The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1909-12-23
81 a Year in Advance.
Missouri Farmers Week.

Missouri's big farmers convention
now generally spoken of as Farmers
Week, will be held at the Agricul-
tural College at Christmas week, the
exercises beginning at 10 o'clock on the
morning of December % and conclud-
ing with the Agricultural College ban
quet Friday night.
The exercises this year will be In
the nature of a great agricultural school
or farmers short course, with lectures
and demonstrations by members of the,
Agricultural College faculty and by
others of national reputation. Most of
the class work" will be done in the
new Agricultural Building, which will.
be dedicated Friday afternoon, when
Governor Herbert S. Hadley will be
the principal speaker. Each evening
except Friday evening, when the ban
quet takes place, popular, entertaining
lectures will be heard in the large
auditorium of Academic Hall.
While the keynote of the con.
vention may be said to be "The School
and the Home, subjects which are
just now upermost in the minds. of the
people, the most practical problems of
general and specialized farming and
live stock breeding will be discussed.
The speakers will be men who know,
and the topics live ones. tuberculosis,
hog cholera and blackleg demonstra-
tons and lectures will appeal especi
ally to the stock men. The grain far
mer, the dairyman, the fruit grower
and the general farmer will find just as
much of interest. The Homemakers'
Conference, with the strongest program
yet, will prove treat to every lady
visitor.
A new feature this year will be the
poultry lectures and demonstrations by
Prof. A. A. Bingham, OF Bookings,
South Dakota. Prof Bingham will not
be the only speaker from a distance.
DR.. S. A. Knapp, of the Bureau of
Plant Industry, Washington, D. c.;
Prof. G. I. Christie, of Purdue Univer-
sity, Indiana. Hon. w. w. MARBLE, of
Muncie, Ind, and Hon. F. w. Howe,
of the Department of Education,
Washington, D. c. have places on the
program. DR.. A. Ross Hill, president
of the University, Dean F. B. Mumfold
of the Agricultural College, and many
members of the Agricultural College
faculty are among the active workers
of the week.
Each visitor, upon arriving at Colum-
bia, may by calling at information head
quarters at Hotel Gordon, secure board
and lodging at the leading hotels at 50
per day, or 81 in private houses. There
Will be no trouble about Accommodations
his year, as hundreds of students rooms
will be available, the students being at
nome for the holidays. Many boarding
1ouses will also serve meals throughout
he week. The regular reduced holi
lay. rates apply on railroads.
No matter how cold and disagree
lble the weather, every visitor may be
ust as comfortable as at home With
he new Agricultural Building in use,
he amount of going from one building
o another will be reduced to the
minimum.
A beautiful badge, the metal part
,eing a miniature reproduction of the
agricultural Building, will be presen-
ed to each visitor when he registers,
nd he will also be provided with a
program in the form of chart, showing
ust where and when every demon
tration, lesson or lecture takes place.
The Farmers Week" exercises are
lnder the auspices of the Missouri
tate Board Of Agriculture, and printed
programs may be had by addressing
Eco. B. Ellis, Secretary, Columbia, Mo.