Evening journal., 1910-12-21
CHANGERS WILL
ASK FOR NEW LAWS
Want Larger Appropriation
for State Institutes and
One Management
NEED MONEY TO
EQUIP STATE FARM

Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL.
DOVER, Del, Dec 21.-The net re-
suits of the agricultural conference
held here yesterday between the farm
ers of the three counties, the authori-
ties of the Delaware Experiment Sta
ton and Delaware College, and the
members of the Delaware Legislature
who attended can be summed up as
follows:
That new laws be recommended to
the Legislature and pressed by a com
mittee of three to be appointed by
/ President o. A. Newton.
Increase the appropriation for
! Farmers Institutes and make them
all under one management, probably
the State Board Of Agriculture.
Appropriate $1,000 or $4,000 to COM
| plete the equipment of the farm at the
Experiment Station. where the States
| personal property now will inventory
$4,000, but is not quite complete; and
for extension work In agricultural
education of the young.
Increase the appropriation and
powers Of the State Board of Agricul-
ture, the amount to be agreed upon
by the committee authorized in con-
ference with the Legislatures COM
mittees on agriculture
Amend the laws Offering relief to
the farmers and making more effec-
tive the States work in the treatment
and elimination of communicable and
fatal diseases among the farm ami
mails.
Further increasing and fostering the
interest In competitive growing OF
| prize and profitable crops and live
stock and dairy cattle.
The first resolution adopted by the
agricultural conference was the fol-
lowing:
BE 1t resolved, that it is the sense
OF this meeting that the law relating
10 the Farmers Institutes be amend
ed to the effect of putting all the in
stitutes in the hands of the State
Board Of Agriculture, with power, and
that an adequate appropriation be
made for the same. instead of the sum
of 5000 allowed at present"
Professor Wesley Webb, who con-
Quoted the Institutes this year. ex-
planned that in the lower part of the
State the funds ran out and the State
Board had to use s400 of its money
to give the people what they demand
ed. The meetings were crowded and
twice as many could have been sue
/ NN'RAAAA1 h'Aus ntit was dlhOt dU III
creasing demand for women's insti-
tutes aud they are accomplishing
much in awakening the country peo-
pie to the charm of social life and
clean attractive surroundings on the
farm.
DR.. Hill. OF the Maryland move
ment for institutes held on railroad
trains, or Train Institutes" explained
that $4,000 was spent for the institute
work in Maryland and forty-nve meet
ings were held. The train used in
educating the farmers and arousing
them to their own interests and to in
creasing the agricultural wealth Of
the State, was furnished free by the
railroad companies, that two experts
were furnished entirely free of charge
! by the United States Department Of
! Agriculture, and the State only had to
] pay mileage for the men who rode on
the trains. Many people were reached
who would not be attracted to town
halls. Fancy exhibition of live stock
thoroughbred poultry, fancy products
! IN horticulture and agriculture were
carried and exhibited as were chemi-
Gals and illustrative articles. Meetings
]
in each place.
J. Frank Rice, of FELTON,, president
! of the Kent county Farmers Institute.
declared that the State must allow
enough money to enable the institute
directors to reach the tenant farmers
of this State. If we can once improve
them and their methods, we will put
farming on a high and successful
plane in Delaware" he said.
President o. A. Newton of the State
Board of Agriculture, and Vice-Presi-
dent J. T. Shallcross were not par
ticular about the State Board having
this additional work. although Mr..
Shallcross' term will expire this win
ter. Whoever does il, "ought to get
more money. You can run boats on
wind and water. but you cannot run
institutes without money" he said