN COUNCIL.
A VERY SUCCESSFUL INSTITUTE
Al St. olait.ville, oAo-A Notable Gather.
ins-Dlseas.ing Subjects Looking to the
Improvement OF the Mountaineering
Papers Road Before the Institute.

Papers Road Before the Institute.
Fron he Editor Of he In,elgaer.
sr. CLARsyILLE, O., Jan. 3.-To-day
brought to close the fourth annual
Farmers Institute. The institute is .
three days meeting with sessions morn
ing, afternoon and evening. Hither come
the intelligent, progressive farmers Of
Belmont, Jefferson and Harrison counties,
some from Washington county, Penn.
sylvania, and fewer from the Panhandle
Of West Virginia. Tie institute is held
in Welday's Hall, large room filled at
every session by farmers and their
families. Not even the excitement Of o
murder trial square away drew these
earnest inquirers from the matter in hand.
They had come to hear and learn, men
and women Of all ages, and they were not
to be drawn away.
NOTABLE GATHERING OF FARMERS.
Within the week l have witnessed two
notable assemblages. In point OF intelli-
gence, attendveness, quickness OF percep-
ton and responsiveness, I should not hope
to SEQ them excelled though travelled the
country over. 1t is the common belief
that city people ara quicker than, country
people 10 take a point. suppose that
any speaker would be satisfied with an
that would respond to the light
est touch. 1t has been so here, and 80 /
saw it at the farmers meeting at Wash
ington, Pennsylvania. In each place a
packed house OF people who read, think
and want to hear what other people arc
thinking about-people who lead sober,
orderly lives, for the most part till well
small farms, aspire TO the best and desire
to know what is best. The women move
with the men and are as willing to learn.
| doubt whether there is anywhere bet
ter class OF farmers than those who have
met in the two institutes | have visited
this week. The best evidence OF their
superior quality is that they do well with
their farms and are seeking to do better.
FARMERs AS TEACHERS.
At these institutes the talking is largely
done by farmers, and it is a pleasure to
note the unaffected confidence and fluency
with which they deliver themselves. 1t
is not only that they are intelligent men
md observing farmers, but there is a
marked ease OF bearing and unfaltering
precision OF speech which comes from
practice. This they get in their clubs,
where everything OF interest 10 the farmer
is discussed with freedom. The club is
the preparatory school, the institute the
higher form. The State OF Ohio wisely
these institutes with an appro.
priation for speakers, and the Secretary OF
the State Board OF Agriculture, Mr.. W. l.
very competent man, visits
and addresses them. Perhaps the day
will come when West Virginia will take
some interest in the industry Of the men
who cultivate her hillsides and her valleys.
Our best farmers are not waiting for the
State to help them, but the State could
render valuable aid, as other common
wealths are doing.
TIE CREAMERY SYSTEM.
l have been much impressed by a
illustrated discourse on the
creamery plan OF raising cream and max
ing butter. The process is simple. The
is drawnfrom the milk speedily com
pletely, with absolute cleanliness and
freedom from contamination. The butter
made from this cream is necessarily the
best, and it is worth remembering that the
demand for frst quality butter is never
supplied There is profit in intelligent
.lairy farming where the conditions are at
all favorable, and there are portions OF
West Virginia which nature has made for
the dairyman. AS one result OF to-day's
talk on the subject the farmers Of this 10.
cality are going to get more and better
cream from their milk, and there is likely
TO be at least one creamery established.
The cost OF starting q creamery need not
exceed 5000, and well-managed the
is profitable enterprise.
TIE INSTITUTE.
The institute opened on New Years day
in the morning. Mr.. John Watson, Pres
ldcnt Of the Belmont county Farmers
club, was chosen President, a good man in
tho right place. Mr.. A. T. .McKelvey was
made Secretary, city man who has be-
come asuccessful farmer and one OF the
most progressive in Belmont county. Tho
Vice-Presidents were ]. A. Green and w.
S. Fox, OF Harrison county; Alexander
Welday and George Clark, OF Jefferson
county; Hoh. r. S. Clark and VIM.
Bundy, OF Belmont county; Julius lie
Aioyne and ]. b. Wilson, OF Washington
county, Pennsylvania. The features OF
the Institute were discussion Of "the
Need OF n Better Road System" by WIS.
Fox and Hon. Wm. Bundy; an address on
''tho Origin and Value OF Our Coal Sup
ply; by Prof. /. N. Vail; q lecture by
Secretary Chamberlain on "Sex and In
yentionn; an excellent "plea for the
Youth Of the Farm" by Miss Mercy Grit
fifth; "The Cheer and Comfort Of the
Farm, by Rev. W. II. Haskell; "The
Morals OF the Farm, by Rev. DR.. Robert
Alexander; Fruit Culture, by Slater
Brown; "What Breeds OF Cattle are Best
Adapted to Eastern Ohio and Western
Pennsylvania", by Julius LIE Moyne, who
spoke for the short horns, !. B: Wilson,
who advocated the claim Of the Holsteins,
and L. P. Bailey, who took the Jersey
side. EARN Leakagesn, and "a Little
Farm Well Titled, by T. B. Terry; "The
Care Of the Apple Orchard" and "0rna-
mental horticulture, by G. II. Miller. OF
Norwich; GLOW and Why we Should
Keep Sheep, by Captain Lee, Of Wheel
ing township, aud Emmett Griffin; Dairy
ing as Source OF Profit, by John Will