Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-27
FARM PRODUCTS
TOHAVE BIG SHOW
Arrangements Made to Com
bine 1t With Farmers
Week" in January

More than $4,000 square feet of
State Farm Products Show to be
held in Harrisburg January 20 to
23 under the auspices of the State
Department Of Agriculture and four
teen organizations of men interested
in agriculture and allied branches.
yche State Department of Public In
struction and State College Will
unite and Farmers Week." which
has been held for years at State Col
lege in January, will be transferred
to Harrisburg so that it will be in
the same week.
The show in addition to products
will specialize in dairying with
equipment. Farm machinery will
be made a feature and one of the
plans is for sales of pure bred live
stock. Particular efforts will be
made to show fine grades of seed
grain. Soil will also be given
prominence. So will the work of
the State Bureau of Markets.
Secretary of Agriculture Fred
Rasmussen, who is outlining the
plans, says that If Farmers Week"
can be held here at the same time
there will be ten farmers meetings
in progress at the same time as vari-
Gus associations will be holding their
sessions.
represented the Department of
Agriculture and Public Instruction,
the personnel being Secretary Ras-
mussen, of the Department of Agri-
culture; II. e. Klugh and Guy c.
Smith, director of the State Bureau
of Markets; j. K. Bowman, of the
State Department of Public Instruc-
ton; M. S. Mcdowell, of State Col
lege; DIR. c. j. Marshall. of the
Pennsylvania Veterinary Medical
Association; II. f. Hershey, of the
State Horticultural Association; e.
X. Hibshman, of the Pennsylvania
Breeders and Dairymens' Associa-
ton; Frank p. Willis. of the Inter
state Milk Producers Association;
Howard c. Reynolds, of the Pennsyl-
Vania Holstein-Friesian Association;
p. S. Brenneman, of the Dairymens'
Cooperative Sales Company, and
Otto Olson of the Tobacco Growers
Association.
The show committee of the vari-
GUS departments and agricultural
organizations interested are:
Pennsylvania State Veterinary
Medical Association-Louis Klein,
Philadelphia; w. A. Haines, Bristol;
T. +. Munce, Harrisburg.
State Department of Public In
structioT-Lindley II. Dennis, How
ard c. Fetterolf and ]. K. Bowman,
all of Harrisburg.
State Horticultural Association
II. f. Hershey. Gettysburg; r. H.
Bell, State College; F. E. Fassett,
Meshoppen.
State Breeders and Dairymens'
Association-E. S. Bayard, Pitts
h1t Il INe1, C~I
lege; w. B. Connell, State College.
The Pennsylvania State College
r. l.. Watts, M. S. Mcdowell, f. D.
Gardner.
More Sheep, More Wool Associa-
tion-A. o. Bigelow and Donald
Williams, Philadelphia.
Sheep. Breeders and Wool Grow
ers Assoeiation-R. l.. Munce,
Canonsburg; ]. B. Henderson, Hick-
ory; Henry Palmer, Avondale.
Interstate Milk Producers AS
sociation-R. NJ. Balderston, Ken
nett Square; H. d. Allebach, Trappe;
X. l.. Shenk, MELVILLE.
State Bee Keepers Association
DR.. II. A. Surface, Mechanicsburg;
L. B. Huber, Lancaster; C. n.
Greene, Troy
Pennsylvania Potato Growers AS
sociation-John B. Park, Horsham;
j. Wallace Hallowell, Philadelphia;
Nicholas Schmitz, State College.
I[olstein-Friesian Association -
e. p. Bennett, Easton; Howard C.
Reynolds, Dalton; c. w. Newman,
Wyalusing.
State Poultry Association-Fran
McGrann, Lancaster; L. B. Sprecher,
Rohrerstown H. c. Knandel, State
College.
Dairymens' Cooperative Sales
Company-W. II. Wise, Meadville;
A. w. Place, Jefferson; P. S. Bren-
neman, Pittsburgh.
Tobacco Growers Association -
John f Weaver, Lancaster; Charles
Dunn, Lock Haven; to Olson,
Ephrata.
Agricultural Press-A. ]. Ander-
son, Philadelphia; T. II. Wittkorn,
Philadelphia; 7. d. Harman, Jr.,
AI.la.