The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1911-11-17
witt DISCUSS
farm TOPICS
National Country Life Congress
Will Meet in Spokane Week
Of Apple Show

Farm betterment, increased pro-
duction, road making, transporta-
ton and market problems, redirec-
ton of the rural school and allied
subjects will be discussed by men
and women farmers. governors, edi-
tors, educators and experts of reco-
ognized ability at the first annual
National Copntry Life Congress in
Spokane, November % to 20. There
also will be a series of practical
demonstrations in the State Armory
to show the progress made in vari-
Gus lines of agricultural endeavor.
Governor Hay of Washington will
preside at the opening sessions,
when state executives and embers
OF national and state legislative bod
les will have charge of the program.
Among the speakers will be Cover
nor Oswald West of Oregon, Gov
ernor James II. Hawley OF Idaho,
Governor Edwin L. Norris of Mon
tana and Governor Judson Harmon
OF Ohio. The tentative program for
the remaining sessions follows:
Farm Home Day, November o.
Devoted to the farm home and the
work of the Grange. Speakers:
Professor P. G. Holden, head of the
agricultural extension department,
Iowa State College, Ames; Joseph
E. Wing, fredericksburg, O., con-
tributing editor The Breeders Ca
zette; Mrs. Clara H. Waldo, Port.
land. Ore; Clifford Willis, editor
Northwest Farmstead, Minneapolis;
Professor E. E. Faville, editor the
Western Farmer, Spokane.
Country School Day, November
25-Speakers: B. H. Crocheron,
Cockeysville, Nd; Henry B.
Dewey, state superintendent of pub
lie instruction, Washington; Miss
Grace NJ. Sheppard, state .superin-
tendent of public instruction, Idaho;
N. D. Showalter, principal, state
normal school, Cheney, Wash; L.
r. Alderman, state superintendent
of public instruction, Oregon; H.
G. Sampson, Spokane; Mrs. Mar
garet Craig Curran, head Of rural
school department. state normal
school, Cheney; F. 0. Creager, State
College of Washington, Pullman;
Mrs. Josephine Preston, county
superintendent of schools, Walla
Walla; J. L. Dumas, Dayton, and
A. L. Rogers, Waterville, members
Of the Washington State Country
Life commission.
Sunday on the Farm, November
26-Two mass meetings to discuss
better social meetings for the farm.
Speakers: Fred M. Hansen, head of
county Y. M. c.. A. work for Iowa;
Rev. David w. Ferry, Spokane,
founder of Girl Guides of America;
Professor P. G. Holden, Ames, La.
George A. Forbes, general secretary,
Spokane Y. M. CA.
Producers Day, November 90
Discussions on increased farm pro-
duction and placing the grower in
touch with farm information.
Spekers: Professor w. J. Spillman,
head of farm management, United
States department of agriculture;
Fred S. Cooley, director of farmers
institutes in Montana; William L.
Carlyle, dean of agriculture, Univer-
sity of Idaho, Moscow; Professor R.
W. Thatcher, head Of department
Of agriculture. Washington State
College; James Withycombe, di-
rector, Oregon experiment station;
P. G. Holden, Ames, Ia; Joseph
E. Wing, Mechanicsburg, o., B.
T. Byrnes, Moscow, Idaho.
Transportation Day, November
28-Addresses and discussions on
good roads and transportation.
Speakers: Horatio S. Earle, former
state highway commissioner of
Michigan, Detroit; D. Ward King,
Maitland, Mo-; Samuel A. Perkins,
president Washington State Good
Roads association, Tacoma. R.
Insinger, chairman board of govern
ors of the 18th National Irrigation
Congress, Spokane; Carl R. Gray,
president Spokane, Seattle & Port
land Railway; R. B. Martin, Spo-
kane. z
Market Day, November %