The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1910-01-21
MARYLAND AGRICULTURAL
COLLEGE.
department Farmers Institutes, Col
Iege Park, Md.

- hntIS AMSLItuIeSy I0l-
Iege Park, Md.
For the Advocate.
the program Of the Department of
Farmers Institutes Of the Maryland
agricultural College will soon be an
nounced. The work will begin from
re institute car on the Western
maryland and will continue along the
line OF the Maryland and Pennsylvania
Railroad.
So well was the work received last
year, that the plans will not be chang
Cd. The Institute School OF Horticul-
ture will be continued by a second
course of four lectures correlating
with the lessons of last year.
The institute car is admirably adap-
TED TO class work being heated and
lighted as well as the best lecture
halls, and equipped with fifty comfort
able chairs, chart case, blackboard,
streopticon and shades that 1t may be
used by day as well as by night.
The short course is offered by the
Department to meet demand for full
er instruction than can be given Ia a
talk of an hour at a popular meeting.
The course is for student fruit grow
ers.
A larger attendance than the car can
accommodate will not be expected, an
the stops along the road will be fire.
quent.
When the patrons Of the Institutes
fully understand how much can be
learned at an institute school, more
short course work will be called for,
and the influence Of our Agricultural
College will be sent far afield into
every rural neighborhood, willing to
lend a helping hand i'm order to re-
ce1ve the benefits of such instruction
which adds interest to farm life and
makes 1t more desirable to our in
dependent home loving people.
Maryland women have shown a pre-
ference for the work apart from the
men, when they have had the oppor-
tunity to attend Institutes exclusively
for women, the attendance has always
justified the extra expense and eff
fort. At the Stations where women
showed their appreciation by attending
last year, a short course of four lee
lures will be given on topics in which
women are interested. These lee
lures will follow the period for fruit
growers, one i'm the morning, and one
in the afternoon.
The institute car makes possible
an institute at any siding and also
at any suitable meeting place within
two hours drive from where it may
be laying. Two men who are classed
as field workers will accompany the
car. Their work will be, wherever
farmers petition the Department that
they be assigned for help in conduct
ing popular meeting. Farmers
Clubs, Oranges or Committees are
asked to cooperate with the Depart
ment, provide a meeting place, petit
ton for the field men, select local
talent, prepare a program, and con-
duct an institute as suits their local
conditions.
Through cooperation 1t Is expected
more meetings will be held and more
benefits derived from the money ap-
propriated than when the department
took the lead by laying down Farm
ers' Institute without an effort on the
part of the farmers themselves.
The field workers will when no pc
titions have been received for assist
ance at public meetings, 60 out on
invitation to inspect farms, orchards
or stables and advise with the owners
as to the best farm practice. Using
the car as base from which to work,
the help the institute department can
be to the farmer is far reaching, and
has a future possible Of great de-
velopment. A two hours drive from
every railroad station in the state
will carry men to all neighborhood
settlements ten miles afield and will
work a strip twenty miles wide, where
the railroads lay, which would leave
but small section of the state to be
worked under other systems.
A greater effort will be made to
have the farmers organize into Clubs.
Oranges or Committees that they may
mutually help each other. Organize
ton is good business practice, one
adopted by successful industries.
When farmers cannot sell their pro-
duct without combination, strong or
CARNATIONS are made which have dem
onstrated that the communities under
organization rule are the most pros
porous, enjoy more of the inventions
of the day, and hold their boys and
girls to the farm, than localities
where farmers do not have to organ
ize and will not stand i'm with their
fellows for their just rewards.
VIM. T.. AMOS.