Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-11-29
STATE HOUSE.
Three Days Seed Improve
ment Meeting, Next Week,
Promises TO Draw Farmers from
AllPaIts Of Maine 10 Lewiston.
Bureau Of Animal Industry at Wash.
ingtcn Is Represented.


If the State, have Signiticd thpi,. intan.
tion of attending the annual meetings
OF the Maine Seed improvement As
ISOLATION and the Maine Dairymen >
Association, to be held Tuesd.v
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of
next week, in Lewiston. The officers Of
the associations have arranged n most
Interesting program of meetings and
Lave gone to much trouble to secure
speakers of high standard. All midi
''a,lons lead tn the expectation that
lhe meetings. will be the most success
full ever held by the associations.
ahe program OF the meetings will
begin, Tuesday evening, Dec. >. at 10
o'clock. At this first session an invo-
cation will be offered by Rev. DR.
t.eaeitt II. Hallock of Lewiston. and
't9di esses of welcome will be delivered
ny Mayor Hines of Lewiston and Pres
ideut William b. SHELTON of the Cham
'er of Commerce. These addresses Will
he responded to by Commissioner Of
Agriculture John 4. Roberts. The add
dress of the evening will be delivered
by Chairman Lyman II. Nelson of the
state Highway Commission
on Wednesday, at y. NJ, tie State
Seed Improvement Association will
held business meeting, at which
President w. G.. Hunton of the asso-
citation will deliver his annual address
The Maine ereamerymen will hold u
session at $50 A. NJ. and at 1910 y. III.
G. W. Barber of Orono is scheduled to
deliver an address on Work OF the Tx-
in, - >
This "'ill be followed by an essay upon
Placing Improved Seed on the Mar
ket," by Principal r. T. Russell of
Freedom Academy. In the afternoon, Il
business meeting of the Maine Dairy
mems Association will be held. Ad-
dresses will be delivered by II. G.. Bey-
ar, ,1r.. OF Portland. l.. c. Clrbett OF
Orono, and George Z. Simmons of Oro-
no.
The only -the-State speaker to
address tie meetings will speak,
Thursday morning. This is y. NJ. Good
man of the bureau of animal industry
If Washington p. c., who Will speak
upon Cow Testing Associations in
rhis Country And upon that day adj
dresses are scheduled to be made by
y t.
terrille Dairy Improvement Associa-
ton; w. w. Abbott president of the
Norway and Waterville ImproFemen nj
Associations II NJ. Look, official tester
# the association Fred l.. Tibbctts 81
Dexter: Clarence Day of Aachias. II
:. Osler of Orono. ON Thursday eve
nine. viii he held the annual banquet
Of the members % the Daii.ymen's and
seed Improvem Associations.
Upon Friday morning. both Of the as
cations viii hold business meetings.
l. s. Merrill of Orono Will deliver an
address up1n The Relationship Be
tween the Seed improvement Assoeia-
ton and the Daiiynen's Association.
- the afternoon, the association mem
lf.rs viii make Il visit to the Turner
.rcntcr creamery and the Maple Grove
sock Farm,
The premiums offered in many OF the
classes Of the association exhibits are
larger than ever before. and it Is eX-
rcctcd that The farmers will make
!..rge entries. Judging contests have
heen arranged ~ beth associations
and good prizes have been offered to
t'ie winners.
In thc prize essay contest Of the
Maine Dairynens Associations, open
% students taking the agricultural
courses in the secondary schools OF the
State II essays have been entered. The
officers of the stat agricultural DC
partment. acting as judges of the con-
Test. have already. after much dlfil-
.illty, selected the three when IN tleir
estimation are the best submitted ne
writers of these essays We're as ioi-
lows Earle Smith of the Eastern
Maine Seminary, Buckspoft' herpeie
L.. Seekins. Hartland Aeauell!, ira'
land: Earle Clement, Good VIII Hlsh
school. Hinckley Honorable mehtlo'l
,..,e oiyen to essays written by Arthur
walker OF Good Will High school, ana
Ra,nb /. Fellows of Kent's Hall Sem
mary