The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-01-26
FARMERS INSTITUTE.
To Be Held At Rising Sun February
II and ID.


riculture and its Department of Farmers
Institutes, will again send into each
county corps of lectures, 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 methods that their
hearers may themselves afterwards decide
what is best for each in his own way to
do.
Through the Experiment Stations and
the Farmers Institutes rapid change is
coming over the land. When producer
knows the ways and conditions under
which the crops he is growing are
handled by others with whom he must
go on the worlds markets, he is in pos.
session of information which will mater
tally help him either to produce at less
cost, or it will convince him that it is nse-
less to continue in the old methods or
even to attempt to meet competition
when the new order of things, and per-
haps 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 become broad
er men and better farmers.
This season, Director VIM. l.. Amos,
of the Maryland Farmers Institutes, will
be accompanied by two men as regular
workers, who will visit all of the Mary
land counties. They will be assisted by
men who have succeeded in producing
something on Maryland soil, wonderfully
we'll. and by others who are devoting
their lives to work and study of many
problems that vex our farmers.
Mr.. c. M. Lewelling, of Beaver City.
Nebraska, was born of Quaker parents in
a hewed log cabin on prairie farm in
the State of Iowa. in 1855. where he
spent his boyhood days. At the age OF
fourteen. he entered the Academy at
Denmark, Iowa. At II he began teach
ing school. In 1877 he moved to Nebras
ka and built himself sod house. He
has made farming success, owns several
hundred acres of fertile land in the famous
alfalfa country. Cattle, hogs, and poultry
are his products. He is member of the
Nebraska State Board of Agriculture, and
also one of the regular Institute workers
of the State. He has been 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 Wagenen, 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 promotion 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 maintaining the fertility of The
farm is the "meatiest" discourse yet
presented at an Institute for the Mary
land farmers
The Farmers Institute for Cecil county
will be held at Cecilton on Saturday,
Feb. 10, and at Rising Sun on Monday,
and Tuesday, Feb. 1918; sessions from
10 a. m. to a p. m.