Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1915-02-10
SHORT COURSE BEGINS
TUESDAY next week
Live Stock Demonstrations and
Corn Show, Two Prominent
Features Of Big Meet.

Next Tuesday the much-heralded
Farmers Short Course opens at Will
mar and promises to become one of
the most instructive ever held here.
The short course committee have
been fortunate enough to secure the
live stock special short course for
Willmar this year. A special car of
the states best live stock from the
University Farm at st. Paul will be
here all week. This is sent to but
one town in a county each season and
is impossible to secure for two years
in succession in any one town. The
special car will arrive here Monday
and will contain three dairy animals,
two beef animals and a draft horse.
Besides the live stock the car con-
tains other material for putting on at
the short course.
Some of the speakers at the short
course will be Charles Nelson, Alfred
Carlsted and A. B. Lathrop.
Come in and make this your win
ter vacation. Remember that the
course starts Tuesday morning, Feb.
18th at ten o'clock and continues the
rest Of the week.
The live stock judging will be held
at the Handy-Lewis Garage in the new
addition facing the north on Benson
avenue. The corn work will be in
the guild hall Of the Episcopal church.
The general meetings will be held in
the Court Room at the Court House.
Corn Show Corn Growers Take
Notice.
Those interested in the growing of
more and better corn should exhibit
samples of seed corn at the Corn
Show to be held in the Court House
during the Short Course.
Part Of the work will be in the study
Of seed corn. For this please bring
ten ears of your seed corn just as it
runs. If you bring this on or before
next Monday, Feb. 18th, it will be ear
tested for you and you will get the
results Of the test on Saturday, the
last day Of the course. Bring this SAM
pie for testing to the main hail at
court house tagged with your name
and the name of the variety. If you
wish to exhibit bring an additional
ten ears for that purpose. This need
not be brought until Tuesday, Feb.
18th, when the course starts. Don't
forget to bring the ten ears for study
and testing.
The great value of a corn show is
in the getting together of large COL
lection Of good samples of corn so
that all can learn by seeing just what
the most successful corn growers
think are the types of ears to select.
Realizing this and also because that
on account Of the fact that the short
course management is already to quite
an expense for rent of rooms, stable
room and feed for stock, advertising,
etc., it is rather difficult to raise mon
ey enough for money prizes, it has
| been decided to offer ribbon prizes
only. Ribbon prizes will be given for
the LIST, End, 3rd, 4th and 5th best ten
ear samples of both the yellow and
white dent corn.
Rope Splicing and Halter Making.
One of the features of the short
course this year will be a course in
making rope spices, tying number
of useful knots and in making rope
halters. When the hay rope breaks
in the midst of the busiest part of the
haying season the ability to splice a
rope quickly means dollars and cents
to the farmer. A few minutes will
suffice to learn a simple knot that will
save much time when time is valu
able. Who of us have not spent 8
great deal Of time in trying to unite
a knot that is pulled up so tight that
it is impossible to unite it. You car
learn a knot at the short course thai
can be united in an instant even tht
a traction engine has pulled on it
Rope halters are sometimes a neces
sity. They are the best kind of halt
ers with which to exhibit stock. Moth
ing will cure a colt Of the habit o
pulling on the halter quicker than {
rope halter. If you attend the shor
course every day you will learn al
of this and much more.