The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-14
Is Annual Event at State Agri-
cultural College.
OFFER NINE SHORT COURSES
Lectures and Demonstrations
by Experts Are Scheduled.
State Associations to Meet Dur
ing Short Course Week.

Manhattan, Kan, Jan. 14.-The
Home Week, an annual event of much
| importance in the college calendar of
the Kansas State Agricultural college,
has been issued.
Farm and Home Week, a period
during which men and women from
the entire state gather at the college
annually, will occur on February 6, Z,
S, 9, 10, and IL this year. The pro-
gram is under the direction of the di-
vision of extension.
Nine short courses, consisting of
lectures and laboratory demonstra-
tions are to be given during the week
by experts from the college faculty,
and from outside the state. The short
courses are on poultry husbandry,
home economics, agricultural eco
nomicS and farm management, ento-
mology and zoology. engineering, hor-
ticulture, beekeeping, dairy hus-
bandry, rural sociology and organiza-
ton, and a course for cream station
operators.
State Associations to Meet.
Seven state associations will hold
their annual meetings at the college
during Farm and Home Week. These
associations are: The Kansas Crop
Improvement association, the Kansas
State Dairy association, the Kansas
Shorthorn Breeders association, the
Kansas Horse Breeders association,
tho Kansas Sheep and Wool Growers
Cooperative Association, Inc. the
Kansas Sheep Breeders association,
and the Kansas Improved Livestock
Breeders association.
The annual dinner of the Kansas
HoIstein- Friesian Breeders is to be
boil hn % I7o
notable events is the annual sale of
the Kansas Shorthorn Breeders asso-
citation, at which fifty head of high
class ShOrthorn cattle are to be sold
at the college judging pavilion. A
large part OF the work of the livestock
be judging instruction and contests in
the pavilion.
Nine general assembly programs are
to be given in the college auditorium,
with nationally-known experts as
speakers on various topics The first
evening of Monday, February 6, at
which President W. NJ. Jardine will
make an address of welcome. DR.. B.
Youngblood, director of the Texas
experiment station; DR.. Louise STAN
leys professor of home economics at
the Missouri State university; DR..
Henry ]. Waters, former president of
the college; DR.. J. A. Herman, chief of
the tuberculosis eradication division of
the United States department of agri-
culture, bureau of animal husbandry;
John T. Frederick, editor of The Mid
land; j. c. Swift, of Swift & Henry,
Kansas City, Mo, and Carleton r.
Ball, cerealist in charge of cereal in
vestigation for the United States de-
partmcnt of agriculture, bureau of
plant industry, are some Of the speak
ers at the general sessions. Two gem
eral sessions are to be held on each
day.
Music by College Department.
Music IS to be furnished by the col
lege music department on each day
OF the week, at the general sessions.
The organizations which will appear
on the college stage include the col
Iege orchestra, the college band, the
mems and girls glee clubs the faculty
mixed quartet, and various soloists.
Special attention has been paid to
the boys and girls in the arrangement
OF the program. The programs are
chiefly for the boys and girls who are
members of the various clubs man
aged by the club department of the
college. An infinite number of DEM
onstrations of canning, cooking, bak-
ing and similar activities for the girls
VIII De carried on, with contests in
each case. The boys will receive train
ing in the judging of livestock, grain,
ana similar work. Prizes are to be
awarded during Farm and Home week
to the boys and girls who have won
them by extraordinarily successful
work during the year.
Reduced r.. r. Fare Offered.
Kansas railroads. thru the Western
passenger association, are co-operat-
ing IN offering a reduced rate, of one
ana one-half times the normal fare
70 Farm and Home Week visitors
from all points in Kansas and from
Kansas City, st. Joseph and Joplin.
In spite of the depression which is
the officials of the extension division
OF the college anticipate a heavy at
tendance at the Farm and Home
Week this year.