The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-05
A FARMERS MEETING.
THE MID-WINTER ANNUAL m
 BE HELD AT MIDDLEToWN.

Well Arranged Programme for Three
 Dsys-Leading Experts Of ihs coun- try WtiI Give Valuable Informa,ion tn Reference to Many Matters Which
 Farmers are studying With care.
 The programme of the annual mid winter meeting of the Connecticut Board of Agriculture is out. The meet l ing will be held at Middletown Decem- Der 15. 1 and 1T. Here is the pro- gramme:
 TUESDAY. DEC. IS.
 1O:SO a. m.--Invocation. Music. Ad- dress of Welcome, by His Honor Ly- man D. Mills, mayor of Middletown. Response to address of welcome. by His Excellency Abiram Chamberlain, governor of Connecticut.
 n:SO a. m.-Address, Evolution of Farm Mahinery and it's Effect upon the Life and Business of the Farmer" by Hon. J. M. Hubbard, Middletown.
 p. m.-Address, Farmers Insti- tute,' by Hon. John Hamilton. Farm CTS Institute Specialist United States Department of Agriculture, Washing fton, D. c.
 3 p. n.-Address, The Education of the American Farmer" by President Kenyon L. Butterfield Rhode Island College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, Kingston, R. I.
 < 7:3O p. n.-Address, ''The Geology and Physical Geography of Connecticut. Illustrated with lantern slides by Pro- lessor William N. Rice of Wesleyan un- iversity. secretary to the commission for scientific survey of Connecticut.
 WEDNESDAY, DEC. 16.
 10 a. m.-Address, The Cow Feed CTS Great Problem,'' by Professor E. s. Coley, Massachusetts college, Amherst.
 Il a. m.--Address, Intensive Cultiva- tion," by Hon. George M. Clark, Higga- mum
 Discussion. 2p. m.-Address, The Decline in the Value of New England Land. How to Arrest and Improve il" by Hon. George T. Powell, Ghent, N. Y.
 3 p. m.--Address. "The Commercial Side of Fruit Growing by MT. ]. H. Hale, South Glastonbury, Conn.
 7:30 p. Address "Dairying in Eu- rope. Illustrated by Original Lantern Slides" by Hon. Henry E. Alvord, chief |of Dairy Division, Bureau of Animal Industry. United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. 0. THURSDAY. DEC. F.
 10 a. m.-Address sThe Corn Crop in Connecticut" by E. H. Jenkins, Ph. D., director Connecticut Agricultural Ex- pertinent Station.
 ii a. nn.--Address, "Reminiscences of Thirty Years of Agricultural Science in Connecticut" by Professor w. 0. At water, Wesleyan university.
 p. m.-Address, Potato Growing in Connecticut. by Professor L. 4. eiiss.-# ton, director Storrs Agricultural Exper- iment Station.
 p. m.-Address, Agricultural Fairs Improvement" by MT. H. B. Cowan, associate editor New England Home stead.
 7:S0 D. m.-Musc
 8 p. m.-Address. "The Philippines, " AsAA os AhAu0Gl IAs 4OQUr kAIuGGI6Lt A1dSS~
 A JUDTCIoUs REMINDER. The Recent Fire at Brooklyn Academy
 of Music.
 It gives one bit of shiver to note how many people, some of whom are under official obligation to protect the public are saying of the Brooklyn Acadamy of Music, now that it can en- danger nobody, what they certainly never said aloud-while at frequent irs- tervals it menaced the lives of multi tudes.
 It had been regarded as a firetrap for years" we hear at present, and nu- merous are the exclamations of grati- tude that the fire occurred when there were only a few dozen occupants of the building to run for their lives the mo- ment the flames were discovered.
 Yet never word of protest, official or other, went up when 1t was generally known that in few hours all the light and leading of Brooklyn's Tammany Annex, with much belonging to Tam many itself, were to be gathered there in hilarious celebration of glorious future. Nobody warned and nobody wept, and yet the immediate fate Of g. great city was very seriously concern ed inbut this is getting away from the immediate lesson of the fire. The question that ought to get the most at tention from those who consider the Acadamy fire is whether it's peculiari- ties could be duplicated elsewhere, and whether a public or even private building should be permitted to stand indefinitely after 1t has been recognized by experts as being in a highly danger ous condition
 Enormous interests are involved in the determination. and not few will deprecate or resent its presentation, however carefully yelled, but beyond any doubt the people who are now talk ing so g1ibly about the burned Academy may some day find elsewhere similar but less satisfactory material for con- versation.-New York Times.
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