The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1913-09-02
AGRICULTURAL NEWS NOTES
Extension Department, College Of Agriculture,
Morgantown, West Virginia
Farmers Institutes

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it's height. From ten to twelve
two-day Institutes are being held
each week in the various agricul-
tural districts and before the
season closes approximately one
hundred and twenty-five of these
meetings will be held.
The reports from the officers
and instructors conducting these
Institutes show a wide-a-wake
interest and an enthusiastic at
tendance on the part of the
farmers. Special interest is
taken in the definite demonstra-
tional work which the instructors
are authorized to offer for a later
date. The instructors carry APP
plication blanks which are given
out to the farmers especially in
terested in particular demonstra-
tons such as soil fertility, varie-
ty tests, alfalfa, pruning and
spraying, etc.. When these APP
plications are properly filled out
they are sent to the College of
Agriculture and at the proper
season these demonstrations will
will be conducted by the Agricul-
tural Extension Department.
County Agriculture High School
Our New High School build
ing is to be dedicated primarily
to the agricultural interests of
this county" said Superintend-
ent E. H. Knabenshue, referr-
ing to the magnificentnew Coun-
ty High School building recently
erected at Clay Court House.
Our hope for future prosperity
in this county" continued the
professor, lilies chiefly in the de-
velopment of agriculture and
why shouldn't we make this SUBJ
ject of primary Importance in
our high school course?" Pro-
lessor Knabenshue not only in
tends to offer good courses in
agriculture to the regular high
school students but proposes to
make the school building a center
for series of agricultural acti-
tivities throughout the county.
Short courses will be offered to
farmers and to rural teachers.
By cooperating with the Agricul-
tural Extension Department at
Morgantown it is hoped to carry
on Institutes. extension schools,
pruning and spraying demonstra-
tons and various other agricul-
tural activities of similar ma
ture. This sort Of county ag-
ricultural education is typical of
a general movement taking place
In educational circles and design
ed to make the schools of great
err value to the farming inter
ests.
Dairy Business Progressing
A dairy survey conducted by
the College of Agriculture in sew
eral sections of the State reveals
the fact that unusually high
prices are quite generally secured
for dairy products and in most
cases the demands exceed the
supply. Several large creamer-
les have begun operations within
the last year and the good prices
paid for cream have stimulated
production in sections where
dairying has been neglected
heretofore. The cooperative
features is embodied in a cream
cry recently organized in Taylor
County. Creameries Of this kind
should have a wide development
in those sections of the state
where good pastures abound,
where silage corn can be grown,
and where shipping facilities ex-
list.
In the vicinity of the larger
cities it was found that many of
the diaries do not give sufficient
attention to sanitary conditions
in the stables and matchmaking
rooms. Stricter ordinances con-
corning the sale of milk are being
demanded by the city consumers
and dairynlen will do we'll to
equip their plants with sanitary
conYeniences.
Foreign Farmers Teach us Lessons
While we have as yet made
no official recommendations as a