The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-02-22
FARMERS INSTITUTES lNGARRETT
Sessions Will Be Held at FriendSvilie.
Accident, BittinSer, SWantOn and
Oakland.


Oakland.
The Department Of Farmers Insti-
tutes of the Maryland Agricultural Col
lege, has arranged to hold five insti-
tutes in Garrett county during the
month Of March as follows:
Friendsville, Friday, the 18th; Acct
dent, Saturday, the 18th; Bittinger,
Monday, the 18th; Swanton, Tuesday,
the Goth, and at Oakland on Saturday,
the Dist. The sessions will be from 10
a. m. until p. M, with the usual in
termissions.
Accompanying DIR. Amoss' announce
ment Of the proposed Institutes was q
letter which we give in part as follows:
Maryland, through her College of
Agriculture and its Department of Far
mers' Institutes, will again send into
each county a corps of lecturers, or, as
they prefer to be called, workers
who, by spoken words instead of the
written ones of the Experiment Station
bulletins, will lead the farmers into new
methods Of crop production whereby
every acre of land will be made to bring
forth greater and better products. They
will not say their hearers must do as
they do, but will tell of their own meth
DDS that their hearers may themselves
afterwards decide what is best for each
| in his oy.,,, WOW 10 do
Through the Agricultural College,
the Experiment Staten and the Far
mers' Institutes, a rapid change is COM
ing over the land. When a producer
knows the ways and conditions under
which the crops he is growing are han
died by others with whom he must go
on the worlds markets, he is in posses
| sion of information which will materi-
ally help him either to produce at less
cost, or it will convince him that it is
useless to continue in the old methods
or even to attempt to meet a competi-
ton when the new order of things, and
perhaps even nature herself, is against
him. He introduces into his system new
crops better adapted to his soil, climate
and his own fitness to produce.
Through the Grange, the Farmers
Club, or other local organization, the
farmers become acquainted with the
methods Of their neighbors, but through
Farmers Institutes, they learn of new
ways, new crops, conditions under
which others are working, the markets,
and the needs of the consumers. Their
fields Of vision are extended, they be-
come broader men and better farmers.
This season, Director VIM. L. Amoss,
Of the Maryland Farmers Institutes,
will be accompanied by two men as reg
ular Workers, who will visit all of the
Maryland counties. They will be as
sisted by men who have succeeded in
producing something on Maryland soil,
wonderfully well, and by others who
are davoting their lives to work and
study Of the many problems that vex
our farmers.
"Mr. c. NJ. Lewelling, of Beaver
City, Nebraska, was born of quaker
parents in hewed log cabin on a
prairie farm in the State of Iowa, in
1859 where he spent his boyhood days.
At the age of fourteen, he entered the
Academy at Denmark, Iowa. At II he
began teaching school. In 1877 he NOV
ed to Nebraska and built himself d sod
house. He has made farming a success,
owns several hundred acres of fertile
land in the famous alfalfa country.
Cattle, hogs, and poultry are his pro
ducts He is member of the Nebraska
State Board of Agriculture, and also
one of the regular Institute workers of
that State. He has been a close student
of nature, and speaks from observation
and experience. His manner of address
is convincing, supported by that enthu-
siasm that captivates his audience, max
ing them eager to hear him again and
again
'Mr Jared Van Wagemen, Jr., the
Dairy Expert Of the corps, was born
on farm on the hills Of Eastern New
York. He took a four years course in
the College of; Agriculture at Cornell
University and became instructor of
dairying there. His chances Of promo
were equivalent to certainty. He chose
to go back to the farm, though other
offers came. He still remains on the
farm, where his herd Of half hundred
produce milk which he manufactures
into golden butter. His talk on "main-
tanning the fertility of the farm, - is the
'meatiest" discourse yet presented at
an Institute for the MARYLAND farmer. "
a Large Lemon,