The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1917-08-31
Impressed by CAROLS Fine Farms.

DIR. Woods said, in his opening re-
marks at the TaneytOWn falr' ln@1
Carroll Is one of the famous agrlcul-
tural counties in the nation, ana tnaI HI
coming I'D through the county ne was
impressed with the fine farms, Dut tne
best thing i'm the county is It's people
who believe in having the farm CEN
tered around the home. Farmers LII
many other sections have fne Darns'
good machinery, but the home IS nes-
lected. He commented ON the lacl
that most of the farmers are owners,
not renters, in Maryland, and are vi
native stock, the purest Americans
representing the truest and best loeals
of American home life. =.
Dr Woods spoke on the relation OF
education to everything before u.s.
more particularly applied to farming
and the nroblems Immediately racing
the farmer. He said that d1Herent
conditions face us from those OF plo-
.neer times. Farmers then did not
have time to develop education, anu
+hev did not need it, But now educa-
tion is needed to meet the emergencies
~ the nresent war. We are threaten
cd with potash starvation. Many
troubles which the farmers ascrlDe 10
other causes are really due 10 lack VI
notash. Everything we need IS lock-
ed I'D in the earth beneath us. Chem-
lists must find the way to get tnen'
PHYSICS tells of air circulation, mols-
ture circulation. There IS great loss
from ignorance in feeding, hrty per
cont more protein being fed than
necessary to produce the same results:
Science will unlock the problems, OF
the boys and girl of tomorrow, time
of high priced lard, labor, machinery.
They must learn to farm sclentlncally.
Ten Der cent. of five billions of dol4
lars is lost from plant diseases, sucn
as wheat smut, which could be saVed
if Won knew how The boys and girls
must have agricultural and vocational
education. Seventy-tive per cent. or
the population gets all its education In
the rural schools. They must nave
trained teachers. Statistics sho" that
the farmer with an Sth grade educa-
ton and less has an earning capacity
of $500 per year; from Sth grade to
high school, $500 to $500; high school,
$500 to $500. This is where education
is on general lines. Where education
is directed to some special end, as IN
an agricultural college, the increase Is
forty per cent in earning capacity. VI
course all boys can not go to the ag-
ricultural college. 1t must furnish
the teachers and specialists. The
teachers must be trained men and
women who understand their business
and live in the district. The rural
school should be the center Of the edu-
cation, but better results would be OBJ
tanned by consolidating the schools in
to rural high schools, with conveyances
for the remote pupils. Agriculture,
however. should be taught in the city
schools as well as in the country, thus
.dignifying agriculture. The agricul-
tural college does not want to do any
thing out of the community which can
be done in it. This is democracy.
In speaking of the problems immedl-
ately before the farmer DR. Woods
said: The farmers have done good
work They have been truly patriotic.
They have asked what they can do in
the emergency. Conditions before us
are terribly serious. Only lib of the
world reserve will be carried this
year, and this has been cut down by
various misfOrtunes happening to the
wheat crop, until there is no margin
in bread grains, and a famine period
the latter part of the year faces us.
You farmers must do all you can to