The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-10-12
APPRECIATION FOR THE
EXPERIMENT STATION,

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Editor " est Ntfs1nlatl
Some time hack there WIS printei
I'm the West " rfnian some fine LET
ters ON Agriculture and We hoped TIM
Twas to be al permaren feature Of stlt
fayorfte home paper. j
Some OF the letters referred to weTt
written BY Mr.. Levi B. l4arr and sotne
by Mr.. John Reeves, at that time Il
/ the agricultural implement, and fer
tilizer business.
can only speak for one person, my
lself. but know these articles were
read with interest without missing o
word, and we believe they we're ap
preciated by both editor and readers
in general. even by city readers, for
be it known all agricultural papers
count large percentage of their pa
tronage among city jewellers. This
fact can be accounted for by remem.
bering that by far the larger per cent
OF prosperous city men were raised on
the farms and nearly every one OF
them has htden away in their heart a
hope, uttered or unexpressed, to- some
day retire from business and get out
Of. town .ona farm of their own,
Now, we believe that If we are To
have a renewal of interest ON agricnll-
tural matters in Marion county, the
renaissance of agriculture, so to speak,
there must be something to fasten
peoples minds to the subject and pro-
mote discussion Of It among people
in town and country and the result is
bound to be beneficial.
We must think, talk, read and some
Of us at. least write about agriculture
in general and about trucking, small
fruit growing, poultry raising, the care
OF soily, improving of run down FARMS
promotion and supply of home mar
kets and many otheer subjects, that
are of far more vital Importance to us
than the fact that Jenlima Hawkins
visited friends at the village Of Flap
doodle or Billie Tucker saw his best
girl home Sunday night. This for our
friends, the country correspondents
and while we plead guilty ourself, /
feel certain IL we could fill the col
umns of our good Home Paper" with
matter that would lplift our minds,
uplHt our communities, promote in
dustries in our county that would add
many thousands to the wealth of our
county. keep the money at home and
circulate it here where it will do all
Of us some good, 1 say IL We can do
this and cause people to think along
these lines, so much the bette for our.
consciousness of a duty well done
To persons also who are not regular
correspondents, to thoughtful city bus
mess men and intelligent country peo-
pie who can say something on these
subjects, we feel certain the editor
would willingly open the columns OF
the Peoples Forum"
Now, during the long days winter Is
the time to study, read, talk and write
on these subjects, and as a result the
forming operations next year would
be as much increased in Marion coln-
ty over the present year as the pres
emit year was larger than the, preced-
ing one. Now, somebody say some
thing. We are willing to do our duty,
but we don't want to do all the holle;-
in. Mayhap Mr.. Harr or Mr. Reeves
will again give Us some OF their fine
articles on these subjects now that the
evenings are again getting long
AS we said in q recent communica-
ton, the legislators of our State are
awakening to agricultural needs, as
evidenced by small appropriation to
promote trucking and horticultural in
terests in the state, but by providing
for agricultural teaching in all the
schools of the State from the little
red school house" of the back country
districts on up through the graded
schools, High schools, Normal schools
and the University, in fact In every
school that is under control of the
State. The attempts are in many cases
very crude yet, but eventually it will
be SO improved and systematized that
in a few years the boys who finisn
but country school course will have
working knowledge of scientific
agriculture.
After all there is class yet to be
reached, that is the man who has