The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-01-22
Wayne County Farmers Hear
Strong Address by Pur-
due Graduate.
USE NEW METHODS
Interesting Program Arrang-
ed for Institute Meet
ing Friday.
BY STAFF CORRESPONDENT.

BY 81 Arr COhHESFONbGNi.
CENTERVILLE. Jan. % The trout
BILE with you farmers Is that you are
too old and you know too much to let
young man tell you anything. What
you ought to do is to wear your county
agent out giving him chance. Our
work in the school is with the young
This was what Otis Crane, county
agent of Grant county, with headquar-
tiers at Marion, told $50 farmers at the
morning session Of the Centerville
Farmers Institute today.
I'VE have an agricultural school in
Marion just three weeks old. The
first week we had twenty-seven, the
second week sixty, and last week We
had eighty. Enrolled in the school
are bankers. farmers, merchants, pro-
fessional men, teachers, lawyers, jour
nalists and men from all walks of life.
How could such school succeed in
Wayne county if you didn't take any
more interest in that than you have
shown in other things in your farm in
struction work."
Old critfcise Young.
There are kickers and knockers to
every good movement. and they think
there is some trick about the thing
il IL SuCCe6uS. IL uldu uO6S lulQSS
in an easier and better way you old
farmers make fun of him and criticise
him.
we can't do man any good if he
sits in the shade with a collar and
necktie on. The man that will profit
by the work Of the county agent is the
man who gets out and applies in a
practical way what we teach him.
AT Economy, after the institute
there, Charley Mendenhall asked us to
come to his farm and look at ten sows.
Last spring he came to Mr.. Cobb and
told him he had ten shoats he wanted
to make brood sows of, but didn't think
they would develop properly. Mr.. Cobb
told him what to feed them and when
to feed it and how to care for them,
Now they are ten of the finest sows in
the county.
Outlines Agents Work.
He could have found that out by
going to every other farmer in the
county and asking. But that's what
the county agent is for Not so much
TO go to you and discover your good
methods and then tell them to your
neighbors but to take them to the
opposite corner of the county. If he
your neighbors, you wouldn't use them
because you are preJudlced.
IF one man had owned the first fiji
teen COWS | tested in Grant county
and had made butter from their milk,
he would have made $3.50 a week.
But If he would have killed off the
five worst ones, he would have made
$1326 a week with only twO-thirds
the work You can't see why that is,
and that is what Cobb is here to tell
you.
County agent work has lasting
effect for good that cannot be esti
mated.
AS an incentive to better work the
Commercial club of Richmond has put
up $175 for a prize for the best five
acre plot of corn. | hope you strive
for that. ] believe if we strive here,
we will wear laurels for our agricul-
tural work in the next world
Mrs. LindIey Speaks.
The session of the ladies' auxiliary
was held jointly with that of the insti-
tute, Mrs. c. N. Lindley of Salem. be-
Ing the speaker. Her morning sub
ject was How to Improve the Social
Status Of the Community" and in the
afternoon she spoke on Domestic
Science in the Rural Schools"
Mr.. Cranes subject at the afternoon
session was How to Keep Poultry
Healthy" There will be a short pro-
gram this evening" w. H. Senour of
Brookville will point out Farm
Wastes" tomorrow morning and Coun-
ty Agent Cobb will talk on "Co-opera-
ton" Balanced Rations" by Mr..
Senour and THE Domestic Science
Club and It's Relation to the Commu-
nifty constitute the main part of the
afternoon program.
Tomorrow's Program.
The chief art of the ladies' auxiliary
work tomorrow will be the displays of
domestic art. Corn exhibits will be
BILE to the prizes.
Mrs. Lindley told of the value of the
farmers institute as a social center
and strongly urged the use of the
schools: and churches as gathering
places Cor the community.
The towns and cities are making
their amusementS SO attractive that it
is hard for a home to compete with
them. But there is so little mixing and
getting together in farm communities
any more that neighborhoods almost
cease to exist. A good neighborhood
is made up of good soil. first, then
good schools, good homes, good
churches and last good fellowship
Good fellowship is the whole secret
after all. 1t takes the city people to
appreciate the beauties and advantap.