The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-30
FIRST INSTITUTES
ARE BIG SUCCESS
Program Carried
Through at Gonzalez, and
Many Farmers and Stock
Raisers Attended and
Heard Addresses by Ex-
perts-Meeting Today at
Bluff Springs.

Inc hrst two meetings of the series
OF farmers institutes to be held in Es-
Gambia county this week were heId
yesterday at Gonzalez. In attendanse
and in the degree of interest shovvn
IN the work, these two meetings hold
the record as the best since the he-
ginning of this work in Escambio
county, six years ago. One OF the re-
suits was the adoption of a resolution
asking for a public market in Pensa-
cola
The attendance at the forenoon sac
sion was fifty adults, and the after
noon session commenced with abon+
seventy adults. At about 2:sA M
the attendance was swelled by the ar
rival OF Prof j. NJ. Tate and about
eighty pupils, Of the Roberts school.
The forenoon program was as fol-
lows: A04-
Corn, preparation of the soil. se-
Iectlon of seed, cultivation, etc. bv
Prof. P. H. Rolls.
staple Crops" by c. K. Mcouarrie
Hogs" by Prof. A. P. Spencer.
me open-air dinner served by the
ladies of the community was an Old
fashioned picnic dinner, on magma
cent scale and was greatly enioyec
by all.
Before commencing the regular
afternoon program, Chairman c. p
Geek, OF the rural relations committee
or the Pensacola Commercial Associa-
ton addressed the meeting and gave
an outline Of the things which his
esrs 5f rne county, IN UeJIerIng rraur
conditions and city and country rela-
tions. An interesting discussion fol-
lowed, many taking part, in which
some Of the difficulties under which
the Eseambia county farmer labors,
were freely set forth. the principal one
being the inability of the farmer to get
fair return for his produce owing
to the existence in Pensacola of trust
or near-trust among the hucksters. As
one speaker expressed it, ''it is not
lack of demand. but it is a lack Of dis
tribution." 1t was agreed that the only
remedy for this evil. affecting not only
the farmers but the citizens Of PEN
sacola, was the establishment in Pen
sacola of public market. The follow
ing resolution offered by Mr.. L. w.
Hardy, of the Roberts Truck Growers
Association, was presented and ulani
mously adopted, viz:
WANT A PUBLIC MARKET.
This meeting recommends that Pen
sacola, through the Pensacola Com
mercial Association, or other author
| tiles, open a public market in the city
Of Pensacola in the interests Of its own
citizenship and the agricultural de-
velopment of Escambia county"
The afternoon program was as fol-
| lows:
vegetable and Fruit Raising, and
Canning" by c. K. McQuarrie.
FERTILIZERS" by Prof. P. H. Rolfs.
Lime" by Prof A. P. Spencer.
The first named topic was, and waB
intended to be, the feature of the ses-
sion, in view of the special advan-
| tages of this section for truck farm
| ing and in view of the fact that Con-
zalez now has canning factory with
a suffic cient capacity to care for all
| vegetables and fruit for which they
may not at once be cash demand.
| p. F. Bingham. representing the PEN
sacoIa Commercial Association, pre-
sided as chairman of both sessions,
| and sought successfully to make the
| work of the experts as beneficial as
possible by urging the asking of ques-
tions that would bring out the local
conditions and problems in order that
they might be properly handled by the
| speakers.
Taking the Gonzalez meetings as an
indicator a great deal Of good will be
accomplished by the farmers institutes
that are to be held in Escambia county
/ each day during the balance Of the
week. The meeting today will be al
Bluff Springs, Friday at Ferry Pass
and Myrtle Grove and Saturday al
Barrineau park.