The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-12-29
Fine PROGRAM AT PURDUE

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/ cite on that occasion the town would
/ not hold them all. We have reached
that conclusion after a study OF the
program. the most comprehensive yet
offered by the state college OF agrl-
culture. 1t is said to be IAN entirely
new program" with several new fea-
lures and including some OF. the pest
] posted agricultural speakers IN the
country, and one which will lend Varl-
ETY. and value to each session.
The sessions, which begin Monday
noon. Jan. 8. will close Friday evening
and will last five full days. In that
brief space will be compressed a
whole lot of information that has been
gained by years of experience and
study along lines of the utmost inter
/ est to the tiller of the soil and the
grower of live stock.
i Necessary readjustments in Indiana
agriculture to suit present-day condl-
lions, which is one of the big PROB
lens before farmers of the state; I'M
provement of the Indiana farm home;
, and marketing of farm products, are
, three of the leading questions to
J come before the short course. Mon
days program will be given over to
!. the first topic and Tuesdays to the
second. Marketing topics will run
: through the entire week, with farm
management specialists from Purdue
: discussing various phases, along with
/ cost production studies.
Some Noted Speakers
2 J. Clyde Marquis, Of the bureau OF
/ agricultural economics, department OF
} agriculture, will speak Tuesday even
ing. DIR. B. II. Hubbard of the Univer
sity of Wisconsin, nationally knowd
farm economist, will discuss Future
Prices of Farm Products" topic of
vital interest to every land owner or
tenant His talk alone will be worth
= going to the short course to hear.
Dean Sarah Louise Arnold of Simmons
= college, Boston, will be the principal
speaker for the women from outside
: the state. She also will be the speak
: er Wednesday evening before the
> short course.
Besides these speakers, all of whom
are well known, and the members OF
o the Purdue staff, eSeral others from
! outside the state, will be present for
:, the various state association meetings,
!. These annual meetings include the fol
! lowing state organizations: Corn grow
ers, vegetable growers, home econom
+ les, livestock breeders, dairymen, and
II the beef and dairy cattle breed asso
n Citations.
!. A new feature of the course this
year will be tours of different parts
. of the farms one eacn day of the week
= for both men and women. The mer
and women also will inspect the new
home economics building and the wo
v men will hold their sessions there.
!, Wheat Sown from Airplane
i hi hI1i
q the news from the Lake Tulare district
y in California is that lot of wheat is
! being planted by airplane in the we
) bottom land sections bordering thE
lake The man making the test plant
n ing carried 500 pounds of wheat an.
9 if the test proves a success it is eX
, pected that 10000 acres will be sowI
- in this manner this year The mai
o doing the work thinks there will b.
= no need for touching the soil after th'
r sowing, believing That the fall from
) the sky will bury the grain deeI
% enough for proper roofing.
>, There are farmers in the corn bel
who produce more corn every yea
:. than does the entire state of Nevada
= which is credited with raising 10000
- bushels this year. Contrast this will
~ 45O, 600, 900 bushels in Iowa. The de
partment of agriculture tells us tina
some corn is now grown in ever.
state of the Union and that this coun
try produces about three-fourths o
the worlds crop. The average crop o
] corn in tropical Florida is but IA.
bushels. against AZ bushels in ConneC
n ticut. The average for the entir
"a country in the last 10 years has bee
70 over 25 bushels.
IN Missouri Corn Show
10 In addition to s1,575 in cash pre-
to miums, nine beautiful trophies are t
ar be awarded at the Missouri state cor
nt show at Columbia, Jan. Is to 10. Tw
no gold watches are included among tn
as trophies, and the state trophy, whic
&c stands 80 inches high, is one of tn
no finest ever awarded at any such show
re- either state or national This priz
is awarded every year, and winner
may hold it for one year, or until
m new winner claims the honor TIL
m names of all winners are engraved
/ year after year, so that the troph
nd stands as a record of the annut
he event. The show will include whea
oats, soy beans, clover. COW peas an
grasses and premiums are offered fl
ON all the important seeds grown in til
q state. The club membership also wi
M contest in the corn show.
ID During the week lecture and der
Irt onstration will be given on gasolir
nd engine action and principles, both {
nj to cars and tractors, this being a fe
ture many ruralists surely will Apr
ciate.
oh Marketing Service
mn o. E. Brafute, newly elected pres
tv. dent of the American Farm Burea
IN says that the cooperative marketir
he department is to dominate the progra
Az. of work for the coming year. He h;
given out new slogan, and says:
in Service through cooperative ma
he keting-that is the program of Il
nv farm bureau for the next year. G
nd operative marketing is trump. All Il
an departments, all the officials, and &
du- the employees of the American far
he bureau federation will be expected
ter play to the trump card. Let there
lad no doubt anywhere but that the chi
int work of the entire organization for Il
next year will be cooperative markt
ing"
100 The marketing committee has be,
for
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