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February 27, 
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l| Notes From Farmers’ Meetings f| 
Farmers’ Week At Cornell. 
S TRYCHNINE is poor food, but when 
administered in small doses it is 
sometimes an invaluable stimulant to 
a flagging heart. The need for physical 
stimulation is probably no more often 
felt by farmers, however, than that for a 
little mental and spiritual exaltation. 
When the year’s crop of potatoes has 
been sold, or stored, at 30 cents per 
bushel and Winter eggs have dropped to 
20 cents per dozen, faith in the possibili¬ 
ties of the old farm needs a fair-sized 
dose of agricultural strychnine, and more 
and more farmers are learning each year 
that a good place to have this sugar coat¬ 
ed and painlessly administered is at the 
State Agricultural College at Ithaca, N. 
Y. Each February sees hundreds and 
hundreds (I have forgotten how many 
thousands, but who caresV) of farmers, 
of both sexes, all ages, and assorted sizes 
trudging up the hill to the agricultural 
buildings which crown the campus as 
one of the latest and best developments 
of the university. Once there, they are 
scattered over so many acres of grounds 
and buildings that one doesn't realize 
their number until he sees a thousand 
or more pour out of the great auditorium 
and then stops to think that he hasn’t 
noticed any diminution in numbers else¬ 
where about the grounds. 
This year, as in previous ones, the of¬ 
ferings of the university have far ex¬ 
ceeded the ability of any one person to 
accept them all. If one had the legs of 
a centipede to carry him to all the places 
in which he would like to be at the same 
hour and the capacity of an encyclopedia 
to absorb all the different kinds of knowl¬ 
edge that were displayed, with the label 
“take one,” he might go away with a 
store of facts that would astonish his 
neighbors. As it is, the average person is 
lucky, and wise, if he doesn't attempt to 
absorb so much that his mind bursts its 
hoops and lets it all through. 
The snow was soon worn off the path 
to the poultry building, of course; 
strange what a hold the little red hen has 
on humanity. No one can convince us 
that there are not millions in it for the 
one who will only adopt correct methods; 
and if correct methods are not to be 
learned at a university, where then? 
There was something new to be learned 
there, and, with the new, much of the 
old that needs to be better learned. At 
any rate, if the faith and hope that shine 
from the countenances of the would-be 
poultrymen are only balanced by an equal 
measure of charity within, they are close 
to the goal of peace on earth to men of 
good will. 
One needs to make frequent visits to 
Cornell to maintain his acquaintance 
with its facilities for instruction. New 
buildings seem to spring up over night. 
The recently completed Animal Hus¬ 
bandry building, with its judging pavil¬ 
ion, attracted all the attention that its 
beauty and convenience deserve. The ex¬ 
hibits and instruction there drew good 
audiences, of course, as did those in the 
new Forestry Building. And. while we 
are about it, why not say the same thing 
of all the other departments? It is 
equally true, and if I attempt to men¬ 
tion each by name and tell of the things 
of interest and value that were to be ob¬ 
tained in them, you would go to bed be¬ 
fore finishing this. 
There are a few things that must be 
noted, however, even if you do gape once 
or twice. The moving pictures at the 
auditorium were worth seeing. High 
praise that, too, as you will know if you 
ever spent many nickels seeing the films. 
Instruction was combined with entertain¬ 
ment and was so well covered by the lat¬ 
ter that you didn’t seem to mind it, 
either. When you can actually see a 
horse and rider dashing madly down the 
road and swimming a mill pond about a 
mile wide in order to get the doctor, you 
forget about the disagreeable typhoid 
germs in the well that caused all the rum¬ 
pus; you even forget to wonder why they 
didn't cross the bridge. 
And then the department of Domestic 
Economy, the Domeeon, as the irrever¬ 
ent students call it. It is in the base¬ 
ment of that building that you join the 
human glacier moving toward the dinner 
tables. It doesn’t matter if you aren’t 
hungry when you take your place at the 
rear of the line; you will be before you 
reach the soup. This department is con¬ 
ducted by, and presumably for. the women 
and when the women take hold of a thing, 
you know as well as I do that there is 
no use in the men trying to compete with 
them. Even in the matter of candy ; the 
Domeeon students were trying to raise 
money for a new building and had a 
counter for home-made candy in the cor¬ 
ridor. The day that I was there they 
sold $89 worth, and probably as much on 
other days. There were hundreds of 
young men to whom that candy counter 
was an attraction, of course, but pshaw! 
they didn’t consider that, they were rais¬ 
ing money for a new building. 
Some of the audiences overflowed into 
the Bailey Auditorium, which seats 2,200 
people. You could be pretty sure that 
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when music w r as the topic of discussion, 
especially when the discussion was sea¬ 
soned with music, that there would be 
more room needed than any ordinary 
building could afford. When Mrs. Mor¬ 
gan gave her talk on “Songs That Live,” 
an old topic, by the way. but one that 
is demanded by the people who attend 
Farmers’ Week, this auditorium was 
well filled. There is nothing that grips 
the heart like the old songs of the home, 
and nothing that stirs the emotions 
like music. To hear that immense 
audience join with the speaker in one 
of those old home songs was—well, 
you needed your handkerchief; don’t for¬ 
get one if you go next year. M. B. D. 
Pennsylvania Agricultural Meeting. 
T HE actual cost of a macadam road in 
Pennsylvania is from $8,000 to $10,- 
000, a concrete road from $12,000 to 
$14,000. and a brick road from $15,000 
to $17,000. These were figures given at 
the meeting of the Pennsylvania State 
Board of Agriculture, the last week in 
January. The concrete road makes a 
nice boulevard for the autoists, but poor 
road for farmers in Winter, for only 
sharp-shod horses can stand on them. It 
was also the opinion of the board they 
are too narrow, and without a curb so a 
heavily loaded wagon cannot stay on 
them. 
It was agreed that if worthless dogs 
were destroyed, the sheep industry would 
again be revived in Pennsylvania. The 
tuberculosis scourge in cattle according 
to Dr. H. D. Gill, of New York, could 
be controlled, by careful methods, Prof. 
11. A. Surface spoke of the grain moth 
that was so destructive particularly in 
Lancaster County. It lays its eggs on the 
grain, then hatches out these little flies 
that soon make bran out of the grain, 
so the wheat is not fit for milling. He 
says to use carbon bi-sulphide diluted, 
and poured over the bins, then cover with 
wet blanket to keep fumes down. He 
also reported that the parasites were 
cleaning up the San Jos§ scale in the 
localities where they had been introduced 
and the infested orchards were compara¬ 
tively free from scale. 
The subject of weighing everything a 
farmer has to sell, especially fruit and 
vegetables, was the object of considerable 
discussion, and the farmer is at a great 
disadvantage. The law was made to 
straighten out the middleman. George 
Hutchinson stated in his report on feed¬ 
ing stuffs that the feed men were still 
willing to risk their reputation, or some 
of them at least, by putting in weed seed 
and other foul stuff, and call it bran, 
and also many poultry feeds are made 
up of foul ingredients. ‘‘The chicken 
craze is finding its level,” Theodore Witt- 
man said. “In place of trying to pro¬ 
duce fine feathered fowls for high scores, 
the poultryman is now working for egg 
producers. The question is now, how 
many eggs will a hen lay in a year, or 
how much meat will she produce.” Di¬ 
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Station said that farmers in some sections 
of our country were using excess of lime 
and not enough manure and commercial 
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