Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1897-01-21
FARMERS INSTITUTE.
Interesting Session of Agriculturists at
Shiloh Tuesday.

ohuOh tuesday.
tuesday was great day in Shiloh.
Farmers for miles around drove with
their families to the Academy Hall, where
the first session of the Farmers, Institnta
opened at 1890 a. m.
After few well chosen words of well
come by the State Secretary of Agricul
ture, Mr.. Franklin Dye, the first number
on the program, paper, s.Bv what
Metbods may our Country Roads be I'm
proved Without Increase of Tax?, by
Job ;. Haines, of Mickleton, n. j.. was
announced.
by e. rs time some poultry which
had been brought to the hall for
exhibition, began to grow very uneasy.
ana two or more roosters by inces-
SAINT Growing completely drowned out the
speaker. Several of the farmers having
compassion on the latter, very kindly
Volunteered to remove the offending
members, hut unfortunately, in so doing,
two very fire fowls escaped from captiv-
lty and took their position upon the backs
of some vacant benches in the audience.
with crow of complete victory. The
scene was now extremely ludicrous.
which was made no less so by the wild
scram ble for the roosters which followed.
Order was finally restored, and Mr..
Haines proceeded with most excellent
paper, which held the attention of the
large audience for the greater part of the
mornings session. Mr.. Haines empha-
sized the idea of public i'm provement, es-
peciailyin education and public roads,
and expressed hope that the State
would, IN the futue, give us larger ap-
preparation for the same, even if the Ma
tional Guards, which he considers of less
Importance, should have to suffer in con-
given the speaker for his very valuable
paper.
After a donbie quartette of Shiloh song
sters had rendered some appropriate
selections Mr.. Geo. L. Gettingham, of
| Moorestown, " j., who is a most suc-
cessful farmer, delivered fine address
upon Rearing and Management OF
Swine for Profit" This closed the morn
ing session, and the visitors were all in
vited TO the church basement, where din
ner was served by an able corps of farm
ers wives.
At l.45 p. m the afternoon session was
opened by th4 quartette in pleasing
manner, and was followed by question
box concluding the discussion of swine
raising, which was opened in the morn
ing session. Mr.. VIM. R. Lippincott, OF
Fellowship. n. j., then read an excellent
paper on 'The Profits of the Dairy,''
which was followed by question box
and general discussion of the same
subject
One of the most finely written and
most gracefully delivered papers of the
day was that of Mrs. Mary R. Brown, a
farmers wife of Swedesboro, n. j., on
Education Needful to Success and Con-
tentment on the farm. Mrs. Brown i'm
| pressed her hearers as being woman OF
rare intelligence, who found every op-
portunity for the use of such AN endow-
ment in the many branches of woman's
work on the farm. A question box on
the subject of Poultry Raising was the
next and closing item on the program OF
the afternoon session.
| The evening session began at Z 15 and
was opened as was the other sessions, by
music
After the usual question box and dis
cussion, Prof. E. B. Voorhees,, Director
State Experiment Stations, New Bruns-
wick, n. j., addressed the assembly on
the subject, Purchase and Use of Com.
mercial Fertilizers" which proved a
most instructive and practical discourse
to the farmers present.
A discussion on "Methods of Growing
White Potatoes was opened by D. D.
Denise, President of State Board of Agri-
culture.
The Institute, taken as whole, proved
most instructive and profitable to all who
attended, and the social part was no
small feature of the days enjoyment.