Durango semi-weekly herald., 1905-08-17

FARMERS
INSTITUTE
From Wednesdays Daily:

| From Wednesdays Daily.
The distinguished educators who
came to conduct the Farmers Insti-
tute arrived on last nights eastern.
They were met by committee and
escorted 60 the Strater MOTEL. The
party was composed OF the following:
Fred =. Johnson conductor of the In.
stitutc. Barton o. Aylesworth. presI-
dent of the State Agricultural Col
lege' Prof. Walter II. Olin. OF the do.
partment of agronomy; Miss Margar-
et Prendergnst. of the department Of
domestic economy; Dean w. l.. Car
| lyle. of the department OF agriculture:
Prof. j A. Mclean. professor of ami
NAL husbandry: Hon. Il II. Grubb
and X. w Corwin Of the state board
Of agriculture.
The party was taken for a drive
early this morning, taking In the res
ldencc portion Of the city on the
mesa, and going up the Animas val.
ley They were In charge Of A. r.
Camp, president OF the board OF trace:
Secretary Armstrong and Hon. Blair
Burwell
The instructors and speakers went
TO the court house, escorted by the
band. and the institute was opened at
2:3o A moderate sized audience
was present. Mr. Johnson. conductor
OF the institute introduced Prof. Car
lyle, who made short but interest
Ing talk He expressed surprise At
the metropolitan aspect OF our town
He said the instructors were not com
ing here with any long stereotyped
lectures. but II was Intended the talks
should be free and easy. He wanted
the y eople to have n chance to talk
back. II speaker made a statement
contrary 10 the belief OF member Of
the audience. he wanted that person
TO get up and say so-say that such
conditions would not apply here. He
spoke of the great lack OF hogs here
only saw two hogs In the valley during
his drive-did not know what the poo
Pile were going to live on this winter.
He touched on the great opportunities
offered In this country to the chicken
raiser. He also spoke OF the dairy
and creamery. He touched on many
points to show that the secret Of the
communIty's success was to ship in
as little and ship out as much a. pos
sibIe.
Prof. Olln. of the department OF
lgronomy, was then introduced and
Informed the initiated as to what
agronomy" was. In plain English II
means the science OF the field and the
crop He was surprised to learn that
farmers here received more for their
potatoes than Greeley. He told In .
few brief sentences how to raise p0ta-
toes free from scab. He understood
this section was excellently adopted
to raising mailing barley. and had
been told the local brewery had asked
farmers to raise It. and he advised
farmers TO raise this crop. He under
stood oats weighing so pounds to the
bnsnel were raised here, and the
standard was 80. He had never seen
bushel of oats that weighed 70
pounds He advised farmers to select
carefully seed that would give the
larger yield He had samples Of
Hftlhh grown mere ne hho ooinp'es
Of grain grown from various kinds OF
| seed and illustrated by these samples
| the advantage of careful selection OF
seed He found the average wheat
heads mere nearly four inches long.
while the average elsewhere In the
state was a little over three.
| The institute is in session as we 90
TO press. A session will be held this
evening when still larger attendance
is expected.