Mountain advocate. (Barbourville, Ky.) 1904-1935, 1919-03-07

p meeting called BY VIM rye
NcdneedAy. February ~. an Aeri-
oeNnfal Aoard Tor Knox County was
orfar1od
klr q N Fel,ner, District Asricul-
iufhi and Boys Clubs Agent whose
pe4dWuafiers AFRO a. London, KY.
WIS present and assisted IN the or
Tan.e1oon
muse elected 70 constitute the
liod, were ~ follows:
4 Robt ". Cole, President; DIR. W.
10. Biaek Vice President; Fred Bur
man, secretary; Esq. A. J. Ferguson,
KING; Es1 DO. n. MMartIn, Bimble:
lDr WIN Burnside. Barbourville;
County Attorney Jas. $. Golden,
Barbopryille County Judge. J. d.
quzgle, Ilarbourville; CONGRESSMAN,
iJ y ilobSion, Barbourvlle: Super
intendent y. 3 HemphnI, Barbour
vile Z
Duties OF the Board.
The duty Of the Agricultural
Boa.d win be to meet with the
County Agent and draw up plans for
the 5etterment Of the agriculture of
Knox County and to stimulate inter-
estttherein, both among farmers and
citizens OF the town. These plans
must then be approved by Mr.. Felt
nor, the District Agent. when the
Board Of Agriculture will receive its
formal appointment from the Univer-
sity Of Kentucky.
Mr.. BurInan the editor of the
Mountain Advocate. offers to place
ono whole page of the paper at the
disposal Of the Board of Agriculture |
each month and will cheerfully as
sist personally in helping the good
work along.
Teachers Cooperating
IN connection with the work Of the
Board 4 is pleasing to know that 1t
VIII receive the hearty support of
the teachers OF the county. who must
frat pass an examination in agricul-
turo themselves and later pass on the
Information they receive to their pu-
pills They will receive $500 per
month extFa salary for every three
pupils iiicg pass and $500 waen six
boys pass the examination.
Records will be kept on crops or
1
nnirnals and 20 per cent will |,
be the minimum that viii pass boy.
ITS name will then be sent to the
University and the work will be
srediI = On his high school course
should he elect to go on with his
studies
Immediate Work in Hand |.
10 continue the work OF hte COM
nunity clubs now existing at Gala ]
ian aud King.
70 organize. other clubs at Indian
,reek, Grays Flat Lick.
To organize i've boys peanut 6
lubsr G
TO organize $50 boy club members D
4 school districts /
Ma1or projects to be pig clubs, 1
ouitry clubs, sheep clubs corn and t
oy bean clubs. 4
ADULT DEMONSTRATORS
70 secure demonstrators in the (
ounty for the following crops: Ten F
Or corn, ten for soy beans. five for :
weet clover five for lime and phos- ,
hate treatment.
To Place Live Stock
To place, in the county five pure
red bulls, fifty pure bred hogs, ten
ure bred rams, and to distribute
fly settings of eggs, pure bred.
horticulture
To get ten farmers to prune and
pray their orchards properly. four -
iscellaneous agriculture school
nd club fair work
Sheep Clubs
Mr.. Feltner has under his super
sion twenty counties and Knox u
ounty has the distinction of having IL
ie largest Sheep Club organization al
the United States. It
Each boy member is supposed to &C
ave not less than two sheep and Mr.. I'll
either has placed 2,664 sheep in m
5 district, which averages better F.
AN four to each boy. fe
The splendid showing in Knox f..
1unty is due to the enthusiasm of a.,
:. NJ. Tye, the County Agricultural -
cent ia
Soy Beans
There are zoo varieties of these
ans and the best may be obtained -
ON the Chic County Bean and Pea ~
towers Association, Hartford Ky, w
$500 per bushel. Get the Haber- va
ndt soy boan. By actual test on sy
4 worn out land, fourteen bushels yo
the acre On land alongside, ap