Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-11-01


of an unusually interesting day.
President Johnson of Winthrop, who
has all along been seconding the eff
forts of Prof. Ira w. Williams, state
agent of the Farmers Cooperative
Demonstration work in South Carolina,
in the promotion Of the Boys corn club
movement in York county, had, with
the assistance of members of the Win
throp faculty. prepared a particularly
entertaining, instructive and appro-
pirate programme for the occasion, and
that programme was carried out in
mastery detail to the great pleasure Of
all the visitors.
Winthrop's part of the programme
consisted of carefully prepared talks
on subjects relating to domestic and
rural economy, health, comfort and
riety there was some delightful vocal
and instrumental music, a mastery
recitation by a member of the faculty,
and along with the mental feast, a
final straight shot to the hearts Of the
visitors by the good old, never failing
method of serving an excellent and
bountiful picnic luncheon.
President Johnson was just a little
disappointed in the number of his WIS.,
itors. and also that they were all men
and boys In all there were not more
than fory or fifty. He had pre-
pared for a hundred. and the pro-
eramme had been arranged for the
mothers and sisters of the corn club
boys as we'll as for their fathers and
brothers.
I'VE had hoped" said the hospitable
doctor in his address of welcome, "to
have your mothers and sisters here,
as we'll as your fathers and brothers.
and our preparation has been made on
basis of that expectation. We were
expecting also fully hundred people
and have prepared accordingly. We
are delighted to have you, and If there
had been more boys and more parents,
we would have been still better pleased.
However, it is understood that the
Boys Corn club is now an established
institution; that there will be other
meetings and on the next occasion we
hope the attendance will be larger"
The meeting was held in one of the
society halls, on the third floor Of the
east wing of the college, and taking
advantage of permission that had been
announced during the morning, the
girls of the various classes came in and
Joined the audience at such times as
they were not otherwise employed.
Through this means the hall with a
seating capacity Of several hundred
was kept pretty we'll filled all during
the exercises, and it is fair to say
that the girls, about seventy per cent
Of whom are from the rural districts,
showed as much interest in the pro-
gramme as did the corn club boys
and their fathers, and that means that
the interest and attention were per-
feet.
The first speaker was Prof. L. A.
Nevin of the horticultural deDartment
on the subject of Harmful Insects and
Fungous Growths and How to Com
hat Them" His talk was necessarily
on general lines; but there was a lot
Of valuable information in It, In the
first place he asserted that while this
may not be an ideal country for fruit
growing. 1t is a matter of very little
trouble and very little intelligence to
produce much better fruit than has
ever been produced here. The princi-
pal reason why our people do not have
good fruit is because they pay no at
tention to it. For one thing the nurs-
erymen do not pretend to send good
trees to the south The best trees go
to the north and west and the leavines
are sent here. 1t Is because we do
not know any better and the nursery
men ar aware Of the fact Then II
a man sets out fruit tree, he must do
it with the expectation of spraying 1t.
If he Is not going to spray it, he need
not set 1t out. because ii will do no
good. There are two general classes
Of harmful insects. They include the
class that bite and the class that bore
and suck. The biting class must be
poisoned, and the sucking class must
be suffocated. The best poison is
mixture Of lime and sulphur. For suf-
locating sucking insects, use almost
any kind Of cheap oily substance. But
don't put the lime and sulphur mixture
on trees during the growing season, for
it will kill them. 1t Is best to spray
twice a season, once after frost and
the second time just before the buds
begin to swell in the spring. If there
is to be but one application, it should
be in mid winter Trees sprayed with
this mixture while they are growing
will die The lime and sulphur mix
ture is also good for San Jose scale.
Prof. Nevin advised the planting of
only budded trees. He said both
peach and apple trees should be cut off
IS or 90 inches above the ground at
planting, and as the shoots come out
later they should be kept pruned down
to four or five of the best. Dead limbs
should be pruned off as soon as they
are discovered. He also gave specific
directions for planting, insisting that
the holes be made large enough to take
the roots without doubling or bending.
He discussed pear blight, and stated
that the only remedy was to cut off the
blighted parts and burn them. If
blighted parts are not to be burned
at once there is no need to cut them
off.
Miss Hyde talked on the subject of
Rural and Community Life" discuss
ed the general and almost universal
tendency to wastefulness and gave de-
tails as to how many little savings
could be effected in the kitchen and
elsewhere. The talk was one that
needed to he heard to be properly ap-
preciated The talk on the subject Of
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