The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-12-09
ANNUAL MEETING OF
FARMERS INSTITUTE
WILL CONVENE AT CITY HALL
THIS AFTERNOON - DlSTiN-
GUlSHED GUESTS HERE.

Ardmore has as its guests today
Hon. J. S Murray of Nida, state man
acer of the county farmers institute,
Hon. X. f. Wilson Of Oklahoma City,
a member of the state board of agri
culture; Hon. f. l.. Haynes of Broken
Arrow, also member of the state
board, and Hon. Hardy Dial OF Te-
cumseh, a special lecturer on soil
preparation and culture of cotton.
The occasion of their presence
here is the annual meeting of the
Carter County Farmers Institute,
which convened at the city hall this
afternoon. In the supreme court dis
trict in which this county is located,
comprising about fourteen counties,
Carter county has the largest paid
membership, and if that prestige is
held during the next year Ardmore
Will get the short course farmers in
stitute next summer.
Mr.. Murray states that the people
are beginning to understand better
the laws governing the agricultural
board and that the interest in the
farmers meetings is becoming more
intense. The federal agents are
working in harmony with the state
agricultural men and great results
Murray tells of one farmer who raised
twenty bushels of corn to the acre,
while his boy on the same land, rails
ed more than twice that much by
following the instructions he receiv-
ed from the state board in cultivating
the corn. Forage crops and cotton
and dairying are also being given a
vast deal of attention by the board.
Mr.. Murray was especially pleased
with the manner in which the Ard
moreite is cooperating with the
board in the Boys Corn Club move
ment and said as far as he knew the
Ardmoreite was the only paper in
the state doing tnat work and that
he would call the attention of the
board to the matter that they might
get out a special bulletin asking 9th
ell papers of the state to take up the
uro,.ly IN, tbo Gonna waU
The meeting this afternoon has the
privilege of selecting a boy and a
girl together with a woman to chap
erone them to Tishomingo for the
short agricultural course beginning
there Monday. The boy will be
taught corn judging and stock rails
ing and the girl will be drilled in
domestic science. The one standing
the best examination at Tishomingo
at the state school of agriculture, will
be given the short course at Still
water and the winner at the latter
place will be given free scholar
SnlD WlUH dll tAptuStS pdhu "I "hJ
state agricultural school he chooses
to attend
Officers for the ensuing year will
be chosen this afternoon and dele
gate will be elected to the state
meeting on the second Tuesday in
August.
The live stock train will come to
Ardmore in January or February and
if the president of the board, who
makes the itinerary of the train, can
arrange the itinerary so that the spe-
cial train will spend a night here,
there will be an afternoon and
night entertainment for the farmers.
The state officers Of the agricul-
tural department will go to Marietta
from here to assist in the holding
of the annual meeting in Love coun-
ty. All the annual meetings will be
held in December, the last being held
on the 23rd of December.