The Gleaner . the girls attracted,perhaps, the most attention,and caused no end of merri-ment. Closely following these eventswas a lunch containing allfoods in season and out and insuch abundance that GeneralPershing and his army couldeasily have lived like Kaisers formany weeks. Farm Schoolssweel corn scored a big hit at this particular period of theday, and at times during themeal the number of thosewhose faces were not al-most completely hidden by asuper-sized ear of corn was asscarce as Americans in theGerman army. Mr. Hoover will \lose many nights of sleep if heever hears of this wanton c
The Gleaner . the girls attracted,perhaps, the most attention,and caused no end of merri-ment. Closely following these eventswas a lunch containing allfoods in season and out and insuch abundance that GeneralPershing and his army couldeasily have lived like Kaisers formany weeks. Farm Schoolssweel corn scored a big hit at this particular period of theday, and at times during themeal the number of thosewhose faces were not al-most completely hidden by asuper-sized ear of corn was asscarce as Americans in theGerman army. Mr. Hoover will \lose many nights of sleep if heever hears of this wanton con-sumption of peifectly good likely hell prohibit anymore such outings by movingpicture people. The principal attraction dur-ing the P. M. was a base ballgame, and dancing in SegalHall to the accompaniment ofStanleys excellent orchestra. Everybody left with words ofpraise for the hospitableway fn which we had treat-ed them, and expressed thehope that the affair would berepeated annually. THE GLEANER. REPORTS OF THE DEPARTMENTS FARM NO. 1. Our^iay crop was below theaverage this year, but we areexpecting a good yield of are now doing fall plowingand expect to seed one of ourfields to alfalfa. Two of ourcows gave birth to calves re-cently, one having since beensold. M. R. 19. HOME FARM During the past month this de-partment has been exceedinglybusy and was handicapped bythe fact that most of the stu-dents were on their vacationsAll our hay and oats have beenharvested and we expect tostart thrashing soon. We haveplowed and hari-owed six acresof land near Mr. Krafts homeand the fields are being put incondition to plant grass. At present our attention isbeing given to peaches whichare being picked almost everyday and marketed by truck toPhiladelphia and nearby townsor by car to the distant are having a very good cropthis year. The apple, potato, mangel,cabbage and corn crops lookvery promising. We expect evenbetter results than last year. Our herd of cow
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