The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-02-11
Conference Week at O. A. c.

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the Physiology of Breeding" by DR..
B. T. Simms; organization of Horse
Breeders Association of Oregon.
Friday night, horse show.
Saturday-Special programme for
the Oregon Pure-Bred Livestock
Breeders Association; Grading
Livestock and the Marekt for Pure
Bred Sires," by E. L. Potter; Breed
ing for Economical Production" by
G. r. Samson; Breeding for Wool
Production" by o. NJ. Nelson.
School Officers to Confer.
The first three days of Farmers
week will be of special interest to
County Superintendents and Super
visors. On Monday, February i, Mr..
o. H. Benson, agriculturist for the
United States Department of Agri-
culture and specialist in boys and
girls club work. will be at the col
lege. Having been a County School
Superintendent himself and having
had more experience in boys and
girls club work than anyone else in
America, Mr.. Benson will have many
good, practical talks in store for
those who can attend. Mr.. Benson
is also a specialist in canning, and
he will demonstrate the latest meth
DDS of canning fruits, vegetables and
meats on both days.
On Tuesday the conference of local
and county fair workers will be held,
and this work will be of very great
interest to all County Superintend-
ents.
On Wednesday afternoon, Febru-
ary 3, will be held a conference on
"The Rural School as Community
Center" The speakers at this meet
ing will include President Showalter,
of the Cheney Normal School; State
Superintendent j. A. Churchill, Dr..
Joseph Schafer and Professor II. 7.
French, o. A. G.
On the forenoons Of each Of these
three days college specialists will
give demonstrations and lectures on
the teaching of agriculture, manual
training and household economics in
rural schools.
Road Builders Conference.
The purpose of the road builders
conference Is to bring together In
mutual aid and conference the Road
Supervisors, County Judges, County
Commissioners and other citizens in
terested in securing the most eff
cient construction, management and
maintenance of our public roads. II
is hoped that this meeting can be
made of very great assistance to all
Road Supervisors Of the state, and
especially so to the newly-appointed
ones who are now taking up their
work. Every effort will be put forth
to make the meeting instructive along
practical lines. 1t is not the inten-
ton to cover very wide range OF
subjects, but to do what we do at
tempt in such way that each one
will feel we'll repaid for his attend.
ance.
In order that the programme may
be of the greatest interest and value
to those attending, the college, in the
preparation of the same, has invited
the advice and cooperation Of the
County Judges Of Lane, Linn and
Benton counties.
Anyone desiring information upon
any question relating to roads OF
bridges is invited to hand in the same
as early as possible and an answer
will be given either at one of the
periods devoted to questions or pri.
vately, as may seem best.
The testing laboratories will be
running on samples Of local material
with plenty of assistants in charge tc
answer all qeustions and give the nee.
essary information to visitors. Wis.
itors will be supplied at the door
with microscopical copies or printed
descriptions Of the tests being run
and the proper Interpretation of re-
suits, the purpose being to show the
practical value of the tests In deter.
mining the value Of the material foI
roed purposes.
Work i'm Horticulture.
The division Of horticulture during
Farmers week will conduct three