The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1917-09-21
STATE FAIR EXHIBIT
TO TEACH ECONOMY
Wartime Conservation to Be
Theme in u University
Building Display.
TO USE NINE BOOTHS
College of Agriculture Men
Will Have Charge of
Demonstrations.

De enJlTell one Vi lOou piouuSeA e''ie
food conservation will occupy more
than half of the University Building al
the State Fair in Sedalia. In the pas'
the exhibits of the College of Agri-
culture have been demonstrations OF
the results of experimental work
without any special regard to whether
or not this investigational work had
any connection with food conservation
and food production. The exhibit this
year will be one fitting to the needs
of the immediate emergency at hand
rather than one with its chief inter-
est in the things useful in a system OF
permanent agriculture.
A. ]. Meyer, director of the agri-
cultural extension service, will be in
charge of the entire University Build
ing at the State Fair. Besides the
agricultural exhibit, the School OF
Engineering and the department OF
physics will have displays in this
building.
Agriculture i'm Nine Booths.
The College of Agriculture will oc-
cupy nine booths. S. F. Simpson will
have charge of the animal husbandry
booth, A. c. Ragsdale of the dairy pro-
duction. T. c. Townsley of the poultry
raising, R. A Kinnaird of the soil
fertility and farm crops, A. c. Talbert
of the horticulture, DIR. j., S. Mcdaniel
of the control of animal diseases, c.
f. Mangels of the curing of meats on
the farm and Misses Bah Bell, Mary
Robinson and Ruby Umstadde of the
home economics booth. The home
economics department will display
war breads and war dishes recon-
mended for national economy and will
keep in continuous operation the
various types of Gamers and one
homemade dryer.
A special demonstration of farm
sheep will be given. in cooperation
with the U. S. Department of Agri-
culture in which the opportunities in
sheep raising will be explained. The
methods of raising and protecting
sheep and the processes of manu-
featuring wool into cloth will be
shown. A model sheep farm will be
plotted out to show how sheep raising
can be handled in connection with
general farming.
Short Course Exhibit is New.
The short course exhibit which will
be held this year is a new feature.
The work and activities of the students
in the short course will be displayed,
and two pictures of the students in
the short course will prove the growth
of that work. A picture taken in 1897
shows eighteen students and one in
structor A picture taken in 1917 in
cluded more than 200 students which
were taught by forty-five instructors.
The students judging contest will
be in charge of E. II. Hughes. Students
of the long course in agriculture, the
short course, and farmers and farm
ers' sons under 25 years old are
eligible to enter. There will be sep
arate contests in judging draft horses,
mules, dairy cattle, beef cattle, sheep
and swine, and prizes of fifteen, ten
and five dollars will be given to the
winners in each contest. The judges
of the contest will be Turner Hayden
of Rocheport and William Ewing of
Morrisville, both of whom are gradu-
ates of the long course and are ex-
perienced farmers.
The students who will take part in
the contest are: Ira Dearborn, c. r.
Howell, d. WI Chittenden, F. j..
Schweitzer, Ira Drymon, A. ]. Renner,
Maurice Witt. Thomas Beam, Jack
Barlow, Ross Wheeler, Floyd Dennis,
Joe Fline, Ivan Slaughter, J. Paul
Johnson, Clyde Kinkade, X. G. Lean
ord, Leemon Meet. Ralph Robbins,
Fern Elliott, R. X. Duncan, ]. Har-
wood, E. L. Dakan, o. c. Mcconnell and
Otto Schaefer.
To Have Engineering Exhibit.
The exhibit of the School of En-
gineering and the department OF
physics will be in charge of Robert NJ.
Walker, E. E. II. and Louis Seutter,
VI. E. '1S These will be still exhibits
with no active demonstrations. 1t was
impossible to give the usual road ex-
hibition this year on account OF the
withdrawal of II. A. LaRue from the
faculty, and the fact that no highway
expert has been appointed to take his
place.
Besides the ones already named, re-
presentatives from the College of
Agriculture will attend the fair. E. A.
Trowbridge will be superintendent of
the horse department, S. T. Simpson
of the beef cattle department, A. c.
Ragsdale of the dairy products de-
partment. Miss Bah Bell of the home
economics department and J. c.
Hackleman of the agriculture depart
ment.
Dean MumfOrd to Attend.
Dean F. B. Mumford will attend as
a member of the State Fair Board and
director of the horse department E.
H. Hughes of the short course in agri-
culture will attend in the interests of
that course. ]. X. Wright of the |
State Board of Agriculture. r. H.
Emerson and Miss Addie D. Root of |
the agricultural extension service
will judge the educational exhibit.