The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1909-01-30
SUCCESSFUL FARMERs' INSTITUTE.
Large Number of Representative Citi
zens Attend the Meeting at Towson
Addresses That Please an In
telligent Audience.

The most largely attended Farmers Institute
ever held in Baltimore county was the one
which assembled in the Court House at Tow.
| son last Tuesday, nearly every section of the
county having been represented. Mr.. William
Lee Amoss director ofthe department of farm
| ers' institutes of the Maryland Agricultural
College, presided and an excellent program was
| given.
Mr.. Cary W. Montgomery spoke on Com
mercial Fruit Growing With U.s." and was fol-
interesting talk on ''Alfalfa Culture" in which
he urged the farmers to grow alfalfa and spoke
of its good qualities.
In the afternoon Director Amoss gave gen.
eral talk on institutes and explained the three
branches conducted by the special car. He
said the services of Mr.. Joseph E. Wing and
DR.. c. d. Smead have been secured as fieldmen
to speak at meetings arranged at distances from
the special car.
The special car, it was announced will stop
at various stations along the railroads when
lectures will be given by Mr.. Sanford II.
Fulton.
Arrangements have also been made for Miss
Anna Barrows to give lectures in school halls
and parlors by invitation.
Director Patterson, of the Maryland Agri-
cultural College Experiment Station, gave an
interesting talk on fertilizers and seeds. He
advised buying the very best of both and to
have them carefully selected.
Mr.. Montgomery spoke in the afternoon on
Leaks on the Farm and gave some good
advice about the soil, care of machinery, work
of help, the kinds of crops to grow and other
subjects.
Students from the Towson High School at
tended MIR. Wings lecture in the afternoon on
Lessons from the Old World" He spoke of
his trip to France and his experience with the
French people. He said he found the French
farmers well advanced in agricultural pursuits
and their grain and cattle ofthe best.
Mr.. Amoss gave some interesting facts about
the work of his department in Southern
Maryland. He said several years ago he took
up the work there and in order to show the
farmers what was being accomplished else
where be took delegation to farms in other
counties in other states and reviewed markets
in Baltimore and Washington He showed
them what was being accomplished in tobacco
growing, cultivating, grading and marketing.
They were also shown how cattle are raised,
with the object of introducing that phase of
farming into some parts of Southern Mary
land.
Reports were made by the delegation at
subsequent institute on the observations made
and suggestions offered as to what Southern
Maryland could grow besides tobacco. The
result, said Mr.. Amoss, has been satisfactory.
The speaker said he has received many letters
and testimonials which give strength to the
method of bringing information to the farmers
of Southern Maryland.
To show the interest taken in Southern
Maryland, said Mr.. Amoss, Mr.. Edward s.
Walker, of Mitchellsville. Prince Georges
county, offered his home for institute meet.
ings and very successful institute was held
there January 23d.
Among the interested spectators, in addition
to residents of the town, county officials,
members of the bar, clerks and others, were
tho f0ll0winO.