No. 6 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICUI/TTJRE. 289 



a demonstration of a capon fowls. This year I expect to Lave the 

 different bojs raise on their own farm about 200. This gentleman 

 right here has already 2G capon fowls that weigh about 2^ pounds 

 and he also has another bunch coming on that will be ready to 

 caponize in the course of two weeks. I hope to have 200 marketed 

 at Christmas time. I will market them for the boys, but they will 

 raise them on their own farm. 



Before I take up this picture, I will say a world about our work 

 in poultry. About 12 or 14 of the boys are going to have projects 

 in raising poultry. Two of the incubators were donated, one by M. 

 M. Johnson and the other by the Buckeye Company. The boys will 

 raise the chickens there on the farm. If they raise layers like the 

 Leghorns, their problem will be, how much did it cost to raise 

 Leghorns until they come to laying? If it is a meat breed, they 

 will figure how much they make until they market their poultry. 



This is a demonstration in pruning. I have three boys doing 

 projects in orchard work. One boy has 57 trees, the other, in the 

 neighborhood of 30. Their project will be to keep track of all the 

 time and all the cost to take care of this orchard. They will make 

 a map of the orchard, the kind of apples that grow on every tree, 

 the number of marketable apples they get off each tree, then we 

 will try to get a market for those apples. That is a project that 

 M^ill take some time during the summer. I have pictures of three 

 boys doing work on the farm. This is another picture showing a 

 demonstration in spraying. This is a picture of the night class. 

 There are always some skeptics in communities when some new 

 things come up. In order to show some of the people what we are 

 doing, and whether it was practical or not, we devised this scheme 

 through the suggestion of Mr. Dennis to have a night class for the 

 farmers. The first thing we took up was the Babcock Milk Testing 

 Machine for testing cream and skimmed milk. Before I pass this 

 picture, this is our soils laboratory. We have polished tables that 

 we use where they sit around when they recite. We have a very 

 elaborate equipment for a school of the kind, and we are doing 

 agronomy which they are doing at State College in the same manner 

 as far as possible, as they are doing it down there. Some of the 

 boys are so old tliat we can do that work this year and I hope to 

 be able to ^et the credit for that work. 



Another thing we took up in the night school was feed and feeding 

 and plant foods in their chemical state, the lime question, and last 

 of all we organized a milk testing association and we had 50 at 

 the last meeting. Mr. Tompkins, of State College, was there and 

 Mr. Dorsettwas present, and had absolutely no trouble in organizing 

 a milk testing association which, I think, is going to prove very 

 successful for the community. I hope I have not imposed upon 

 your patience and I want to close with a thought from Garfield 

 who, I think, paid the greatest tribute to agriculture in the fewest 

 words of any man I know of when he said, that ahead of all 

 sciences, ahead of all arts, ahead of all civilization and progress, 

 stands, not militarism, the science that kills, not commerce, the 

 nrt which accumulates wealth, but agriculture, the mother of in- 

 dustry, and the maintainer of human life. 



