The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1913-12-05
BOYS CORN CLUB.
Good Display Made BY Law
renee County Boys.
Fine Addresses Were Delivered byRep-
Tesentatiyes from the Department
Of Agriculture.

Pursuant to previous announce
ment In the NEWS DR.. Fred Mutch
Ter, who represents the u. s. De
partment Of Agriculture and is sta
toned at the Agricultural Expert
ment Station at Lexington, anC
Profs, j. J. Hooper and h. j. Kin.
ney, OF the Agricultural College, at.
tended the show Of the Boys Corn
Club. They not only attended, but
by their addresses on that occasion
furnished much food for thought
and gave great encouragement, not
only to- the boys. but to all sensible
people who heard them. They spoke
on Saturday, the last day OF the
School Fair, and they had a large
and appreciative audience and were
heard with profound attention. DR..
Mutchler spoke first, and IL Is safe
10 say that he delivered the best ad-
dress ever made in the courthouse
along the lines upon which he spoke.
The doctor has several very attract
i've features as public speaker. He
has clear, far-carrying voice. uses
excellent English, and speaks in a
way which captures and holds your
undivided attention. Add to these
qualities as a speaker storehouse
OF practical knowledge quite diff
ferent thing from mere learning and
, you have an equipment which makes
DR.. Mutchler worth going miles to
hear. The NEWS can notice only a
few OF tho salient points OF his ad-
mirable address. Among many
things which pleased the audience
was what the doctor said concern
Ing the work OF the county agricul-
taral expert who will begin his la
bors here about January first. He
will first 90 over the county and
select several places for demonstra-
ton work, acquainting himself mean
while with the character OF our soil
and the lay OF the land. On the se-
lected places he will raise certain
CROPS, as best suited to the soil OF
those places. The owners OF the
farms will furnish the land, as they
have always done. have broken, as
they have always done, furnish the
seed and the labor for cultivation.
which they have Also had TO do be-
fore. All these things win be done
under the direction Of the county
agent. man chosen for his knowl-
edge OF the right way 10 raise the
crops which are considered best for
the soil. The agent will select a
place as permanent head quarters,
from which he will. for short time
20 to visit the outlying stations.
giving direction and advise as de-
sired, then the farmers must come
to him.
DR.. Mutchler wished il distinctly
understood that these stations"
were not experiment, but demon
stration, stations. The work on them
was to demonstrate what could
be done well and profitably in the
selected ground nothing of the ex-
pertinent nature about 1t. The whole
time of the agent, for whole year,
was to be given TO the farmers of
he county. and II Is safe to say
hat while the services OF this man
ind the attention of the agricultural
department. was almost forced upon
,ur people, while other counties
we're clamoring for this attention,
hat In 1915 our farmer will put
n an early call for the same man
" one like him.
DIR. Mutchler lamented the fact
hat while ALLEGATION mediel,' cube
DOT, comic sections and integral
alculas," or some other things
Qually as abstruse we're forced up
N our boys until they had the ,
eadache, they we're not taught how '
o make the ground produce liv- d
ne for its owner. l
DIR. Mutchler said the term rural a
community" was misnomer. We V
ad rural population but not v
ural community. Here is a distinc- .
lon with the biggest sort of diff y
erence. A community works for the a
ritual interest OF the whole body "
his was well illustrated by the q
ction OF Warren county farmers u
'ho, by united action, bought acid v
hosphate fertilizer for $11 per ton y
hich had cost them, buying singly "
IL per ton. One trouble with our y
Irmers, the doctor said. was that 7
icy bought at retail and sold at I
holesale, whereas, he said, they 81
lould do just the reverse. DR.. 81
utchler is not much OF theorist, 81
J q theorist Is usually understood W
0 is intensely practical, and one &c
his aims. the NEWS thinks. is th
AXE farmers who hear bim put In Of