Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 249, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1912 — DEMONSTRATION AT ALTER FARM SUCCESS. [ARTICLE]

DEMONSTRATION AT ALTER FARM SUCCESS.

About 100 Farmers Attended Trimming and Spraying SchooHn Union Township. The demonstrations by Prof. W» D. Palmer, of Purdue Universfry* in the cultivatioh, trimming and spraying of orchards In Jasper county proved interesting, instructive and should have a lasting effect on the making of better orchards and better fruit The .last of the five demonstrations was conducted Wednesday at the John E. Alter farm in Union township, where upwards of a hundred farmers gathered to witness the work of the expert and to get what schooling they could for future use in caring for their orchards. Besides farmers from Union township, there were a number from Barkley and Marion and others. Dr. H. L. Brown and B. Forsythe, of Rensselaer, were present and a number from the college. All speak very highly of Mr. work. The attendance was the largest of the five meetings held in Jasper county. In all about three hundred attended the schools of instruction. There is a call for more meetings but there will be no more this year. It is quite probable that in the spring or some time next year other and perhaps . more meetings will be held. Orchard inspections, which are enforced in many states, doubtless save many trees and result in a much better quality of fruit. An inspection is being asked by a number and a Purdue expert may respond at some future time and take the matter up. The success of the meetings has inspired interest along auxiliary lines and the ladies are getting stirred up and there is talk of domestic science meetings with Purdue instructors yet this fall. The regular institute jpeetings of farmers are being' planned. Parr, Rensselaer and probably Remington jire to have meetings, which will be announced later and the president and county officers should have the support of all progressive farmers in these meetings.