Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1912-10-02
DEMONSTRATION.
A. and NJ. Extension Bureau
Exhibit at State Fair.
GIRLS CANNING CLUBS.
This Will be a New Feature Of the Dis
piay-Boys' Corn Club Show--Sio
Demonstrations Will Be Of Much In
terost.


One of the features of the twenty
seventh annual meeting of the State
Fair or Texas at Dallas, October IL to
october ~ will be an exhibition of the
extension work of the Agricultural and
Mechanical College of Texas. This
exhibit will be more complete than It
was last year and several new demon
stration features will be added. Pro-
lessor G. M. Evans, superintendent Of
the bureau of extension work of the
college and Prof. II. II. Williamson. in
charge OF boys and girls corn club
work In the state, will be In charge.
superintendent Evans announces that
the exhibit will include demonstration
OF home canning outfits, lectures and
demonstrations In judging dairy cat
tie and testing milk, demonstration and
lectures on silo work, on fertilizer mix
Ing, on budding and grating soft shell
pecans on hickory and native pecan
stock. seed testing and cotton CHASING.
A new feature of our club work this
year Will be the girls canning club
display" says Mr.. Evans. I'm the state
We now have about $500 members Of
the Girls Canning Clubs. This year
each OF these girls has grown one
tenth OF an acre of tomatoes and other
truck crops under our direction and
have already canned more than 800, 900
cans Of fruits and vegetables. These
products are being collected at the vari-
GUS county fairs and the best of these
will be sent on to Dallas We have
sixteen lady county agents in the Girls
Club work. They are experimenting
the collection of these exhibits and they
Will be present to give canning dem
onstrations.
I'm the Boys Corn Club work we
have this year about fourteen thous-
and members. Some remarkable yields
are going to be made, and 1t is intend
ed that the exhibits of these high yields
will be accompanied by boys producing
them. The Boys Corn Club exhibit
this year will be larger than ever for
the reason that there are more club
members and crop conditions are much
better than they were last year.
"A large number of the corn club
members are also members of the cot
ton clubs. Exhibits of this sort will
consist of stalk of cotton with not
less than twenty bolls and a sample
of the ginned cotton along with the
written history of how the crop was
produced. A special feature of this
work is the record Ike ping. Records of
the production OF all crops will be on
hand and open to inspection along
with the exhibits.
"Silo demonstrate work at the Fair
Is certain to attract a great deal OF at
tention. / recently inspected the cane
crop now being grown at the State
Fair grounds for this work and found
II very excellent. Last year there
were more than seventy-five silos in
the state. This year approximately two
thousand more have been put up. One
ranchman Is putting up fourteen rang
ing in capacity from one hundred to
one thousand tons each. These will be
used IN the feed for beef production.
Experiments carried on by the bureau
of animal husbandry of the A. and NJ.
ColleGe this year have shown that sill
age made from either corn, sorghum,
Kaffir corn or milo maize can be used
profltably in beef production. Last
year there were enough corn stalks
wasted in Texas TO have paid for sew
eral thousand silos This condition oc-
ours from year to year. as we are al
ways pretty certain to have a dry
spell which cuts off some of the corn
crop. IL silo was available these
stalks could be made into silage. yield
ing from four to ten tons per acre,
worth three to four dollars per ton
AS silage the average crop Of corn
stalks would be worth $40 to $50 per
acre and without silage they are prac-
tically loss"