Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-05-17
SET FARMERS DAY
At STATE COLLEGE
ANNUAL EVENT TAKES PLACE
MAY 80, DECORATION DAY,
AT COLLEGE PARK.
Prominent Men Listed To Deliver
Addresses.

Annual Farmers Day and Com
mencement exercises of the Maryland
State College viii be held Decoration
Day, May 80, and many persons IL
this county are planning to attend.
According TO Dr. Albert +. Woods,
president of the State institution,
plans more elaborate than any hereto
fore carried out are being made. DEM
onstr3tions in almost every kind OF
farm work, addresses by prominent
men on great national problems, dedi-
cation OF the new agricultural build
ing, commencement exercises of the
graduating class, and presentation OF
a service flag are to be the features.
Governor Harrington viii make the
dedication address for the new build
ing on behalf of the State and Sen
ator Orlando Harrison is to speak on
behalf of the State Agricultural So
ciety. Prof. Charles S. Richardson
is to present the service flag and the
address OF acceptance will be made
By r. Laurie Mitchell, president of the
Alumni Association. DR.. George &.
Alumni Association. Senator Hoke
Smith, OF Georgia, has accepted an
invitation to deliver the principal adj
dress.
Eighteen To Finish Courses.
War has caused such inroads on the
student body that the college will
gTaauate the smallest class in years.
Iaifteen are to receive degrees and
lFc set certificates for work in two
year courses. They are John Paul
Jones, Francis Clay Brimer. William
perciyal Carroll, PercNaI Ellsworth
Clark, William Vickery Cutler, Roy
Slaaliwood Eyre, Mordecal J. &.
Ezekiel, Walter Kingsley Grigg, Fred
erick Morgan Haig, Ro.ert Steel
Kann, Milton Alexander Pyle, John
Homer Remsberg, Edward Lawrence
Wilde; to receive certificates in two
year courses: Robert Forrest, Herman
Schultz, Arthur Mead Scribner, Char
lotte Anne Vaux, Henry Weaver.
The program for the day practically
Is divided in two parts. The morning
hours are to be entirely taken up with
demonstrations of various kinds and
the annual meeting of the Alumni AS
ISOLATION. Tractors and labor saving
machinery of all kinds will be on
hand and demonstrations in plough
ing, narrowing, seeding, cultivating
given. An information bureau is to be
established at which guides will be
available to those desiring them. A
general inspection by visitors of the
college buildings, farm, farm build.
ings, and experiment station is to be
conducted The Alumni Association
meeting is scheduled to open at 10
o'clock and from 11.30 until 100 a
band concert will be given on the
campus. The dedication and COM
mencement exercises will open at
o'clock.
Farmers Urged To Attend.
Every farmer in the State" says
President Woods, "if he can possibly
make arrangements should be with
make it get together day for every
body in Maryland interested in Agri-
culture, either in the production of
food or the conservation of it, 1t is to
the interest of all to be here, as the
winning of the war and the welfare
of the State and Nation depend large
ly on how we'll we who are engaged
in this work carry out our program.
Never in the history of the nation
has there been such a demand for la
Dor saving machinery. Important
demonstrations here Farmers Day of
all kinds of implements designed for
that purpose are to be given. The
progressive agriculturist has reached
the time when he must depend on
electricity and gasoline to furnish him
with most of the power that used
to be provided by employment of large
groups of men. Farmers can learn
much also through thorough inspec-
ton of methods of drying and canning,
administering anti-hog cholera serum.
the farm sewage disposal plant, spray
machinery, fertilizer, feed and lime
inspection work
Il want the people of the State &c
understand that this is their college
want them TO know what is being done
here for their interests. They can
best find out these things by coming
TO visit us and no better time to dc
that can be found than Farmers Day
This is the peoples institution and
Farmers Day has as its primary OBJ
ject the bringing about OF closer co
operation between the college and the
people in order that the college may
aid the people more effectively"
In addition to the usual number OF
trains running 10 College Park from
Baltimore, the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad will stop at College express
trains that leave Baltimore at 9
o'clock and 10 o'cloc2. in the morning
Trains VIII leave College II the after
noon FIR Baltimore az SO. 5.e1 ara
$40