The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-08-04
FARMERS SCHOOL ENDS
GREAT WORK ACCOMPLISHED BY
SESSION AT AUBURN.
Not Only Was the Attendance Large,
But the Lectures Are Sure to He
suit in Good for
Alabama.

Auburn, Aug. 3.--(Special 1.-The
Farmers Summer School concluded its
second annual session today and proved
In every essential feature a great sue
cess. The attendance was 253 farm
ers, representing twenty-nine counties
In the State of Alabama and four 9TH
er States, and embracing many of the
most successful farmers in Alabama.
Nearly one-half of the counties of the
State were represented in the attend
ance. ana few arrivals continued to
come evRu or the last day! And not
only was the number large and en-
couraging, but the quality as well was
of the highest grade. The lectures
covered about ten hours day, includ-
Ing day and night exercises. being
about eleven hours per day or between
seventy-five and eighty hours of in
struction per week.
Another notable feature was the ma
ture of the instruction. This instruc-
ton was impaired by members of the
experiment station staff. without addi-
tional remuneration, assisted by six
leading exports. secured from all por-
tions of the Union. as follows: o. C.
Gregg, Superintendent of Farmers In
stitute work iE Minnesota, on Animal
Industry; c.. 7. Christie of the Iowa
State College of Agriculture, on the
Proper Selection of Seed Corn: Profess
sor A. B. Mckay of the Mississippi
Experiment Station on Horticulture
and Truck Gardening; Reuben Gentry
of the Vanderbilt estate at Biltmore, on
the Varieties and Breeding of Swine
Mr.. Loring Brown of Smyrna, Ga, on
Poultry; Prof Carleton Ball of the
United States Department of Agricul-
ture. on Cowpeas. Hay, Forage and
Restoration Plants.
All these men are experts in their
lines of work and held the unflagging
attention of their classes. The mem
pers of the experiment station staff
who participated were as follows
Professors Duggar, Cary, Ross Will
cox, Macintosh. DIR. Anderson and AS
sistant Rev. 1t is to be noted that
the nature of the instruction was not
of a general haphazard nature, but
consisted of a series of continuous lee
lures, four or Ave in number on each
subject, being not merely glittering
generalities and enthusiastic state
snents about the glory of agriculture
and the dignity of the farmer. but
rather accurate. detailed, specific lee
lures on precise and definite points of
agriculture.
A further great advantage and pleas
ure of these discOurses was derived
from the fact that they were attended
by practical and concrete demonstra-
tfons and illustrations with scientific
apparatus and with the sheep, cattle
and swine OF the Experiment Station.
1t was a week of intensive teaching in
applied science
1t must -be~said that the value aud
far reaching influence of the work can
not be overes timated. The college has
put forth its best energies in a most
Intelligent way to upbuild the agricul-
tural interests of the State, and IL is
not beyond the mark in the least to say
that every one of these attendants is
enthusiastic in his praise Of these eff
forts. The meeting has been full of
profit as well as of pleasure. The
State cannot do too much to help
along this movement in Il practical
way 1t is really an epoch marking
undertaking, and while immensely sue
cessful at present, even beyond the
best hopes of the college, 1t is bound
10 grow stronger and stronger each
year as the value of the instruction
impaired is made known throughout
the farming classes OF the State. An