Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-04

scientific farming during this institute
than at any institute / have ever at
tended. And after all, it's not the big
attendance which makes the institute,
it's the interest shown by the
audience"
Turned Loose In Fields
MIR. Phillips is engaged in poultry
farming in his county and through
out the year between 5000 and 10,-
GOO white leghorns flock on his 300
acre tract. The poultryman's talk last
evening was illustrated with two dozen
lantern slides showing views on his
farm. Colony housing for the fowls
was brought out clearly and modern
brooding houses were also shown. The
brooder houses on the Phillips farm
are arranged so that the chickens
have plenty of pure air and sunlight.
Mr.. Phillips is careful, too, with the
feeding, and he gives them the best
he can provide. During the growing
seasons, and just before the crops are
matured, the fowls are turned loose in
the fields and they do the harvesting.
In this way four and five crops are
grown on the same ground each year
but the grains never reach the barns.
Mr.. Phillips specializes in poultry and
has chosen the white leghorns for his
farm.
Men. dc you want me to tell you
the best species OF fowls to raise,
he asked, raise your hands," and inn
mediately a great many hands were
thrown into the air. I'll tell you.
Select the fowls you like best and then
put your whole heart and soul in your
work. That is the secret of poultry
farming. But for goodness sake, men,
if you have a lot of chickens not true
to their type, get rid of them at once.
Get one strain through your flock and
you will have better results. Keep
your chickens clean, too. Don't allow
them to walk around in filth and pick
in filth. On my Valley Poultry Farms
| never permit the chickens to get
into the barnyard. Keep the houses
clean and above all don't send your
eggs to the markets with filth on them.
If you take an egg from the nest and
il is dirty, use a cloth and polish it.
"A!i eggs from the Valley Poultry
Farms are packed in cartons made to
hold one dozen. Eggs of one size are
are graded, too. You will always find
them fresh and clean and they always
have reaoy sale. l would advise you
farmers here in this district to pack
your eggs in some kind of a carton.
They can be gotten cheap and if you
make your eggs appear neat you will
always get better prices for them"
SOunlN StIlOOIS
s. c. George, of Indiana county,
was another speaker at the session
last evening. His subject concerned
rural schools. Mr.. George spoke of
the schools in his home county in
making comparisons. Our schools
are costing us too much money just
now" he said, for the benefits we
are getting out of them. For example
in one section of our county, where
a mine was opened, a new community
was established. The residents of that
community would not incorporate
into a borough so that people in other
parts Of that township had to help pay
for the erection of a new school there
from which they were getting abso-
lutely no benefits. Now there is one
way of improving conditions so that
every person will be benefited and
that is by the erection or maintaining
of a centralized school. But the time
for that is not yet here. At least it
is not time for such a school in In
diana county and I'm sure that the
time is not here for Dauphin county
Yesterday our party drove from Gratz
to Doyalton, a distance of six miles
end am positive that the roads are
not in condition to be used by little
boys and girls who would go to the
central school. That is just the point
Gur road conditions must be improved
first dnO then we can have our central
school and the standard of education
will he greatly raised.
There's another thing which is
raising the cost of schools just now
and that is the vocational school. If
any man comes to you and tells you
that a vocational school can be es-
tablished without any additional cost,
do not believe him. In our county
the school boards have already had to
borrow money to establish the school.
In one school there are ten students
and nine of them are the sons of par
ents who do not pay as much tax as
I do. Send boys and girls to the com
mon school and they will receive. a
good education"
Makes Plea for Boys
Sheldon w. Funk, of Boyerstown.
was the evenings third speaker, and
he made an appeal for the farmer
boys. Gentlemen" he said, ST want
you to do all you can to keep the boys
on the farm. Give them something
they can call their own and allow them
to have the money they make out of
it 7 don't care whether its piece of
grounC, a calf. pig. a colt or some
chickens, but for goodness sake give
them som ct hing They will be glad