Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-02-17
EXTENSION WORK MORE POPULAR
THAN EVER

Tuesday occupied by a diligent, earn
est, public spirited worker. This time
1t was not man who held sway, but
woman who graced the public build
ings. Twelve leading women from
nearly as many communities working
under the direction of Mrs. Catherine
Griebel, clothing specialist from Rut-
gers College not only were taught how
to build a bonnet, but actually did
each make and take home as snappy
a piece of millinery as one would want
to see at any of our resorts. One of
the best parts of the entire work is
that the women of the county are put
ting across the millinery project with
out a charge for their own services.
Each leader is willing after she learns
how to make a hat to call a group of
women in her community to show
them the same as has has been taught
her. Under the leadership of Miss
Helena Way, of Court House, this
work was started about two months
ago. The proud leaders of the group
in the southern part of the county to
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hats were Mrs. c.. o. Bosserman, Mrs.
J. McCray and Miss Jane Smith, Cape
May; Miss Wilhelmina Powell, Swain
ton; Miss Mary Jackson and Miss Car
RE Grace, Goshen; Mrs. Washington
Hilton, Wildwood; Mrs. Emma Hates,
Clermont; Mrs. Smith Endicott and
Mrs. George Thorson, Rio Grande;
Mrs. Eta Reeves, Erma, and Mrs.
Edith Spaulding, Whitesboro.
The group next to follow, covering
the northern half of the county was
held Thursday with the same success.
The women in this case who have Of
fered to show others interested are
Mrs. William Shipe, Cape May Court
House; Miss Lizzie Christian, Eldora;
Miss Cora Corson, Dennisville, Mrs.
A.. H. Meerwald, South Dennis; Miss
Marian Hewitt, Ocean View; Miss
Myrtle Madara, Palermo; Mrs. S. d.
Stone, Woodbine; Mrs. Thomas Durell,
Belleplain; Mrs. Washington Van Gil
der, Petersburg; Mrs. Lewis Chester,
Sea Isle City, and Mrs. Charles Hol-
~lingshead, Green Creek.
All those ladies interested I'M this
project of personal accomplishment
in millinery should at once get in
touch with the leader nearest them
so that arrangements can be made for
greater cooperation in that kind of
extension service.
Pruning and Spraying
Having altogether skipped a veal in
harvesting a crop of peaches and ap-
pies, many orchardists seem to have
forgotten about their orchards. There
is much pruning yet to be done and
more spraying. Commercial concen-
trated lime-sulfur solution is still con-
sidered one of the best and cheapest
materials for the dormant sprays OF
apples and peaches. 1t is important
to order spray material at once il 1t
is to be had in time to control peach
leaf curl, which must receive it's spray
we'll before the buds swell.
Community StOrehOuSe at Rio Grande
AS the farmers at Belleplain have a
community storehouse, so will the
farmers of the southern end of the
county, when the 20 x 70 feet cooper
alive storage house is completed at
Rio Grande. The funds are already
subscribed to erect this building and
arrangements are now made to have
the farmers lend themselves and their
teams in completing the building after
construction is started. The building
will have the advantage of the Reading
Railroad switch. This will greatly
facilitate loading and unloading a
lot shipments.
Corn Root Rot at Green Creek
Last summer Ralph Schellinger, of
Green Creek, called attention to a bad
case of understood stalks and low
yield of corn in one of his fields.
| Stalks we're pulled and sent to the
Experiment Station. The trouble was
found to be corn root rot. Later in
vestigations by the Pathology Depart
ment revealed that much of the corn
of South Jersey is infected by this dis
ease.
This disease can be partially con-
trolled at least by testing the seed
corn now during the slack time. A
rag doll tester can easily be made and
used by corn growers. The under
signed is planning to locate seed that
will be free from this disease and also
to acquaint those interested with the
methods of control. If you are get
ting poor stands and yields of corn
and care to work for better returns,
write this Office for further particulars.
J.. A.. STACKHOUSE,
County Agricultural Agent.