Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-02-16
farmers week
At j. OF Me.
The Numerous Attractions Will
Include an Egg Laying Con.
test, a Utility Contest, Seed
Improvement Day and Other
Interesting Features-Farm-
ers' Business Organizations
Will Be Well Represented.

Orono, Me-, Feb. 15-(Special)-
Among the many attractions for
Farmers Week to be held March 6 to
II at the College of Agriculture at
Orono will be the following especially
important features, which in them.
selves will be we'll worth attending:
Seed Improvement Day.
Tuesday. March eth, will be Seed I'm
provement Day in the Farmers Week
Course which will be held at the COL
lege of Agriculture, Orono, March 9Th
to 18th. inclusive.
A special program has been prepared
running throughout the entire day, and
the program for the afternoon will CEN
ter in a conference on the use Of i'm
proved seed under the auspices of the
Maine Seed Improvement Association
with the president Of the association
presiding.
The program for the day is as fol-
lows
s A. NJ, The Soil-Nature's Store
House and How to Get Into It." Stanley
B. Sink. instructor in soils: 8.55 A. NJ.
Control of Plant Diseases" Harold S.
Os!er, assistant professor of agronomy;
11.55 a. NJ, Pure Line Varieties Of
Oats" Frank ". Surface. assistant BIZ
ologist. Maine Agricultural Experiment
Station; lilo A NJ, Farm Manage
ment Demonstrations and Their Rela-
ton to Farming" Earle l.. Moffitt, Farm
P. NJ, Conference on Use of Improved
Seed, under the auspices of the Maine
Seed Improvement Association. Aims
and Purposes Of the Maine Seed Inn
provement Association" r. L. Copeland.
president; Seed certification-What 1t
Is and What II Aims to Accomplish"
Clarence r. Leland, secretary of the
Association; 1914; Selling Certified
Seed" E. a. Rogers, secretary, in
charge of seed work. Maine Department
Of Agriculture: Material Value of I'm
proved Seed 10 the Grower" L. c. HoI-
ston. formerly president 1s1l-15: The
Results Of Improved Seed as Shown by
Farm Demonstration Work" NJ. D.
Jones. extension representative Penob-
scot county.
The use of better seed and better
varieties Of seed is of great Importance
and is coming to be so recognized by
the progressive farmers Of Maine The
Farmers Week Conference will there
fore deal with matters of live interest
to farmers generally. More than one
lecture and demonstration will be Civ
en- during the week.
Farmers Business Organizations.
Farmers Business organizations rep
resented by the Farmers Union of
Maine and the Maine Fruit Growers
Exchange comprising the local fruit
growers associations in the State will
occupy prominent place in the Farm
ers' Week Course to be held at the
College of Agriculture, Orono, March
9Th to llth inclusive.
! The Farmers Union program will be
held Wednesday, March Sch az 100 p.
NJ. and will consists of addresses by
Mr. c. II. Cashier, president and c. f.
ENFORCE manager of the Union.
The Fruit Growers Association pro-
gram will be held Thursday. March
9th, under the auspices of the Maine
Pathological Society. The speakers
will be Mr.. George A. Yeaton. presi-
dent of the Maine Pathological Society;
Mr.. Hermon p. Sweetsir. vice president
of the society; DIR. Chas. D. Woods di-
rector of the Maine Agricultural Ex-
pertinent s6tion; Mr.. Howard L. Key
ser, member of the executive commit
tee of the society, and Mr.. W. H.
Conant, president of the Maine Fruit
Growers Exchange. also president Of
the Oxford Bears Fruit Growers AS
sociation.
No farmer interested in the organiza-
stion of farmers for the purpose of SELL
ing the products of the farm and buy
ing some of the chief necessities of the
farm and farm home can afford to miss
the Wednesday and Thursday sessions
of Farmers Week
Egg Laying Contest.
One of the attractions of Farmers
Week at the University this year is an
Egg Laying or Utility Contest. During
the week there are to be given several
lectures by the resident faculty and
outside poultry keepers. There will also
be in progress this Egg Laying Contest
which is sure to stimulate keen inter-
est in the competing pens.
Rules governing the conduct Of the
contest are given below. For further
information. address the College of Ag-
riculture, Orono.
Utility Contest.
This is a new departure of Farmers
Week. Its object is to stimulate in
terest in better poultry and to promote
knowledge in regard to the judging Of
poultry with reference to utility quail
ties.
Each contestant will enter a pen Of
five birds; these may be of any breed
or variety, or cross-bred. They may
be either hens or pullets.
Each pen will be housed during the
contest in a large and commodious
coop provided with nests and a roost.
The certificates will be awarded on
the basis of the three most important
utility qualities, viz. "a, the number
OF eggs laid, their size and quality;
CD. the constitutional vigor and worth
OF birds as breeders; 60 their size and
use for meat purposes.
The judging will be done by VIM. C.
Monahan, extension instructor in poul-
try, under the following rules: %, each
egg laid during the week of the con-
test will. If it is a perfect egg, be given