The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-07-16

college, wiring aDOut III FARMERS
Institutes to be held throughout
Mississippi this Summer, has the fol-
lowing to say:
Agricultural College, Miss,
July IL, 1904.
Dear Sir-As the time is drawing
hear when your farmers institutes
will be held, 1t is hoped that every
one is exerting every effort to work
up a good attendance. This is one or
the most important and the most far
reaching works that the A. and M.
College and its experiment stations
are doing today, but in order to &C.
complish the best results, We need and
must have the cooperation OF every
public minded and influential citizen.
Please, therefore, push the advertise
ment of your institute in every way
possible. AS an aid in this work, l
have sem advertising matter to your
community, and to. every p~ostofice in
that section giving them your date.
The recognition of the Importance
of the farmers institute movement as
an agency for assisting the improve
ment of agriculture in Mississippi was
shown by the last legislature, which
made an appropriation to the A. and
M. College for carrying on this work
during the summer months. The
purpose of these meetings is to assist
the farming public by giving them,
through oral instruction, the oppor-
tunity of obtaining a better under
standing of the science of agriculture.
with a view of inducing them to apply
scientific truth in the prosecution OF
their art, and, by this means, to secure
more profitable returns. For one 10
see the necessity Of this kind or work.
he needs only to travel through the
hill sections of our State and OBJ
serve the gullies that are to be seen
from every side. These gullies de-
stroy and pull down more during n
big rain than can be built up again
in five years. The farmers of our
State must pay more attention TO this
one important subject, and not wait
until every foot of their land is COM
pletely impoverished. Cheap land in
great abundance was the primary
cause of this neglect, and the force
of habit has continued it too long.
Our farmers institute conductors are
doing a great deal of work along this
line.
The sentiment among thoughtful
men of this country that agriculture
always must be our greatest and most
constant source of wealth. is we'll
nigh universal. and also that our agri-
cultural people must continue to be,
as they have been in the past. the
great conservative body of our citizen
ship, upon which the security, per
petuity and development Of our free
institutions must depend. The legis
lature, therefore, is acting with wise
f%orethought in considering the neces-
sity of agricultural people and in max
ing an appropriation to the Agricul-
tural College every two years for the
purpose of holding these institutes out
among the people in order to render
their calling more than ever before
a profitable pursuit-remunerative to
the Individual and beneficial to the
State. The farmers institute is now.
therefore, recognized as n or the
most important features in our sys-
TEN of public education. and Will
doubtless in the future be supported
by the State with still greater liberal
ity as its work develops and its use
fitness becomes more generally I'M
derstood.
1 would be glad for you to urge that
your people come to this meeting with
the determination to get all of the in
formation possible. Have them TO
make out a list of questions upon
which they desire information and
present them to the institute con-
ductors, who will be glad to take
them up and have them thoroughly
discussed.
There is another very important
subject that | desire to bring to the
attention of your people, and that is
the organization of a permanent far
mers' club in your community. That
every community should have a live,
progressive farmers club there Is no
doubt. The object of these clubs is
to induce the people to adopt better
methods of farming stock raising,
fruit culture. ETC., and to promote the
moral, intellectual. social and mate
rial welfare OF the community. 4
would suggest that you bring this
matter up at your farmers institute
with a view Of taking definite steps
TOW ard the organization of such a
club there in your C immunity. Inc
following is the schedule that Will be
followed as closely as possible:
Monday, July 11-Pheba, Red
Banks, Crawford.
Tuesday. July 12-Montpelier, Red
Banks. Macon, Utica.
Wednesday, July 13-Atlanta, Mil
Ter Mills. Scooba. Hermanville.
Thursday. July 14-Houston, Her.
nando, Lockhart. Port Gibson.
Friday, July 15-Houlka, Senatobia,
Toomsuba. Fayette.
Saturday. July 16-Troy, Arkabutla,
Increase, Washington.
Monday July 1S-Pontotoc. Ash
land, Hickory, Hamburg. Weathersby.
Tuesday, July 19-Lafayette, Wat
son, Lake. Gloster Magee.
Wednesday, July 20-Randolph,
Holly Springs, Lake, Woodville, Ellis
vile.
Thursday, July 21-Banner. Potts
Camp. Pelahatchie, Centerville, Mon
roe.
Friday. July 22-Pittsboro, Ripley,
Pulaski. Liberty. Augusta.
Saturday. July 23-Cole's Creek.
Silver Springs, Brandon, Gillsburg,
Vernal.
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