The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-12-26
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COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec. 26.-Eight
faculty members of the college Of ag-
riculture at Ohio State university, all
prominent in national organizations
in their particular field, are SEIZED
uled to appear on the program of the
annual meetings of such associations
during the Christmas week.
When the sixteenth annual meet
ing of the American Society of Ag
ricultural Engineers convenes at st.
Louis Dec. 81 TO 20, four members of
the department of agricultural en-
cheering at Ohio State will be on
the program. Professor F. w. Ives,
head of the department, will give the
report of the extension committee and
present a paper on New Ideas in
Group Planning of Farm Buildings"
Professor G. w. McCuen, who is
vice-president of the organization, will
Pillow Investigations" Professor c.
o. Reed and Virgil Overholt are other
Ohio State men who will talk.
At the American Farm Economic
association meeting at Chicago, Dec
27-30. three Ohio State men from the
department of rural economics will
play important parts. Professor J. 1.
Falconer, head of the department, is
secretary-treasurer of the organiza-
ton, and will lead the discussion on
The Problems of Rent and Interest
in Costs"
On Dec. 81, R. F. Tabor, extension
specialist in farm management, will
present a paper on Organization of
Accounting Work as a Basis for Per-
manent Farm Management Work, -
and on the same day c. r. Arnold,
also extension specialist in farm man
agement, will give paper on Meth
DDS of Summarizing Farm Account
Books"
At a concurrent meeting of the
American Sociological society, Pro-
lessor c. E. Lively also of the depart
ment of rural economics, will present
a report on Laboratory and Field
Courses in Rural Sociology"
Instead of awarding cash prizes at
the annual corn show at Ohio State
university this year, certified seed will
be given in varied amounts. The show
is held during Farmers Week. Grow
ers of certified seed over the state will
contribute the prizes.
Save money with high analysis fer
tilizers," is the slogan of a campaign
to be put on during the winter months
by the department of soils, in its ex-
tension schools.
On the basis of last summers prices,
according to Earl Jones, extension soil
specialist, 400 pounds of 1871, a low
grade fertilizer, cost $4.55. The same
amount of plant food could be obtained
in 200 pounds of 2-16-2, a high grade
fertilizer at a cost of 1914, a saving
of $1.41, he asserted.
The department of soils also advo-
Gates the home mixing of fertilizers,
rather than the purchasing of ready
mixed fertilizers.
A two weeks short course in joultry
husbandry is to be given in January
by the poultry husbandry department
of Ohio State university. Dates for
the work are from January. Is to Feb.
2, and the lectures during Farmers
Week. Jan. % to Feb. 2, will be in
cluded.
The course IS planned for the busy
man or woman who can not afford to
spend more than twot weeks away
from the farm. Subjects 10 be dis
cussed are the most necessary ones to
assure success on the farm, a pamphlet
of the work declares.
Topics will include: Incubation and
breeding, feeding chickens from shell
TO maturity, poultry houses, feeding
laying hens, selecting for egg produc.
ton, care and management of the
breeding flock, marketing poultry and
eggs, jumping and securing poultry
and poultry diseases.
Poultry on the university farm will
be used for laboratory purposes.
The Farmers Week program fol-
1928, as outlined by H. c. Ramsower
director of extension at Ohio State uni
versity, includes 200 demonstrations
lectures and recreational features; l.
annual meetings of state agricultural
organizations. and six statewide shows
of rural products. The dates are Jan
20 TO Feb. >.
Every department of the college
of agriculture has turned in its list oil
speakers, the director stated, ''and the
entire program now is being assem-
bled. 1t will not be the largest pro
gram that we ever have had for &
Farmers Week, as we purposely made
efforts TO cut down a little on the mum