Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-12-11
Agricultural and horticulture
Societies Of Iowa Assemble
in Des Moines
EIGHT ORGANIZATIONS MEET
One Thousand Delegates Expected to
Attend Sessions OF Department of
Asriculturc-The Meat Producers =
Prominent Men of the Country to
Deliver Addresses.
snecial to Times-Republican.


Des Moines Dec. 1.-THE state capt.
tai this week will be in possession of
the producers of agricultural and horti-
cultural products. The following So
cietes will be in session:
State Horticultural Society, at the
capitol
Iowa Park and Forestry Association,
at the capitol.
State Farmers Institute at the cap
ito.
State agricultural convention, at the
capitol.
Corn Belt Meat Producers State As
ISOLATION, at the Commercial Club.
Department of agriculture corn show,
at the capitol.
Fruit exhibit and contest, at the
capitol
State Association of Fair Secretaries,
at the Slavery.
Tomorrow the number will be aug
mented by the annual meeting of the
state department of agriculture. The
convention will bring more than 1000
sons.
Among the noted men who will at
tend will be I. W. Tomlinson, attorney
and secretary. respectively, for the
American National Live Stock Associ-
alton, whose president, Murdo Mac
Kenzie of Trinidad, Col, was in Des
Moines last week attending the United
States senatorial conference. These
men We're on the ground in Washing
ton during the years that the people
were fighting for the rate regulation
measure which congress finally passed.
A. B. Stickney, president Of the Great
Western railroad. will be here also.
and he and Messrs. Tomlinson and
Cowan will address the Corn Belt Meat
Producers Association tonight at the
Commercial club rooms. President
Stickney stands for simplified freight
rate schedules, which the wayfaring
man can understand, and he will eluci-
date his views tonight. He already has
insisted on the interstate commerce
commission forcing the railroads to
some common and simple method of
rate making and PRONUNCIATION which
will be understood by the shippers, af-
ter the Stebbirs rate book plan, whose
inventor lives in Des Moines.
The state farmers institute convened
at the rooms of the department of ag-
riculture at the state house this morn
ing at $3.50. Senator B. W. Newberry,
the author of the pure food law; Eafe
Young, whose illness probably will
keep him off the program; C. G. Mes
serole, secretary of the Iowa Farmers
Association and promin-
ent in the recent hearing of the inter-
state commerce commission relative to
the elevator business; H. w. Colling-
wood, editor of the Rural New Yorker
of New York; Don L. Berry, of In
dianola; C. F. Curtiss and w. j. KEN
nedy of the Iowa State College. and
Mrs. Harriet w. Ashton will be heard
in addresses during the forenoon or
afternoon sessions. In addition dis
cussion of the Chicago livestock market
is scheduled to come off. The Stick
ney address was first planned for this
afternoon before the farmers institute,
but has been postponed until tonight.
The corn show, under the charge of
Superintendent Fred Hethershaw, with
p. G. Holden and his assistants as
judges, will progress today and prizes
amounting to about $500 will be
awarded. The show will be in the ro-
tundas of the capitol.
The park and forestry people will
meet this afternoon and this evening
T.. H. Pammell, p. A. Korab, H. r.
Baker, Harvey Ingham, F. G.. Ensign,
r. B. wylie, and B. Shimek are on the
program for addresses.
The horticultural society met this
and this afternoon and even
ing will poin in the park and forestry
program. w. A. Burnap Of Clear
Lake, Wesley Greene, of Davenport and
Elmer E. Reeves of Waverly, the Of
fcers of the association, will make re-
ports this forenoon.
The horticultural show of products
of the fruit growers of Iowa occupies
the whole of the space in the rotunda