Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-04
STATE FARMERs' ASSOCIATION
70 HOLD ANNUAL SESSION,
FEB. 1917.
INTERESTING PROGRAM
ARRANGED BY OFFICERS
Prominent Speakers Are Secured, In
GLIDING Grain Experts From Middle
West Colleges Officials and
Prominent Iowa Politicians to Speak
on Closing Day.
Special to. Times Republican.

SpeClal TO IlmeS-RepuDnCan.
Eagle Grove. Jan. Al. D. McVicker.
president of the Farmers Grain Deal
ers' Association of Iowa, and C. H.
Nelson, Of Garner, one of the directors.
and w. J. Ray, Of Colo, secretary, met
in Eagle Grove and completed the pro-
gram for their annual meeting, which
will be held in Des Moines, Feb. Is, 16
and II. They have a splendid pro-
gram and they are looking for the
largest gathering in the history of the
association. A brief outline of the
program is as follows:
President McVicker will call the con.
vention to order in the auditorium,
Tuesday forenoon, at $3.50. At 1915
Hon. Henry Wallace will give an adj
dress on "Co-operative Movements as
I Have Seen Them. At 11:15, Judge
w. B. Quarton, Of Algona, president Of
the State Dairy Association, will speak
on cooperation in Iowa" In the
afternoon there will be an address by
c. H. Candy, president of the Chicago
board of trade, on Terminal and Pri-
mary Market Conditions" William G..
Eckhart, of Dekalb, ILL.,, will speak
upon bridging the Gap Between Farm
Practice and the Work That Has Been
Done by the Experiment Station and
the Federal Government"
Election Of Officers Wednesday.
Wednesday morning, after committee
reports and election of officers, there
will be an address by Cyril G. Hopkins,
Of the department of agronomy and
chemistry of University CO Illinois Col
lege of Agriculture, his subject being
Permanent Methods Of Grain Farm
ing" In the afternoon Prof c. S. Dor
chester, Of the extension department Of
Iowa State College, will give a talk.
Other matters will be discussed by the
association. First, 1.-THE Central Pur-
chasing Agency" second, RE organi-
zation of Farmers Stock Companies tn
a Cooperative and Pro-rata basis"
In the evening the association will
be addressed by F. H. Newell, head Of
the civil engineering department of the
University Of Illinois, who will ex-
plain the reclamation Of western arid
lands, by lantern slides. This will be
followed by an address by H. H. Gross,
president of the Tariff Commission
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advisability of a; government tariff
commission. At $3.50 Of the same eve
ming Alfred Owen Crozier, Of Cincin-
natl, will speak, Money" being his
topic. Finances and rural credits will
be discussed. sla3 81 a.4 81
4 lae Mixed Proarem Thursday.
Thursday morning Hon.. Lafayette
Young, ST., will give an address. "1n
the Trenches with the Armies OF
Europe" e. c. Eckerle, field man OF
the American Cooperative Journal,
will also speak, and there will also
be report of the American Co. opera
tive Journal by Editor Myers. Thurs
day afternoon there Is strong pro-
gram. for E. T. Meredith, Attorney
General Cosson, Hon. Clifford Thorne,
Senator Joe Allen and others are
booked for addresses. fa%
Thursday evening, the closing eve
ming, there will be staged on the plat
form Of the auditorium an extra high
class entertainment that will take up
the entire evening, given by the men,
here IF tho Ora IN ,Tro do nf neS Moipes