The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1911-02-03

soclatlOn, to be held at Pullman on
February Oil, will undoubtedly be a
big event. The three days session of the
convention will be replete with variety
and interest. The Gazette has hereto
fore spoken OF this convention. At this
time we give the program in full, which
shows the subject matters on tap for
those who attend. 1t follows:
Thursday, Feb. 9--1:3o p. m.
Opening of convention, appointment of COM
mittees, etc. Presidents address.
WHEAT GRADING. MARKETING AND MILLING
THE Influence of Crop Rotation on Quality
in Wheat" j S. Jones, Idaho Experiment
Station, Moscow, Idaho.
" Quality and Grading of Wheat" J.
StuckY, Anatone
Music-State College Glee Club.
Results of Five Years Tests of Washing
ton Wheats," r w. Thatcher, chemist,
Washington Experiment Station, Pullman.
Demonstration Of methods Of testing wheat
at the experiment station laboratory, in
charge Of George A. Olson, assistant chemist
Evening session--7:3o p. m.
Concert by State College Band
Address-C. J. Hoist, state grain inspector,
Tacoma
Grain Growing in the Eastern States, -" R .
G. McCroskey, Garfield.
THE Relation Of Wheat Growers to the
Milling Industry" NJ Moriarty, Reardan.
''Wheat From the MiIlers Standpoint. "
S. Glasgow, Spokane
Friday, Feb. TO- Dry Farming Day.
MORNING sEssIoN-9:30 Am.
'The State Pure Seed Law and It's Enforce
ment," L Davis, state dairy and food com
missioner, Davenport.
Lessons From the Dry Season of 1910"
General discussion, led by d. A. Scott, Ritz
vile; G. M Hensel, Waterville; M. I. Bris-
lawn, Sprague; @. Z. Kuykendal, Pomeroy.
" A Home Made Sub-Surface Packer, :"
Claude Hollingsworth, CoIfax.
Afternoon Session--1:3o p. m.
Report of committee on cost of producing
wheat. Houston McCroskey, Garfield,
chairman.
Dry Farming in the Big Bend, A NJ.
Branot, Spokane.
Reading by members of elocution depart
ment, State College.
''Tillage for Moisture Conservation" G. c.
Thorn, soil physicist, Washington Experiment
Station, Pullman
Results on the Demonstration Farms in
1910" Il. W. Sparks. supervisor demonstra-
tion farms, Pullman, business section.
Evening Session--7:3o p. m.
Concert by State College Orchestra.
"What the State Country Life Commission
Has Accomplished" E. A. Smith, secretary,
Spokane.
Education for Industrial Efficiency" Pres
ident E. A. Bryan, Washington State College,
Pullman.
Agricultural Education IN Idaho," W. L..
Carlyle, dean of agriculture, State University
of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho.
Address, by a member of the state railway
commission.
Saturday, Feb. 11--Rotation and
Crop Pests Day.
9:30 A. NJ
Livestock on a Wheat Farm, J. H Nc
Croskey, Sprsgue.
Growing Field Peas, H. Fl. Curtis, Pull
man.
Corn in the Palouse." D. Carson, Pull
man.
- he Place of Livestock on Grain Farm" F"
Dean w. L. Carlyle, Moscow. Idaho,
Hog Production in the Inland Empire, "
D. 0. Lively, Union Stock Yards, ortland,
Oregon.
100 P. M.
Corn as Rotation Crop" Leonard Heg-
nauer, professor of agronomy, Washington
State College.
Weeds and How to Destroy Them, r. K.
Beattie, professor of botany, Washington
State College.
''How the Squirrels Were Eradicated on the
College Farm, W. d. Foster, superintendent.
THE Columbian Ground Squirrel" ". T.
Shaw, professor of zoology, Washington State
College.
"Er perlments in Smut incubation, A NJ
Richardson, Colfax