Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-04-03
FOR Open
MEETING APRIL
7PROM|SE WELL
of Agriculture Men
Will Be on Program at
Big Farm Gathering
TELLS
OF COUNTY E

OF COUNTY AGENT
The big open meeting for farmers
that is to be held in the Commercial
club Saturday. April Z at 1870 p. M,
under the auspices of the farm i'm.
provcment bureau, promises to be the
biggest gathering of the farmers OF
the county ever held in the association
rooms and the liveliest meeting Of the
kind that has ever been attempted in
these parts.
The farmers of the county are thor.
oughly active in the movement for the
improvement Of farming and agricul'
tural conditions generally. The plans
for the proposed meeting have been
underway for several weeks past and
daily the interest in it increases. The
farm bureau has taken up the project
with q zest that success and
the )mber of prospective members
for the farm bureau that will be turn
ed In at the big open meeting April I,
is certain to be large.
The new county agent. c. r. Scott
of Mason City will be here the begin.
ming of next week and has written
that he will arrive April 2 five days
previous to the big gathering. Profess
sor Churchill of Ames wso is to con-
duct the seed testing work in the
county. is expected to arrive in time
for the big gathering and an effort is
being made to get Rex Yackey OF
Ames who was here a few days ago
talking to the children of the school
on the garden contests. Prof. J. w.
Coverdale the state leader of county
agents, has promised to come and will
be one of the chief speakers at the
meeting.
Scott Has Good Record.
= Mr.. Coverdale, upon whose recon-
mendation the choice of Mr.. Scott as
county agent was made, has the fol-
lowing sketch on the life and qualifica.
tons of the new county agent which
he has Sent to the Commercial club:
&c. r. Scott. the man selected for
the position Of county agent of Wapel-
10 county, come to his new work with
a wealth Of practical and technical ex-
perience. He was born on a farm near
Newton, Iowa. later moving to a Polk
county farm where he lived until
twenty-five years of age. At this time
he entered the animal husbandry
course at the Iowa State college and
graduated with the class Of 1905.
"In college Scott was known as a
good stock Judge and represented his
college in the international stock
Judging contest at Chicago in 1904.
Iowa won first place that year in the
general average and brought back
to Ames a trophy for winning in the
horse Judging work.
Upon graduation in 1905, Scott look
charge of a dairy farm near Colorado
Springs and for a year and a half was
busy supplying the city with milk. 1t
was here that he got his flrst-hand
knowledge of dairying.
He returned to Polk county in 1907
- married and settled down to farm
ing. Four years ago he bought a farm
in Cerro Gordo county where he has
since resided and where he would
probably have stayed had it not been
for the seed corn campaign OF a year
ago.
AT that time the extension depart
ment was very short On help and Scott
as pei SudoSd W IVoNS IL . " u
month to conduct n Of the county
campaigns. His work in this con-
nection was highly satisfactory, and
he himself became greatly interested
in the opportunities along this line,
with the result that he had finally
taken mp county work.
"Wapello county is especially for
tunate in getting a man like Scott who
has not only had a large experience in
general farming but who also Is a
keen Judge of livestock. What Wapello
county needs especially in order to
maintain and build up fertility is moro
and better livestock. With a well or
ganized farm improvement associa-
ton, engineered by a man thoroughly
in sympathy with the livestock in
t%erests, Wapello county has a bright
future ahead.
This little sketch would not be
complete without a word on the home
side. In addition to getting an educa-
ton and buying a farm, he has gone
into partnership with an Iowa girl, es.
tablished an ideal home, and has four
small boys. One of these boys won
first and sweeptakes at the Iowa State
Fair al Des Moines. Two others won
fourth place at Iowa State Fair. One
of these also won first place at Mason
City Fair. The fourth boy has not been
shown in competition doubtless he
is a prize winner too. Who can beat
this record?