The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-01-03
FARMERS INSTITUTES.
Three Will be Held in Baltimore County
in January and February, 1908
Some of Those Who VIII
Make Addresses.


Mr.. William L. Amoss, State Director of Farm
ers Institutes, has arranged for Institutes to be
held in Baltimore county as follows
Tuesday, January goth, at COckeysUile,
from 10 a. NJ. to 10 p M.-Morning Session.
10 o'clock-"How and what to feed hogs so as
grown crops for cattle food" by F. A. Converse:
Afternoon Session, 13O o'clock" Formation of
SEducation Of The farmers Sch cbildren. BY F. A.
Converse. Evening Session. oclock-"Garden
vegetables and how to cook them." Miss E. 5.
Jacobs. Subject to change as conditions may
require. Ladies invited to attend the afternoon
and evening sessions.
State Institute at To,Uso,,, Thursday, Feb
Tu0ry 10Th, from 10 Il. M to 4 p. M.-Morn-
ing Session-Arranging and judging corn for ex-
hibit. Afternoon Session Corn exhloltlon;
Corn culture and breeding" by A. d. Shamel.
Special Corn Institute at TOtcsoIl, Tuesday,
February 1Oth:-A prominent and important
feature will be an exhibit of corn grown in Mary
land, for which prizes will be awarded. All or
those desiring to compete or exhibit will send
or give their samples to the Farmers Institute
correspondent or secretary of their county, who
will see that the samples are forwarded to the
place of exhibition. Six ears will constitute
sample for exhibition. The exhibition will be
divided into three classes -yellow corn. white
corn and mixed corn. Prizes will be awarded in
each class. Entrance to the contest is free to all
Maryland farmers.
SOME OF THOSE WHO WILL SPEAK.
F. A. Converse, Woodville N. Y. was born and
raised upon dairy and stock farm. Upon the
completion of his academic course he took
course in agriculture at Cornell University and
returned to his farm at Woodville, where he en-
gagged in breeding Ayrshire cattle and shetland
tor of Farmers Institutes in New York State,
during which time he has frequently visited
other states speaker at institutes, dairy com
%ittees and ye 81 stuck toe h
| live stock departments at the Pan-American Ex-
| position. He planned and carried out success
| fully the Model Dairy. This dairy was COM
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| the largest of the kind ever conducted in the
| world. He is thoroughly conversant with agri-
| cultural conditions and needs and pleasant and
| forcible speaker.
s. H. Todd Wakeman, Ohio, is the oldest son
| of very successful farmer and stock raiser.
| While breeding hogs and sheep has been his
principal business, he has had great success IN
all lines of farming. He has been an exhibitor
at the principal fairs of the United States for the
| last twenty years, and has won laurels on sheep
| and hogs alone to the amount of $4,000 He has
been accepted as expert judge of stock at the
fairs He is a contributor to the agricultural
papers and has been engaged in institute work
in Ohio and other states for fifteen years.
A. D. Shamel Taylorville, ILL.,, is graduate of
the University of Illinois. After graduation ne
was made assistant in agriculture, having direct
charge of the field crops. This work he has fol-
lowed up until the present time, making corn
his speciality. His untiring devotion to his
| effective teacher; but probably his greatest
| success has been in institute work. Having
made speciality OF corn ana Delng IdInlllar WIFI
| it in every detail, he has been able to present
| the subject in such an attractive manner that
| his services have been in demand in every coun.
| ty in Illinois. He has addressed many boards OF
| agriculture in adjoining states Some of his
best work has been in the Improving of the varie-
| ties of corn by careful selection ana Dreeqing.
| He has done more than anyone else in establish
| ing types of corn and getting farmers and seed
| corn breeders to fix desirable characteristics.
Not only have the ply sica characteristics of the
crop been improved, but it has been shown that
it is easily possible to increase or decrease pro-
| TEN, fat, oil and starch. He was instrumental
| in Organizing the Illinois State Corn Breeders
| Association, is leading member of the State
| Corn Growers Association and has developed
| and established clubs for farmer boys in every
| township in that State.