Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-07-16
FARMERS ARE NOW
ARRIVING At A. & M.
Farmers Meetings VIII Open Friday,
18TH, and Continue Two Weeks.

College Station, Texas, July 16.-
The advance guard Of Texas farmers.
their wives and children. who will par.
ticipate in the two big weeks for farm
ers at the A. & M. College, began to ar
rive today. BY tomorrow State Agri.
cultural Commissioner ED. r. Kone, at
the head of the Farmers Institutes.
says there will be more than 1000
farmers on the A. & M. campus.
The two weeks for farmers open
formally Friday morning with the
Farmers Institute. which will have
two days session. Monday morning
the Farmers Short Course, under the
director of the school OF agriculture at
the College. viii open for five days
work, and the following Monday, July
81, the Farmers Congress begins a
three days session. I0a
Il. ]. Kyle. dean Of the school OF agri-
culture and director OF all farmers
meetings at the College, has had a
large force OF men at work for several
days getting everything in readiness
for the coming OF the visitors. Cots
have been placed In dormitories and
the College is prepared to take care
OF 1900 visitors. One dormitory has
been set aside for the exclusive use
OF women, a large number OF whom
will be in attendance on the domestic
science course, to be a feature Short
Course week. The other dormitories
will be used for housing the men yisi
tors, and meals will be served in the
Bernard Sblsa mess hall. A small fee
barely sufficient TO cover the actual
cost, will be charged for rooms ant
meals.
The Institute and Congress will b
devoted TO discussion OF questions hav
= ing a practical bearing on agricultural
problems. In session during the Con
gress will be the twenty-one allied OF
CARNATIONS OF that body. These will
meet in the afternoons and the mail
sessions OF the Congress will be hel'
in the forenoons. One feature OF tn
j Congress will be the displays OF farm
9 machinery and labor-saying devices
e. C. Gee OF the farm machinery dc
partment at A. & NJ. College has col
r lected display of machinery OF al
!. kinds. and this viii be used in den
4. onstratlons each afternoon OF the Cor
!, gress. Tractors, stump pullers. cream
cry and dairy equipment, gang plowi
washing machines and every kind Q
machine used on the farm win b
:" shown in this exhibit and win be den
- onstrated by experts.
, The Farmers Short Course Is col
Quoted by the school Of agriculture. II
struction from heads OF department
Ie at the College is given in every phas
Re OF practical farming. Work this yea
y will include instruction in dairy hu
" bandry, animal husbandry. agronom'
m Horticulture domestic science and agr
cultural education. The domestic sc
lie ence course will be conducted by n
United States Department OF Agricu
ture in cooperation with the A. q \
-. College and the College OF lndustri
- Arts at Denton. Advices received
Director Kyle are to the effect Thu
there will be a large attendance
!, women at these meetings. Agricult
raj education is another line OF VOL
that Is attracting widespread ate
ton.
Rates OF one cent mile each WI
are being offered for the two week
~ and delegates to the Institutes recei'
~ passes. Last year 5000 farmers we
9 enrolled at these three meetings. al
- this years attendance records are G
pected to go fully as high.
~ Lecturers of national repute are
" speak at the various meetings, al
one Of the chief speakers will be Pr
~. E. Rice of Cornell University, w
v will talk on poultry problems. Ca
=, of poultry will be stressed in the She
=, Course also.
"o The sessions of all the meetings W
~ be held in the Bernard Sbisa Hall, o
" end Of which has been fitted into
49, convention hall.
A large number of time clocks ha
haor oiacad nm the various tramW