The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-01-12

BAlnnote County Eatfnets' Institutes
prospects Good for This Years Meetings
] In making the announcement for this year,
| 6nrmefs Institutes Director William L. Amos
I 'Mr. r. L. Watts, Scalp Level, Pa. is one Of
] the best institute workers on the staff Of thai
| state and Is successful market gardener and
1rultgr0Wer. His farm Of 145 acres has shown
| splendid results. He makes speciality Of
early vegetables, marketing successfully those
grooucts himself. He graduated from the
State Agricultural College Of Pennsylvania in
June. 1890. He worked as horticulturalist In
Ine Unlyersity of Tennessee and ct the Expert
menk Station. For several years he was editor
OF the fruit and vegetable departments Of the
coa1eeSn Florist and Gardener.
'Df. Augustus Stabler of Brighton, Mont
gomeFy county, Nd, is practicing physician,
q former student of the Johns Hopkins uni
versity, member of the Montgomery County
FARMERS Club and lecturer Of the Brighton
orange. He conducts dairy Of 20 COWS and
e an authority on forage crops and the use OF
iegumes, such as cowpeas, crimson clover and
others through which be has made fertile his
ancestral estate which formerly was in sedge
and quite nonproductive. His subjects will be
forege crops and methods of improving the
SOIL Dy proper rotation, together with ways of
preventing diseases by proper sanitary methods
possible on every farm.
One OF the special features this season will
De the Judging corn contest by boys over Is
and Under q, the successful exhibitor to be
awarded prize offered by the trustees of the
Maryland Agricultural College, which is two
weeks course ct that institution--board, lodg-
ing ana tuition free to one boy from each
county who has exhibited and received the
aware, rs outlined in the bulletin which we
will forward under o separate cover, contain
judging.
Another feature of the program this season
will be to devote 5 minutes Of each session to
the instruction given at the Maryland Agri-
cultural College and its departments and it is
earnestly requested that questions be asked and
thorough understanding arrived at by all
who are interested in this important work.
At best the institutes can only meet partial
want Nhile the college and station work will
g0on zDievef.
'OpK meetings will be held at Rayville
Thursday. January 18th. and Grange. January
18TH. Our representatives will be J. NJ. Ho-
SHALL IRELAND, and T. Alvah Merritt. Grange;
and Towscn, February 18th and 10th, w. d.
Curry, Monkton, representative.
I'VE hope that patrons will come prepared
with questions and to enter into discussion
Of subjects presented by the speakers. Every
farmer should by this time, realize that at
these meetinga he has met the best institute
workers the country has and that to absent
himself but for q short time is his personal
loss. We therefore earnestly request that the
hours of the meeting be carefully observed
that no part of the program may be missed
National Banks Elects Ofacers.-All the
national banks elected officers for the ensuing
year on Tuesday, January 9Th. Those of Bal
timore county are 81 follows:
TOWsON NATIONAL BANK.
President-John Csowther, Jr.
Vice President-DuaneH II. Rice.
Cashier-W. Clarence Craumer.
Directors-Emanuel Herman, Lewis M.
Bacon. Walter s. Franklin, ]. Fred. @. Talbot
and Marshall Winchester.
Mr.. William Kenny was appointed book
keeper. The position Of teller, made vacant
by the resignation of Mr.. A. @. Hatch, was
not filled.