Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-15

NEW FEATURES This YEAR
Live Stock Exhibited Promises to Be
Center of Lively Interest = Great
Array of By-Products and Grains
to Be New Feature-some Other
Features.

and branches of the coming short
course, which opens in this city next
Monday, have finally been secured.
The course will centralize in the court
house, only the animal husbandry and
domestic science classes meeting out
side. Practically every available space
in the county building has been util-
lied for the purposes Of the course
needed for the week.
The first and second year classes in
corn and grains will use the east court
room. the same as last year.
One room Of the county superinten-
of the vacant offices of the county at
torney, and all other available space
on the second floor Of the court house
will be used for the corn exhibit.
The council chamber will be used for
an exhibit of tubercular- infected parts
of cattle, by-products Of corn, weed
seeds and corn samples from the To-
cal county experimental stations and
from other counties.
The lower floor OF the Eldridge- Bee
be Automobile Company's garage will
be used by the animal husbandry
classes.
The domestic science classes will
use the Fry building, corner Of First
and Main Streets.
Some Of the New Features.
Some of the new features Of the short
course. will be the exhibit of specimens
of diseased cattle, by-products. grains,
etc. the advanced work for the ami
nal husbandry and corn and grain
lasses and the additional and greatly
lcreased prizes.
The exhibit, which is to be shown in
he council chamber, will include
rye number of specimens of dis
ssed meat, both beef and pork. There
i'll also be an exhibit of corn and oats
S graded at the Chicago board Of
trade. Also about fifty samples of COM
nercial products made from corn, and
by products of oats, barley and rye.
For the purpose of study there will
be hundreds of samples of grain from
the various county experimental sta
tions. Charts Will accompany this dis
play, for the purpose Of showing results
obtained by these experiments.
Advanced Class Work.
The advanced class in corn and grain
will review the work of last year for
one day, then study oats and potatoes.
The latter study has been attracting
great attention wherever it has been
taken up at other short courses. Other
studies to be taken up, will be weeds
and weed seeds, and crop rotation
Each person attending should bring
with him ten ears of corn to be used
for study purposes.
Advanced work in animal husbandry
will be also a new feature this year
Some studies to be taken up in this
advanced work will be breed types and
diseases of horses, the care and man
agement and feeds for various types Of
horses and cattle, sheep and swine.
Lectures in the Morning.
Each morning, from 8 to 9, lectures
will be given before the joint classes.
n addition to the usual lectures from
to 5 each afternoon.
In addition to the lectures by the
owa State College staff of professors
Who will be with the short coures, DR..
strang, Professor Pierce, Professor
3owman and Professor Storm will each |
ecture on various subjects.
To Be Great Stock Show.
The short course will furnish a live |
took show Of no small magnitude, as
t will attract some of the very best
,ure bred animals in central Iowa.
Many of these have already entered for
he class work and prizes. Thirty-two
ash prizes, ranging from $40 to $3.50,
AVE been posted for the best Perch
ron horses, beef breed cattle, Poland
,hina hogs and sheep of any breed ex-
ibited at the short course. This stock
will begin to arrive next Saturday, and
II during short course week it will be
n free exhibition at the Wetherson
eed barn on West State street.
All the best of the live stock at Iowa
tate College will be here. Some of the
are national prize winners. The
We stock on exhibition is to be paraded
nru the main streets early Saturday
fternoon, the closing day of the short
curse.