Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-11
FOUR Conventions
ON FARMING HERE
Raleigh Houses One, While
Three Others Are at the
New Willard.
PROF. CLINTON D. SMITH
GIVES INTERESTING PAPER
Describes Agricultural Education in
Latin America-To Make Rural
Life More Attractive.

Three societies whose interest is in AK
riculture are today holding conventions
at the New Willard Hotel They are the
Society for the Promotion of Agricultural
Science. the Society for the Advancement
OF Agricultural Teaching and the Ameri-
can Society Of Agronomy. a fourth ag-
r!cutural organization. the American AS
ISOLATION of Farmers Institute Workers,
held meetings at the Raleigh Hotel
Scheduled for tonight at S O'Clock Is a
joint session of the Society for the Pro-
motion of Agricultural Science and the
American Society of Agronomy Dean E.
Davenport of the University of Illinois.
president of the former, and DR.. l.. A.
Clinton. president of the latter, will de-
liver addresses.
The Society for the Advancement OF
Agricultural Teaching held one meetinf
at l:3O O'Clock this afternoon and Is to
ing.
Prof. C. D. Smith Speaker.
AT the session of the Society for the
Promotion of Agricultural Science al
10 O'Clock this morning DR. Burt L. Hart.
well and r. A. Lichtenthaeier of King.
ston, H. l.. spoke on THE Availability of
the Nitrogen Of Cottonseed Meal and
Beef Scrap for Chicks" DR. L
IS FORBES OF Wooster. Ohio. delivered
an address on The Metabolism of Or
ganic and Inorganic Phosphorus
Var alton is the Tongue Color OF Jer
sey Cattle" was the subject Of the tall
Iowa.
Prof. Clinton D. Smith OF Trumans
burg, n. T.. formerly of Michigan. gave
paper on Agricultural Education II
Latin America" DR.. Smith has latel,
returned from South America, where h,
had opportunity for the observation o.
the progress OF agricultural study il
Brazil. Argentina and Uruguay, and. il
addition, was able to look into the sam,
conditions In Chile and Peru. although
he q d not visit those countries.
For several years Prof Smith wa.
director of the agricultural school o.
Luiz de QueirOZ at Piracicaba, Brazil
He told the convention that encourag-
ing progress along the lines of educa
being made. both in the number o.
schools and the increased matricula
ton of students.
Found Scholars Adaptable.
In those ATTITUDES. he said, problem.
OF sort not encountered in the Unite,
States are daily solved
The widely different soils and climate:
OF the twenty-one states of Bra I'll. a.
well as the mixture of blood and grea
differences in social status Of the un
dergraduates, he added, make the tasl
complex. However, the young men ar,
adaptable. eager to learn, and Of re
tentive memory. and show surprising
progress when once thoroughly started
Many are sons of wealthy planters. M
continued. and at first are inclined Il
balk at blowing and other manual
tasks until their interest Is properi.
aroused.
Language differences also give rise Il
difficulties. Prof. Smith related a facult,
meeting where four languages were uset
in disposing of the days business. Oh
she other hand red-tape troubles are con
spicuously absent. The director of tn
college is directly responsible to the Sec
rotary of Agriculture and to no one else
If this official can be made to see tn
necessity of thing. the proper requlsi
ton foiioWs-nOt a week or a month later
but at the close of the interview.
The second Of the days sessions wa
held at o'clock this afternoon.
To Improve Farm Conditions.
How to improve conditions on the farm
of the country SO that boys and girls vii
not go to the cities and women will D
more contented was the principal CUES
ton discussed today at the meeting of tn
Alperican Association of Farmers Inst
tute Workers at the Raleigh Hotel
w. J. Kennedy of Ames, Ia, de'iyere'
an address on the obligation of farmers
institutes to rural people, and his pape
was followed by a general discussion LEI
by Wesley Webb of Dover, Del
Mr.. Kennedy declared that many of TIL
big questions before the country at pres
ent are caused by the great number o
farm boys and girls who go to the cities
creating a condit on of too many con
sumers and too few producers.
According to Mr.. Kennedy, rural III
must be made more attractive to farm
women and children Ways of amuse
ment must be furnished, and farmer
must cease paying more attention to thei
cattle and their barns than they do L
their families and their homes. He adde'
that roads must be improved. In orde
10 make the communication between
country families easier in bad weather.
NJ Kennedy declared that labor savins
devices must be introduced in farm
kitchens in order to make the work %
farmers wives easier Many farmers, h,
declared have installed lahor-saving de
vices out In the field, but continue t.
make their wives do much unnecessary
labor.
Questions relating to farm laborers
nonresident oWne. S, woman school teach
ers and woman farm institutes also were
discussed at the meetings this morning
and this afternoon. The meetings VIII b.
continued tomorrow.