The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1913-10-10
All Honor To DR.. Crabbe.

When DIR. Crabbe suggested that Mad
ison county hold three Farmers Chau-
tauquas, everyone thought of their value
to the farmer and his family; but no one
thought definitely of the advertising
value that has become SO apparent in
the past three weeks. Never in the his
tory of Madison county has the outside
press had so much to say about us. The
Courier Journal has published from a
half column to a column day. and the
Lexington Herald has used at least
half a column. This is the best class
OF advertising any community can have.
Many people in the county wondered
what would be the outcome of having
these Chautauquas in an old conserva-
tive county like Madison; but if in the
beginning there were, any Doubling
Thomases they are keeping very quiet,
for the Chautauquas are the sole topic
in the neighborhoods in which they were
held. They have been fine, because they
have brought into each neighborhood
experts in many lines from all parts of
the country, and also because it has
made possible the getting together :"
OF the people of the community.
At Waco the crowds we're good and
enthusiastic from the opening day until
the close; at Kingston the mum bers were
greater and the enthusiasm more sus.
tanned, because the people understood
better what TO expect; and at White
Hall, which closed Wednesday evening,
the crowds on some of the days were
large enough to be rather uncomfortable,
and the seating capacity of the big tent
was taxed on several occasions. Taken
by large and small, the Farmers Chau-
tauquas have proven themselves as
worthysto take place as one of the new |
strong movements toward a solution of |
comfortable. profitable and sane coun.
try life.
The average person has been too prone |
TO view the Chautauqua as a summer
and enlarged Farmers Institute. This
is not the case at all. as the many de-
monstrations which dot the Chautauqua
grounds affords the farmer, his wife and
children an opportunity to ask questions,
to bring soils to be tested, to see grating
and budding, to have each and every
cows milk tested and all of this done
by experts who know exactly what they
a nd |
being made, it is so easy for the farmere
to discuss the methods used locally.
This very matter of discussion by the
local people makes the strength of this
unique institution.
1t is a matter of profound qualification
that our county was the second one in
the world to try the Farmers Chautau-
quas, and gives us an opportunity to
share with the Commercial Club, of
Louisville, and the many other agencies
in the State that are working for better
rural education, in the advertising that
is coming TO Kentucky from the outside
press. 1t might be we'll in closing to
quote from a late editorial in the Louis
vile Times, which is headed, "Adver-
tising State"
Lately the Farmers Chautauquas,
which have grown out of this great
movement, are being treated editorially
in papers and magazines from widely
separated parts Of the country. To il
lustrate the real advertising value of our
educational awakening, it might be we'll
to give list of some of the magazines
and periodicals which have come to the
Commercial Club in the past few weeks
containing reference to this new bran of
Chautauquas. Farm and Ranch, of
Dallas, Texas, reaching over one hun
bred thousand Western farmers, treats
the matter editorially and wishes TO
know, Why can't the Texas farmer
have chautauQuas? Hoard's Dairy
man, OF Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, hav-
ing mailing list of over sixty thousand
dairymen scattered over the whole Uni
ted States, uses story of the chautau-
quas in Warren county. The Breeders
Gazette, of Chicago, will soon publish
an illustrated story of the Chautauquas
in both Warren and Madison counties,
by James Speed, and with an introduce
tory editorial by Joe Wing, the Alfalfa
King, of Ohio. Last, but by no means
least, the old, settled and conservative
Youths Companion, of Boston, has heard
that things are absolutely happening in
the Bluegrass and the Pennyrile, and
has written to Mr. J. b. McFerran ask
ing for story concerning the movement
that is going to revolutionize the old
State"