Evening journal., 1913-01-16

q long and valuable treatise on Com
mercial Market Gardening
Prizes For Vegetables.
The following awards in the vege-
table class were announced during the
afternoons
Training the Girls.
When President soper called the
society TO order last evening, he in
troduced o. n Benson who gave an
illustrated lecture on Training Our
Rural and Village Girls for Home
Life. Mr. Benson is a specialist in
charge Of club work for. the L. S. De
partment Of Agriculture In part.
Mr. Benson said "As travel
through the east and south. | have
observed that more than 80 per cent.
of the acreage was unproductive, do
ing absolutely nothing toward the re-
duction of the high cost of living.
This Is due TO the fact that the boys
born on the farms are not educated
for the farm. II is the function OF
the school 10 find the boy and girl In
their own environment, and educate
and M them for their own natural
environment There is as much or
more solid culture in one square foot
of soil as in a whole ton Of Latin
grammars.
Il believe in the three RS, bur
after IA IL years of teaching, through
primary. grammar and high
schools and county superintendencies.
/ am firmly convinced that the folks
who defended most loudly and most
enthusiastically did the least TO make
good readers, good writer's or goou
mathomaticians Let me ask you a
simple question of grave Import:
"when agriculture, Horticulture and
horticulture are all gone, gone down
the road of defeat, then what of VIII
mington? Her doctors, her lawyers,
her physicians. and all other profess
sions and her manufactures are ali
solely dependent upon the farm and
its products. and when these various
kinds of cultures go down to defeat,
these various professions and factor
les will go also. down the same road
to the same death. They all depend
ON tho farm. II IS the height of folly
10 educate the adult I'm agriculture
and horticulture and lose track OF the
boy as a factor in the worlds future
development Just keep I'm mind this
one vital fact that boys and girls
never get anything by absorption,
This idea of their absorbing kHowl-
edge is all wrong. They get II by a
systematic. careful process OF educa-
ton, and never by absorption on
through any other channel. Take the
course of study and ft IL to the hoy
and his environment If a hoy Is en-.
vironed by pumpkins, II is the height
of folly TO educate him along any
other channel than that suggested by
his daily life and surroundings"
The speaker illustrated his talk b,
lantern slides showing the work o
the boys corn clubs and the girl,
clubs. and held bis audience intensely
interested throughout the entire even.
ing. The hall was filed to it's ca.
pacity, and hundreds were turne.
away After the session was over. a.
least dozen representative farmer.
aud fruit growers besought Professor
Benson to come to various peninsull
towns to deliver this lecture
Much Interest in Fruit Exhibit.
II has been many years since viii
mingtOnians as whole demOnstra.
ted the interest in any similar event
that they have shown In the fruit and
vegetable exhibit being held on the
eleventh floor of the dupont building
i'm connection with the annual ses.
sion of the society Wilmington
awokc with vengeance yesterday
and. from the time the exhibit wa:
opened in the morning until il close.
i'm the evening after the night bust
ness session. fully 10000 people Wis
tied the exhibition
All through the day and evening {
constant stream of people was takeI
up and down on the elevators in th'
Market street side OF the building
and the handling of this stream o
humanity, ebbing and flowing through
the rooms in which the fruit was eX
hibited. was unrufied at all times
there being no congestion at any
time or place. That this was tru'
was due TO the mastery organization
of President Soper. Secretary Webb
and lastly. but by no means the leas
! factor i'm the scheme OF organization
! was r. ]. Macloan, manager OF thu
Chamber Of Commerce. who seemed
10 be everywhere at once
The members OF the Chamber o
/ Commerce. too, awoke with a rusl
yesterday and many Of them were il
| evidence during the day and even
ing. Monday they We're noticabt
scarce. but something evidently caus
/ ed them to realize the Importance q
them Of getting in touch with tn
Peninsula a>horticulturist. and they 60
busy in large numbers. Simultan
eougly. the women Of Wilmingto
lrealized, all at one time that ther
were many things to see and lear
in this exhibition that could be &
, much practical benefit 10 them an
they came by hundreds and hundred
J with every indication that those VIII
we're not there yesterday would b
there today
That this state OF affairs is graf
, fying TO the members and officers {
the society is not necessary to stat
/ II the meeting had not succeeded
doing anything else than TO interel
, Wilmingtonian's people i'm Delaware
, products. 1t would have been. we
, worth the time. labor and expense n
, yolved. There is one lesson IN.
can be learned at this exhibition. an
that is. the names of the varieties
y Delawares products. Then the
could ask intelligently for some VI
j riety grown I'm Delaware. and Their
by accomplish two things. namel
secure the best fruit and vegetabl,
. grown In the country. and Indirect
= aid themselves again by assisting
the development and growth of in
portant business interests OF the
own State.
Learn the names Of Delawar
= grown fruit said President Sope
who is known wherever apples al
s known, "and then ask for and insi
:, upon getting them. and you will &
), the worlds best fruit and do vo,