Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1911-09-07
COUNTY BIRD AGRICULTURE
Institute at Swedesboro, Wednesday
\ and Thursday, Nov. Is and Is fI


/ The September meeting of tine
lGloucester County Board of Agricul-
ture was held in Patrons Hall last
Monday afternoon, President Brown
/ presiding
After Clerk Skinner had read the
minutes of the last meeting, he read
a communication from State Secre-
tary Franklin Dye, designating the
aboye-named place and dates for the
annual Institute, and concluding with
this paragraph:
If these dates are acceptable,
hope you will write me as promptly
as possible, and do not forget to give
me any subject you desire treated, and
names of local speakers who will take
part.
The dates being acceptable, the
communication was ordered received
and filed, and the chairman instructed.
/ to appoint an Institute committee. He
promptly named Messrs Theodore
Brown, WILL H. Hoffman, Edw Kir-s
by. Aaron Borton and Lewis Morgan.
Discussion of topics on the program
was then opened and the first, Are
Lightning Rods Protection to Build
ings?" was opened by Aaron Borton.
He professed ignorance of the sub
| ject, but said he didn't recollect a
Eby lightning.
S. S. Conover read very inter-
esting paper on the subject which will
! be found in another column of this
paper, his conclusion being that skill
/ full rodding afforded high degree of
protection.
/ A general discussion of the topic
/ followed: Mr.. Avis had read that
buildings were we'll protected by a
No. 3 galvanized iron wire grounded
to moisture Grounded wire should
be placed at intervals ON wire fencing.
as a protection to animals and build
ings.
Hon. Walter Heritage said he had
reached the conclusion that rods We're
a protection. The Farmers Reliance
should look into the matter and find
cheap method of getting the pro-
lection. He complimented Mr.. Con-
over on his excellent paper, and rec
commended this subject be discussed
at the Institute.
4 . =
orable to lightning rods. He said.
tin or iron roof, with ground lead
/ E.ers, we're good protection. It was
/ brought out that telegraph and tele-
( phone companies now save poles from
destruction by lightning by grounding
/ wires at regular intervals.
A diversion was here introduced by
Miss Alice Brown who read What
/ William Henry Did,"
AS all were absent scheduled to dis
cuss DO we, as farmers, receive any
real benefit, aside from the social fea-
lures, from the Grange Picnic?" Will.
H. Hoffman opened the discussion by
asserting that this picnic has demon
strated that a successful fair can be
! held without the demoralizing di-
vertisements that mar many fairs, and
! if the Park management develops
with the Grange management, we are
only at the beginning of our sue
cesses. We have proved that Glou-
cester County farmers are progress
sive, and the exhibits create the IN
centive to greater excellence, with
the result that Gloucester county pro-
yducts occupy first place in the mark
4 cts.
Mrs Kirby said every department
should have separate building, not
connected with exhibits foreign to
each other. The limit of excel
lence in the women's department
lis not reached if we have this. She
paid tribute to the manual training
exhibit by the pupils of the public
schools as a credit to teachers.
Mr.. Hoffman gave the information
| that the present picnic committee
would recommend to the next Pomona
Grange at Clayton the need of
building for housing the Pomona
! Grange.
Recurring to the recent picnic he
said one of its most satisfying fea-
lures was that of the 10000 people
congregated there not man was seen
to stagger from the effects of drink.
A general discussion of the SUBJ
| ject: What is the practical way of
extending and maintaining the high
ways?o was opened by Walter Heri-
tage, who said the recent heavy rains
had done SO much damage to the
roads that it would take the super
visors the balance of the season to re-
pair them. The State roads, accord
ing to the Commissioner, had been
damaged to the extent of 100000.
VIII. H Hoffman said we have
State Supervisor who knows his busi-
ness and will soon have proposition
that will do good
Various speakers knocked the way
Supervisors repair the roads. Mr..
Merriell being very severe on the way
Harrison township supervisor does
things, specifying the way he did on
/ a road he knew all about.
/ Another speaker roasted the farm
ers themselves. They want to work
the roads when they have nothing
else to do, and then they want to haul
small loads, work short hours, and
do as little as they can. For that
reason the money is largely wasted
Mr.. Avis said the township COM
| mittee were endeavoring to do better
work Most Of the Washollts occur