Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1911-02-04
GRAIN MEN TO MEET.
Growers and Shippers to Hold Session at
Pullman February Oil.


The program Of the fifth annual convention
of the Grain Growers, Shippers and Millers'
association to be held at Pullman, Wash,
February to IL inclusive, has been
nOunced by Professor r. W. Thatcher, head
of the agricultural department at the Wash
ington State College and secretary of the
association.
On the opening day, February ., the pro-
gram will be as follows: Opening Of conven-
ton; appointment of committees; president S
address, Wheat Grading, Marketing and
Milling: 1.-THE Influence of Crop Rotation
on Quality in Wheat J. S. Jones of the
Idaho Experiment Station, Moscow, Idaho;
equality and Grading Wheat j. STICKY
Anatone Wash; music State College Glee
club; Results of Five Years Tests Of
Washington Wheats Professor r. w.
Thatcher Washington Experiment station,
Pullman; demonstration of method of testing
wheat at the experiment station laboratory
in charge of George A. Olson assistant
chemist Evening session: Concert by State
College band address by @. J. Hoist, state
grain inspector, Tacoma, Wash; Grain
Growing in Eastern States r. G. McCros-
key, Garfield, Wash; 1.-THE Relation of
Wheat Growers to the Milling Industry NJ.
Moriarty, Reardan, Wash; wheat From
the Millers' Standpoint, Sam Glasgow, Spo-
kane.
Program, February 10.
Dry Farming Day: 1.-The State Pure Food
Law and Its Enforcement" l.. Davies, state
Lessons From the Dry Season of 1910"
general discussion, led by d. A. Scott, Ritz
Vile; @. M. Hensel, Waterville; NJ. T. Bris-
lawn, Sprague, and @. e. Kuykendal, Pome-
roy; "A Homemade Subsurface Packer, -
Claude Hollingsworth, Colfax. In the after
noon session will be taken up Report of
committee on the cost of producing wheat, j.
Houston McCroskey, Garfield, chairman
DRY Farming in the Big Bend, A. NJ.
Brandt, Spokane; readings by members of
the elocution department, state college
"Tillage for Moisture Conservation @. O.
Thorn, soil physicist, Washington Experiment
station, Pullman; Results on the Demon
stration Farm in 1907 II. W. Sparks, super
session.
Evening session: Concert by state college
orchestra What the State Country Life Com.
mission Has Accomplished, E. A. Smith,
secretary, Spokane; Education for Indus.
trial Efficiency" President E. A. Bryan,
Washington State college; Agricultural Edu-
cation in Idaho" W. L. Carlyle, dean OF
agriculture, State University of Idaho, Mos
COW; address by member Of the state rail
way commission.
Carlyle on Program.
Program for Saturday February 11-Rota.
ton and Crop Pests Day: Livestock on a
Wheat Farm j. II. McCroskey Sprague
"Growing Field Peas" II. II. Curtis, Pull
man; 1.-THE Place Of Live Stock on a Grain
Farm" Dean W. L. Carlyle Moscow, Idaho
lluI EINQutAlNn IN ANJ AhAuA4 AAuAPAANt ~
o. Lively, Union Stock yards, Portland, Ore
Afternoon session: Corn as a Rotation
Crop" Leonard Hagnauer, professor OF
agr0nomy, Washington State college
Weeds and How to Destroy Them, Pro
fessor r. k Beattie, botany department
Washington State college; How the SOUR
rels Were Eradicated on the College Farm,
W. D. Foster. superintendent of farm; 1.-THE
Columbian Ground Squirrel W. II. Shaw
professor of zoology, Washington State col
tEvnarfrnnnfa in Smut IuoouI fiou
A. NJ Richardson, Colfax.
About 300 delegates are expected to attend
this convention and elaborate plans are being
made for their entertainment. The officer.
Of the association are: Orrs Dorman, Spo
kane, president; William l.. La Toilette
Pullman. vice president; Professor r. W
Thatcher. Pullman, secretary, and ]. s. KLEIN
gard, Pullman, treasurer.