The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-13

and Mrs Churchill We're school girls
in Atchison together a few years ago.
Governor Bailey is himself a member
of the board by reason of his being
governor, but a few years ago he was
one of the representatives of the First
congressional district on the board, so
he knows a good deal about it.
The opening session late this after
noon will be strictly for business. The
committees will be appointed. various
reports will be received, and the ere
dentials of the delegates will be ex-
amined and certified to by the CON-
mittee on credentials. Properly ac-
credited delegates to this meeting are
entitled to have their car fare and ho-
tel bills paid by the state-provided
they don't ride on railroad passes.
The real opening session of the board
will be held tonight, at which time
Governor Bailey and Mayor Bergund-
thai will deliver addresses of welcome,
and President Churchill will respond.
Governor Bailey. being something of a
farmer himself, will doubtless be right
at home in the meeting. The main ad-
dress of the evening will be delivered
of Prof. Eugene Davenport, dean of the
College of Agriculture in the Univer-
Sity of Illinois, one of the greatest ag-
ricultural educators of the country
Prof Davenport is also director of the
Illinois experiment station, and in both
positions he is doing a great work for
the farming interests of Illinois. His
subject tonight will be Agricultural
Leadership
The entire programme of the board
this year is extremely strong. Tomor-
row there will be addresses along the
line of dairying by Prof. o. Err of the
State Agricultural college, and H. A.
Reerman. a dairy expert of Wellston,
Mo. Prof Err is the new professor of
d3irying and animal husbandry at the
Kansas Agricultural college, having
been imported from Illinois a few
months ago Fred H. Rankin, another
man from the Illinois college of agricul-
ture, will speak tomorrow on "Agricul-
turai Education as a Factor in Develop
ing Useful Men" Mr.. Rankin has
been at work during the past two or
three years in interesting the boys on
the farms of Illinois in practical agri-
cultural education. He has inaugurated
contests in corn culture among them
encouraged the study of scientific agri-
culture and has even run excursions for
them to Urbana, where they have been
shown the working of the college of
agriculture. arousing in them an ambi-
ton for an education in that institution.
Chancellor Strong of the University of
Kansas will also deliver an address to-
morrow afternoon
In the evening Mrs Margaret Hill Nc
Carter viii read a paper on Country
Lie IN Prose, and NJ. A. Carleton. who
- - 1NlLO ~ II III Kansas, VIII give an
address, illustrated by a stereopticon. on
improvement in the Oat Crop" Mr..
carleton is Kansas man who occupies
q nigh place in the United States de-
partment of agriculture.
On Friday Mrs Henry. Block of e,,-.
cuse' who is the representative of the
Kansas department of agriculture. in
gathering data concerning the sugar
beets raised in Kansas this year will
nave nave paper on The Sugar Beet In
dustry in Kansas" and Henry Hatch
will have one on The Mail order House
ana the Farmer" In the afternoon win
come the election of officers. ana Chas
+. Minis, who is Mr. Coburn's assistant
IN me live stock bureau of the Louisiana
Purcnase exposition, will speak on
Agriculture at the Worlds Fair in
7so4. In the evening Mrs. Cora G.
Lewis of Kinsley. president of the Kan'
sas federation of clubs. will read a na-
per on The Social Center of the COM
try -Neighborhood. 'iii-
On Friday evening. too. viii come one
OF tne most imoortant features of the
Millet NJ Hays, of Minnesota On
Breedlng Field Crops" illustrated bv