The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1912-01-19
wheat GROWERS
MEET AT PULLMAN
PROGRAM BEST EVER PRESENTED
BY ASSOCIATION. TUESDAY
is GOVERNORS DAY.

The sixth annual convention of
the Washington Grain Growers, Ship
pers and Millers association will be
held in Pullman next week, begin
ming Monday and continuing until
Thursday afternoon. The following
program has been prepared:
January % and 23-School for
millers at State Experiment Station
boratories-methods of testing
wheat and -four. Sessions at $50
a. m. and 1870 p. m.
January 23-Wheat Growing Day:
1880 p. m.-Opening of Wheat Con-
vention, reading of minutes, appoint
ment of committees, etc. Presidents
annual address. General discussion
of methods of growing wheat: (a)
When and how deep to plow, J.
Houston McCroskey of Garfield and
r. w. Thatcher of the State College;
OBJ Shall we use the subsurface
packer, Claude HolIingsworth of Col
fax and G. w. Bethel of Harrington;
(c) The why and how of summer till
age, R. G. McCroskey of Garfield and
Byron Hunter of Walla Walla; (d)
homemade weeder, Charles Moody
of Lind.
The care of farm machinery, I. D.
Charlton, instructor in farm mechan-
les, State College.
1880 p. m.-Concert by State Col
lege band.
Address by Governor M. E. Hay.
The need of Crop Rotation, DR..
Paul J. White, professor of agron-
omy, State College.
Corn and Silage, w. D. Foster, su-
perintendent of State College farm.
Alfalfa, R. A. Jackson, Dayton.
The Moisture Requirements of
Crops {illustrated) C. G. Thorn, soil
physicist, State Experiment Station.
January 24-Milling and Market
ing Day.
$50 a. m.-Exhibit of tillage i'm
plements at Farm Mechanics build
ing, state farm.
$3.50 a. m.-General discussion of
seed wheat: (a) Pure VS.. Mixed Seed;
from the growers standpoint, D. o.
Hughes of Hartline and F. NJ. Slagle
of Pullman; from the millers' stand
point, Samuel Glasgow of Spokane;
(b) How Many Varietiese: from the
farmers standpoint, Reuben Over
man of Grangeville, NJ. 7. Braislawn
of Sprague and B. T. Byrnes of Mos
COW; from the buyers standpoint, r.
T. Lord of Spokane and F. P. Lint of
lewiston; from the millers' stand
point, J. X. Smith of Spokane, j.
Stucky of Pullman and NJ. H. Houser
of Pomeroy.
Weeds, Their Identification and
Eradication: (a) Weed Seeds, E. F.
Gaines, instructor in agronomy, State
College; (b) Noxious Weeds, Pro-
fessor r. Kent Beattie, State Col
lege; (c) Methods of Destruction,
Rudolph Kruger of Pennington and
E. S. Sweet of Grangeville.
The State Pure Seed Law and It's
Operation, Louise M. Allen, deputy
seed inspector, of Seattle.
1870 p. m.-The Fertility of Pa
louise Wheat Lands, j. F. Childers,
professor of agronomy, University of
Idaho.
The Effect of Rotation on Milling
Quality of Wheat, ]. S. Jones, chem
ist Idaho Experiment Station.
The Millers' Needs, ]. F. Bibb of
Tacoma.
The Basis of State Inspection, G. ].
Hoist, state grain inspector, of Ia
coma and G. w. Cowgirl, state grain
inspection board of Idaho, of Grange
vile.
Feeding Wheat to Hogs, D. o.
Lively, president Union Stock Yards
Co., of Portland, Ore.
1880 p. m.-Concert by State Col
lege orchestra.
Marketing Wheat, Louis Delivuk
of Quincy.
Address, L. Frank Brown of
Seattle.
Progress in Cooperative Organiza-
ton, L. G. Grow, president Farmers
Educational and Cooperative Union,
of Pullman.
Dangers of Cooperation, A. w.
Taylor, professor of economic science,
State College.
January 25-Anti-Smut Day.
$50 a. m.-Smut in the 1911
Crop. H. ]. Herman of Genesee,
Idaho.
Smut: It's Nature and Control, Pro-
fessor Kinnard, Idaho Experiment
Station.
A New Method of Treating Wheat
IOT 0nul, ". p. IAS6iOy VI oAouSO'
II a. m.-Business session.
1870 p. m.-The anti-smut Cam
paign, R. G. McCroskey OF Garfield,
Wash.
Cooperative Experiments for the
Control of Smut, Professor H. B.
Humphrey, State College.
The Palouse Ground Squirrel, Pro-
lessor w. T. Shaw, State College.
poVE,C nTPECTORy