The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-12-01
County Board of Agriculture.

County Board of Agriculture.
The annual meeting of the Burlington
County Board of Agriculture was held
in the High school auditorium on Satur-
day and there was large and enthu-
siastic audience present at all of the ses-
sions. In addition to the County Board
there was boys contest in corn grow
ing, and by the girls in needle work,
baking and other items of home life.
In the basement of the auditorium
there were exhibits of the work done by
the boys and girls and the displays were
highly creditable to the young people
who had taken part.
The meeting of the County Board was
held in the auditorium and was presided
over by president Herman Croshaw. H.
III. Albertson, secretary, read his annual
report in which he gave estimates of the
various crops during the year and the
average price of them.
The program had assignments of
practical five minute talks" The first
of these was by Charles A. Collins, of
Moorestown, who spoke on "Seed
potatoes. He was followed by A. l..
Richie, of Cinnaminson, on pruning"
The subject of Clement B. Lewis, of
Riverton, dealt with "Some marketing
problems of the fruit grower" All of
these papers were especially interesting
and we regret the lack of space to give
them in full.
When these gentleman had spoken
the president said the programme would
be changed slightly in order that one
speaker, who wanted to get away, might
be given chance to talk. He was H..
f. Hall, of Moorestown, and his subject
was Profitable Tomato growing" The
five minute rule was broken in this case
and the desire OF the speaker to get away
seem to fade as he spoke for an hour
and half. The first part of his talk
was very interesting but it grew tiresome
before he reached the end. BY the time
he had concluded it was lunch time and
the meeting adjourned until afternoon.
On Resembling the election of officers
was the first business on hand. The fol-
lowing were chosen: President, Fred.
Lippincott, Moorestown; vice president,
c. Craig Tallman, Columbus; secretary
and treasurer, I'll. H. Albertson, Burling-
ton; directors, Robert c. Wills, Marlton;
Morris Evans, Birmingham; Emmor
Roberts, Moorestown; Charles p. Rue,
Chesterfield; William T. Baggs, Beverly.
Delegate to State Board of Agriculture,
Edward Rogers, Medford; Delegate to
State Horticultural Society, Arthur l..
Roche, Cinnaminson.
Then the five minute talks were re-
sumed. Morris Evans, of Birmingham,
spoke on ''Dairying," and Byron T. Ro
berts, of Moorestown, talked on Results
of Government spraying experiments"
The next speaker was Professor F. C.
Minkler, of New Brunswick, who gave
very interesting address on "Swine
raising and hog cholera treatment. "
This was very instructive paper and
contained many points of value to the
pork grower.
"Music in the home," was the subject
of Mrs. Rose Morgan, of New York
This lady possessed charming manner
andsvoice and held her audience captive
for nearly an hour. She was beauti
full singer and she gave some of the song'
that father and mother used to sing
She also gave some of the popular air:
asking the audience to join in the chorus
which they did with vim.
Professor Alva Agee, of New Bruins
wick, who always pleases an audience
spoke on ''serviceable men,"
The next number on the programme
was very interesting. 1t was reading o
essays by boys and girls contesting 70
prizes offered by the Burlington Count,
Teachers Association. There were l
children in this contest and the idea ex
pressed by them showed they had givel
their subjects much thought The sue
cessful contestants were; LIST, George II
Simons, Vincentown, a two days trip +
the Agricultural College; End, Nortol
Kirby, Columbus, Waterman fountain
pen; Sd, Clayton Wills, Marlton, Inger
soil watch; 4th, Clayton Dudley, Moores
town, cap. Clayton Wills is nine year
of age, the others are about 16 years old
The afternoon session wound up witt
a Home canning demonstration" by
representative of the U. S. Department
of Agriculture.
The evenings entertainment consiste
of an illustrated lecture by Professor {
H. Benson, of the U. S. Department {
Agriculture, entitled Boys and Girls
Clubs" Mrs. Morgan resumed her mus
cal talk, taking Songs that live" a
her subject. She had spoken in this Sc,
, ton of the state not long ago and on he
i. return home she had received several i
quiries. Among them were: ''What a.
coon songs?' what is ragtime?
s'What is canned music?' and a nun
Der of other questions. Some of the:
E Mrs. Morgan answered and she recallt
;. the songs of days gone by which wou
ALWAYS live and should not be allowed
! occupy place in the home with Il
! vel!ow-backed songs that are now so vi
/ versally seen on the piano.
d While the adults were having the
session in the auditorium the boys al
!, girls were holding meeting down stat
There they had exhibits of the corn, /
ii tatoes and apples they had grown, al
r they listened to several interesti
;. papers. Prizes were awarded to the 81
= cessful contestants. The names Of tho
who received prizes follow: