Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1901-12-12
Saint Narq $ Beacon.
Department Farmers Institute.

Experiment Stations, and on many
farms in the north and northwest,
including Canada. the Pan-Ameri-
can and it's Live Stock Exposition, |
have met many men and women who
are recognized authorities and lead
ers in their lines as educators, i'm
porters, exhibitors, expert judges,
breeders and feeders, whose ac-
quaintance will be an enduring re-
source i shall always cherish. That
my friends, the Institute patrons,
may share the privilege with me, /
have thought it possible, where the
work of our Department is appreci-
ated, and we are sufficiently encour-
aged ami supported, to givea Special
Institute, before the regular Insti-
tute, where two or three 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 ar
range such a meeting as mentioned,
where a visit can be made pleasant
and profitable, in a better under
standing of Maryland, would they
accept an invitation to it? Without
an exception we received favorable
replies, with complimentary ex-
preston showing an interest in our
state and the nospitable habits gifts
people.
Though the thought came late to
offer this treat at this time we now
have the proui Use offour, (who, when
our patrons meet them, they will
long re member) to attend Special
Institute, one on the Eastern Shore,
at East III, Tai Dot county, December
IL; one, accessible to all patrons, at
Towson, Baltimore county, Deem
Der 19th; and one for Western Mary
land, al Westminster, December 90.
The first and last will have an even
ing ses sion.
Our invited guests will be Col.
Joseph H. Brigham, Assistant Sec
rotary Of Agriculture at Washington
subject, THE United States Depart
ment Of Agriculture and our Foreign
Markets
Mr.. L. H. Kerrick, Bloomington,
H., tho Champ IN Baby Beef feeder,
who in 1899 and also in 1900 took the
first prize on carload of cattle at the
Chicago International Live Stock
Expeditions, selling the last for the
highest price ever paid in any mar
ket for a carload of cattle. This
year, Dec. 2, he again showed a load
selected from 60 yearlings ! saw in
his feed-lot in October, 1900. Cat
tie, | then thought more beautiful
and picturesque in their pasture
than any had ever seen. His sub,
ject will be why and How l Grow
Baby Beef. "
Hon. o. c. Gregg, Supt. Farmers
Institutes of Minnesota. met Mr..
Gregg first in 1896 in Chicago at a
meeting of international Institute
Workers, speaking ofhis experience
he said, my father was an timer
ant, | was ordained a minister, but
not feeling called to the work, ac.
companied by my good wife, we
moved far out, by wagon, into the
open country, where we carved a
good farm out of the plains, fought
Sioux Indians, taught school, helped
my neighbors when could, and
have conducted Farmers Institutes
for 10 years. Mr.. Greggs is every
inch "A man, one of those noble char
acters and frontiersmen to whom we
Americans owe so much, for this our
great and prosperous country.
have asked him to speak of THE
Dairy Cow" and THE Farmerof the
Past, Present and Future.
Miss Emma Suter Jacobs, Direc-
tor of the Cooking Schools of Wash
ington, tireless worker and con.
slant student, having begun her
work under adverse conditions, I'M
derstands the needs of housekeep-
ers and how tomake their work light
and pleasant. Her subject will be
The Staff of Life''-Demonstrated.
II this first effort, to bring men
and women whom we read of and
have learned to admire, and whose
writings and speeches we accept as
a text on which to base our life work.
succeeds, it shall grow under our
management intoa prominent feature
of Institute work: but we should
have a large audience. of our rep
resentative people, to meet them, or
it will injure rather than improve
the work, as such visitors will ex-
ercise great influence over others
we invite in the future. As an ad.
vertising feature for our state, we
know OF nothing better, as their inn
preston obtained when among us
will be accepted as facts by thou
sands of hearers they annually meet
or who read their writings from the