Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-01-06
FARMERS CONVENTION AND FARM
PRODUCTS SHOW AT TRENTON
NEXT WEEK

Week. at Trenton, January 1913, as
it's details have been announced by
Secretary of Agriculture Alva Agee.
A host of New Jersey farmers, repre-
senting every branch of the great in
dustry will be brought together in the
various sessions, and the widespread
interest in cooperation and other
farm movements is expected to lead
to SOM of the most important devel-
opments in the agricultural history
of the state.
Concurrent with the conventions,
he New Jersey Farm Products Show
will be conducted in the Second Regi-
ment Armory. In several respects it
will be the greatest exhibition of its
kind ever staged in eastern states. The
entire show has been planned with an
eye to making it interesting and edu-
cational for the as well as the
producer, the department announces.
Many of the exhibits will be planned
to demonstrate propositions presented
before the business session of the con-
vention. State and Federal market
bureaus are cooperating in arranging
a marketing exhibit, typical of things
that are engaging the attention of
and throughout
the country. State potato and corn
shows, in which the various counties
will compete for honors with the finest
selections of specimens from big
crops, will be events followed with
close attention by delegates and hun
Ir0dc af contributions on tho farms
back home" The inter-city pure
milk contest, the poultry show, a state
exhibit of fish and game, and a home
department exhibit will be other fea-'
lures.
Outside of the Armory a giant spray
gun will be demonstrate the methods
by which the state is combating the
gypsy moth plague in New Jersey.
Markets a Big Issue
Satisfactory marketing methods,
now recognized as the acid test of any
successful operation, will get first at
tention of the combined delegates in
the sessions of the opening day, Tues
day, January 10th, and will figure
largely in the discussions before the
various conventions later in the week.
Leaders in some of the biggest and
most successful cooperative market
ing developments in the United States
have been selected by the Department
to bring New Jersey producers the in
side story of their enterprises. Prof.
Hale Tenant, in charge of market
organization work in Michigan; L. G..
Foster, assistant director of the Wis
consin Department of Markets, both
instrumental in forming nationally IA
nous potato cooperative marketing
associations; Lloyd S. Tenney, assist
ant chief of the Federal Bureau of
Markets, and H. ". Samson, specialist
in standardization of the same bureau,
are among the top-notchers in their
line who will speak on marketing sub
jects.
How New Jersey is keeping step in
standardization of its farm products
will be discussed by Douglas S. Dilts
and Paul B. Bennetch of the State De-
partment. His states program for the
future, that will keep Jersey farmers
in the front rank of progressive mar
keting methods, standardization and
cooperation, will be summed up in a
talk by Chief Alexis l.. Clark, of the
New Jersey Bureau of Markets. Chief
Clark, who was recently elected presi-
dent of the National Association of
State Marketing Officials, has COM
pleted for the State Department of Ag-
riculture a study of the best cooper
ative marketing systems in the coun-
try with a view of their adaptation to
New Jerseys needs.
The annual meeting of the New Jer-
sey Federation of County Boards of
Agriculture will be held Tuesday after
noon in Moose Hall with President
H. e. Taylor presiding. Committees
will report on the accomplishments of
the first year of the Federation. The
program for 1922 will be discussed and
new officers elected. The annual BAN
quet of the Federation will be held at
the Stacy-Trent, Tuesday evening.
State Senator William N. Runyon will
address the Federation Wednesday
evening.
State Board Meet
United States Senator Joseph S.
Frelinghuysen will call the State Ag-
r1cultural Convention to order We'd
nesday morning in the Assembly
Chamber at the State Capitol. Gov
ernor Edwards will deliver the open
ing address. Two new members of
the State Board of Agriculture will be
elected and reports will be submitted
by Secretary of Agriculture Alva Agee
and heads of the various bureaus.
Programs of up-to-the-minute inter-
est for their delegates have been an
nounced for other conventions that
VIII meet Thursday and Friday. These
include the New Jersey State Horti-
cultural Society, the New Jersey State
Poultry Association, the Holstein-
Freisian Cooperative Association of
New 1prcau tho ALom Innnor n..A.ano..