Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-01-28


vened in the Court House on Tuesday and We'd
nesday of last week, when the following program
was carried out in every detail with the eXcep-
ton of the talk on Chestnut Culture:
PROGRAM.
Opening Session Tuesday, 1:3O p. m.
PRAYER. r...,...........-. Rev. o. s. Metzler
ADDRESS OF welcome, '.''..'...''...B; W. Green
Feeding and Care of Dairy Cow, c. d. Northrup
Question Box.
Matrimony, or How to Manage Husband,
Mrs G. w. Williams
Commercial Fertilizers, Prof. NJ. S. Mcdowell
General Discussion.
Adjourn.
There was no session Tuesday evening, owing
to the Star Course Entertainment.
Wednesday Morning Session, 10 o'clock.
PRAYER ...........,-......R Rev. j. M. Robertson
Making and Marketing Gilt Edge Butter,
C. d. Northrop
What Kpow about Roads; r 8; Seeds
General Discussion
Adjourn.
Afternoon Session. 1870 O'Clock.
Value of Fertility and the Cheapest Way to Get
Corn Crop and iIo b. NortSfop % 1ee
Nature Study in the Public Schools
Lime and its Action, .......Prof. NJ. s. Mcdowell
Adjourn.
Evening Session, 7:3O O'Clock.
Question Box.
The Telephone and its Use on the Farm,
Uri Mulford
Music
Chestnut Culture ............ Mr.. Josiah Howard
Music.
Education and the Farmer, ..........R. S. Seeds
Music.
Adjourn.
Mr.. G. K. Sober, who was to give a talk on
Chestnut Culture unavodaby absent ow-
ing to some business matters, and Mr.. Josiah
Howard who has visited Mr.. Sober's chestnut
grove was called upon to relate what he saw and
learned about chestnut growing at Mr.. Sober's
grove, which is located in Northumberland
county, not far from Paxinos Station on the
Shamokin Division of the Northern Cantral
Railway. Mr.. Howard produced string of
nine Paragon chestunts which measured l3 l-S
inches when first placed together, but they have
now shrunk to l2l4 inches. This is the chestnut
grown by Mr.. Sober, who has a grove of 200 acres
for which he has been offered $50, ,O0O The way
a grove is started is to cut down the wild native
trees to the ground and then graft the Paragon
scion into the sprout that springs up from the
stump of the tree that has been cut down.
Mr. r. S. Seeds, of Birmingham, Huntington
county, Mr.. c. ID. Northrup of Elkland, Tioga
county and Prof NJ s. Mcdowell of the State
College composed the corps Of instructors sent
out by the State Board of Agriculture to attend
the Institute held in the fourth section to which
Cameron county was assigned. The farmers of
this section are to be congratulated upon having
had such an able corps of instructors for in the
past they have had the services of some excel
lent, able and practical teachers on farming, yot
they never before had body ofinstructors all
of whom were so well able to fill their part and
to do the duties assigned to them as those who
visited their Institute during the last week, aud
MIR. Seeds is the par excellence of the corps;
az he certainly is the equal of any four end men
of any minstrel show we ever attended.
Prizes ola barrett of flour; half barrel of
HFNNtr han oh,
day for attendance. Each person who entered
the court house was called a farmer, and given
numbered ticket. At the close of the last session
for the day numbered slips corresponding to the
number OF tickets given out during the day
were placed in a box and four numbers
drawn, persons holding tickets of the same num-
Der were given the prizes.
On the first day ticket u.s. held by Henry Carter
OF Rich Valley took the barrel of flour; ticket No.
of Bobbys Ruu, drew the half barrel of flour;
ticket No I18 held by Mr. VIM. Auchu of Empo-
rum, drew the ham and ticket No. III, held by
Mr.. FAINT A. Lewis, living on North Creek got
the pig; but in lieu of the pig, Mr.. Lewis took
$3.50 in cash.
On the second day ticket No 372, held by Mr..
j. j. Lingle of En- porium drew the full barrel of
-four; ticket No. 20s, held by w. r. johnson,
living on Bryan Hill captured the half barrel of
four ticket No. 485 held by Miss Charlotte
Spence of Emporium, took the ham and ticket
No. 42l, held by some one who at present writing
we have not learned, is entitled to the pig, or
$3.50 in cash. AS Mr.. Howard was unable TO
secure live pigs for the occasion, Miss Grace
Robertson OF Emporium presented the Institute
with china pig bank, for which an extra ticket
was drawn on the last day. The successful
number was 49, Mr.. NJ Brennan saying 81 got
him." II proving to be true, he was presented
with the china pig. Mr.. Brennan, out of the
ssy ot s ana a. ms
instructors, who all the day promptly on
hand to get the three tickets, feeling sure that
alas, Dame Fortune did not smile upon either
OF his tickets and he declared that he did not see
| how he could return home and face his wife
without a pig; so Mike" turned his pig over to
the pigless Northrop. szT
Miss Byrde Taggart aud some of her pupils
| provided both vocal and instrumental music dur
ing the evening of the last day. and all the farm
ers present, and there were many, as every seat
| in the room was occupied, showed their appre.
citation of the music by the applause each selec
Heretofore the Farmers Institutes have not
been attended as they should have been by those
of @ TIM ine a en
| ed, and at each succeeding session the attend
ance was larger than at the previous one. Had
| the Institute continued for another day the
| Court room would have had to be enlarged, to
| allow all who wished to enter. Whether it was
| the pig the speakers that was the drawing
| haps 1t was both.
In any line of business no one ought to
| get what is called the "swelled head, "
| and think that he knows it all, and therefore
| cannot be learned anything in his line by any
| one. Farmers, no matter how proficient you
| may be In your line, you all can learn something
! from practical and experienced instructors from
| farming sections. The State Board of Agricult-
| ure send these men out and pay their expenses
| and give them salary besides, so it costs you
nothing to get from them the benefit of their ex-
| perience, and you ought to show your apprecia
| ton of the generosity of the State in doing this
i for your benefit by attending the Institutes
| Cameron county must begin to be deveoped
| along the line of farming, as the lumber is dis
| appearing and soon will be gone. This was ably
set forth by Mr.. Green in his address ofwelcome
| There are thousands and thousands of facres OF
| anywhere, and just as cheap, lying idle and over
| grown with brush and briars, waiting for some
| good industrious German Swede to come
along and make them laugh and sing with the
! music of the farm.
Rural Telephone,
| Nj, H.; hJ,lco,1 &c Co.,;,,. NJ