The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-04
FARMERS WILL HOLD
MANY INSTITUTES
Summer School Will Also Be
Held at Auburn
EXPERTS WILL IA
VIII Be Discussed BY Men Who
Are Well Posted on Farm
ing Affairs

Auburn, July notwithstanding
July ,eries of farmers Institutes Will
be held throughout Alabama, in accord
anco witt, the state law which provides
AUTHORIZATION for the maintenance of the
Institutes. DR.. G.. A. Cary or Auburn, di-
rector of the farmers institutes, an
nounced today the first stage of his itin-
erary, according to which Institutes will
be held as follows
Scale, Russell county, July 6.
Eufaula, Barbour county, July 7.
Clio, Barbour county, July Z.
Ozark, Dale county, July g..
Columbia, Houston county, July 10.
Geneva. Geneva county, July II.
Opp, Covington county, July Is.
Elba Coffee county, July IA
Brantley, Crenshaw county, July 10.
Andalusia, Covington county, July 16
Greenville, Butler county July II.
Following the institute at Greenville,
the Farmers Summer school will be held
at Auburn, from July % to July 80
as a general roundup of the farmers of
Alabama, to pursue the work outlined in
the institutes, and to take up new fields
of lectures and demonstrations. The in
stitutes last one day each, the school at
Auburn one week.
Dr. Cary, director of the institutes, has
announced that at each institute two or
more lecturers from the agricultural col
lege and the experiment station at Au-
burn will talk about farming, the lectures
being adapted in each instance to local
conditions. The topics of live stock,
breeding, feeding and raising horses,
mules, hogs, cattle and sheep and di-
versifed farming, including hay crops,
corn, pastures and food crops for ami
mails, will be emphasized. Lectures on
the preparations necessary for the coming
the lecturers will be prepared to answer
questions on various lines, including fer
tilizers soils. cotton diseases, fruits,
vegetables, etc.
Among the lecturers at the institutes
will be DR. b. B. Ross, professor of chem
istry at Auburn and state chemist; D. T
Gray, professor of animal husbandry at
Auburn; s. D. Dow, United States dairy
depot; Professor Cauthen, who has charge
of the experiment station at Auburn. and
Dr. Cary, state veterinarian and direct
or of the institutes.
After the summer school Institutes will
be held In other parts of the state, in
Guiding north and west Alabama.
Plans for the Farmers Summer school
at Auburn are being developed each day.
One of the features which Is assured will
be lectures and demonstrations on can
ming of fruit and vegetables. in pursuit
of a vigorous campaign for home can.
ming.
A canning plant has been purchased by
the department of horticulture and Will be
operated during the summerechool. The
fallacy of purchasing canned goods, which
are put up In most instances in north
ern and eastern canneries, when each
farmer with small initial expense and
with little trouble, is able to can his own
fruits and vegetables, will be the doctrine
preached.
The horticultural department, under
Prof. P. r. Williams, has other features
to offer those who attend the school, in
GLIDING the result of experiments In fight
ing peach pests, notably the brown rot
and the curculio. The search for curative
and preventive methods has been to a
large degree successful.
Pecan growing. its problems and meth.
DDS, will be emphasized. e. E. Pabst OF
Ocean Springs. Miss, one of the recog-
nized authorities of the southern states
on pecan culture. will be one of the lee
turers on that subject.
Along lines of horticulture, sugar cane
culture, dairying, trucking, ETC., c. K.
McQuarrie, director of the Florida exper-
iment station, has been secured to lee
ture.