The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-01-28
AGRICULTURAL
ASSOCIATION
VAST GATHERING EXPECTED
TO ATTEND THE ORGANlZA-
TION IN MUSkOGEE.

] GOunlltS vi tdSLtll ONLhhDAAlei a. \
expected to attend the second an
nual meeting of the Eastern Oklaho-
ma Agricultural association here on
Feb. 3 and (. This is the estimate
of the officers OF the association,
who are receiving reports from each
county branch of the organization
relative to the size of the delega-
ton which each county will send.
The Oklahoma Live Stock associa-
tion's annual convention will be held
in conjunction with the +. o. \. A.
| meeting.
The delegates who will attend the
meeting here are the men who met
in MuskOgee just year ago and
formed an association which in that
short space of time has done more
to improve agriculture in eastern
Oklahoma than any single agency
since old Indian Territory was open
ed to settlement by white farmers
The association placed a county farm
demOnstrator in each county, and
by conducting campaigns for better
methods in farming and by inGuc-
ing immigration was the direct cause
of increasing to big proportions east
ern Oklahoma crop yield the past
season.
What practically amounts to a
farmers short court if offered to
the delegates who will BE- here Feb.
3 and /. The program for the meet
ing, which has just been announced
by President ]. F. Darby of Musko-
gee, is the most elaborate ever ar
ranged for a farmers meeting in
any state, and the names of many
of the most prominent farmers, bus
mess men and bankers appear on the
card for one or another of the two
days sessions.
The program follows:
Tuesday Morning.
Opening Address, J. F. Darby
president of the Eastern Oklahoma
Agricultural association, Muskogee
The Girls Clubs and Better Liv-
ing in the Farm Home" Miss Mary
Z. Creswell, chief of girls club
work, United States department of
agriculture, Washington, D. C.
How the Boys Club Work Ad-
vances Farm Development Prof
0. B. Martin, chief of Boys Club
work, United States department OF
agriculture, Washington, D. C.
Tuesday Afternoon.
THE Value of Cooperation EX-
tended the Demonstration work of
the Department of Agricultural Z.
Gentry, field agent, Washington, D. Ct
Discussion: George Bishop Okla
homa City; j. S. Hansford, Tall
hina, Okla,
Business session of the f. o. A.
A. central organization.
Business session of the Oklahoma
Live Stock association.
Tuesday Evening.
"What the Fever Tick Costs Us
and the Importance of its Eradica
ton" DR.. J. F Bushong, Bureau of
Animal Industry of Oklahoma. Dis
cussion: NJ. F. Tkard, department
of live stock inspection of Oklaho-
ma; DR. William L. Hiatt, United
States department of agriculture, |
Claremore.
Good Roads and How to Make
Them George d. Marshall depart
ment of public roads, Washington,
D. C. Discussion: Cyrus S. Avery
Tulsa; G. D. Sleeper Wagner; Geo
NJ. Porter McAlester; and w. L.
Biggs, Muskogee
Wednesday Morning.
The Farmer and the Railroad,
W. L. English agricuturist, Frisco
lines, St. Louis.
Farm by a Safe System" John
Fields, editor Oklahoma Farm Jour
nal, Oklahoma City.
THE Dairy Cow on the Farm" J."
T. A. Borman, editor the Kansas
Farmer, Topeka.
The Question of Better Seed"
T. NJ. Jeffords, agriculturist, Missouri
Kansas and Texas railway, st. Louis.
Wednesday Afternoon.
County Cooperation in the Con-
troll of Agricultural and Horticultu- |
raj Insect Pests" Prof c. z. San
born, entomologist, A. & VI. College |
saltwater, Okla.
The Place of Poultry on the Sue
cessful Farm Prof. II. l.. Kepster, |
department of poultry husbandry,
University of Missouri.
The Farmer and the Banker"
B. F. Harris, chairman agricultural
commission, A. B. A, Champaign,
III.
The Benefit of the New Currency