The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1917-01-05
INSTITUTES
AT HlDDLEBURG, MT. AIRY and
srKEsvILLE SUBJECTS FOR DISCUS
SION WILL Be on DAIRYlNG, POUL'
TRY, HOGS, CORN, Etc.

Farmers Instit tutes will be held at
Mt. Airy and SykesVllle'
the week of January IS. DR.. K. :.
Hill, Maryland'si Director OF FARMERS
Institutes, and his usual staff OF good
speakers will be at Mlddleburg, Mon
day, January 15, at Mt. Airy TUESDAY,
January 10th, and at SykesV1lle, Wed
nesday, january 18th. Meetings Will
be held each forenoon and afternoon
and, if the attendance warrants, III tne
evening, ALSO. Just whom Dr: mn
will have xELh i'm will be published
in next weeh S papers. Dalrylng VIII
be given ST pecial attention. Poultry
raising and orcharding will be dis
cussed thoroughly and corn and soil
fertility will not be neglected.
Dairying deserves much attention in
these milk producing sections. EV-
cry good farmer knows that farm
crops can be profitably marketed
through COWS. He also knows that IN
turning his crops into milk he is let
ting nothing get off his farm save
water and a little plant food In the
ash of the milk. The water is OF no
consequence and if he feeds little,
concentrates such as bran or cotton
seed meal he can more than make up
for what plant food is lost IN the
milk, WhCn the last census was TAX
en- this county ranked third in the
state in dairying, or the value OF dairy
products. This shows that the farm
ers realize the profits and benefits or
marketing crops through COWS. Dr.
Hill wishes to encourage and help
these business men and will have with
him a real dairyman to discuss with
them what feeds are cheapest at TINS
particular time when everything is so
high except the price of milk, how to
breed up the herd, how to get greater
yco-OperatiOn and hence, better rates
and prices, and many other subjects of
common interest to dairymen.
Poultry will be a subject of dis
cussion because DR.. Hill has an egg
and wishes to show it, lest we forget
what eggs look like. Poultry is ne
elected by the men on the average
farm and left for the wife and mother
to take care Of She has time for
such little things. In the spring while
cleaning house and making gard
en- she sets the hens in old barrels or
boxes she finds or nails together. OF
a morning while the biscuits are bak-
ing she sees that the hens are on the
nest and feeds the young chicks. Be
fore or during thunder storms she gets
herself into a raging perspiratiOn try
ing to get them into the barrels and
boxes and pile enough boards and old
carpet onto the cOOpS to keep the lit
tie ones dry and after the rain she
wades the weeds and grass hunting up
the half-drowned chicks. But when
the census man last came round she
and the other women of the county
had 435, 900 birds on hand and these
and the eggs they had produced that
year were valued at $56O,OOO. Pretty
good? Yes, but what could they do
with a little help and direction. Ladies
come out and hear the poultry talks
and go home and get the men to fix
up things so you will have some
chance to show what you really can
do.
DR.. Hill knows that few farmers in
this county and state keep many hogs.
He also knows that he has eaten more
pork in the last few years than in a
good many years previous. Why? Be-
cause beef is nearly out Of signt. Why
should pork be cheaper than beef? Be-
cause it takes much longer to grow
beef than pork and few years ago too
many calves we're sold off so now there
is not the usual supply of beef but
an even greater demand. Pork can
be produced in six or eight months
so the supply pretty well keeps pace
with the demand. Should Carroll
county and the state in general raise
more hogs? Come to the Institute,
maybe DR.. Hill will tell you.
Corn and soil fertility are subjects
always of interest to farmers but they
are especially interesting to Carroll
countians that year, because Carroll
is going to have the largest exhibit
and the best ten ears at the Baltimore
show this fall. Why do we want to
do that? Because we want other
counties to know that we are busy as
we'll as on the map for that raises the
value of our real estate and because II
one goes to that show-one OF the
best in the United States-he comes
home feeling SO glad that he is farm
er. Let us start now. Come to the
| Institute and talk corn. See the
County Agent and let him sign you
up as a corn demonstrator for your
section. All you have to do is to grow
piece of corn the way he wants you
to. You ought not to kick on that for
you have the rest of the farm to grow
corn the way you want.
Mr.. Farmer, you know you want an
excuse to go to town. You know you
can see a thing best if you don't hold
+ it too close to your eye. You know
you can tell better where the ball
should be thrown if you are off look
ing on than if you have the ball. You
have been busy working your own
farm, DR.. Hill and his men have been
looking over many. Come out and let
them tell you what they have seen.
Mrs. Farmer, when your husband tells
you he is going tell him you guess you
will 60 along.
! Dr. Hill will return to this county
about April first and hold Institutes
in other sections. However If any
community feels that it has been
sighted let it get busy on a Movable
School. A Movable School is part
of your State College put in your own
home town. You guarantee an at
tendance Of twenty or more, secure
suitable place, let your County Agent
know and the College will send in
structors who will take up two or
three subjects of most Importance and
hold regular classes and demonstra-
tions for from two to four days. Two
or three of these will be our share
oo +,ocn +ownc first ann1Y1nP will of