The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1899-12-08
The Work of Director AmOSS.

Under the direction of the department
of farmers institutes, a bureau of inform
alton for Marylanders engaged in farm
ing. conducted under the auspices of the
Maryland Agricultural College, tour of
investigation among some well-known
farms has been planned by the director
Mr. William L. Amoss. Representative
planters of Southern Maryland will make
up the party and they will report on the
result of their observations at farmers IN
stitutes to be held in the future.
In speaking of the objects Of the de-
partment and the diffiulties in the way
of successful farming in the state, which
it is hoped the present plan will lessen SO
far as Southern Maryland is concerned,
Mr.. Amoss says: Zone of the most dlffl-
cult sections to operate has been South
ern Maryland, where, for many reasons,
the people have been prevented from put
ting into practice the methods which
| would enable them to compete with 9th
ers. They have, therefore, confined their
attention to tobacco growing, permitting
| lands not suited to its culture to grow up
J in timber or lay waste, use of such being
| lost of lack for information. To supply
this is now the concern of the department.
The following institutes will be held in
Southern Maryland this winter:
| Charles county, La Plata, January 3;
St. Mary's, Leonardtown, January -;
Calvert, Prince Frederick, January 18th;
Prince Georges, Hyattsville, January 30;
Anne Arundel, Shipley, FEBRUARY 16.
Mr.. Amoss writes us as follows The
Department of Farmers Institutes will,
this season, go to the farmers with greater
assurance, than in the past, that the work
will be received and thoroughly arpreciat-
ed in all the counties Slowly but surely
the assemblies have grown.
Care has always been exercised not to
misrepresent a worker but to place him
before the audience in his true standing
among his fellows. When it has been
said worker was practical 1t has been
positively known that such was so. 1t is
the opinion of the Director that great harm
might result from the words of theorists,
if accepted as facts, and supposed to have
been the result Of practice
This year, as last, two thoroughly
practical experienced institute workers
have been engaged. Mr.. James l. Rice,
of Yorktown, N. Y, will be one. His
specially is poultry, but he talks on other
subjects equally as well.
DR.. J. c. Curryer, who is Assistant
Superintendent of Institutes in Minnesota
and in charge of the Horse Department,
will be the other. The Doctor has been
great admirer and handler of horses
since his very early Loyhood and has
been large breeder for more than
quarter of century in the West. A few
of his subjects are How to Commence
the Education of our Horses How to
select horses for special purposes Sim
pie methods of starting the balky horse
without punishment" Feed and care of
horses to keep them strong and healty.
The Southern Maryland planters who
were invited on the 2Sth to inspect farms
IN Northern MaTylanu anu vi IL, L d., :" NJ
will attend and address all meetings in
the southern counties, are, Messrs. +.
Snowden Hill, on "Some Observations on
Growing and Handling Our Tobacco
Crop" Samuel Cox, Jr., The Dairy in
Southern Maryland,'' and J. P. Hamilton,
''Stock Breeding and Feeding as an Ad-
junct to Tobacco Culture" Other farm
ers WILL in the several counties, be called
upon to give contributions, and to base
their remarks on experience.
Secretary Wilson, of the Department Of
Agriculture, Washington, has granted per-
mission to chiefs and assistants of Divi-
sions to absent themselves in the interest
of Maryland farmers, that their work may
become familiar household topics in the
farmers home.
1t has been truthfully said that our
Maryland Department of Farmers lnsti-
tates has at command the best talent in
the world.