Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-03
PICNIC AT COUNTY FARM
Work Of Agricultural Experiment
Station to Be Inspected.
INTERESTING RESULTS IN CORN
Forenoon Exercises 60 he Informal
and Afternoon 20 he Devoted
to Speeches and other
Features.

The county poor farm at McClelland will
be the scene today of the picnic to be held
in connection with the experimental sta
ton work at the farm. o. L. Barritt, SUI
perintendent of the poor farm, who has
been I'm charge of the experimental station,
conducted under the auspices of the State
Agricultural college at Ames, will be
master OF as well as host to the
visiting farmers.
In connection with the picnic there will
be. a discussion Of the results obtained from
the experimental field of corn grown on
the farm from seed taken from planter
boxes or seed sacks of eighty-three farmers
in different sections of Pottawattamio
county last spring. This seed was all
planted in one field, the plat devoted to
each mans seed being marked so as to
distinguish II from the rest of the field.
r.. K. Bliss and A. f. Nelson, experts
from the Iowa State college al Ames. Will
! be present to discuss the experiment and
its results. in order to make it as instruc-
tive and beneficial as possible.
There will also be exhibits Of wheat,
corn. oats, potatoes and other farm
products grown in the county as well as of
stock. There will be a demonstration of
a milking machine and a milk testing APP
parstus during the afternoon.
Only one part of the days program will
be at all formal in character and that will
be in the afternoon, when addresses will
be made by State Senator c. G. Saunders
of this city and F. IL. Hopping of Under
wood. one Of the commissioners from Pot
ssu usmpIBoa an A9A u5ql 9ouIS 'oS5
tawattamie county to the National Corn
exposition to be held in Omaha in Decem-
Der.
Charles A. Beno, president of the Council
Bluffs Commercial club, will preside at the
formal exercises.
Forenoon TO Sightseeing.
Most Of the forenoon will be devoted to
Sightseeing about the farm, inspection Of
the stock, grain and vegetable displays and
in social pleasures. 1t is the hope of Super
intendent Barritt that the social features
VI the picnic, which it is proposed to make
an annual event may be emphasized and
10 assist in making the time enjoyable for
those who attend, ne has engaged the Nicola
band, which will play at intervals for the
entertainment of the picnickers. From l
to 2 o'clock in the afternoon the county
house will be open for the inspection Of
visitors, who will thus be affarded an OPP
portunity to see the institution Of which
NEST of them have heard and read, but
which only a few have seen.
The committee on reception consists Of
Representative Henry c. Brandes and
Supervisors Allen Bulls. w, F.. Baker, 7.
]. Johns. Felix Setz and G.. w. Spencer.
The committee on arrangements is COM
posed Of Albert Peterson, Oakland; d. S.
Pleak, Oakland; c. p. wasser, Avoca;
A. f. Hager, Avoca; C. II. Darlington,
Honey Creek; f. Fl. Hopping, Nicola;
Geore Whitson, Nicola; II. c. Brandes, Han
cock.
The train which will convey people from
this city to McClelland will leave the local
passenger station of the Chicago Great
Western railroad on Main street at 1850
a. m. A special coach will be provided for
those going from here. This ,coach will
be attached to the freight train leaving
McClelland about 6 p. m. for the return
trip.