Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-03-29
Good Attendance
at Opening Farmers
Week at u. of Maine

NOO~ &ACt~1A\A&AAA\S
at Opening Farmers
Week at u. of Maine
Orono, March 2S-The opening Of
the Farmers Week program at the
University Of Maine, today, was aus
picious. there being a good attend-
ance and much interest manifested
by the visitors representing all parts
Of the State. Balentine and Oak halls
were filled by visitors Monday eve
ming. The tractor school Monday
afternoon attracted q good attend
ance, and Tuesdays exercises OPEN
ing ut $40 with addresses on Types
and Breeds OF Poultry by L. p.
Gardner, Mineral Supplements in
Animal Feeding by Professor l.. S.
Corbett, and Advertising Farm Pro-
ducts by A. l.. II. Cummings, were
well attended.
Potato Mosaic Spread by Insects
This subject was treated by DR..
u. Folsom, associate plant patheolo-
giSt Of the Maine Experiment Sta
ton.
Potato mosaic is a disease whose
chief typical effects are dwarfng,
wrinkling and nothing of the leaves.
The effects vary with the variety, cli-
mate, weather, and time Of Infection
The cause is in the juice of the
plants so that the disease is perpet-
uated in the tubers. is untouched by
external chemical applications, and
is carried by juice-sucking insects.
Leafroll is transmitted in much
the same manner as is mosaic, but
the effects are different. There is
more severe dwarfng. Light-green
foliage, rolling and stiffness of the
leaves, spindling-sprout and net-ne-
crosis of the tubers are indications of
its presence. 1t Is not as common in
Maine as is mosaic.
These two juice-transmitted dis
eases may not be all that potatoes
have of this type. Such diseases
have caused much trouble to grow
ers OF potatoes and other kinds of
crops for long time, but it Is only
recently that it was learned that they
were spread as are malaria and yell
low fever of human beings, by in
SCcts, experimenting on methods of
preventing their spread by insects
promises TO give knowledge that will
help potato growers improve their
CROPS and their chances in .competi-
ton.
Attempts TO develop effective and
practical methods of control are be
ing made on Aroostook farm and in
other places in Aroostook county.
The sced-plot method probably will
prove successful if conditions of iso-
lation, roguing and insect control are
good. The shifting of-seed method
has proved successful so far when
the source of seed and isolation of
the strain were good.
The seed -certification men of the
State Department of Agriculture and
extension men of the College of
Agriculture are working on the con-
troll problem in addition to. and in
contact with. the Experiment Sta
ton. The United States Department
of Agriculture is working on CO.
operation with the Experiment Sta
ton.
advertising Farm Products. by
a. l.. T. Cummings. the Agricultural
editor. L. of NJ. was a feature Of the
forenoon program.
Rules and methods Of successful
advertising of commodities in gen.
eral apply equally to advertising
farm products, he said. First. there
must be the creation of a desire on
the part Of the public to purchase
Next, is the obligation on the part
of the producer to supply the de-
mand in such manner that the cas-
ual buyer becomes a permanent GUS
toner.
Maine isn't as far advanced as are
some states in the matter Of CO.
operative advertising Of agricultural
products, but progress is steadily be-
Ing made in that line. The Liverpool
market for instance. is sos favora bly,
impressed by the advertising quality
of products handled by one Of
Names largest fruit exchanges that
rs soon rs the details Of shipment
are tab!ed. back comes a cabled or
der for n payment. through the Bos-
ton or New York offices. of the full
amount of the bill. There will be no
question about the apples measuring
up to the standard maintained by the
producers.
Newspaper advertising always
pays. Maine papers that Circulate
in your community could be patron
ICED with sure promise of satisfac-
tory returns. And don't forget that
the local paper. which should be as
much your paper as it Is your neigh
boris or the publishers is entitled to
q fair share of whatever you think
you can afford to spend in newspaper
A newspaper sh3uld not be ex-
pected to publish free an article
that is nothing more nor less than a
direct advertisement OF something
you have to sell. The advertising