The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-02-16
FARMERS INSTITUTES.
Talented Experts to Lecture
on Agricultural Subjects.

mtut ct Farmers Institutes. will
again send 10 each county = corps
Of lcrtgrerS. or. as they prefer to
bc called. "Worker-. " WHO by
spoken words instead of the writ
ten ones ct the Experiment Sta
tlou bulletins. viii 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 ,hat their
hearers must do as tney DO. hut
Will tell of their own methods
that their hearers may themselves
af,eru ards decide what i best
Tor each in his own way 10 do
Through the Agricultural Col
lrEe. tie Experiment Station and
ihr FaImer>>' lus,itu'es, rapid
change i coming over the land.
When a producer knows the ways
aud conditions under which the
crops that be j. growing are
handled by others with whom
ue must - ou The worlds mar.
kr'>. be i iu possession Of iufuT-
nation which will materially help
him either 70 produce al less cost.
OF il Will cOnVIace him that it is
useless 10 continue IN the old
methods or even 10 attempt 10
NEE, a competition with the new
order Of things, and perhaps even
nature herself. is against hun.
He Introduces iuto his system
uev crops better adapted to his
soil. climate and his fitness 10
produce.
Through The Grange. thu
Farmers Club. or other local or
gaLlzatjoH. The farmers become
acquainted with the methods Of
their ueigubors. but Though
Farmers Institutes. they learn OF
urw ways, new crops. conditions
under which others are working.
Tie markets. aud the needs OF the
constituent Their fields OF vision
are extended. they become broad.
er men and better women.
This season, Director WIN. l..
AmoSs, of the Maryland Farmers
Institutes. will he accompanied
by two men as regular workers.
who will visit all OF the Marl land
counties. They will be assisted
by men who have succeeded in
producing something on Mary
land soil, wonderfully we'll, and
10y others who are devotiug their
lives To work and study OF the
many problems that vex our
farmers.
Mr. C. VI. LeweIlug. of Beaver
City, Nebraska. was born Of
Quaker parents in a hewed log
cabin on ptaine farm iu the
State of Iowa. III lS5j. where lie
spent his boy hood days. At the
age Of fourteen years. be entered
the academy at Denmark. Iowa.
Al Il he began teaching school.
La 1871 he moved to Nebrask a
aud built himself sod house.
He has made farming a success.
owns several hundred acres of
fertile land in the famonS alfalfa
country. Cattle, hogs aud poul-
Try are his chief products. He
i a mem Der of the NebraSk a
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 aud
experience.
Mr.. Jared Van Wagenen, the
dairy expert OF the corps. was
born on a farm on the hills OF
Eastern New York. He took a
four years course in the College
of Agriculture at Cornell Uni
yerslty and became instructor OF
dairying there. His chances OF
I promotion were equivalent to Ger
tainty. lie chose to go back to
the farm although other offer,
came He still remains on the
farm, where his herd of half d
hundred produces mix. which he
manufactures into golden butter
His talk on "maintainIug the fer
! tillty OF the farm" is the "meat
lest, discourse yet presented al
au Institute for the Maryland
farmer.
The farmers of Ere deric
County will have an opportunity
of hearing the above specialists
as Farmers Institutes will be-
held at three different places il
the county-frSt in Buckeys
town. on March 3rd, then il
Frederick City on March 9Th, and
lastly in MyerSville, on Marcel
9th. These meetings are il
charge OF competent local CORE
spondentS, who will spare nc
pains to make them come up tC
every requirement.
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