Milford chronicle., 1919-12-26
FARMERS COURSE AT
DELAWARE COLLEGE
FARMERS SHORT COURSE, TRACTOR
SCHOOL AND BOYS AND GIRLS
CLUB WEEK BEGINS
MONDAY, DECEMBER 10Th
SPECIAL EVENING PROGRAM WILL IN
CLUDE FARM MOVIES AND SOME
PROMINENT SPEAKERS. \

The stage is set. the programs have
been mailed and the speakers have
been secured for the Farmers Short
Course. Tractor School and Boys and
Girls Club Week 70 be held al Della
ware College, Newark. December %
10 January .
The Tractor School covering five
days of lecture and laboratory work.
in charge OF Prof. q. +. Hancock, an
experienced tractor man. is an assur-
ed success. Fifteen tractor owners
and operators have already enrolled
which is more than half the number
that can be accommodated. The fol-
lowing tractors will be represented and
possibly others. FOrdsOn. Moline. Case
and International.
The lecture and laboratory work in
tractors, crops and horticulture starts
at l.30 Monday afternoon and contin-
ues until Friday evening Every hour
OF the time. including splendid even
ing sessions, is crowded full OF the
best information and latest news in
the production, marketing of farm
crops and in the breeding OF live stock.
II is hoped that farmers down State
and Eastern Shore will arrange to
stay the entire week and that all those
in driving distances may take in most
Of the work and program.
z For those who cannot attend all
week. special programs have been pro-
vided for Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday Wednesday December 81.
will be Soil and Crop Day and with
such speakers as Prof r. O. Fippin.
former head OF the Soil Department
of Cornell University, and S G. Ho-
shell of the Soil Improvement Com
mittee. They viii discuss the use of
lime. fertility and crop rotation in
their relation to soil fertility
Marketing Problems of Delaware
Farmers viii be considered Thursday
and this is a subject of vital interest
20 all Delaware producers. b, Frank
lin Bureau of Markets. US. Depart
ment of Agriculture. will discuss Mar
keting of Poultry and Poultry Prod
ucts. Paul Bennetch, New Jersey Blu
reau of Markets, Problems OF Distrib-
uting and Marketing Milk; Prof c. A.
McCue, Packing and Grading Fruits;
/. o. Taylor Hancock, Md, Coopera-
tion Organizations, to be followed by
a speaker along similar lines from the
Bureau of Markets.
Live Stock Day on Friday should
interest live stock men from all over
the Peninsula, with such speakers as
Prof Fred Rasmussen. Secretary OF
Agriculture OF Pennsylvania; p. NJ.
Kelley, Market Milk Specialist of the
U. S. Department of Agriculture; and
Prof. J. G. Edwards of the University
of Illinois
Special evening program will in
clude farm movies and some of the
best speakers in the country X. r.
WEIGH formerly Of Grove City Cream
cry will tell how that community was
rejuvnated and how the community
life has been improved. Then Coop
Grafton of Books, Chamber of Com
merce and Dairymen on Tuesday
evening. o. II. Benson. father of the
Boys and Girls Club work in the U.
S. Department OF Agriculture on We'd
nesday will tell of that great move
ment DR.. w. J. Spillman. formerly
head of the Office of Farm Manage
ment. will discuss on Thursday even
ing Economics of Farming
A complete program of the weeks
course can be obtained by writing 10
H. Hayward, Newark, Del