Mexico Missouri message., 1915-01-21
NOTES OF MEETING.

feeder and breeder, attended all the
! meetings.
c. f. Yancey of Liberty, NO. one
of the best known live stock buyers
Of the state, was present at all ses-
sions.
D. G. Cornman, farm demonstration
for the Frisco railroad in the east half
Of Missouri, was an interested visitor.
He is applying his information to inn
proving agricultural conditions along
the lines of the Frisco.
Columbia babies scored heavily in
a field of go infants at the state baby
show held in connection with Farm
ers' Week. More than 700 persons,
mostly women, attended the show at
the Rothwell gymnasium.
Wilbur Wallace of Bunceton, Cooper
county, attended the meeting of the
swine breeders association. Mr.. Wal
lace is engaged in the breeding and
the selling of the big-boned Poland
China hogs and his herd is one Of the
best in the state.
The grand sweepstakes prize was
won by a st. Joseph baby, Melvin
Raines White, son of MIR. and Mrs.
W. D. White, The baby is only seven
months old and, was proclaimed by
the examining scientists a wonderful
specimen of babyhood. This baby
won first prize in the Interstate Agri-
cultural show at St. Joseph.
Every morning during the week tfAe
College Of Agriculture eonSuSLed a
free four days short course for farm
ers, which CT rise included work in
soils, farm C. IS, insect control, bee
keeping, farm ,arpentry, farm forg-
ing, poultry raising, home economics,
farm buildings, farm management,
animal husbandry, dairy husbandry,
veterinary practice, fruit production,
automobile practice, slaughtering,
meat cutting, rural economics, farm
mechanics and forestry.
Arthur Nelson, who o7fns one of
the largest and best farm in Cooper
county, located near Bunceton, may
always be found in Columbia Farm
ers' Week. Mr.. Nelson is the largest
stock feeder in Cooper county and his
farm is up to date in every way. He
has an NJ. d. degree, but his bucollc
tendencies and his preference for
agricultural pursuits induced him to
forsake Aesculapius and turn his at
tention to the development of his
large land interests in Cooper.
Rufus Jackson, editor and pro-
prietor of the Missouri Stockman,
published at Mexico, Mo-. was here
attending the meeting of the Missouri
Saddle Horse Breeders association, OF
which he has been secretary since its
organization. Mr.. Jackson resigned
at this meeting on account of lack OF
time to look after the duties of the
position. The saddle horse associa-
ton owes it's existence more to him
than to any other individual and its
interests are always fostere6 in his
excellent publication.
George r. Wilkerson OF Sedslia,
accompanied by his wife, was here.
Mr.. Wilkerson lives In Sedalia and
farms near there. He was a student
in the University of Missouri in 1899,
and this is HIS first visit to Columbia
in Is years. 81 haye been over many
parts of the country since left Co
lumbia in 1885," said Mr. Wilkerson,
'and l have seen none that has kept
pace with Columbia in progress and
advancement Columbia is the best
and most up-to-date town of it's size
anywhere in the country and is in a
class by itself"
N. c. Mcfarland of Pettis county,
Of the firm of Mcfarland Brothers,
breeders of fine Duroc-Jersey hogs,
was here with Mrs. Mcfarland. This
Pettis county herd of DuIocs has
been one of the largest prize win
ming herds in the United States for .
the last is years at state fairs and
national shows. At the st. Louis
Worlds Fair in 1904, Mcfarland
Bros herd won more than double the
amount of prizes won by any herd OF
Durocs Their herd was established
in 1888, over 80 years ago. Their
boar, 29,271, and their SOW, .Doty 81
Az, won the grand championships In
their class at the st. Louis Worlds
Fair. Green Mcfarland is the other
member of the firm.
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