The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-19
FARM LIFE INSTITUTE
 AT HUFFMAN YESTERDAY
Problems Relating Agriculture and Rural Life Discussed by Experts Secretary of Agriculture Wade Urges Dvers fication-Women Speakers Discuss Problems Re
 lating to Rural Homes and Offer Suggestions
By JOHN C. MOSES

About 200 people gathered at Huffman
 yesterday to hear experts talk on prob
 lems of agriculture and country life. Two
 thirds of the crowd were women. This
 was explained by the fact that unfavor-
 able weather had set back the crops
 making it necessary for the men and boys
 to take advantage of the fair weather to
 pull fodder, weed out crops where they
 are not too far gone and to market what
 truck they had while prices were up. ~.
 There was much enthusiasm, however
 and the speakers held the interest of the
 audience.
 pr. w: L. Darby, state superintendent
 of home missions of the Presbyterian
 church, U. S. A, acted as chairman. He
 made short talk, emphasizing the point
 that cooperation among all branches of
 rural life, churches, schools, county agent,
 department of agriculture and extension
 service was necessary to work out the
 many problems. Dr. Darby stated that
 the churches were working along these
 lines. Each speaker emphasized the great
 need of the community spirit for bet
 terment.
 The first speaker was Miss Donella Grif-
 fin of Florida, now with the extension
 service at Auburn. Miss Griffin talked on
 home conveniences, food and food values,
 their kinds and benefits, and her remarks
 were of interest to both sexes She gave
 the meaning of the balance meal" told of several modes of preparation and gave
 advice in general for the women in the
 home
 Dr. W. E. Hinds, state entomoogist,
 spoke in the place of Assistant E. A. Vaughan. Dr. Hinds talk of 10 minutes
 was one of the most interesting. He had
 several years experience fighting the K weevil in Texas before coming here. He did not dwell on the boil weevil pest,
 but chose for his subject the fly, more Y especially as it affects country life N About 95 per cent of the flies the farmer < has to combat are bred in the manure X pile" stated Dr. Hinds. Where sanita- x tion is bad we always find four things linked together-flth, flies, fever and Y funerals. The dry closet, as now used in K most communities, is source for the fly to inoculate himself with intestinal germs, after which it carries them into the home { to spread diseases. We must strike at the X breeding ground. Treat the manure pile Y with borax or powdered hellebore, pref X erably the latter, and then remove the e manure to the fields at least twice a \ week." Stress was laid on the screen K ing of houses, and the sick room, espe- \ cially.
 Clean up and keep clean Farmers \ Bulletin No. 463 department of agricul- k ture, Washington, will give any farmer all H information needed of sanitary closets; or E information may be had from the state health officer at Montgomery
 q offer the following suggestions on E how to make the home, school and com k munity comparatively f1yless: Educate, or X ganize, act destroy breeding places, keep filth covered; make all privies 1y-proof; screen the house; trap the fly; swat it strike at the source.''
 Miss Beatrice Shipp, home demonstra- ton agent for Jefferson county, gave a demonstration of a homemade shower bath, ironing board and fly trap. T just wanted a few minutes time this morning said Miss Shipp. ito take a shot at the men about making these ! home conveniences. They generally leave < everything for the women.' In the afternoon Miss Shipp and Miss | Griffin gave demonstrations along diff ferent lines of interest to the women, one of which was the fireless cooker.
 AGE-HERALD PRAISED pr. Darby at this point paid compli- ment to The Age Herald for having rep resentatives on the grounds who were { giving samples of their weekly edition to those in attendance. 'The Weekly Age Herald is going to back us up in our campaigns throughout the state. spread ing the gospel for better conditions about the farm, in the home, in the schools and churches and along every line where good can be done This will be greatly appre- cated. And they are offering the paper for 60 days at 25 cents per year. I hope ' you can see your way clear to subscribe 'I will now ask one of The Age-Herald s men. James H. Leath, to put before you the plan of Mir Barrett. the editor of the paper, for cooperating with the ! farmers. We appreciate newspaper as- sistance."
 MT. Leath made a 10-minute talk, tell ing of his connection with the farmers Farmers union. He said he hoped to be of benefit to them now by helping put in each home the best farm weekly in America-The Weekly Age-Herald. You farmers carry more than your share of the worlds burden; you are un- derpaid for your products; you work longer hours; you must have better mar keting places. This is what The Age Herald aims to help you do. We are giv- ing the cream of the farm news, the happenings of the world at large. a wom- ans and childrens page, the market re- ports up to the day of publica tion, and articles on all subjects by experts We are going to cooperate with the depart ment of agriculture, the extension service. county agents In fact our pages are open to all. We solicit contributed articles from all branches represented at these Institutes and from the farmer and his, family. The Age-Herald certainly Is go- lng to lend a helping hand and we hope you will reciprocate."
 The last speaker before the barbecue was C. Wolford, Sunday school field sec retary for the North Alabama Methodist conference What the Sunday School Will Bring to Pass was his main topic. He talked on improvement of rural churches and Sunday schools In connec- ton with sanitation and upon building up community spirit.
 Tn order to do this" said Mir. Wolford. i've must work for nine vital factors as follows
 Sunday school pastors.
 ''Wide-awake, trained. enthusiastic su- perintendents
 "Gody-trained teachers
 Tremendous importance of early child hood for right
 The duty of every church member to be in Sunday school.
 "Friendship for adolescent youth.