The Mankato free press., 1913-11-28
Better Seed Prizes 81
Great Help to Nee
From Mondays Daily.

From Mondays Daily.
The coming to MankatO next Jan
uary of the annual meeting OF the
Minnesota Crop Improvement asso-
citation will mean that this city will
have to put up a premium list as
good or better than it did last win
ter, when this association, under the
names of the Minnesota Field Crop
Breeders association and the Min
nesota Corn Growers association,
met here The Commercial club
last spring invited the association to
meet in Mankato again, promising to
treat it as well as it did last win
ter and the invitation has been ac.
cepted. The city has to furnish
suitable halls for the meetings and
the seed fair, and to give local pub
licity to the meeting and to decor
ate the halls and streets.
The meeting next January is eX-
pected to be m"1h larger than the
one last February, as the purposes
of the meeting are now much bet
ter known A great deal of good
will be accomplished for the farm
ers attending it, as well as for the
city.
Five Day Meeting.
1t was decided at the conference
in this city Saturday afternoon OF
! officers of the association, the, South
ern Minnesota Better Development
/ league, the Blue Earth County Good
! Seed association and the Mankato
| Commercial club, held at the Office
! of the secretary of the Commercial
! club, to have the meetings of the
! first named organizations run con-
jointly for five days Tuesday, We'd
nesday, Thursday and Friday, jan
aary 20, q, % and %. will be the big
days. 1t was also dc cided to have
the farmers short course, both for
men and women, in the fOrenOons,
and the meetings OF the associations
in the afternoons and evenings. The
premium list will be improved over
last winters and a lot of county
specials will be offered by the cOun
ty association, to be raised among
the merchants in the villages of the
+, county outside of Mankato. The
Better Development league will also
secure number of desirable pre-
miums for corn raised in the thir
tytwo counties comprising the league
1t is also proposed to have a meet
ing of the sixty-two agricultural
teachers in the high schools of these
counties in Mankato in connection
with the other meetings, and to have
a special program for them of speak
ers from the state agricultural col
lege, so as to organize their work.
i Great Week for Mankato.
Other efforts are also being made
to make this great week for Man
kato and the people who attend tn,
meetings.
. The list OF premiums from thi
;, city must be complete by the mid
die of December, and a great amour
of work has to be done by tina
time. 1t is expected to print 10,00
copies of the premium list for dis
tribution a month ahead OF the con
. vention, and to make the seed fai
the greatest ever held in the stat,
or northwest. Local merchants ant
business men should be thinkin,
what they would like to offer, s.
as to be ready TO sign UP when tn
committees go around.
Another meeting of the officer
of the three associations will b.
1 4 L 4 w L.
week in the office of the secretar
of the Mankato Commercial clut
to go over the preliminary arrange
ments, and prepare premium lis
i in blank. Each association will ge
its own speakers, but the program
will be arranged at still anothe
meeting, to E2 held later.