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CULTURAL COMMIT! LL
At Meeting of Board of Trustees
suing the agricultural courses at J
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Delaware College is making steady I
and rapid growth. The students in
the entering class who have elect-1
ed agriculture number 35, prac
ticallv one-third of the Freshman
In the spirit of these stu-:
dents there is much to be admired,
Thev are better prepared upon en
tering. and their attitude toward
their work is highly commenda
tory. As usual, the College sent
a team of three students to com- :
pete at the National Dairy Cattle |
Judging Contest. Sixteen teams
entered this competition. Delà
ware stood eighth ; defeating the
teams from Cornell, Pennsylvania,
Maryland, New Hampshire. Neb
raska, South Dakota. Kansas, and
Arkansas. The College feels proud
of the record that these young men
have made, because their standing
in this competition is indicative of
the character of work that Delà
ware College is doing in agricult
ure.
The number of students pur
class.
The only minor chord that makes j
itself heard in the work of instruc- j
tion at the College is the great
need for better facilities. We need
more, larger, and better equipped
laboratories. We especially need a
building at the farm in which the
chili can be taken from the air, for 1
judging live stock, harnessing
teams, studying farm machinery,
repairing various kinds of farm
tools, etc. Our work will never be
complete until this want is sup
plied.
I
are just getting their work well
started, and we have a right to ex-;
pect much from it. If is hoped that
having the county agents in the
field will lessen the demand for ex-!'pP
tension work in tin- field by heads
of departments This has not yet
proven to be the case, hut we are
still hoping that the men who are
manning the various divisions, of i
the agricultural department will be
relieved to a large degree when the
present season s work is finished.
We all appreciate how unsatisfac
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torv it is to have one man engaged
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in so many activities as it makes
it impossible for him to do lus best
work m any one of them '
In this connection. I should like
Extension
Thru the provisions of the Smith
Lever Bill, passed by the last Con
gress. Delaware has placed an ag
ricultural agent in each of the three
counties of the State. These men
to call your attention to the desir
ability of having the bill accepting
the Smith-Lever fund by he State
drawn in such a manner that it will
automatically carry with it the in
crease of appropriaion which the
State must make in order to get the
increase appropriated by the Fed
eral Government. This amounts to
$1260 for next year, and an addi
tional $1260 per year until the
pmount reaches approximately
$9000 per year. If the bill is
drawn in this way it will relieve
the College of any further action
in securing the necessary approp
•riation to receive the increased
Federal appropriations.
In connection with our extension
work, the College has recently in
augurated what will serve as a de
partment of poultry keeping. This
came to us by the offer of the State
Board of Agriculture and the Phil
adelphia North American to co-op
erate with the College in establish
ing on the College Farm the Inter
national Egg Laying Competition.
This has brought to us 100 pens of
five birds each, with a reserve pen
of 100 birds. The State Board of
Agriculture has furnished the
houses and the fence ; the North
American supplies the feed, uten
sils, and the care takers. The Col- i
lege has furnished the ground,
erected the plant, and will pay the
superintendent's salary of $100
per month. Inasmuch as this work
ilas to do with extension, it has
the
to the
been thought best to charge
superintendent 's salary
State Extension fund. It has been
announced in the State papers that
the superintendent of the poultry
plant, who is an expert in all mat
tes pertaining to poultry keeping,
will be available for interviews, an
swering questions and, in some
cases, for lectures on poultry keep
ing. This supplies a long felt want
in the agricn/tural department, and
I am confident that it will be well
received by our constituency. It
mav be added in this connection
t hat Mr Pollard, superintendent
of the poultry plant, has some high
class poultry of his own. and has
the College one-half interest
in the produce of these fowls on the
basis that the College will furnish
the housing and the feed for them;
given
the sales of eggs or chicks will be
divided equally.
The Experiment Station
It is with regret that I state mv
conviction that this division of the
Agrieultui . a| Department has not
jpanitained the high standard of
work which characterized it short
Jy after its reorganization. This the
has been brought about entirely by
the demands made upon the sta
tion men for extension work and
for teaching. It is impossible to do
high grade research work when the
worker s attention is divided along
two other lines of endeavor. The
Office of Experiment Stations has
"ot as yet definitely criticized this
important phase of our activities,
t«id I trust that the tendency to
neglect it can be corrected before
the authorities at Washington will su
bave an opportunity to do so. the
j } iave } 10 ped that, as time went
on< i t would be possible to differen- the
t iate between the extension worker,
the teacher, and the research man.
At present, however, the demands the
f or extension work and for teaeh
ing are so pressing that the re-.
search man has been relegated to
Under the
an unimportant place,
conditions existing at present, it is of
impossible to make any radical
changes. However. I wish to call 110
the attention of the trustees to the
Station's affairs, and have them
make some suggestions towards im
provement.
The Farm
The farm still continues to at
tract a large number of people, and tl
the addition of the poultry plant
w ill undoubtedly attract thousands
more. I here is a feeling on the
part of most people that the farm p
isa valuable asset to the state and
of course it is our earnest desire
that this feeling should obtain thru
ont the whole State it at all possi ile
he peach crop the past season was to
umisua . ' lar £ e > *2'' ia, ' V( ' st the
'^prices howeve" w^ low the ?
c . v . '
ex-!'pP Ä' 1 " MnVh^f The fruit "
vl ^ of the £ ighes dass and added
a 1,, t |,. ; ,l „7 vaiueble da,:, to that su
thich h^ £e^ ^cumulating for
lhp past four years! Six acres of T
a Val^Lve recentlv been started.
a 18 is unusuaIlv good tra
TS' hoped TaThTs u i be aiiother
^ ST feature of the College
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Farm i he herd is increasing in
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size and value A number ox crood c
> , h been made during the ° f
gales ^moThs It is the prac- !H
i( .„ of thp f arm officiallv to test !f
idnn umuaii.» iu icsi
promising individuals of the herd
as. they come I )ro . Iie
heifer, bred by the College, is now
under test and her record tor the ma
first six months is worthy of more
than passing notice. In this time,
she has produced 6096 lbs. of milk
and 350 lbs. of butter. When it is
appreciated that the average cow
makes 140 lbs. of butter in a year,
and that this heifer has made 350
lbs. in six months, we realize what
this record means.
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It may be of interest for the trus
tees to know that the College Farm
llas î?îL?° d T a Pu- 1 ' erons
^ or 1 n . 1 P 1 ! s c . 0nne f/ 10 » ]t
ma ' r be added that, since the farm
" as purchased for the use of the
each year,
i considered more or less of a show
place. The people of the State ex
pept it to look well at all times,
is impossible to keep it up to a high
standard without considerable ex
pense, and it might be well for the
trustees to decide upon a policy in
this regard.
of
in
College, $4200 has been spent for u
registered horses ; the farm has sold
/registered horses amounting to do
$5592 and. at the present time, we on
have pure bred horses valued at
,about $750.
The building, as stated in a pre
vious report, are beginning to show
the effect of wear, and it is hoped ;
Jhat they, can all be repaired dur
ing the coming winter. Roads and
walks are also needed to accommo
date the increasing number of vis
itors who are coining to the farm
The farm must now be
ft
the College farm is used by the Col
lege for instructional work as well
as by the Station for investiga
Jional work and that, in eonse
quence, the College or the State
should share in its maintenance. In
fact, it is necessary that something
definite in this direction should be
done at an early date, inasmuch as
Dr. Allen, a representative of the
Office of Experiment Stations, has
recently questioned the right of the
Station to maintain a farm of this
-character on Experiment Station
appropriations. He recommends
that the State or the College main
It should he borne in mind that
tain the farm, and that charges for
^maintenance of teams, men, etc.
[connected with definite experiments
be made against Experiment Sta-
tion funds.
When this policy is carried out
by the State it will relieve the ten
*>ion un<ler which the agricultural
department has been for sometime,
and will materially raise our stand- ;
ing with the authorities at Wash
ington. which is necessary if we are |
to render our maximum amount of
effective service to the State. You
will readily see that the Experi
ment Station could hardly be al
lowed to carry the farm and all its
activities, especially when it is
called upon to render services to
the other departments of the Cob
lege: for example, the farm teams
and men have been engaged for
practically a month, with the ex
ception of a few days, upon the
grounds of the Women's College,
and in the erection of the poultry
plant at the College Farm; and
neither of these at present are con
nected with Station work.
Kecommendations
As j) pan and Director I would
su gg es t. therefore, that they ask
the State for an appropriation of
$5000 per year, for maintenance of
the agricultural department, this
money to be used primarily in car
tying those desirable activities of
the department which are not al
lowed under the regulations eon
Periling the disbursement of Fed
eral funds. This would enable the
farm as a whole to be independent
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NEW MAGAZINES
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of the Office of Experiment Sta
tions, whose representatives would
110 longer ask to direct the expendi
ture of the farm sales.
Very respectfully submitted.
H. Hayward.
AMONG THE
tl p War At dnsp Rancrp 1
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j n the December number of
Everybody's Magazine, Frederick
p a j mer continues his articles on
conc jjti 0 ns in Europe, under the
subj( . et .- Th( . Grim Business of
War »> Mr Palmer is novv in
GprmanV! j n an a ttempt not only
to report war news from behind
the German lines, but to discover
? hand ' COnditi ° nS >'esulting
from the war, in Berlin, and else
" here The article pictures at close
the work of the trenches, and
su !' ,s U J\ ht * strat f e P' aml "Jwar
ft of th £ mont ^ f
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f'T™ ot . Eur ° h P ? at War ' Ex '
tra ? s ™ f ..
In t ' ie mor . nin f,. of the ." a . r
^ officer an( , soldler was
wlth energy, as the runner is fresh
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from the rubber s hand at the start
c cm lu
° f a . raCe ' 1 he °^ eers of the
!H 'î nleS u '2 aec , e8sar !* V ex r ,ose<1 \ hein '
!f lveS ' ? ach n , at ° n "
those early exploits of abandoned
couragp which prove( l that the old
spirit survived. Troops going into
theip first charges swept 0 n in for
ma ti ons whose fearful exposure
wag a p verv . well for maneuvers,
but not against modern artillery,
rifle, and machine-gun fire:
"Old heads expected this. Tem
erity was better than timidity at
the start. Germany had her exhibit
of the folly of heedless bravery be
tore Liege and in the daring ot
the Crown Prince's army before
French trenches; France had hers
in the first rush of German trenches
against Alsace ; Russia hers in East
the
Prussian; England hers in
charge of the Ninth Lancers, which
unlike that of the Light Brigade,
u -as not because someone had blun
dered, but because they wanted to
do it.
the decimation of battalions, regi- j
Each nation gave its press
on ly the story of the charges that
succeeded. It left untold those of
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After a careful investigation of the merits of the different cars, I have ac
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Agency Rural New Castle County
Newark, Delaware
raen ts and brigades to no purpose.
" With thp AisnP . the mental ec
tasv and physical ardor of the
troops were spent Discomfort and
; beSmethe commonplace
ffexSnceGerman officers who
| started out with dress-suit cases"'
f 0 ]] 0W i nir them on motor-trucks
were glad to have a toothbrush and
com b j n their pockets. English
n ffl PPrs w ho had rubber baths and
pSaJ and mattress in their
hit's f onn d it a luxury to sleep in
a haymow and get off their boots.
Soldiers who had looked so neat as
thev i eft t h P i r mobilization depots
we ^ grimv and bearded.
Therp was an end to t he sport of
war Tt has become a business, an
oceupa tion. The courage of im
p U ] se had passed. In its place had
eomp the courage of wisdom, of
a. r j m tactical cunning and deter- I
jfnination. All commanders had 1
passed the word for officers to take
£ are not t0 expose themselves un
necessarily,
0 f property, costly to train.
easily replaced,
"if 0 ne could sail low in a!
p i an e over the French and German j
f ron t in France, one might say this :
was no t a war at all ; that it was a !
competition in excavation; that,
these armies were not composed of j
men, but of rodents. He would see
little ganglia of troops and trans- |
ports on the roads back of human j
warrens, and groups of guns be- 1
hind the cover of hills and woods,
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now rapidly, at a a point hidden m
the smoke of bursting shells and
I the dust of trenches rising heaven- \
ward: which would mean that one |
or the other was attacking today !
aml tr >l n e t0 * ain a little adva "- i
tage. The vista would seem hard
An officer is a piece
not
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1 - v raore warllke Î 0 eve than
I blasting and digging a railroad cut.
It might suggest rival villages of j
beavers and prairie dogs."
"Day and night some force must i
be in the frontal trenches eyeing i
the enemy venomously. The army
becomes divided into watches like i
the navy. Those off duty are
away from the murk and stench of
the trench, yet near at band, ready j
to rush back at the first alarm.
Thev have such shelter as they can j
c th h ]n . k j
th e frontal trench is on the out
skirtg of a villa the chanC e of I
"Jwar gives them a house and its
comforts. There is everywhere*^
'he comradeship of
The men play cards; they break!
into song. Sometimes they get let- :
ters from home, censored ; some-!
times thev get newspapers censor
, Th ' „ )n ns nnthino* nf
ed. 1 nev Know almost notning 01
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the progress 01 The war as a wnoie;
only of what is going on in their
little world, as isolated as that of
an arctic exploring party snow
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Delaware Consumers'
Lague Active
The Consumers' League of Dela
ware is distributing public school
scholarships to worthy families,
and is continuing the campaign to
induce earlv Christmas shopping,
M ig much needed for thr 1
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scholarships. The league is at pre
sent carrying on an investigation
into the sanitary conditions of !
stores and factories, with a view to !
drafting a bill on the subject. Miss
A. W. Bird is the general secretary. ;
Delaware Represented
At Convention
The alumni of Delaware College 1
were represented at the recent I
j meeting of the secretaries of col
Jege alumni a ^ oolatl £ n _ s iq h a * , <£}
Yorkon November 19 and 20.
This association is composed o *
secretaries ot the alumni assoc a
«on. of most of the colleges m the
country. Mr. Eg.. sont Horn. 09
110 represented Delaware, wi l
tr T to P ut into practice at our . -
le f t ' some of the pla "f J?
w jll try to keep de
together, ne win uy io
VatoN* lists of the alumni and
re P ort to the alumni interesting
lia PP enln &s at the college, ne wi
als ? see . what can ,
P«t)'istiing a peiioa ca a ' u
P aper ; norn .. 11 f l \ e o V,
report ot tue meeting at tne loeia
£ a f e College Alumni Banquet
February,
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Plastering and Cement Work
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ELKTON AVENUE
Delaware
N OTICE!
To the Taxpayers of
NEW CASTLE HUNDRED
The Taxpayer* of New Castle Hundred
hereby notified that 1 will be at the following places
to receive County, Poor, Road, Capitation? and Dog
Taxes, for the year 1914.
are
New Castle, Mayor's Office
Mondays, July 27, August 21, 31, September 14, 28,
Oct. 12, 26, and November 9, 23.
Hours 10 a. m. to 12 m.
Bear Station, Geo. E. Davis' Store
Tuesdays, August 25, September 22, Octolier 27, and
November 24,
Hours 10 a. m. to 12 m.
Red Lion, William F, Silver's Store
Mondays, September 21, October 19, and Nov. 16.
Hours 10 a. m. to 12 m.
Wilmington, Court House
Saturdays, August 29, September 26, October 24,
and November 28.
Hours 10 a. in. to 12
New Castle Trust Co.
Every Day.
Post Office, New Castle, Del.
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Collector.
Send Stamp for reply.
NOTICE !
To the Taxpayers of
PENCADER HUNDRED
The Taxpayers of Pencader Hundred are hereby
notified that I will be at the following place, to
receive County, Poor, Road, Capitation and Dog
Taxes, for the Year 1914.
Cooch's Bridge
August 28, 2 to 3 P. M„ September 25, 9 to 12 M.
October 22, 9 to 12 M., November 19, 9 to 12 M. ,
December 17, 9 to 12 M. '
Glasgow
* Augl p\ 2 l 8, September 25, 1 to 4
Ho O M t ' 2 -., Ito IP. M„ November 19,
1 to 4 P. M., December 17, 9 to 12 M.
Summit Bridge
August 29, 9 to 10 a.m., September 28, 9 to 12 M.,
October 9 to 12 M., November 20, 9 to 12 M.
December 18, 9 to 12 M,
Kirkwood
November 20, 2 to 4 P. M„ December 18, 2
At Home, Summit Bridge
Every Monday after September 1, 1914.
Post Office, Summit Bridge, Del,
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to 4 P. M.
BOYD McCOY,
Collector
Send Stamp for reply.
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Director
Tent At Cemetery
Appointments the Best
PICTURE FRAMING
Upholstering »«a Repairing
NEWARK'S
LEADING
Meat Market
Charles P. Steele
Dealer In
FRESH AND SALT
MEATS
Home Dressed Meats a
Specialty
Main Street Opposite College
Call or Phone your order
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