The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-24
INGO0CHLANDAND
. FLUvANNA REGION
Farm Demonstration Work and
It's Good Results in the
Two Counties.
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ACTIVE BOYS CORN CLUBS
Youngsters Way OF Making.
King OF Grains-Showing
Fathers New Tricks.
ACTIVE BOYS CORN CLUB;
by rRANK S. wooDsoN.

The farm demonstration work as
carried on by Thomas o. Sandy. State
agent, and his corps of assistants and
local demonstrators and known as
the Farmers Cooperative Demonstra-
tion Work, is being extended in parts
of the Comm monwealth where 1t was
never before known, and grand re-
suits are following. in view Of this
fact 1t Is very strange that there are
many farmers who absolutely refuse
to avail themselves of 1t when they
must know, IL they know anything at
all about 1t, that 1t Is for their beneht
and does not COST them a single cent.
I have heard some make unfavor-
able comments and express an objec-
ton to the work because they be-
lieved, so ran their comments. that
Sandy and his assistants and sub
agents were making money out OF II
That Is absolutely silly. for In the
first place 1t is not true, as neither Mr..
Sandy. nor any of his men get as much
from the work as their services are
worth. nor as much as they could
make by utilizing the Same time at
something else-attending moro dill
gently to their own farms. for In
stance In the second place, II 1t
We're true that they are making a
big income out Of i) what business is
that of the mutton-headed. chronic
kickers above mentioned? 1t Is not
their money that goes to pay the
agents and demonstrators the little
pittance they get, and 1t is the farm
ers themselves who get the benefit
of it all None of this good work has
ever cost Virginia farmer single
penny, but several hundred of them
have been greatly benefited by 1t. and
Ia yhN or II r,ey.
the money by the demonstrations. But
I must not be too hard on these
chronic kickers-it is doubtful II any
Sood can be accomplished by lecturing
|gor critlcising them. for presume
there will be mutton heads and silly
GROWERS scattered about on some Vir-
ginia farms until Gabriel comes to
blow his horn. and Gabe will have
to get off his blasts pretty quick
after his arrival to keep them from
growing at him.
The Work In sold Flu"
Last week I saw some OF the splen-
did demonstration work that Is being
done In Fluvanna county by William
O.. Snead. who Is tho local demonstra-
tor, under State Agent Sandy. for the
counties of Fluvanna and Goochland.
He has had wonderful success in old
Flu" having demonstrated" to the
complete satisfaction. In fact to the
enlightenment. profit and JOY of fifty
farmers in that county. On each of
these fifty farms he has carried on
the work on plots measuring from
three to ten acres. and has not yet
scored failure, although last year.
when on most of the farms clover was
the subject OF demonstration. the sea-
sons We're very Iunfavorable. The
Goochland people have not taken so
rapidly to the work. It may be that
some of the chronic kickers referred
to live In that county, In fact, there
is pretty strong evidence that quite a
lot OF them are Goochlanders. Well.
they are the losers by that kind OF
bull l-headedness--not the demonstra-.
tors or the powers that pay the dem
onstrators. Anyhow. all the farmers
who have tried the work have been
profited by 1t. and are enthusiastic
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