The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1915-02-25
MANY ATTEND The
GRANGE INSTITUTE

The farmers institute at Pine Grove
grange hall last Friday under the aus
pices Of the grange of that community
was very successful, and was consid-
cred profitable by all in attendance:
The meeting lasted from the middle OF
the morning until Friday night. lhe
ladies' of the grange deserve credit for
the success Of the event on account OF
the excellent meals served.
-Four experts from the Oregon Agrl-
cultural College were present, and de-
livered lectures as follows: Prof. bo-
auet, "The Contribution Of the Farm,
ers' Garden to the Farmers Living.
Prof. Lamb, Poultry Husbandry; :
Prof. Fits, "Hog Raising and Dairy
ing" and Prof. Brown, Insect Pests
snd Plant Diseases. F"
Many questions were asked each
sneaker, and valuable information was
gained by the ranchers.
J. NJ. Taylor, a member of the COM
mittee in charge Of the institute, makes
the following report of the session:
The Farmers Institute held at Pine
Grove hail, February l9, was a big sue
cess and was we'll attended. Prof.
BRYANT spoke in the morning on The
farmers Garden" He gave very
interesting talk and showed his knowl-
edge of the subject by the way he an
swered the many questions that were
fred at him. We certainly got some
useful suggestions to practice on our
gardens this year from Prof. BOquet.
Prof. Brown finished up the morning
session by giving a splendid talk on by
products, a subject that all were inter
ested in, and Prof. Brown handled his
subject in an able manner. He had a
sample of some apple syrup that was
made by Geo. Cleaver, who said that he
could pay one cent pound for the ap-
pies by selling syrup for Sl.25 per gal
Ion.
At the conclusion of Prof. Browns
lecture dinner was called. The ladies
of the grange did themselves justice
and upheld their reputation by the
splendid dinner that was served.
Chicken pie, salad, jellies, cream pie
and all the other good things that go
to make up the good dinners that are
served at the hall. Prof. Brown passed
around to each person at the table a
spoonful of the apple syrup. All pro-
nouneed it fine.
AT 2 p. m. Prof. Fits gave an inter.
esting talk on hogs. The audience was
about evenly divided on whether he
should speak on hog raising or dairying
so it was decided to have the COW lee.
ture at the evening session.
Prof. Fits recommended that we
start with thoroughbred stock, saying
that it did not cost any more to raise
and would give better results.
Prof. Lambs lecture was on Ipoultry
husbandry, and was listened to very
attentively. Prof. Lamb is certainly
we'll qualified to speak on the subject
Of poultry and gave many valuable
pointers.
A vote was taken to see If we could
get enough out for all evening session.
and the vote showing a large part of
he audience wishing it so, it was so
iecded. When s o'clock came il was
seen there was as large an attendance
As at the afternoon session. Prof. |
Fits started the ball rolling by giving |
4 very instructive talk on the dairy
,ow, at the end of which he was as.
'ailed by regular battery of rapid fire
questions. all of which he answered to
S satisfaction.
Prof. Lamb then gave us an illus
rated lecture on poultry. He was fol |
owed by Prof. Brown with an Illus
rated lecture on insect pests and plant |
diseases.
All these gentlemen are fine men and |
We hope to meet them in the near fu-
ure again. We we're fortunate in Sc
uring the gentlemen, as this was their |
'nly open date for more than a month |
lhead. While the institutes make much |
work for the committee we are pleased |
o know the people appreciate it by |
urning out in the large numbers that |
hey did in this busy time.