The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-10-19
MANY SPEAKERS :.
ARRIVING TODAY
Special Farmers Institute
Down to Business.
Commissioner Vreeland Makes Adj
dress, Followed by Experts ON
Agriculture.
COBURN SPEAKS TOMORROW

The second day of the special insti-
tute began at The Kentucky this
morning with the list of speakers aug
mented by arrivals last night. State
Commissioner Hubert Vreeland ar
rived last night, as did X. NJ. Allen,
G. /. Christie. II. S. Berry, w. l..
Goss and several members of the ex-
pertinent station at Lexington.
The morning session was taken up
with a talk by Commissioner vree-
land: j. B. Fort on the subject of
Goats" and II. NJ. Allen. of the pure
food department of Kentucky. Mrs.
Leila Lewis sang a solo accompanied
by Miss Courtie Puryear. 1t was
much enjoyed.
Chairman Singleton announced that
the Saturday afternoon session of the
convention would be held at the
city hall. as the Kentucky theater
will be in use. This afternoons ses-
sion began at 80 o'clock with three
lecturers on the program. G.. /.
Christie, of Purdue university, La
Fayette, Ind, Is down for lecture on
Modern Methods of Seed Corn Selec-
tom" w. l.. Goss will lecture and II.
S. Berry will lecture on "Truck Gar
dening."
Tomorrow the principal lecture of
the institute win be given by Prof. F.
ID. Coburn, secretary of the state
board of agriculture of Kansas. He
will speak at 10 o'clock with al.
falfa" as his subject. II is especially
desired that Prof. Coburn have a
large audience tomorrow morning.
He is a finished speaker and culti-
waited man.
More Exhibits.
There we're several additions to the
corn and tobacco exhibits today.
John McKeage, OF woodville, has an
exhibit of mixed tobacco; ]. A. Coop
or, rural route No. 4, corn; ]. A.
Wade, Grahamvllle. corn; NJ. n. Stan
ley, 223 Jefferson street, corn; d.
Burton, rural route No. 4, corn Theo.
Hovercamp, corn and two exhibits of
alfalfa; J. II. Wyart, Ballard county.
corn; B C. Simms, rural route No. 1.
sweet potatoes. The prizes will he
awarded tomorrow.
Commissioner vreeland.
Commissioner Vreeland said he re-
GREETED being absent for one day OF
the institute. He urged the audience
to come back tomorrow and bring
Others to hear Prof. Coburn who was
accustomed to addressing large audi
ences. Mr.. Vreeland said he inter-
preted the duties of his Office to mean
that he was the business agent of
Kentucky farmers at Frankfort. In
that capacity he did not attempt to
instruct them himself, but arranged
for scientific men to lecture to the
farmers. He reviewed the condition
of the department and its work and
showed its importance to the state.
In short talk OF much plth and
point, j. B. Fort, promoter of the
Dark Tobacco association, took
Goats as his subject. A goat, he
said, is an animal with ban on him.
He is good for little more than to
butt. Then he drew a comparison be-
tween the goat and the man who
hangs back on propositions to i'm
prove conditions. who is always on
the outside of everything till IL is an
assured success, and then jumps into
the band wagon and shouts the loud
est He said. though Democrat
that he endorsed President Roosevelt
in his treatment of the trust problem.
He believed that the Anglo-Saxon
blood in the veins of Kentuckians
and Tennesseeans would ultimately
rule the republic.
r. NJ. Allen delivered an eye-open-
ing lecture on Food Adulteration.
The subterfuses of adulterators were
shown up mercilessly, and he said an
adulterated product was "a wolf in
Sleeps clothing" He said 65 per
centum of the babies in the United
States are bottle-fed. and that the
mortality Of these babies compared
to the breast-fed ones. is appalling.
proving conelusively that adulterated
milk is profound menace to the ris-
ing generation.
He said the adulterated product
steals the years OF hard effort neces-
sary to produce good product. by a
short cut of imitation which not
merely is a fraud, but is injurious to