Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-12-27
CONvENT|ONSFOR
THE FARMERS AND
RA|SfRS OF STOCK
Four Agricultural Meetings
to Be Held at the Idaho
Technical Institute at Po-
catello in January.

Pocatello, Dec. 27.-The farmers and
housekeepers week at the Idaho Tech
nical institute, Jan. to Jan. 10, in
conjunction with the conventions of
the seed growers, stockmen, swine
breeder, and dairymen, promises to be
in attendance and attractiveness of
program the greatest agricultural meet
ing ever held in the state of Idaho.
Special rates have been made on the
railroads and the Commercial club of
Pocatello will assist in entertaining the
large crowd which will be present.
The best program ever provided for
the stockmen of the northwest has
been arranged for at this meeting at
the state scnool at Pocatel for the
leading men in the United States on
all livestock problems have consented
to be present. 1t has been possible to
secure some of these men because of
their attendance at other large gather
ings in the west such as the National
Wool trowers' convention, etc, thus
making the program the strongest in
really eat experts.
PROMINENT SPEAKERS.
The joint program will be off the
press in a few days but already the
board of control can promise a nLm-
Der of great sp ,akers. When a man
like Ex-Governor E. M. Almonds of
Colorado has been secured for this con-
vention, it Is needless to say that the
meeting will be a success. Governor
Almonds for years has been breeder
of Hereford cattle on his large farms
in eastern Colorado and has done more
for the development of beef cattle by
good feeding and good breeding, prob
ably tan any other man in the west.
He was a member of the state board
of agriculture. and is presi' Mt of the
Northwest Livestock association at
Denver and the Cattle and Horse
Growers association of Colorado. He
is a speaker Of national repute o. live
stock, and this winter is scheduled for
nearly every la; &c livestock convention
in the United States.
Other shining lights on the program
are: w. E. Myer, United States de-
partment of agriculture, the great spe-
cialist on COW testing; Fred Merrill.
formerly Of the United Sites depart
ment, the famous milk expert; b. r.
Eldridge, United States department,
another dairy expert; John T. Game,
director of the Utah agricultural col
lege extension department, swine ex-
pert; e. ]. Iddings, deal of the College
of Agriculture, University of Idaho, au-
thority on breeding; William H.
Daughtry, president Union Meat Pack
ing company of Portland. authority on
community shipping and marketing;
Virgil Patterson, Cudahy field man.
ager on coast market; DR.. Baker, dep
uty state veterinarian on diseases of
livestock; DIR. Marshall, United States
department, the great sheep and wool
authority; Homer Fem, United States
forestry supervisor, on range conserv-
alton; T. w. Tomlinson of Chicago,
secretary of American National Live
stock association, and number of
state workers.
POTATO ASSOCIATION.
Lew d. Sweet president of the Pota-
to Association of America, one of the
greatest living authorities, will be pres
ent and desires to assist in the organ
ization of an Idaho Potato association.
r. +. Reeve. United States depart
ment, will discuss insect diseases In
furious to seeds. o. D. Center, Idaho
director of extension; s. J. Donaldson,
R. E. Sh .pherd, ]. II. Webster and
others are on the program. President
Brannon of the state university, and
d. W. Davis are scheduled for ad-
dresses, as we'll as members # the
Idaho Technical institute faculty.
Caroline Hunt of Washington, D. c.;
DIR. Farrell of the United States de-
partment; Miss Kelly, fred Merrill and
other strong speakers have been Sc
cured for a very strong program of
grea. interest to the visiting women
during the week.
BOISE POST OFFICE