Imperial Valley press., 1915-12-15

Final plans are being made 10y The
Agricultural Assembly organization
for the entertainment Of the crowd
which is expected IN Brawley Satur-
day. Interest in the valleys fir"+
great farmers convention is county
wide and a record breaking crowd is
expected
The El Centro district will send its
share of farmers to the Assembly
Parties to 20 by automobile are being
made up today. The section meetings,
at which will be discussed problems
affecting the various branches of
farming, commence promptly at 9:3O
in the morning aud continue to noon
The afternoon session begins at 1870
! and matters of general interest will
there be discussed. The evening ses-
sion opens at 1880 O'clock
Seventeen farming and marketing
experts, some of national reputation
will come to the valley to address
the assembly upon the subjects IN
which they have specialized. Not one
has been assigned a topic requiring
knowledge of Imperial Valley condi-
tiOns but is qualified through first
hand acquaintance with the valley and
it is this fine regard for practicability
i'm preparation of the program that
has already won for Walter T.. Pack
ard, upon whom the burden fell. many
compliments. The expert knowledge
of the visitors will supplement that of
local ranchers, whose success IN pal
ticular lines has set their work apart.
Where the subject is Of general IN
terest to all farmers, Nh. Packard has
put the speakers upon the afternoon
and evening programs. The afternoon
program will begin at l:30 in the aft
ernoon in the auditorium Of the BrdW-
ley high school.
Dr. Thomas Forsyth Hunt, dean Of
the College of Agriculture of the Uni
vers;ty Of California, will talk upon
THE Relation of a Permanent Agri-
culture to Social Welfare
lie will be followed by B. II. Croch-
eron' of Berkeley, state leader i'm the
county adviser movement which is
under the cooperation of the federal
Department of Agriculture and the
University. He will explain how the
valley may obtain such an agent.
DR. ElWood Mead, acknowledged one
of the greatest irrigation experts in
the country, former commissioner OF
the Austrian government, and who,
as member of the state commission
on rural credits, obtained an insight
into local conditions through a hear
ing held in the Barbara Worth ho-
tel recently, will talk on financing
Of farm, onprationS
From Los Angeles will come w. +.
Holt, and f. c. Wallschlaeger, seere-
tary of the California Citrus Protec-
/ tive League. Mr.. Holt will speak on
o the subdivision of large holdings and
= Mr. Wallschlaeger on the marketing
problems solved in an extensive inVes-
tigation by the citrus growers.
The Importance Of irrigation to tn,
valley and the interest in it which
has been stimulated by the probabil
= ity of an early transfer of the {. ID
= svstom to the people has led The
program committee to give goo'
II proportion of the time to speeches o
l. an educational nature.
IS In the afternoon Chester Allison
~ chief engineer of the California De
.yelopment Company, will read pape
n upon the water rights of the vale.
Is and give other information pertaining
L to the system.
y In the evening, c. r. lockwood
y chief engineer of the district, vii
speak upon "Our Water System, Pres
ID ent and Future Among other things
If he will describe his plan for the re
70 moval of heavy silts from the system
with the consequent savings OF thou
" sands of dollars to water users.
e. Outside speakers who will talk be