Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1915-11-25
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1918.
Maryland Week A Success
New Society Formed To Con-
time Work.

NEW SOClOOy IVAhou
time Work.
Establishing a new record for gen.
eral excellence, high quality OF ex-
hibits and large attendance, the Mary
land Week exhibition was brought to
a close last Saturday night at the
Fifth Regiment Armory, Baltimore,
with everybody who has had any
thing at all to do with the show high
ly pleased and without man with a
crouch anywhere in sight.
And as a fitting climax to the
weeks celebration, which brought
the farmers and the city people OF
the State together as they have never
been before, new force in the agri-
cultural life of the State was brought
into being--one which its projectors
hope will have strong influence for
better farming from Garrett to Wor-
cester and prove to be big factor in
securing for the farmer and his inter
ests the recognition to which they
are entitled as the basic interests OF
the State.
This is the Maryland Agricultural
Society, under whose auspices the
Maryland Week celebration will be
held in the future, it being recogniz-
ed by the four organizations headed
by the Maryland Horticultural Socie-
ty that the celebrations have grown
too big and the interests they repre-
sent too diversified to be continued
longer under the old arrangement it
they are to be successful in the future.
Samuel M. Shoemaker, of Balti-
more county, long the president OF
the Maryland Dairymen's Associa-
ton, has been chosen as the presi-
dent of the society, with Col. A. W.
Sisk, of Caroline county, former pres
ident of the Horticultural Society, as
the vice-president, and Thomas B..
Symons, of the Maryland Agricul-
tural College, and the executive officer
Of the Maryland Week celebrations,
as secretary treasurer. These gentle
men, together with the presidents and
secretaries and one member of each
of the affiliated organizations, will
form the executive council, which
will map out and direct the work OF
the new society. These affiliated or
CARNATIONS are the Maryland Horti-
cultural Society, the State Dairymen's
Association, the Crop improvement
Association and the State Bee Keep
er's Association.
1t is understood that a campaign
will be made by the new organization
for greater recognition by agricul-
ture by the Maryland Legislature,
and that it will get to work on a sur
vey of the agricultural needs of the
State. Moreover, it will do all in its
power to bring about a closer alliance
between the people of Baltimore city
and the people of the counties than
has heretofore existed.
The society proposes to get on its
job at once, and the new president,
Mr.. Shoemaker, in accepting the
presidency, pledged himself to work
hard for it's success. One of the first
things to be done will be to take stock
of Maryland Week of 1915 and to go
to work at once for a bigger and
better exhibition and celebration next
year. These exhibitions are unique
and the society will endeavor to make
them broader and more interesting
year by year. OF course, there are
state fairs at such places Syracuse,
N. Y, and Columbus, Ohio, with
acres and acres of exhibits, but these
are largely commercial undertakings.
1t is expected that the Maryland
Week show will continually strive for
quality and will endeavor to make
Maryland products known from one
end of the country to the other for
their excellence.