Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1900-11-22
Farmers, Inatitrte.

j The closing sessions Of the Farmers
Institute under the auspices of the State
Board Of Agriculture, was held at Mullica
ill on Thursday last with a large attend
*lnee Professor E. w. Mccain, Director
nj the State Weather Service, nad IN
Instructive address, highly appreciated by
the soil tillers, on How Weather Changes
Are Predicted He strongly condemned
weather guesseIs, and said they were
ssfakirsu who were just quilting the public
in predicting storms, hurricanes and
cyclones months ahead. He said people
always made note of the ssmissesn of the
bureau, but rarely said anything about the
hits made. He said the service had
reached sueha stage Of perfection that the
forecasts were generally reliable and ac-
curate
II. Z. Cook, of New York, made an adj
dress on Educating the Dairy Cow. = He
said if the farmer could not give a COW good
care he ought to get rid Of the animal. He
said the scrub farmer should go with the
scrub COW. The COW to-day is an
artificial creature, and must have artificial
conditions, or the business will not pay.
The farmer is more in need of good feed
than good breed. Care is essential to
satisfactory results He advised the dairy
men not to buy expensive animals until
they could give what they must have good
care He said the farmer must learn the lesson
of economy by making use of many Of the
unmarketable crops which have formerly
been thrown away. A general discussion
of the subject followed, the various foods
inviting diversity Of opinion James e..
Price made an address on Garden Vege-
tables
SECRETARY DYES ADDRESS.
State Secretary Dye made the closing
|eddress on Thought and Action. He
said -
Anything that is worth doing at all
should be done well. A careless doing of
work suggests a lack of appreciation of the
importance and value of the work, aud
lack Of careful preparation for it; prepa-
tion which is the outcome of intelligent
thinking. A proper ambition in any
will lead one to reach after
better results from our work each succeed
ing year. As soon as such an ambition
enters in, the mind will begin to grapple
with the subject And this is the attitude
! would have the farmer assume concerning
all his work. Give each branch of it
thoughtful, intelligent consideration. From
such consideration make your plans and
then proceed with the work according to an
intelligent conception Of it, 1t may be
said that as the attitude of the mind of the
farmer is to the work to be done, so will
the work and the results be. Improve
ments in dairy management are advocated;
new methods of soil improvement sug-
gested; radical changes in the production
Of fine fruit proposed, and advanced meth
DDS in poultry management explained. But
the unprogressive man will not give any of
these questions consideration. He is salts
fed with his way; with what he knows
He gives all these new-fangled notions the
go-by. His actions will therefore be in
accord with his thought. Every mans
work is according to his thought, concern
ing it, and his work reveals the man.
whether he is progressive OF unprogressive.
"If man is Indifferent he is hopeless as
to progress. If he is thoughtful, there is
certainty that such man will
go on to perfection. Let intelligent
thought precede action y