Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-10-24
Girls Canning Tomatoes.


The girls of Wetzel county are re-
ceiving Instructions by Miss Sadie
Guseman of the Extension Division
of the College of Agriculture in the
canning of tomatoes on a CONNER
cial scale. Canning demonstrations
4 have been held at New Martinsville.
Pine Grove, Antioch, Wylesyille.
Reader and Smithfield. These demon
strations were attended by 400 per
sons and $40 cans of tomatoes were
caned. Steam pressure Gamers were
used but the girls are also taught
to make a Gamer out of wash boil
er.
This county has $50 boys and girls
Vino are members of the tomato
growing and canning contest. The
can wrappers bear the name OF the
club and the number OF the club
member. The tomatoes canned from
these one-tenth acre plots have been
sold In contract at $1.05 per dozen.
Many OF the members will have a
nice sum OF money from their sea-
sons work besides chance to win
one or more of the prizes offered by
the business men Of the county. Sew
eral more counties will enter this CON
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A Live Farm Question.
Inquiries come to the College Of Ag-
riculture almost daily concerning the
use OF lime on farm land. The kind
of lime to use, when to apply it and
the amount to apply seem to be the
important questions. To answer
same more fully and to interest," every
farmer Of the state in the improve
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Prof. Hite has prepared a very at
tractive bulletin on this subject,
which Is free to every farmer of
this state.
If you did not secure the regular
publications from the Experiment
Station, write post card at once to
Va, to get the lime bulletin and ask
the mailing list for all free bulletins.
The college has also secured a
lime crusher to demonstrate to the
students a practical way OF securing
lime for the farm. -
Agricultural College Growing.
The faculty of the West Virginia
University is pleased to note that the
Agricultural College is making re-
markable growth. The number of
regular students has increased IS
percent since last year. 4 large num-
Der of farm boys will attend the
| Short Course, January Z to March
81, 1912. The Farmers Course,
which begins January and contin-
ues ten days, is becoming more pop
ular every year. Certainly every ef-
fort is being made by the college
to give the farmer and his son an
opportunity. to secure training that
will help make the farm more pro-
ductive and profitable.
Corn Shows.
Prof. E. W. Sheets of the Extens-
ion Division of the College of Agri
culture is arranging corn shows to
be held in 80 counties of the state.
These are the counties that have
started the Boys and Girls Agricul-
tural Club movement, which now has
an enrolment in the state of 4516
boys and girls. Many new counties
have arranged already for this move
ment for another year. The counties
have offered large prizes to the boys
and girls for the best ten ears, the
fbest single ear, and the best produc-
ton at the lowest cost. It certainly
is a great movement to inspire the
boys and girls of the stale not only
to remain Son the farm but to become
more scientific farmers.
Agricultural Extension Schools.
The committee of the Board OF
Regents has assigned the following
agricultural extension schools to be
lheld this year by the Extension Di-
vision of the College of Agriculture.
County Place Date
Greenbrier, VIII. Sui. Spgs. Oct. 22-25
Monroe, Gap Mills, Oct. 29-Nov. l.
Peasants, st. Marys, Dec. 3-6.
Jackson, Ravenswood, Dec. 1913.
Putnam, Winfield, Dec. 1870
Upshur, French Creek. Jan. 1881
Barbour, Belington Feb. Al
Preston, KingWood, Feb. lila
Many more applications are on
file, several Of which are from coun-
ties that have already been assigned
4 schools. It is unfortunate that
but one school can be held to a
county, as many places that are de
sirous Of such work will be unable to
secure It this year.
These schools will last four days
with a few, special sessions for school
children and public meetings at night
The instructors are from the regu-
lar staff of the College and Expert
ment Station.
More Animal Husbandry.
Mr.. Ralph b. Hunt, OF Kansas, has
been appointed as assistant in ami
NAL husbandry at the Experiment
Station, Morgantown, w. Va, and
will begin work about October LIST.
Mr.. Hunt Is graduate Of the Kansas
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