Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-01-24
To the Farmers of Cameron
County.

County.
The State Board of Agriculture has
assigned the following persons to lee
ture and give talks at the Farmers In
sttutes to be held this year in Cam
eron county, those at Drftwood will
be held on Friday and Saturday, Feb.
1st and End, and the ones at Empori-
um are to be on Monday and Tuesday,
Feb. 4th and 9th
Prof. Franklin Menges, of York; s.
F. Barber, of Harrisburg; and @. N.
Brodhead, of Montrose will attend all
the meetings, and Horace II. Hall, of
Ellisburg, Potter County will be at the
Driftwood meetings
Prof Franklin Menges is As years of
age and lived on a farm for neraly 30
years. He graduated from Pennsyl-
vania College, Gettysburg, Pa, in 1896
and Immediately became assistant pro
fessor of chemistry in his alma mater,
which position he held till 1896, when
he became and still is, professor of the
sciences in the York High School.
His lectures are mostly concerning
chemistry as applicable to farming
S. f. Barber was born in Union
County, Pa, in 1865 and worked on
the farm until he was21; when he went
into the mercantile business for a few
ing, and has been farming ever since.
His speciality is dairying, and his lee
lures are all on subjects relating to that
branch of the business.
@. w. Brodhead was born near White
Haven, Luzerne County, Pa, in 1852;
began working in horseshoeing and
jobbing shop when 16 years old, and
has been at the business ever since.
About 1875 he began to study anatomy
and dissect feet and legs, and has
been student of the best authors and
in actual practice ever since; has one
of the best libraries on animals and
agriculture that can be had. He is
registered specialist as a veterinary
dentist and in animal castratiges; and
divides his time in the shop, in the care
of ten acre vegetable garden, and
reading for general information. His
lectures are all concerning the acres
and horseshoeing, and are illustrated
with charts and specimens.
Horace HI. Hall, of the "Triplet Oak
FARM was born, raised, worked, and
is still working on-a farm in Potter
county. He is 81 years of age, and has
attended the schools in Emporium and
Coudersport for limited time He
received his first teachers certificate
when twenty aud taught for twenty
years in the schools of Potter county;
and at one time was principal of the
Galeton and Oswayo graded schools.
At forty he turned his whole attention
to farming, haviGg bought III acres of
bark slashing and woods; of which he
has logged stumped, and cleared
about so acres He is q successful
dairyman; and large producer of the
finest strawberries. His lectures and
talks are all on subjects relating to
farming in general.
NOW, FARMERS OF CAMERON
COUNTY, take few days vacation,
and turn out with your families and at
tend these Institutes which the State
Board of Agriculture has provided for
your special benefit and instruction
out of funds which you yourselves help
to contribute by the taxes which you
pay. What would you think of farm
er who would put up the money te pay
for horse, plow, drill, corn plaster,
reaper, or any other article useful in
his line of work, and then lay it aside
to rot or rust, and do his work in old
antiquated ways, and with old anti
quated tools and machinery. If you
do not attend these institutes, which
are schools for instruction in the sci
ence of farming, you are paying your
money out for something which you
afterward lay aside and get no benefit
from Ifyou have learned all there is
to know about farming, and put all
your knowledge into actual every day
practice to your work on the farm,
then come out any way, and encourage
Others who do not know it all Come
and learn something from the practical
lecturers appointed by the State Board
of Agriculturers instructors, and also
tell your experiences to those unIearn-
ed in the business.
Miss Chadwick has kindly given me
tines of hay fork which were made
by hand in 1912 by Mr. Cnas Smith N
shop near c. G. FAy's hotel in En-.
porium for her father Mr.. John Chad
wick 1t will be on exhibition at the
Institutes in Emporium; aud if any one
else has any old relics that would be Of
interest i would be glad TO have it