Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-06-09
r. V. Truitt, Raised On a Sloop
Traces Life History, Tells Of
Habits, And Explains De-
crease At Meeting Held At
Mayo
REVIEW BY COUNTY
AGENT PAST WEEK
CBy GEORGE W. SORRIS)
County AGENT


Department of the State College, spoke
on the fish and oyster industry 10
a large and aDpreciative audience at
Mayo. Mr. Truitt is practical oys-
terman. having been raised. as he
said. on an oyster sloop. He traced
the life history of the oyster and told
OF its habits and explained the natural
decrease and made an appeal for the
shells to go back into the waters of
the Chesapeake lie then tool; up the
crab and told of its life history and
methods OF breeding. migration, etc
Mr. Truitt was well received and il
is hoped that he will pay another visit
shortly to this part of the country.
Dean OF School Speaks
On Tuesday night, at the meeting
of the Anne Arundel County Agricul-
tural Society, H. f. Cotterman, dean
of the School of Education. Maryland
State College, College Park. spoke or
the Smith Hughes High School. He
explained the plan of the school or
ganization, the source of the funds
for running the school, and then told
some of the experiences of the schools
already established in the State. The
Smith Hughes High School is, in sim
pie terms, nothing but a vocational
high school for agriculture. Many
boys go to high school from the farms
and find nothing there pertaining to
their work at home. They have not
the means to go to the Agricultural
College, so they must go without
special training in the work they
should be fitted to do. The purpose
of the Smith Hughes School is to
give the boy this training in agricul-
ture. That is four year high school
course, in which he will devote one
half of his time to the pursuits of the
agricultural studies. fitting him to be-
come a better farmer, to teach him TO
respect the business of agriculture
and at the same time broaden his out
look
AT this same meeting the constitu-
ton was amended, naming a woman
second vice-president and an assistant
secretary, which shall be woman
The Executive Committee is to have
women representation and the women
are to be the advisory council of the
County Home Demonstration Agent
and the men to be the advisory coun-
ell of the County Agent.
Tomatoes Discussed
Representatives of the Matosha
Packing Company were present and
offered the growers of tomatoes sixty
cents per basket, for which the grow
ers have been holding out. The
growers have promised them fifty
acres at this price and they will be
signed up on a special contract of the
Tomato Growers Association. This
contract is a special contract and pro-
tects the grower as we'll as the
packer.
MIR Oldenburg, extension agrono-
mist, spent two days with the County
Agent in looking over demonstra-
tions and arranging for new ones.
Mr.. Oldenburg also spoke and
showed lantern slides at the meeting
of the ST Margaret's Community Club
This meeting, in spite of the inclem-
ent weather, was we'll attended and
the address was well received. The
slides were we'll chosen and Mr.. Old
enburg's talk was very practical and
quite to the point. He urged the
growing of the legumes as soil i'm
provers, and also as food stuffs for
the live stock of the farm. He show
ed slides showing the value of innocu-
lation over instrumentation showed
labels giving the relative feeding
values of the legumes and grasses.
A committee was appointed to ar
range for a community picnic, at St
Margaret's. in July Mrs Warren
was made chairman and report is
expected at the next meeting of the
club on this project
Southern Maryland Agents
At a conference of Southern Mary
land Agents yesterday at Upper
Marlboro, the question of the blight
in the tobacco beds throughout South
ern Maryland was taken up.
The agent from Charles County re-
ported that there was none in his
county. but more or less was found
in the four other counties. This work
was taken up by o. c. Brown, a to-
bacco specialist of the Department Of
Agriculture, who is conducting some
demonstrations near Marlboro, and
his advice was that the trouble was
a blight and that it was due to leav-
ing the cotton on the beds too long
in the spring and where the cotton
was removed the plants began to i'm
prove. He advised, however, the
sterilization next year of the beds with
steam He has an inexpensive plant
with which he forces live steam into
the soil, destroying weed and grass