Smyrna times., 1925-02-25
FRUIT SCHOOL" AT CAMDEN
Will Be Held Next Week, March and
and Promises to be of Interest to
All Fruit Growers in Kent County

and Promises to be of Interest to
All Fruit Growers in Kent County
All fruit growers in Kent county |
and in the surrounding vicinities will |
be interested to know that a fruit !
school will be held in the Fruitland !
Grange Hall in Camden, next Tues
day and Wednesday, March 3 and a. !
under the direction of the School of /
Agriculture of the University of Del
aware in cooperation with the MEM
bers of Fruitland Grange and the VO
cational Education Department of the
Caesar Rodney School. Those fruit
growers and other farmers who at
tended the Farmers Short Course
which was held at this place for an
entire week last February we'll re-
member the many profitable and in
teresting lectures and discussions
which occurred during the week. The
majority Of the program was devoted
to fruit culture which was especially
appropriate in a section where fruit
growing is the leading agricultural
industry. The Short Course is gen
orally held in a different part of the
state each year so that the meetings
may be easily accessible to those
farmers living in each of these sec
tions, and last year the people in the
central part of Kent county were Civ
en- this opportunity of which they
took excellent advantage as was dem
Onstratted by the keen interest and
the well attended sessions throughout
the whole week. 1t was understood,
therefore, that the Short Course
would not return to the Camden and
| Wyoming communities again this
year, but through the urgent requests
from a number of the fruit growers
the School of Agriculture has prom
ised these folks a fruit school which
will be conducted by the leading hor-
ticultUralists in the country. A spec
ial committee with H. Z. COverdale
as chairman, has been appointed by
the Fruitland Grange to confer with
County Agent Russell E. Wilson to
make all the local arrangements for
this fruit schol, and every effort is
being put forth to make these two
days of exceptional value to the fruit
interests of the county and state.
Following is the program as annOunc-
ed by Dean c. A. McCue of the Uni
versity of Delaware under whose di-
rection the Farmers Short Courses in
the state have been conducted for the
past several years with a marked sue
cess:
Tuesday. March 3
900 A. NJ. Orchard Nutrition-Dr E. c.
Auchter, University of Maryland.
Control of Aphis in Fruit Pro-
duction-PrOf. c. r. Crosby. Cor
nell University.
l.3O P. NJ. Why to Prune-Dr. r. H. Rob
erts. University of Wisconsin.
How to Prune-Dr. r. H. Rob
erts. University of Wisconsin.
Round Table Discussion.
Wednesday. March
900 A. NJ. Apple Scab Studies-Dr. J. F.
Adams, University of Delaware.
Some Points in Grape Pruning
Dean c. A. McCue, University OF
Delaware
Black Rot Control in Grapes
DR.. T. F. Manns, University Of
Delaware
100 P. M. Inspection Service at Shipping
Point-Mr. w. T. Derickson. D
rector Bureau of Markets Of the
State Board of Agriculture
Fruit Rfpening and Storage-Dr
]. R. Magness. U. S. Department
. of Agriculture
| The ladies of the Fruitland Grange
will serve dinner both days in the
! Grange Hall at a nominal price as
. was done last year. An urgent invi
/. tation is being extended to all tht
: fruit growers in the county and state
= to attend all of these meetings, anC
= extensive plans are being made fol
r one of the most attractive and profit
r able series of agricultural meeting.
S ever held in this part of the country
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