The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-09-17
kO|NER PLANNING
MORE Institutes
Will Begin Immediately After
Fair and Make Tour Of
State. z
SURPRISING RESULTS
HAVE BEEN ATTAINED
Values Increased Many Hundreds
Fold--Comprehensive Hand-
Books--Comparison With
Kansas. Reports.

department of agriculture, Is planning
the most important series OF farmezN
Institutes yet contemplated by the o.
partment The series will be divides Y
into groups, and VIII cover the wh0t0ss
of Virginia, practically every farn4kM
in the State being given opportunfey
to profit by the lectures and defnuM-
trations. 5SS$
The first institute Will be held g. 4
Washington. Rappahannock countys
October 10--shortly after the close rs
the State fair. Each Institute viii
continue throughout the entire dAxs
and from the first date the lectures
and demonstrations will continue
through the first part Of Novemberss
concluding the first group OF tho
series.
There are about 125. 900 farmers Inv
Virginia. Most OF them live In tho1e#
sections OF the State erached BY rail-
roads, and heretofore the tngt2tute9#
have Travelled by railway, many 0k
them being held in special coach&9s
the others from station platforms and
in buildings adjacent
Into Isolated Places.
Mr. Koiner now proposes. howevers
10 carry the Institutes to those fa1m~
ers in those parts of the State n01g
reached by the railroads. He Will!
consequently travel In such pubJsca
conveyances as may be offered. ln
wagons and on horseback. the corps
of lectures and demonstrators VITA
their equipment going from one cotit-s
ty to another. and reaching IN fhisR
manner all the farmers who up 70 this
time have not been able to attend
the demonstrations.
This group concluded the Institutes
will be carried over the rest Of th9S
| State. New subjects VIII be discussed.
New lectures will be retained, ana
every effort will be made to point ont
to every farmer the advantages 81
scientific agriculture upon which the
State department HAD iaid sucn sfress,1
| ana from which II mas derived sueh
astonishing results,
| Every phase OF farming ana a6Ta-a
cultural life VIII be oiscussed--ne A.
ny city farmers ana proaessOI
but by men VINO nave actuAHy tfieNl
the experiments on their own farms
They VIII tell how they inaueuraAeA
the newer and better metnods' Tnex
Will explain In detail how they wereS
inaagnratea, ana VIVA, tney 60. Ln 81 d
they will give In detail the rrsuifs -
tanned, and show that py adoptmk
the better and more modern ide.sI
the quantity and quaity OF prAoSi.
cally every farm proouct can - ~
creased from 10 to 3eV per cent
wnite the adoitionat expense VIII
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| their aetna, axnerienca rl,ssv vf11S
snoy, ubat hraada NAV hexr ~ y.ntS-
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rasnacttvair to,iching ~ cor, -. yar,ssss
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40 lax Aoou' ny
| In connection with this Eaner1N
topic grasses and hay will be tAheA
up. Views OF Virginia meadow An1
lands will be exhibited. AMs1'
| in several instances the men oyFutn1k
the farms on which the pictures 49,
| taken will be on hand to tell hoW thex
| procured the first stand" az xraN
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| The commissioner has in mind
Statewide campaign for alfalfa, &s
| the wonderful advantages Of l
variety of hay will be thoroughly Go i
into at the coming institutes. NxtG
sive views viii be shown. while O.
and statistics prepared by woll~hn&Sl
virginia farmers VIII De exnanlssa