The Wilmington daily Republican., 1902-01-17
with FARMERS
AND CHANGERS.

"a Dover, Del, jan 16.-Thc winter
N session Of the Delaware Farmers
!. Institute promises TO be Of except
ional interest, principally besa use
II OF the boom in farming and the
II prospects Of 'good money ahead
Il next year. A two days session
- will be held in Dover, beginning in
9 the Court Ilous. on January q.
4 Among long list Of interesting
- spe akers will bell. W. Collingwood,
!. editor OF the Rural New Yorker.
Il From the Delaware EXPERIMENTAL
station at Delaware College will
come Professors Bishop, Sander
: soH. {. T. Close and Dr.. Neale.
j, Senator Charles Wright, the Sea :.
lord f0rserym an, will discuss
peaches Assemblymau James L.
nhallcross of Odessa, "pears," S.
H.: Derby of Woodsiie, "applcs;"
William Nj. Dickson, "beel cattle"
Oliver a. Newton of Brldrcville,
who is reputed to have made a for
tune on small fruits, will take on
these products OF vineyard and or
ehard. DR.. Harris Mcdowell, the
young veterinarian. who stamped
out anthrax IN New Castle county,
and was then engaged by the state
OF Maryland to wipe it out of Cecll
county, will talk and be questioned
on ANIMAL diseases.
The officers OF the institute are
X. NJ. Cooper, Cheswood, president:
J.. W. sayior, Magnolia, vice.presi.
dent; Wesley Webb, secretary.
Ezekiel Cooper, treasurer.
Georgetown, Ian. 16 The farm
ers OF sussex county are coming 10
Georgetown en- masse, OH Thursday
and FRIDAY, January 80 ana 81. to
Talk aoout everything that interests
hem 10 their daily life.
speakers from outside the state
vi be here, hui the main features
!oi the meeting will be papers, talks
ana d,senss'ons by prominent farm |
erS ! over the county, with a few
from l<cnt and New Cas,la county.
on fruit growing. d4irying, cattle
raising, animal diseases, insect
pests 1na sItn otGer thirrs as
help to make coualry life either
happy or miserable.
Among the speakers are H. w. I
to'i'"a wood, Of the Rural New
Yorker; DR.. A. T. Neaie, director OF
me HclaAare experiment statiou;
To'essor Aande:uon, the entono.o-
Ss'; ". y Wilson, of Lewes, who
VII talk on da,rying; William NJ.
!:'$Nson. ON cattle raising; O. A,
Newton, OF l'ridsev,Ile. on straw
berries and o'her small fruits; Hon,
>h"s' Wright oil Seaiord, on peach
y. W. ss'avmaker and S
H. DERBY, OF keat county. on spray
~. ara apple culture: the Hon. J.
I, %ha,lcross. .Middctown, en- pears
and Walter L Massey on grapes.
.'l!"ur Il. Spnd, prlnclpal OF the
AIcN's l. DUPONT school delivered
ne last OF his series OF Illustrated
cetures in Breck's Mill Hall. on
ne brandywlne, last evening. His
subject was "Leaves and Blossoms
md there were - views of trees
md flowers shown upon the the
screen. ~ synopsis oil the talk
ulows:
I've live directly or indirectly I
tron the products OF the trees and
''ant~. TO them we are not onjy
nde b'led Tor tood. shelter aud cloth.
ny. cut also for the beauty OF the ,
Trees and flowers are
aeIlshl TO all, and it is wouder |
nat more attention is not given to !
ne. study Of things SO useful and t.
au,'u|. Botany should have a ]
'l"ce in every school; and the trees
I'D lhs i!owers OF our parks and Il
ooda should be familiar 10 every I
upll. l
"lhe American people have been u
''Sh p'odga with the trees, consil- v
ring Them in 4 Il commercial sense f
MY, Our forcla!hors were slayers Of ,
'Ces. iiley lnlltlcl their homes in :.
le Priine'a' forests, hcAing out
Ieat c"ear!n"s Wy means OF axe and W
re, Weave just lngiNting to heed 81
'c' warning or 'WoodmAn, spare $
lat ties Co,grcss, although ,ard. 6,
j. has begIA to set aside public ~
NJ KS ii4d ir'est reservations. IL is
'aaII"'y dA"nnr upon the minds of
10 laHa "Hnc'a along creeks and v
mali rivers Ia mountainous or hilly VI ~
Strcls that tha dcuuJa,iul of the NJ
rests on the slopes is responsible re
+ the destructive froshcts and Hoods ch
at ruin their bottom lanl.s, and VI VI
the hot dlontily summers that tb
S'roy their crops. Only a little WI
or one third Of Delaware is forest Al Al
ID. We need more. In
The hen is queen. Eggs are SO Oh
nts d"2en and the shell game is 4 p'ii
wing one, Be good to the hen. an
c is now qneen. Even though as en-
nursery rhyme goes tba, she says ar
G lays ) cents egg every day and IL, !"
Il has to 60 barcfooLcd. A writer s.o
Is: Le
)h the hen--.he busy, indus. nn Sn,
o"s. happy. egg-proiucing hen. ~
G IT WAS who who saved Lansas, Low
d il ttc truth were known has ligl
'ed enough homes tomake dozens Hui Hni
States the size Of Kansas. From wa
ll-Gato to Golden-Gate, the happy tho
'erlns notes Of the layers are an. anJ
ard. Whatever man has pone "h,' "
settle he has taken with him "a 4
ehl> >kens. II the agile is our e.