Evening journal., 1910-09-09
PR OFITABLE DAY
AT STATE FARM
GrangerS Hear Lectures on
Some Best Methods in
Agriculture
INSTITUTE REFLECTS
THE FORMER OFFICERS

Between two and three hundred
agriculturists,. with a sprinkling of
women in the audience, assembled at
the College Farm. Newark. YESTERDAY
afternoon, to attend the annual meet
ing and fall institute of the New Cas-
Tie County Farmers Institute. AS
this was the first institute ever held
at this time of the year. the attend
ance was considered fair. The audi
ence took a marked interest in the
practical demonstrations on the farm
and in the equally practical talks
given by the speakers of the after
noon, the Hon. o. w. Collier, OF
Easton, Nd. and Professor Grantham,
of Delaware College Agriculture
School.
Mr.. Collier is a cereal seed special
list He sold $500 bushels of seed
corn last spring. Since he has adopt
ed intensive fertilization in raising
corn, his yield has increased from 40
TO 80 bushels an acre. At least 40
per cent. of the increase he attributes
to better seed.
. The first part of the afternoon was
devoted to going the rounds of the
farm. II was Mr. Golfers first visit
to the college farm, and he expressed
himself as surprised and pleased by
the fine demonstrations there. He
particularly commended the expert
mental plots of soy beans, thirty-fve
acres containing eighty varieties, and
said he thought he would give some
attention to this crop on his own
farms.
The college farm has sixty acres Of
corn, planted under differing condi-
tions, and plots of red clover and
cowpeas. Visitors we're given circu-
lars describing the fertilizers used
and the cultivation of the different
plots, that they might judge results
for themselves.
The fine young orchards on the
farm called forth admiring remarks,
and the live stock attracted much at
tention. Anybody who thinks a pig
cannot be handsome is invited 10 in
spect the college farm pigs, especially
the newly-arrived black and tan baby
pigs.
A grand stand was erected around
the farm house porch. and the speak
ers used the porch al a platform.
The speakers were introduced by
former State Senator Alexander p.
Corbit
Delaware Has Good Reputation.
The Hon. o. w. Collier told the
farmers that Delaware bore good
reputation down the peninsula He
said the agricultural outlook was
never so bright as at present. that
high prices had been maintained dur
ing the past ten years, and that a
gain of over eight million bushels In
production of the leading cereals had
tn,
the same time there was a decrease
of 70 per cent in export of these
cereals, which meant that with the
growth of the population, In a few
years the country would not be pro
ducing enough 10 feed its inhabitants.
| There were no longer vast tracts un-
occupied in the West. as a resource,
the speaker said Therefore he con-
! sidered 1t the first duty of every
farmer to increase the yield per acre
as far as was compatible with a mar
gin of profit He said that a farmer
who thinks his grandfather's system
is good enough will not only be be-
hind himself but will retard the pro-
gress of other farmers.
Mr.. Collier advised the farmers to
keen their boys on the farm by using
scientific methods and making such a
success that the boys will be proud of
the business, and by giving the boys
a small percentage of interest in the
sales
The speaker said that corn was
king of America Enough was raised
in this country last year, he said, to
buv two Dreadnoughts a day. He
4 particularly wished the farmers to
remember that good seed. good land
and good cultivation were equally
necessary factors in raising any crops
In selecting good seed corn, he en-
nhasized three points to observe