The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-12-06
SPECIAL INSTITUTES.
Director Amoss Announces a
Treat for Farmers of This
County-List Of Regu
lar Meetings.

! rectAtU from w lllldll IL. AllloSS.
Director Of Maryland Farmers
Institutes, which is of particular
interest to farmers of this and
other counties These institutes
have been held here and we know
them 10 be of great value. Our
farmers can learn many helpful
lessons from them in their work.
Director AmoSS says:
"At the State Fairs, Agricult.
ural Colleges, and Experiment
Stations and on many farms in
tie North and Northwest includ
ing Canada and the Pan Amer
lean and Live Stock Exposition,
! have met many men and women
who are recognized authorities
and leaders in their lines as edu-
Gators importers, exhibitors, eX-
pert Judges, breeders and feeders,
whose acquaintance will he an
enduring resource | shall always
cherish. That my friends, the
institute patrons, may share the
4 privilege, with me, | ha e
thought it possible, where the
work of our department is appre-
ciated. and We are sufficiently en-
cOuraged and supported, to give
a special institute, before the reg
! ular institute season, where two
of these well-knOwn men or
women could be invited to meet
our farmers. With this thought
in mind, | have asked several of
those | have met, if we arrange
such meeting as mentioned,
where visit can be made pleas
! ant aud profitable, in a better
/ understanding of Mary II d,
would they accept an invitation
to it! Without an exception we
received favorable replies, with a
complimentary expression show.
ing an interest in our State and
the hoSpitable habits of its people.
Though the thought came late
to offer this treat ut this time we
now have the promise Of four.
(who, when our patrons meet
them they will long remember) to
attend special institute, one on
the Eastern Shore, at EaSt0n.
Talbot County, December 18th:
one, accessible to all patrons, at
Towson, Baltimore County, De
cem1er 10th: and one for Western
Maryland, at Westminster, Car.
roll County December 10Th. The
first and last will have an even
ing session.
Onr invited guests will be Col.
Joseph IL. Bingham. Assistant
| Secretary of Agriculture at
Washington, subject, The Uni
ted States Department of Agri-
culture and our Foreign Markets. .
Mr.. l.. IL. Kerrick, Blooming
ton, Illinois, the Champion Baby
Beet feeder, who in 1899 and also
in 1900 took the first prize on a
car load of cattle at the Chicago
International Live Stock EXPOSE
ti0ns selling the last for the
highest price ever paid IN any
market for a carload of cattle.
This year, December 2nd. he will
again show load selected from
go yearlings | saw in one of his
feed lots in October, 1900. Cat
tie, | then thought more beauti-
full and pict ssque in their past.
IRE tnan an j. had ever seen. His
subject will be "Why | Grow
Baby Beef" "Complying with
your request to furnish some facts
of my history, | will say that
am a graduate of the Illinois
Wesleyan University and | am a
trustee Of that institution, and
| have been a member Of the Hi
noiS Legislature, and | am Pres
ident of the Illinois Cattle Feed
ers Association, President of
American Aberdeen Angus Asso-
citation, member of Advisory
! Committee on Cattle Feeding Elk
perimentS, College of Agricult.
ure, University of Illinois; carry.
ing on farm of sonnet ing more
than two thousand acres; have
four hundred and eighty head of
pure, bred and grade Angus cattle
and other stock These facts
will give your friends the impress
sion that | am in the farming bus.
mess in fact and not simply on
paper.
lion. o. c. Gregg, Superinten
dent Farmers Institutes of Min
nesota. | met Mr.. Gregg first in
1896 in Chicago at a meeting of
International Institute Workers.
and speaking Of his experience
he said: "My father was an itin.
Grant. | was ordained minis
ter, but not feeling called to the
work, accompanied by my good
wife, we moved far out, by wagon.
into the open country, where we
carved good farm out of the
plains, fought Sioux Indians,
taught school, helped my neigh
bors when ! could, and have con