The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-01
FARMERS SUMMER
SCHOOL AT AUBURN
Course of instruction to Ex-
tend Over Week
NO TUITION IS CHARGED
school VIII Open ON Monday, July 23
Able Corps of Lecturers-Low
Railroad Fare Arranged and
Prizes offered

Auburn, June sO-(special)-One thou
| sand men and women of Alabama farms
| 1t is expected, will attend the eighth
| annual farmers summer school at Au-
| burn, during the week from July % to
July 30. If the present prospects ma
terialize the 1910 summer school will be
the greatest educational rally of adults
of the south's history.
| Dr. c. A. Cary, director of the school,
has announced the outlines of the pro
| gramrne of the weeks session, and the
announcement holds forth much for the
| farmers of the state and of the entire
south. Agriculturists from Georgia, Mis-
| sissippi and Tennessee will attend, also,
II the record of former sessions Is re-
peated
One new feature of the programme
| will be the effort to associate farm life
| and home life and to that end lectures
and demonstrations of especial interest
to women and children of the farm will
| be rendered.
OF these lecturers of the more inti-
mate phases of farm life, two are not
able Mrs w. N. HUT of Raleigh, N. c.,
and Mrs Sue Holowell of Goldsboro, n
c Each day Mrs. HUT will lecture and
demonstrate to women on cooking, house =
hold economies and health. The domes-
| tic science lectures will be supplemented
by Mrs. Hutt's address on the hookworn
which will be accomplished by stereop-
| toon views.
Mrs. Hollowell will lecture on how to
| make life more agreeable to boys, girls
| and women on the farms, and on other
| similar subjects. For the first time IN
| the history of the school the lectures
to farmers and farmers wives and chill
dren will be conducted simultaneously,
and q fuller course than any heretofore
| is offered
| school Is Popular
| The farmers summer school is an in
stitution which has grown In popularity
| since its inauguration at Auburn In the
summer of 1903 Each year the attend
ance has Increased, from the figure of 100
for the first year to that of 73O for the
| 1909 summer school,
An able corps of lecturers on every
phase of farm life has been secured tor
| the school, and the list will be announced
,,non amplification of the outlined pre-
| gramnre Scientific specialists from
among the Auburn faculty and experts
from afar will talk. lecture and give
| laboratory and field instruction In the
class room and on the farm from III 10
| 70 hours each day, as will practical farm-
ers from throughout the state Among
the lectures will be those from farmers
who broke worlds records last summer
during the state contest, in the produc-
t,on of corn, hay, potatoes and oats.
! Saturday, July %, is the opening day
40 the school and will be devoted to an
exb,b,tion of Auburn's facilities for af-
fording instructions to farmers, and an
exploitation of the work of the expert
ment station, greenhouses, diaries and
laboratories.
Monday. the second day of the school
session, will be given over to miscel-
laneous lectures from o'clock IN the
morning until 10 o'clock at night. Inc
lectures will dwell largely on the rails
ing of hogs and their culture.
Tuesday will be given over to the dis
cussion and exhibition of dairy cattle,
dairying and horticultural subjects,
|
compartment. Each evening, from
o'clock until o'clock, the farmers In
attendance on the school will judge
stock. both the animals of the college
farm. and those which will be import
ed for the school session.
Wednesday will be devoted largely
to beef cattle, grazing, judging and
growing food crops, trucking, ETC.
| Thursday will be devoted to cotton.
| fertilizers, sheep chickens, etc.
| Friday will be the day for corn clubs.
boys clubs and for the award of boys
prizes.
Tuition In Free
No charge is made for attendance In
the school The summer school for
farmers Is a roundup of the farmers of
the state following the series of farm
ers' Institutes which are conducted in
each congressional district during the
early Summer. DR.. C. A. Cary, d.
rector of the school, is also director
of the farmers Institutes. and he has
about completed his arrangements for
the series of Institutes, which will be-
gin with a session at Bay Minette early
in July.
Arrangements have been made for
round trip excursion rates from every
point in Ala bama and tick cts will be
on sale at all coupon offices Arrange
ment has also been made for board
for those who attend the school.
| During the weeks session prizes will
be awarded for the best stock, for the
best corn yields. for domestic products,
butter and bread, and to the farmers
who are most proficient in judging cat
| tie. The citizens of Auburn, enthusiasts
tic in cooperation with the college for
the success of the school. have offered
the following prizes for the animal
competitions:
Prizes offered
Pacing. trotting roadster colts
Alabama bred. s. for first best under
one year; SO for second best under one
year.
Coach colts--Alabama bred. S. for
| first best under one year; SO for sec
| ond best under one year.
| Mule Colts-Alabama Bred-Five dollars
for first best under years; 50 for second
best under years.
| Mules open to the world)-Five dollars
| for the best pair of mules.
| Driving or Saddle Mare or Gelding (open
to the world)-Five dollars for, the best.
| Dairy Calves, Alabama Bred-F1ve dol
| lars for first best under year; 50 for Sec
ond best under / year.
| Beef Calves, Alabama Bred-Five dol
| lars for first best under year; IS for Sec