Milford chronicle., 1911-09-29
FIRST FARMERS BOY
DAY WAS BIG SUCCESS
Feature VIII Now Be Annual Affair
at the State Farm.

The first annual Farmers Boy
Day at the State Farm last Saturday
was great success. Professor
Hayward, director Of the farm
announced that Farmers Boy Day,
would be made an annual affair in
the future, the same as the regular
Farmers Day, which is held in
June. This is one Of the plans that
Professor Hayward is working out
under the Agricultural Extension
bin passed by the last Legislature,
to getVhe boys in the rural districts
more interested in scientific farming
and thereby stop, to some degree,
the growing tendency Of the boys to
leave the farm early in life for the.
city, a situation which is becoming
a serious matter in this state to the
farmers.
All OF the speakers dwelled ON the
importance Of doing something for
the boys that viii interest them in
farm life and keeRthem home. Pro-
fessor Tuck, the head of the Agri-
cultural Extension Department at
Cornell University, was theprincipal /
speaker. Others who made short /
addresses We're Professor Hayward /
Representative Everett, c. johnson, /
father of the Agricultural Extension,
! bill Professor Wesley Webb, sec
retary OF the State Board of Agriz{
culture Professor A. r. Spaid.
superintendent Of the schools of
New Castle County. and State Sena-
tor Louis A. Drexel.
To make the day and results
success, both the State Board of
Agricultural and the State Board of
Education had co-operated with
Professor Hayward and his staff. ,
The State Board Of Education had {
requested the public school teachers ,
who could, to attend with as many {
Of their pupils as possible, as it is /
the purpose to teach more agricul- v
ture in the schools in the future s
than has been done in the past. ,
As a result of all these interests n
working together, there was a gather Il
ing OF probably five hundred persons IL
from all parts Of the state. In the Il
crowd were many school boys and
sons of farmers who have left the p
schools, and all seemed interested in e.
what they saw at the state farm. A ~
large number OF girls were also ~
present and they appeared equally "
and the speakers dwelled OF
on the fact that to get the boys in ~
terested and make them good farm
ers it was also necessary to teach =
the girls more about scientific farm y
ing, so that they would make better
wives for the young, progressive
farmers. n
Among the visitors were State
Senator's Drexler who came all the
way from Bethany Beach for the
occasion With him were also Viii
lam P. Steele OF Dagsboro, Stephen
D. Evans, Of Millville and Mr. and
Mrs. Hiram James, Of Ocean View. a
others present were Andrew Marvel,
=. f. Scarborough, and three sons.
'larence NJ. Hill, Martin Carey
zee Pepper, Narver Pepper and
HARLAN Pepper all of Georgetown
nd vicinity S. Frank Ewart.
ormer Representative Newton /. -
jrubb, who is a member of the
tate Board Of Agriculture High
'ay Commissioner Francis A. Price.
tate Senator Ellison, a delegation
'om the DUPONT school in charge
Principal Yerger, a large delega-
on OF boys from Delaware City and
Icinity, and many others from diff
rent parts Of the county. Many
the visitors arrived at the farm
lrly. They were taken in charge
Y members of the station staff and
lown Just what the Experiment
-ation Is doing along the lines Of y
,perlments Professor McCue a
lowed them over the orchards
here several hundred different
-reties and kinds of fruit have y
en planted. Professor Crantbam a
ok them over the fields and ex-
aimed the experiments that are
ing made in various grains. He
owed them alfalfa soy beans and
m that the farm is growing. The
'itors were especially interested
the first two mentioned crops. n
otessor Hayward exhibited to the
itors the thoroughbred stock on
farm including horses. cows
g and sheep. This exhibit pro-
bly, attracted more attention and
crested the largest number of the
itors.
At noon luncbaoD uvas ,o.,-ol