The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1916-12-22
Farmers Institutes.

The recent Farmers Institutes were
full of valuable advice and suggestions,
helping to create enthusiasm in the
movement to improve agriculture.
Great credit is due DIR. r. S. Hill for
his untiring efforts in getting the infor-
nation we need. His wide experience
and opportunities to get first hand in
formation on the growing and market
ing of crops upon which the prosperity
of Southern Maryland depends, makes
him of especial value to our section and
enables him to select specialists upon
the subjects of most interest to US
With all these opportunities for i'm
provement this fact was emphasized
that the fellow that needed the Insti-
tute the most was the fellow that was
not there. Generally they can be com
pared with the man that said he did not
care to go to an institute because he
knew more than the speakers, about
farming; as he had worn out three
farms and he was wearing on the
fourth one.
To an outsider, how does this apply
to our people when they see so many
WORKOUT farms and such few farmers
at the Institutes?
Mr.. Blackford told how to make use
of soil fertility by first making the
soil fit home for plant roots, by taking
lessons from nature. Soils were first
| made by the addition of humus; they
| had been maintained by humus, and
that the best forms of humus were: lst,
farm manures; 2nd, leguminous crops
that have the power to store in the soil
the free nitrogen of the air and to I'M
lock the insoluble potash and phosphoric
acid in the soil; 3rd, anything that
crows on the soil-straw stalks, weeds,
grass, leaves, etc. The best plan &c
get this is crop rotation-that is, the
growing of transforming crops in be.
tween cultivated crops. Feed these
crops to good livestock, get the double
profit-the sale price of the crops anc
the profits from the livestock-and have
80 per cent of the fertility to return tt
the soil. This spells richer farms ane
bigger profits with which to prcvide the
comforts that will keep your sons ant
daughters at home.
State Tobacco Inspector, W. j. Frere
made a strong plea for the tobacco
growers to get together and adopt plane
to build up and maintain the reputatio.
of Maryland tobacco, by honest pack
ing and grading. The strong point il
this address was the announcement tina
the State Tobacco Warehouses, tn
property of the tobacco growers o
MARYLAND, were now under the contrC
of the tobacco growers, and was conse
uuently dependent upon their support
If they were self tanning, they woul
; be continued as priceless heritage t
our people; if not self-supporting, the.
would have to be sold and the tobacc
growers become dependent upon tn
generosity of some great corporation
rs LIE @IEGG GlOHCiS ieAd OSSi Yin Pt-N
summer, when many were held up VI
til they paid charges as high as II cent
, a bushel. Does this generosity CD az
, peal to you? If it does, ship your t
+ bacco to Locust Point, the B & o.
R. warehouse, and have your own war;
house cold, so that the other fellow ca
: get the profit from your tobacc as
did from. your wheat. For the econon
t ical administr&t ion Of the State Tobac'
! Warehouse. it will require nearly
!. the 25, 900 hogsheads of Maryland t
haceo. How can thinking man tul
e down a straight business propositlt
like this?
), The instructions Of Mr., Refer on co
:, crete on the farm were timely IN
much as they pointed out how the fa
:; mer could save in feed fertility al
maintenance of farm buildings enou&
to cover the cost of the concrete co
structio"