. Inglenook, The (1911) . erested to attend evening 1tures. Nevertheless a course of five 1tures was announced and adverti;throughout the county by posters. At tltime many farmers were talking about ftilizers, hence the principal decided thatwould lecture on soils and fertilizers. Illtrations and experiments were carriedthroughout the entire course. Outlineseach lecture were made by mimeograph jdistributed to each person. The audieiwas requested always to bring the previioutline to the lectures for reference. 1evenings were understood to be seriousfairs, designed for those who wantedknow and n
. Inglenook, The (1911) . erested to attend evening 1tures. Nevertheless a course of five 1tures was announced and adverti;throughout the county by posters. At tltime many farmers were talking about ftilizers, hence the principal decided thatwould lecture on soils and fertilizers. Illtrations and experiments were carriedthroughout the entire course. Outlineseach lecture were made by mimeograph jdistributed to each person. The audieiwas requested always to bring the previioutline to the lectures for reference. 1evenings were understood to be seriousfairs, designed for those who wantedknow and not as an entertainment forcurious. As projected they were for nbut the women asked to be allowed totend and many did so throughoutcourse. The first lecture was attendedsixty persons, the second by ninety,third by one hundred, and so on. Forentire course, during good weather and tthe attendance averaged one hundredtwenty-five persons for each lecture,this in an open farming country wfpractically every one had to drive thro. A Boy Who Transformed a Swamp inCornfield. One of the Borne Hig-h School of Baltimore CotMd. The Inglenook 1141 IN the dark over ice, snow, and slush. Therewas no doubt about the success of this un-dertaking. When the lectures were ended a corn:ongress was held in the high school build-ing. It lasted two days and during the time[speakers from the United States Depart-lent of Agriculture and from the Marylandigricultural College lectured on raising:orn. There were also lectures on cookingfor the women. The congress was well ad-vertised and organizations as well as indi-viduals were urged to enter exhibits of ten;ars of corn. There were nearly two hun-Ired exhibitors and almost one thousandpersons attended the various sessions. Sev-eral country schools held preliminaryshows and sent only their best exhibits to? the corn congress. There were no moneye prizes, only ribbons were awarded, evenera though the city merchants were willing to\:l c
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