The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1912-08-20
AGRICULTURAL NEWS NOTES.
In Co Operation With the Extension Division of
the College Of Agriculture, MorganlOwn.

SPRAYING DEMONSTRATIONS PAY
The Moundsville Echo statei
editorially, In the Echo fail
window is a box of fine apples a:
were ever on display anywhere
The apples have a delicious flaw
or. They are Of the old fashion
Early Harvest variety and were
grown by Jas. A. Bonar of Rob
ert's Ridges. The tree on which
the apples grew was sprayed
last spring by the demonstratol
from the Agricultural Extension
Division of the West Virginia
University. The tree is evi.
dence of what a little time, work
and expense of spraying will do.
Mr.. Bonar writes that his trees
are loaded with fine fruit. That
community is so interested in
the work the Extension Division
is doing that they have asked
for an agricultural extension
school for next wintr.
AGRICULTURE IN RURAL SCHOOLS.
The State Superintendent of
Free School has given very
prominent place in the program
In the annual teachers Institutes
to the teaching of agriculture.
He believes that every efforts
should be made to give the the
rural boy and girl such training
as will help them enjoy a rural
life and to make the land more
productive and profitable. A
text book on elementary agri-
culture will be used as guide in
the teaching Of this important
branch of study. The Agricul-
tural Extension Division of the
College of Agriculture will issue
each school month a bulletin
known as West Virginia School
Agriculture, which will greatly
aid the teachers in this work.
This bulletin is free to every
teacher in West Virginia. By
such efforts, the lure of the city
will not draw the brightest young
men and women from the farm,
but they will take advantage of
the fine soil and splendid location
that West Virginia offers to
those who desire to live the hon
est, happy and prosperous life of
a farmer.
PREMIUMS ON GARDENS AND
LAWNS.
A representative from the De.
partment of Free Schools, one
from the N. & w. Railway Com
pany and one from the Agricul-
tural Extension Division of the
College of Agriculture were
judges of gardens and lawns at
Gary; West Virginia, where the
United States Coal and Coke
Company gave hundreds of dol
lars as premiums to the en-
ployees to encourage them
to raise large gardens and keep
beautiful homes and lawns.
The N. & w. Railway Company
is also contemplating premiums
he not forgotten how to put it.
He was certainly progressive,
with a big p.
The Chairman ruled him out
| of order and declared the Con-
vention to be a Republican Con-
vention. Then the Kodak fend
from Arnoldsburg got busy and
took a snap shot at one Bill
Stalnaker and skinned up stairs
to the dark room" to develop
the picture, but there he met
the unterrifed, and irrepressi-
BILE John McCulty---the w. j.
Bryan of the Convention-who
crossed swords" with the Ar
list, tore down the curtain, let in
the light, destroyed the negative,
and brought down what the
Chairman declared to be a life.
like portrait of Sheridan Barnes.
From this on the Convention
/ seemed to be in the hands of par.
ties who sought to do business,
and if McCulty had followed
Bryan further, and made a mo-
7 ton to rescind the nomination o.
Rite, Write, or Wright, or what
ever is right, there would hav,
L. been no more opposing vote,