The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1930-07-25
STATE COLLEGE
WEEKLY LETTER

Montana State college for the al
nual Western States Extensio
I conference which will be held her
V five days, August II to Is. Rel
resentatives from II wester
G states and the territory of Hawa.
t will attend.
The program at Bozeman wi
t be a follow up Of the program
2 which has been going on for tn
past five years.
The states represented will b
/ wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico
Arizona, Utah, Nevada, California
+ Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Mon
: tana and the territory of Hawaii
The program committee will br
/ made up of Director J. c. Taylo.
of Montana as chairman; Directo.
A. E. Bowman of Wyoming; Di
rector Paul B. Maris of Oregon
and DR.. w. A. Lloyd of Wash
ington. D. C.
The program will deal with
problems Of extension work with
much discussion over the specific
problems of farm management,
outlook service and marketing.
The meeting places rotate among
the several states. This will be
the first time the conference has
V e met in Montana.
New Agent For Mccone
Miss Lucille Kelly, recently APP
pointed home demonstration agent
on the staff of the Montana ex-
tension service, is now located in
Fallon and Carter counties as
district agent. Miss Alberta Cole
man, former district agent will be
transferred to Dawson and Nc
Cone counties. according to an an
nouncement from the Office of ].
C. Taylor, director Of the Mon
tana extension service,
During her time in Fallon and
Carter counties Miss Coleman had
charge of girls All club work
and nome demonstration where
she successfully demonstrated her
to organize and carry on
such work. She will remain with
Miss Kelly until August l and
then move her headquarters to
Glendive and Circle
Miss Kelly is a graduate of the
home economics department at
Iowa State college and has had
three wears experience in teach
ing home economics. She has been
very prominent in All club garden
and canning work and at one
time won first prize for her gar
den work in Lynn county. Iowa
Previous to going to Fallon and
Carter counties Miss Kelly spent
one week in Bozeman attending
The state All club convention and
o~onferring with specialists at the
state college. She also had the
opportunity Of observing home
demonstration work and All club
activities in Rosebud, Yellowstone
and Custer counties.
Wheat Grading School
Each of the 10 grain men at
tending the grain grading school
held at Montana State college,
July IA and IS, had the oppor-
Of making a complete pro
tein test on a sample Of wheat.
They also had the opportunity to
see demonstrations of grain grad
ing equipment, grading of samples,
and hear a discussion of carload
ing and its effect on terminal
grading, weighing and protein
results.
The school at the State col
lege was the first of a series be-
ing held over the state by the
Federal Grain Supervision Bureau
in cooperation with the Montana
department of agriculture and the
Montana extension service. Other
schools being held are: Harlow
ton, July 16 and II; Billings, July
IS and 10; Lewistown, July 21
and %; Havre, July % and "a;
Conrad, July % and &c; Great
Falls, July rs and %; Fort Bent
on, July 80 and 81.
The schools were started in or
der to comply with requests from
elevator operators and managers
over the country for training in
grain grading. B. w. Whitlock of
the Pacific Coast headquarters of
the bureau is in general charge
of schools being held in the west
ern states.
Specialists cooperating in con-
Quoting the schools are: w. O.
Whitcomb in charge of the grain
inspection laboratory at Montana
State college; R. E. White, board
of review at the Portland office
of the bureau; r. w. Shelton,
federal grain supervisor at Great
Falls and George H. Moran, chief
grain inspector of the Montana
department of agriculture.
County agents r assisting the
work by making local arrange
ments for the schools in their
counties.
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