The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-03-25
FARMERS INSTITUTE.
Highly Successful Institute Held Here This Week
The Instructive Program Rendered.

to follow the advice Of the preceding
speaker and eliminate all worthless cows.
| from herd and keep only those that will
yield 6soo lbs. or more of per year
The afternoon session was opened BY
chorus by eight voices 81 local talent
which evoked much applause, as did
several other instrumental and vocal
selections which interspersed the program.
DR.. Richard Hill, of Prince George
county, trustee of the Md Agricul-
tural College, spoke on theabsolute neces-
sity and great benefits to be derived from
education and his forcible address was
listened to with interest and received in
lappreeiative spirit.
Mr.. Kydd then gave very interesting
address on profitable horse raising and
showed where betterments could be effect
ed in this section by changing the breeds
to those more suitable to the local con-
ditions and markets. He favored draft
breeds above roadsters and told in detail
what constituted the valuable points in
horses makeup, how to breed them, care
for them, feed them, work them and sell
them, all about horse sick and horse
well, analyzed them from hoof to ear.
Chas. M. Day, Of Geneva, N. Y, spoke
on potato culture and showed he was
complete master of his subject. Among
other points impressed upon his audience
was the necessity of first growing good
seed, by going through the patch and se-
lecting the most thrifty, healthy looking
vines and marking them with stake.
Save the best tubers from these vines for
seed the following year and keep up this
method until the whole planting had been
brought up to the proper average. Thor
ough and frequent cultivation was essen
tial and spraying was as important as
cultivation.
DR. Hill, who is quite large hog raiser,
spoke briefly on the subject Of hog cholera
and said very effective preventive had
been used with success for some time. It
consists of a serum which is injected into
the hog, making the animal proof against
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On notification, the State Veterinarian
will inoculate the desired number of hogs.
At Mr.. Amoss' suggestion the audience
selected the following nominating COM
mittee to confer and present the names
for permanent committee to take charge
of institute matters in this section next
year: Elwood Balderston, A. R. Brown,
M. c. Reeder, Wayne Reynolds and c. S.
Pyle. This committee presented the fol-
lowing, who were elected to take the mat
ter in charge: VIM. M. Pogue, chairman;
Cecil E. Ewing, secretary and treasurer;
R. T. Cameron, Jesse Wood and Alfred
Fassitt.
The institute then adjourned with many
expressions of qualification, both by the
speakers and the audience, at the highly
interesting and successful session held in
Rising Sun this year.
Calvert Agricultural High School turn
ed out en- masse at the institute. The
principal, Mr.. A. B. McYey, reported
that AZ out OF So pupils enrolled were in
attendance at the sessions.
The thanks of the committee in charge
of the farmers institute this week are due
the following for their kindness in rem
dering an excellent musical program for
the OCCASION Misses Mary S. Haines,
Edna Wilson, Mollie Keen and Messrs. J..
L. Stephens Edwin L. Haines. Norman
Pyle, Paul Keen and William Ryan.
Among the exhibits at the institute
were some samples of apples by M.
c. Reeder which looked very toothsome.
They were of the Fallowater, Romantic.
Newtown Pippin and Shockley varieties.
Samuel T. Wiley had fine exhibit of
White Leghorn eggs and Saml Tyson an
exhibit of White Tartar oats, both Of
which elected much favorable comment.