The Greeley tribune., 1910-01-06
TRIBUNE WILL GIVE MOST
COMPLETE REPORTS FROM
FARMERS LECTURE COURSE

Fort Collins, Jan. 81 am now a
full-fedged student farmer. 1 walk
ed up to the cashier this morning.
gave my name and pedigree, depos-
tied my little 50, and got nicely
printed receipt for the same, which
shall take pride in displaying to
those readers OF the Tribune who
ever express any doubt that l went
through college.
From what l can see of the pro
gram there will be things doing here
all week, and man would have to
split himself in two or three pieces
If he would take it all in. However,
like the bill of fare at the Northern
hotel, you don't have to take it all
if you can't hold it. The sessions
begin at $50, run till half an hour
after noon and begin again at 1880,
and run in stunts of an hour each
till half past 5. Then to finish the
day properly. there's lecture by
somebody who thinks he has mes
sage for mankind every evening from
half past till everybody gets sleepy
Some days there are two speakers
at one time most of the day, in differ
ent rooms of course, and in another
building Miss Rausch, who proved
such favorite to Greeley women
last winter, is giving weeks course
in domestic science. This morning.
A. keyser will talk for an hour on
crop smuts and their remedies From
$3.50 to 1890 G. E. Morton dis
cusses dairy cattle and hogs. Pro-
fessor Bennett has the floor from
1890 till 1880 and tells how plants
grow Then Professor Newsom lee
lures until the dinner hour on the
lcare of horses teeth.
After dinner Professor Bennett
talks on planning and planting the
orchard until $3.50. and for the nex1
hour II. NJ Bainer discourses upon
the handling of farm dairy products
and C. p. Gillette tells what he knows
about plant lice.
From $3.50 to 4:30 Professor Blinn
talks cantaloupes and B. F. kaupp
speaks of losses from parasite in
farm animals. From 1880 to $50
is taken up by w. G. Sackett and A
Keyser, the former lecturing on the
bacterology of milk, and the latter
discussing hay making.
In the evening there is a lecture
bv George w. Vallery, general agent
: of the Burlington. Vallery used to
be a farm boy. and hasn't entirely
: forgotten what he learned while
husking corn and milking COWS at
ten a month and found.
am putting in the week here
because | want to get in better touch
with the farming interests of north
ern Colorado, particularly. and be-
cause | believe that there must be
more and more interest taken III
scientific farming of practical sort
if the farmers of this country are
: to successfully cope with bugs and
: smuts, and trusts and labor problems
| believe that the Colorado Agricul-
lturaI college is becoming more prac-
tical each year, and want to do my
mart through the Tribune to make
that college a real help to the farmers
of this section
expect to give Tribune readers
the best report of the weeks dolnss
THAT il is possible to crowd INTO Two
columns of space each day. or course
TO attempt to give it all or major
, mart of what is said in the ten hours
! of each DAYS work would take the
entire space of two whole papers the
? size of the Tribune. but | think that
| can say whole lot that Is worm
5 repeating in the space allowed me.
residents of Fort Collins tell me
" that the town is pretty full OF strans-
/ srs most of whom are here IN at
tendance upon the short course,
!, LAST wear there we're over 2oo stu
dents enrolled for the course. IL IL
eypected that there will be at leas'
= 900 here this year, most OF theIi
contrary to what one would expect
80 fror distant parts of the state