Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 276, 27 September 1913 — Page 18

TIIE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELE GRAM. SATURDAY, SEPT. 27, 1913

Expert Tells Farmers Modern Crop Methods

A. D. Cobb, Agricultural Agent, Helps Grain Growers to Select Seed and Soil to Increase Yields in This County Farmers' Club at Middleboro Discusses Problems.

Realizing that they were not getting the best fesults from the hundreds of fertile acres -which they have been cultivating, the farmers of Wayne County, were among the first to employ an agricultural expert under the new Btate law. They believed the methods their fathers used were not adapted to present conditions. They read and studied. In the cities they noted the constant efforts to increase efficiency. Everywhere the principles of science were being applied to business. Efficiency engineers and graduate experts were organizing the world on a new basis. They read of the results agricultural schools and colleges w-re getting by the btudy and application of science. Secure Expert Advice. While they felt that their crops were good and their progress steady, they wanted to advance more rapidly, and to increase the products of their farms manifold, if possible. When opportunity offered they secured the services of Alexander D. Cobb as county agricultural expert. Cobb is a young man, who was reared on a farm, and has been interested in farming all his life. He was graduated from Purdue university with the degree bachelor of science in agriculture in 1911. After completing his education he began working out his ideas on his farm near Aurora, where he stayed until called to accept his present position in Wayne county. Studies Local Field. After almost three months spent in studying the conditions and the needs of the county. Expert Cobb made the following statement regarding the situation: "Wayne county is recognized as one of the best farming counties in the state. In general the farmers are following good practices. They are farming with the proper rotation of crops. The farmers are progressive, as shown by the splendid co-operation with the county agent, which is evidence that If there is anything in the new work, they will get the good from it. "It is this spirit that will, of itself, make the work a success. I have already been made to feel that I am one of them "I want the farmers of the county to feel that I am always at their service, and while many questions will naturally arise, which I can not answer, I am constantly in touch with men who may be able to give the required information. County Is Prosperous. "In this season of drouth, when other counties over the state have been suffering, Wayne county has been wonderfully blessed. Her graneries are filled to overflowing with the big wheat yield; a good crop of corn awaits the harvest. "Such crops inspire confidence. With it and co-operation, the work of the county agent will be a success." Expert Cobb started to work July 1. "The first month he spent getting acquainted. He visited many farmti in all parts of the county analyzing the soil, and studying the condition of the crops. The progressive spirit and the interest of the farmers was manifested shortly after Cobb established h office at the court house. By th end of the second week calls for visits from different farmers were corofng in fast enough to keep him tHto'l two weeks ahead. Farmers Seek Advice. All were eager to profit b7 his scientific training. Many caiTje with specifie problems, relating .o the preparation of the Reed hw1 lor next year's wheat crop, q:in'.ions of stock raising, and otl er isies that the farmer meets every day as he goes about his wwrk. Others merely asked him to loojc over their land, and to make suggestions for future improvements and experiments. Cobb says that since he came to the county, the questions asked him have covied practically every phase of farraing from gardening to barn building. About the last of July, the farmers near Middleboro asked Cobb to meet with them at the Columbian school

on the Middleboro pike, and help organize a farmers' club. The organization perfected is known as the Columbian Farmers' association. Its purpose is the careful, scientific study of the problems of the farmers in that neighborhood. The club holds weekly meetings which are proving benefficial. Occasionally Ccbb is asked to speak to them on some question in which they are especially interested. Requests have been made by the farmers of other neighborhoods for the organization of similar bodies. Seeks More Wheat. Increasing average wheat yield of the county was the subject to which Cobb turned his attention in August. He found many fields that averaged from twenty-five to thirty bushels an acre. A few gave a better yield. Oscar Rich, near the county farm, had a sixteen acre field which produced an average of sixty-three bushels. Mr. Rich's succesB, Cobb believes, was due to fertile soil, careful selection of the seed, and the preparation of the seed bed. Believing that more attention to these things and fertilization, adapted to the needs of the soil, would increase the yield over the county, Cobb planned a series of lectures and demonstrations. Eight of these lectures were arranged to reach all the farmers of the county. Letters were sent telling them of the meeting which would be close to them, explaining its purpose and asking them to attend one of these demonstrations. Purdue Sends Man. Purdue university sent Maurice Douglas, a practical farmer of Shelby county to assist at the meetings. Douglas dealt in detail with the preparation of the soil, seed selection, and the use of fertilizer. The talks were supplemented by charts sent from Purdue and by tramps over the farms. That the farmers were interested was shown by the thousands of questions which they asked Dougles as they walked across the fields. As the result of these meetings several farmers have asked Cobb to help them in laying out experimental plats, with which to test the soil and the effects produced by the different methods of cultivation and kinds of fertilizer. Samuel I. Harlan of Beeson's Station was the first to make the plat experiment, and was followed by others in various parts of the county. Many Wayne county farmers are interested in growing alfalfa, so Cobb has planned to devote two days early in October to a special study of the plant as grown in the county. Trips will be made to the best alfalfa patches, where Cobb and Prof. G. I. Christie, of Purdue university, will discuss the methods of cultivation and answer all questions. A similar study will be made of the other crops. Schools to Help. For six years agriculture has been taught from books in the schools of Wayne county. Co-operating with Expert Cobb, County Superintendent Williams hopes to make the subject more practical and more beneficial. The pupils will spend more time in the field, where the corn grows, and in the yards where ttie chickens run. Most of this work will be conducted by the teachers, with an occasional illustrated lecture and demonstration by Expert Cobb. An employment bureau for the farmers of the county 1b the latest convenience which Cobb has introduced. By means of a card index system he hopes to be able to put the farmers, needing help, in touch with the men who want to work. He will also conduct an exchange through which persons may find the cattle or horses that they wish to buy, and where persons having stock for sale may list it. These are the things which Cobb expects to do with the support and cooperation of the farmers. ' Summing up his work in figures, he says that he has traveled 1,200 miles in the county since July 15, has gone over fifty farms, has delivered a number of lectures and received over 250 callers.

BULLERDICK PLANT TREBLES BUSINESS

Handles Various Grades Coal and Coke in Its Large Yards.

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Richmond has a number of large and substantial coal companies and one of the largest and most prosper ous of these Is the H. C. Bullerdiclt Ai Son company, 529 South Fifth street. The junior partner is O. D. Bullerdick. The company was organized in 1904 and since that time has nearly trebled

jits business. It has won the eonflj dence of Richmond people by fair

dealing and business-like methods and is steadily reaping the rewards of such a policy in consequence. The company handles t'ne various grades of hard coal and coke and the following grades of soft coal: Jackson, Pocahontas, Ohio, Winifred, Wonderland and Tiger Block.

! The coal storage plant of the Buli lerdick company is a very large one.

and it always keeps an exceptionally large stock on hand and a coal shortage at this plant is practically unknown. The company has a switch from the

C. & O. railroad and consequently is

in direct touch with the southern Ohio and West Virginia coal fields, which are tapped by that railroad system. "We are not alarmed over the prospect of natural gas in Richmond," said H. C. Bullerdick today. "In fact, we are anticipating that our business this coming winter will be heavier than at any time in the history of our company." The Bullerdick company now uses eight teams for delivery work and the fall business has been exceptionally large.

THE MORNING CANTER.

Smart Riding Toga For Wo Horsewoman.

THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT.

Maybe It Was a Quince Eve At In the Garden of Eden. Why and how it has happened that the apple has been spokeu of as the fruit that was forbidden in the Garden of Eden Is one of the great puzzles of biblical scholars. The fact is that in Genesis ili.. where thv incident of the eating of this fruit of the "tree of knowledge of good and evil" is mentioned, no name whatever is given to that fruit. All that Is said is: "And when the woman saw that the tree wis good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took oi the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat" (Vse In fact, scholars doubt very seriously whether It was the apple at all. They suggest that all evidence points to it having been the quince, the fragrance of which was held in the highest esteem by the Orientals. Another point In favor of the quince is that it is the fruit which was sacred to Venus, the goddess of love, and in a great many of the ancient writings the quince is very frequently mentioned in this manner. In Babylonia Ishtar took the place of Venus in the Roman mythology, and it should be remembered that the story of the creation originated with the Babylonians. AH evidence seems to point away from the apple having been the "forbidden fruit." and toward the qnlnce as having been that fruit of the "tree of knowledge of good and tU." Tit-Bits.

Attended Her Funeral, as a Rule. Leave to attend his mother's funeral iras thus applied for by a Lahore Baboo: "By the vicissitudes of time my mother yesterday went to eternity, and as a rule have to attend her funeral ceremonies." Times of India.

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BIDING HABIT IN ORAT WORSTED. This little maid is trimly attired fot a morning canter. Over her shirt waist of white madras and riding breeches, buttoned at the knee, is worn a smartly cut coat of light gray worsted.

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and the riding hat Is anchored fast with elastic.

Vails Are Fashionable. Decided is the use of the veil, which gives a chic to a costume that no one can deny and every one can emulate. The veil in its new form has come to stay. It has wound itself around the hats and hearts of the well dressed women who congregate in the tea rooms of noted hotels and restaurants of the Bois. Dainty patterns are the favorites. The meshes are fine, and the more conspicuous they are the better they are liked. The patterns are conventional In design. No longer are there attempts to simulate crawling lizards, flitting butterflies or wriggling crabs. Happily for the appearance of our faces the vogue of the naturalistic has died a well deserved death. Single chenille dots are very small and appear here and there over a veil.

Be Ready for the Collector Receiving Want Ads by telephone is the final detail in making The Palladium Want Columns promptly and perfectly useful to the readers. Telephoned Ads cost no more in money and less in time but The Palladium must employ collectors to follow the phone. The extra accommodation of receiving by phone should be encouraged by always being ready for the collector. DON'T LET HIM CALL THE SECOND TIME

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