Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1915-12-29
FARMERS AND HOME.MAKERS'
WEEK At UNIVERSITY FARM

Interesting Program Planned for the
Week Of January SO at St. Paul..
One of the features of Farmers and
Home-makers' Week at University
Farm, st. Paul, January to 8, 1916,
will be congress of live stock breed
ers.
The breeders will come together in
the general meetings of the Mime.
sofa Live Stock Breeders Association,
Thursday, January 6, for the discus.
sion of large problems relating to live
stock. Probably President George E.
Vincent, Of the University of Mime
sofa, will deliver an address of well
come. l.. E. Potter, president of the
Live Stock Breeders Association, will
give response. w. A. Cochel of the
Kansas College of Agriculture, who
has had 20 years of experience in
feeding, will discuss feeding poor
quality roughage to beef cattle. L. T.
Hacker will talk on the cost of pro-
ducing beef, basing his talk upon ex-
periments carried on for years at the
Minnesota Experiment Station Geo.
McKerrow of Wisconsin,, will talk OF
pure bred live stock for the North
west. G. Watson French Of Davenport,
Iowa, will probably discuss the foot
and mouth disease, and the appraisal
of pure bred animals. F.. w. Merrill,
a. well known dairy expert, is also on
the program.
The various auxiliary breeders as
sociations will hold their individual
meetings. The speakers at the meet
ing of swine breeders, Wednesday,
January 5, will be L. P. Martiny, one
of Wisconsin's most successful hog
breeders; R. C. Ashby of the Mime
sofa Experiment Station on the value
OF self-feeders; and M. H. Reynolds,
also of the Minnesota Experiment Sta
ton, on diseases Of hogs.
At the meeting Of sheep breeders,
Wednesday, January S, George Nc
Kerrow of Wisconsin, for IS years a
successful breeder Of sheep, will dis
cuss the feeding of sheep for the show
ring and the market; and T. G. Pat
terson of the Minnesota Experiment
Station, will make a comparison of
cross breeds and grades.
At the meeting Of horse breeders,
Wednesday, January S, if arrange
mentS are carried out, A. E. TrOW.
bridge of the University Of Missouri,
will talk on breeds; and DR.. Shores,
who has promoted the successful colt
shows at Lake City, will discuss colt
shows.
The star of the beef breeders meet
ings, Friday, January z, will be John
Clay of Chicago, one of the largest
breeders of beef cattle in the United
States.
At the meeting of Jersey breeders,
Friday, January Z, M. D. Mum, presi-
dent of the American Jersey Cattle
Club, and president of the American
Society of Record Associations, will
be one of the principal speakers. With
him on the program will be Hugh Van
Pelt, of Iowa. At the Holstein meet;
ing, w. F. Schilling of Mortified, Min
neSOta, and G.. Watson French of Dav-
export, Iowa, both large breeders of
Holstein cattle, will speak. The pro-
gram for the Guernsey breeders meet.
ing Friday, January Z, has not yet
been completed, but will be of the
same character as that of the other
dairy breeders.
In addition to these meetings and
conferences during Farmers and
Home-Makers' Week, will be offered
opportunity to hear lectures and DEM
onstrations on all of the leading phas-
es of farming, especially as applied to
Minnesota; and for the women of Min
nesota's homes, will be offered most
attractive courses dealing with such
problems as the home care of the sick,
the care of children, foods. and cloth.
ing, together with conferences of
housewives and mothers. =
Profitable and enjoyable entertain.
ments and addresses will be given in
the evenings.
One of the big features of the Week
that should not be forgotten is the
meeting of the farmers clubs of the
state to decide upon the question of