The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1911-11-11
COUNTRY LIFE CON-
CRFSS PROGRAM
Especial to the Silver state.)

SPOKANE. Wash, Nov. H.
Farm betterment. increased produc-
tion, roadmaking, transportation and
market problems, redirectiion of the
rural school and allied subjects will be
discussed by men and women farmers,
governors, editors, educators and ex-
perts of recognized ability at the first
annual National Country Life con-
gress in Spokane, November % to 20.
There also will be series of practical
demonstrations in the state armory to
show the progress made in various
lines of agricultural endeavor
Governor Hay of Washington will
preside at the opening sessions, when
state executives and members of ma
tional and state legislative bodies will
have charge of the program. Among
the speakers will be Governor Oswald
West of Oregon, Governor James Fl.
Hawley of Idaho, Governor Edwin L.
Norris of Montana, and Governor
Judson Harmon of Ohio. The tentative
program for the remaining sessions
follows:
Farm Home Day, November 24-De-
voted to the farm home and the work
of the Grange. Speakers: Professor
P. G. Holden, head of the agricultural
extension department, Iowa State col
lege, Ames; Joseph E. Wing, Mechan-
icsburg, Ohio, contributing editor of
the Breeders Gazette; Mrs. Clara H.
Waldo. Portland, Oregon; Clifford Will
lis, editor Northwest Farmstead, Min
neapolis; Professor f. f. Faville, edi-
tor the Western Farmer, Spokane.
Country School Day, November 25-
Speakers: B. H. Chocheron, Cockeys-
vile, Nd; Henry B. Dewey, state SUI
perintendent of public instruction,
Washington; Miss Grace M. Shepherd,
state superintendent of public instruc-
tion, Idaho; N d. Showalter, princi-
pal, state normal school, Cheney,
Wash; l.. R. Alderman, state superin-
tendent of public instruction, Oregon;
Fl. C. Sampson; Mrs. Margaret Craig
Curran, head of rural school depart
ment, state normal school, Cheney; F.
o. Creager, State College of Washing
ton, Pullman; Mrs. Josephine Preston,
county superintendent of schools,
Walla Walla; J. L.Dumas, Dayton and
A. L. Waterville, members of the
Washington State Country Life com
mission.
SUNDAY on the Farm, November 90
Two mass meetings to discuss better
social conditions for the farm. Speak
ers: Fred M. Hanson, head of county
Y. M. c. A. work for Iowa; Rev. David
W. Ferry, Spokane, founder of the
Girl Guides of America; Prof. p. G..
Holden, Ames, Iowa; George A..
Forbes, general secretary, Spokane Y.
NJ. G. A.
Producers Day, November 27-Dis
cussions on increased farm production
-. 80. h. x...4 I,
farm information. Speakers: Pr9fes-
sor w. !. Spillman, head of farm man
agement, United States department If
farmers institute in Montana; Nm.
l.. Carlysle, dean of agriculture, Um-
versity of Idaho, Moscow; Professor
R. W. Thatcher. head of department
of agriculture, Washington State col
lege; James Withycombe, director,
Oregon experiment station; p G. Hol
den, Ames, Iowa; Joseph f. Wing,
Mechanicsburg, Ohio; b. II. Byrnes,
Moscow, idaho
Transportation Day, November IS :
Addresses and discussions on good
-oads and transportation. Speakers;
Toratio $. Earle, former state nigh
way commissioner of Michigan, De
troit: ID. Ward King, Maitland, Mo-;
Samuel A. Perkins, president Wash
ington State Good Roads association,
Tacoma; R. Insinger, chairman board
of governors of the 10th National Jr
rigation congress, Spokane; Carl R.
G,ay, president Spokane, Seattle 4
Portland railway; r. B. Martin, Si'o-
Kane.
Market Day, November 90 Heads
of farmers cooperative and educa-
tional unions, commission men and
consumers will have charge. Speakers:
f. Fl. Shepard Hood River, Oregon;
w. III. Paulhamus, president Washing
ton State senate; Professor w. s..
Thornber, Lewiston, Idaho; L. G.
Grow, president Farmers Educational
and Cooperative Union Of Washing