Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1909-02-17
SMYRNA FARMERS ENJOY
A PROFITABLE INSTITUTE
THREE DAYS SESSION ENDS AT
OPERA HOUSE ON SATURDAY

Fine Addresses Given BY the Excellent f
Corps of instructors Provided BY t
Secretary Webb of State Board c
The Farmers Institute of Della
ware practically closed with the fine
meeting of two days in the Smyrna ,,
Opera House on Friday and Saturday.
The attendance there was good but
the Opera House was not crowded as
it has been in some years, but those
who missed this meeting missed a
great treat. The Institute was in
tensely interesting and instructive
from start to finish. This is true
of all the Institutes throughout the
State, and the attendance has been
excellent, most places the halls were
crowded. The first speaker at our
meeting was Prof. H. Hayward, Dean
of the Delaware Agricultural College |
and Experimental Station. Prof. Hay |
ward spoke of the fact that within
$50 miles of Smyrna are about Is |
million people all anxious to eat the |
products of Delaware. He advised |
intensive farming and the employ
ment of the best possible help, so
planning the work of the farm that
the help may be employed every
working hour of every working day.
Prof. Hayward brought out many
valuable points. Prof. c. A. McCue
of Newark, Del, talked on orchard
management. He advised clean
: culture, careful pruning, intelligent
spraying and the selection of varieties
= adapted to this locality. He did not
think that there is any practical rem
a. edy for the brown rot of the peach,
and stated that the only way to pre-
:, vent the spread of the peach yellows
a and "little peach," is to cut out
and burn all the diseased trees as
4, soon as the first sign of these diseases
!, appear. For the San Jose sale he
- advised the use of a we'll boiled lime
- sulphur wash, made by using
IL pounds of sulphur and 20 to 80 pounC
- of lime to As gallons of water.
or S. H. Derby Talks On Apple Growing
he Mr.. S. H. Derby of Woodside gav'
e special attention to apple growing
ID Mr.. Derby said that no better apple
Ir. grow anywhere in the world thai
Ills those grown in this country, naming
re the Slayman Winesap as one of tn
very finest, bringing now net less thai
Sc per barrel in wholesale way il
% Philadelphia. Mr.. Derby uses cove
OF crops, sprays resistlessly PERSISTENT
IN. and thoroughly. He uses nothing bu
ess the Bordeau mixture for all lea
Ill, diseases and the lime and sul phu
tn wash for the scale. For the coolin
ID. moth he uses white arsenic boiled
lime water, making arsenite of lin
nty which is cheaper than Paris green an
pit quite as effective. For the sma
q grower the use of arsenate of lead
cen advised. The thing to do is to kee
'ose the little apples or rather the blosso
de- end of the apple covered with tt
one poison so that when the egg of tt
De- moth matches and begins to eat,
who Immediately eats poison and so new
1ar gets into the apple. This avoids
es worming truit. For all leaf troub
his the Bordeaux mixture is used, ma
ltial by Stacking six pounds of lime,
as luting to twenty-five gallons
sue whitewash and then diss olive fo
ents pounds of limestone in rs gallons
four water and then mix them. Mr.. De
SER by has tank holding 300 gallons .
ence he makes it full, thus saving lar
e re- part of the labor of driving back {
yrna forth to their orchard.
rriv-
ill L. j. Farmer and Prof. n. HaYwi
?. Mr.. L. ]. Farmer a noted strs
berry grower of Pulaski, N. Y, t
RED. how he has made a success at
business. The main points were hei
>fter- manuring, careful and thorough {
m. tivation, keeping the plants thin
mory in the row and mulching. In al
wide. tion to Prof. Hayward's address
II as farm management and the educat
! the of the farmer daughters, he sp
paid upon the topic "The profitable
injury duction of Pork in the Vicinity
ed to SMYRNA. - Prof. Hayward thi
Q was that this industry would be extren
site profitable here if advantage v
oln;' taken of all the forage plants
Mrs. grow so luxuriantly in this vicir
Home such as COW peas, SOW beans, crir
rough. clover, alfalfa, corn sllage ana o
A. E. crop.
pre- uolan wers cantivates Audi
cad by "''o' -
= the Miss Helen Wells made severa
.oan ,, dresses during the meeting and
cited some Irish dialect stories
apel way that made her easily the fav
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