Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1919-01-23
TRACTOR SCHOOL
and GRAIN SHOW
Two Features Of Ohio Farmers
Week at Columbus. :.
MANY LECTURERS ENGAGED


Agriculture, Ohio State University,
During the Week of Jan. 27-31.
Dates Of the Meetings of the Asso-
eiations-All Sessions Free.
The seventh annual Farmers Week
at the Ohio State University college
of agriculture will be held from Jan.
27 to 81. A general program for farm
ers and their families will be ampli-
fed by the programs of more than 20
agricultural associations that will
meet during the week.
Two features will be the second
annual Ohio farmers tractor school
and the eleventh annual Ohio state
corn and grain show.
Big Tractor Demonstrations.
Twenty-Five companies are expect
ing to enter machines for the tractor
demonstrations. These will be in
charge of specialists. Ten lectures
on practical tractor problems will be
given by agricultural engineers of
prominence.
Several new classes have been
added this year for entry In the grain
show, including spring wheat and
sheaf exhibits of oats, wheat, barley,
rye, alfalfa, timothy and clover, and
a class for the best bushel of certified
seed potatoes.
Demonstrations in the grading of
corn will be given by representatives
of the United States Department of
Agriculture. Visitors will see how
wheat and shelled corn are graded
under federal standards at the large
markets, whore the work is super
reau OF Markets. The exhibit of the
United States Department Of Agricul-
ture includes all the equipment used
in determining grain grades, samples
of different classes Of corn and wheat,
and various commercial samples of
grain of different grades.
Men with the government exhibit
wheat or corn is taken from car by
means of probe or "trier," so as
to represent an average sample of
the whole car, and they will show
how sample Is mixed, divided me-
chanically, and the moisture, dock
age, and test weight per bushel are
determined by special equipment.
Many Prominent Specialists.
Prominent among the list of 1875
speakers during the week will be
Jane Adams, head of Hull House,
Chicago; d. D. Aitkin, president of
the Holstein- -Friesian Association of
America, Flint, Mich; G. P. Bull,
agronomist of the Minnesota college
Of agriculture; Governor Cox; Dean
Eugene Davenport of the University
Of Illinois college of agriculture; /.
w. Dickerson, agricultural engineer,
Charles City, Iowa. ]. G. Halpin, head
Of the department of poultry hus-
bandry of the University of Wiscon-
sin; B. H. Hubbard, professor of agri-
cultural economics of the University
of Wisconsin; Rose Morgan, specialist
in community singing, New York
city; Theodore A. Peck, agricultural
engineer, Saginaw, Mich; Mary Rose
Swartz, Columbia University; Mr..
6ogstadt, agricultural engineer, Chi
cago; e. B. White, president of the
Percheron Society Of America; E. A.
White, F. M. White and A. P. Yerkes,
agricultural engineers. President w.
o. Thompson of the Ohio State Uni
versity, who recently returned from a
tour Of England and France, where
he was sent by the federal govern
ment to study agricultural conditions,
will give several lectures, illustrated
with motion pictures.
On the animal husbandry program,
Monday is to be sheep day; Tuesday,
beef day; Wednesday, horse day;
Thursday. hog day. and Friday, meat
and market day.