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2 HOME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION The Agricultural College VlbM UK' OHUliO.N Conference Week at 0. A. C. place some of the leading re lated facts of Oregon's most im portant agricultural and rural social conditions in a single picture wherein each is portrayed as it is and also in its relation to other great events, is one object that the Agri cultural College Extension division had in preparing the work for Far mers' Week. The instructional work is offered in the belief that, it is of sufficient value to the people of the state to justify them in coming to the Agri cultural College to attend the exer cises. The lectures and demonstra tions will be practical and to the point. The subject matter will be of interest and profit to farmers, busi ness men, housewives, and all men and women interested in the advance ment of the industrial progress, the social betterment and the general welfare of the Btate. A' number of conferences will be held during the sessions for the con sideration of particular interests. A serious attempt has been made to outline plans of campaign which will be effective in securing results dur ing the next year. Everything possible will be done to make it pleasant and profitable for those who attend the exercises. Com mittees of the faculty and students will meet guests at the trains and as sist them to secure accommodations. Throughout the week guides will be available to assist those who wish to Inspect the college plant. Ample and suitable accommoda tions will be available at very rea sonable rates. The hotels of the city, the student rooming and boarding bouses and the college dormitories will be open for service. Farm Livestock Interests. Monday Meat demonstration with live animals, by J. E. Forrestel, Union Meat Company, Portland, Or. Tuesday "The Housing of Sheep, by E. L. Potter; "Recent Progress In the Marketing of Wool," by O. M. Nelson; shearing demonstration by C. E. Robinson, assisted by profes sional shearers; "Fitting of Sheep for Show," C. M. Hubbard; "Sheep Breeding Problem In the Willamette Valley," Frank Brown. Wednesday Judging market classes of cattle, by E. L. Porter; "Cattle Feeding Experiments at the Eastern Oregon Experiment Station,' Robert Witbycombe; "Capital and Equipment in Beef Production," E. L. Porter; organization of Willamette Valley Shorthorn Association; "The Early Days of Shorthorn Breeding In Oregon," by George Gammie; "Pres ent Day Shorthorn Cattle and Short horn Breeders," by Frank Brown; "The Small Breeder in the Produc tion of Shorthorn Cattle," by A. D. Dunn. Thursday Market classes of hogs, by E. L. Potter; "Hog Feeding Ex periments at the Oregon Experiment Station at Corvallis," by G. R-Asm-gon; "What the Farmer Can Do to Prevent Hog Cholera," by Dr. W. H. Lytle; "Hog Feeding Experiments at the Eastern Oregon Experiment Sta tion " by Robert WIthyconibe; meat demonstrations by William Constan tlne, Portland, Or, Friday "Methods of Horse Feed ing In Oregon," by E. L. Potter; lec ture and demonstration on unsound ness !n horses, by Dr. B. T. Simms; Judging ; draft horses, by C. N. Ken- nedy; Aruiiciai imyiB""""" - A page Interesting " the Oregon Agrlcnltaral College at CorvBllls will alternate la Oie frm weekly with page of news note from the Washington State College at Tollman. This nHI afford an In terchange, ol views from the two big agricultural colleges of the North west that should prove of benefit to the reader, for the institutions deal with similar problems. Page of News Notes and Interesting AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE AT CORVALL1S, OR ITS SOLB AIM 18 TO AID the Physiology of Breeding," by Dr. B. T, Simms; organization of Horse Breeders' Association of Oregon. Friday night, horse show. Saturday Special programme for the Oregon Pure-Bred Livestock Breeders' Association; "Grading Livestock and the Marekt for Pure Bred Sires," by E. L, Potter; "Breed ing for Economical Production," .by 0. R. Samson; "Breeding for Wool Production," by 0. M. Nelson. School Officers to Confer. The first three days of Farmers' week will be of special Interest to County Superintendents and Super visors. On Monday, February 1, Mr. 0. H. Benson, agriculturist for the United States Department of Agri culture and specialist in boys' and girls' club work, will be at the col lege. Having been a County School Superintendent himself and having had more experience in boys' and girls' club work than anyone else in America, Mr. Benson will have many good, practical talks in store for those who can attend. Mr. Benson is also a specialist in canning, and he will demonstrate the latest meth ods of canning fruits, vegetables and meats on both days. On Tuesday the conference of local and county fair workers will be held, and this work will be of very great interest to all County Superintend ents. On Wednesday afternoon, Febru ary 3, will be held a conference on "The Rural School as a Community Center." The speakers at this meet ing will Include President Showalter, of the Cheney Normal School; State Superintendent J. A. Churchill, Dr. Joseph Schafer and Professor H. T. French, 0. A. C. On the forenoons of each of these three days college specialists will give demonstrations and lectures on the teaching of agriculture, manual training and household economics In rural schools. Road Builders' Conference. The purpose of the road builders' conference is to bring together In mutual aid and conference the Road Supervisors, County Judges, County Commissioners and other citizens in terested in securing the most effi cient construction, management and maintenance of our public roads. It is hoped that tbis meeting can be made of very great assistance to all Road Supervisors of the state, and especially so to the newly-appointed ones who are now taking up their work. Every effort will be put forth to make the meeting Instructive along practical lines. It Is not the inten tion to cover a very wide range of subjects, but to do what we do at tempt in such a way that each one will feel well repaid for his attend ance. In order that the programme may be of the greatest interest and value to those attending, the college, in the preparation of the same, has invited the advice and co-operation of the County Judges of Lane, Linn and Benton counties. Anyone desiring Information upon any question relating to roads or bridges is invited to hand in the same as early as possible and an answer will be given either at one of the periods devoted to questions or pri vately, as may seem best. The testing laboratories will be running on samples of local material with plenty of assistants in charge to answer all qeustions and give the nec essary information to visitors. Vis itors will be supplied at the door with microscopical copies or printed descriptions of the tests being run and the proper interpretation of re sults, the purpose being to show the practical value of the tests In deter mining the value of the material for ror.d purposes. AVork in Horticulture. The division of horticulture during Farmers' week will conduct three Is a Friend to Articles Written by Colleee Experts special days in addition to lectures which will be given the three remain ing days. One of the special days will be the by-products day. Mr. W. S. Brown will tell about work of the Northwest by-products committee, of which he is a member. Professor C. I. Lewis will give an address on "Establishing and Maintaining the Cannery." Mr. F. S. Brown will give his latest find ings on loganberry juice, and also his recent investigations on the evap oration of fruits and vegetables. Professor A. G. Bouquet will take up "Vegetables for the Cannery." The division has decided to have a prune day. The topics will be: "Pruning the Prune," V, R. Gardner; "New Prunes and Plums for Ore gon," C. I. Lewis; Professor Lewis has been getting some special statis tics on varieties of prunes and plums for canning, evaporating and ship ping for Oregon conditions. Mr. F. R. Brown will give an address on standardizing and drying the prune, in which he will give some notes on the two years' Investigation of this subject. Mr. W. S. Brown, field man In horticulture, will give a lecture on the prune outlook. Mr. Brown the past Summer has visited niany prune orchards and obtained much data concerning the problems which the prune-grower bas to face. The third day will be devoted to pruning and will be a very unique programme. Dr. Atwood, of the bot any department,, will give an address on "Plant Physiology as Related to Pruning." This will be followed by an address bj Professor E. J. Kraus on "The Study of Fruit Buds," which will deal with fruiting habits of trees, variety characteristics and factors that control the bearing habits. Pro fessor V. R. Gardner will lecture on "Pruning tho Bearing Tree." The addresses start at 8 o'clock in the morning. In addition to lectures listed there will be one on "Nuts," one on "Strawberries" and ono on "Cane Fruits" by W. S. Brown. "Fruit-Marketing Problems" will be handled by Professor C. I. Lewis; "Pollination of Fruits," E. J. Kraus; "Plant Breeding for Practical Fruit and Vegetable Grower," V. R. Gard ner; "The Outlook for Intensive Farm Crops, Onions, Celery, Cauli flower, Tomatoes," "etc., A. 0. Bou quet. Professor A. L. Peck will give two illustrated lectures on "Land scape Gardening Applying to Rural Conditions." On Tuesday and Wednesday there will be a conference of fruit inspect ors to cousider matters of Interest In connection with inspection and quar antine of horticultural products. Conference on City Markets. "The Publit or City Market and Its Relations to the Farmer" will be the subject of one of the conferences of farmers during Farmers' week of this year at the Oregon Agricultural College. In holding such a conference at this time we feel that we are under taking the discussion of a subject that Is of the greatest importance to every producer, namely that of the disposition of the goods. It is de sired that the question of the rela tion of the public or city market be considered from every viewpoint and angle, both toward the producer and the consumer. For this reason it is planned to have present at this con ference representatives of all bodies who are personally Interested in the city market and its activities. The reports of city markets the state over will form a leading part of the discussion; reports of city market masters or those who have been largely Instrumental in caring for the market will be heard and considered; also reports of producers catering to the market will be freely discussed. The morning of the conference will be given over to various mem bers of the college agricultural staff discussing the marketing of the vari ous kinds of farm produce at the city market, Instructor Samson dealing with the meat market, Instructor Lamb the marketing of poultry and - jam i nuimm' '""' i the Farmer - AUHICULTUR ISTS. poultry products, and Instructor Bouquet discussing methods of mar keting horticultural products. Agronomy Conference. The conference of the seed growl ers, potato growers and thoHe Inter ested In land drainage in this state, all thre of which have been called to meet during Farmers' week, prom ise to be well attended if correspond ence coming in to the department of agronomy at the present time Is any indication. Farmers from every part of the state are showing lutorest in these three conferences, although, as might be expected, the drainage con ference will attract lis largest at tendance from- the Willamette Val ley. The potato growers, however hail from every portion of Oregon, and Eastern Oregon is by no means un represented with seed-growers. A considerable amount of alfalfa seed is produced In Eastern Oregon and It Is of good quality, while some seed potatoes are also grown and consider able seed grain. The vetch seed and clover seed and potato seed growers of the -Willamette Valley will be in . attendance in numbers. The programme for all three con ferences are practically completed and are strong and interesting. In both the seed growers' and potato growers' conference some of the more important subjects already placed on the programme are: "Present Markets and New Possi bilities for Oregon-Grown Seed and lor the Oregon Potato," "Breeding Methods for the Production of High Grade Seed," "Standardization of Oregon Seed Crops," "Seed Produc tion From the Practical Growers' Standpoint," "Seed Crops and Pota toes From the Standpoint of the Buyer and Warehouseman," "Potato Disease and Insect Control," "Manu facturing Possibilities for the Pota to," etc. Every Important seed crop In the state will be given consideration. Oregon is unusually well favored, both from the standpoint of climate and soil conditions and as to market possibilities, for high-class and very profitable seed production, and the seed-growing industry should be greatly developed. The purpose ot the conference is to show just how this development may proceed. The drainage conference will take up not only the costs and methods of drainage as related to the Individual farm and the experiences and results of many practical farmers who have profitably undertaken drainage, but also will give attention to the sub ject of district drainage the costs and procedure in connection with or ganization for the same. Dairy Convention. The leading speaker for the dairy convention during Farmers' week will be Professor C. H. Eckles, chlot of the dairy department of the Uni versity of Missouri. Professor Eckles is perhaps the foremost authority on matters pertaining to dairy produc tion in the United States. Professor Eckles has conducted many expert iments with dairy cattle, the results ot which have attracted wide atten tion and have been of much impor tance to the dairy industry. He is the man who a few years ago discovered that a cow carrying a great deal of flesh at the time of freshening and fed lightly for a few weeks thereafter would draw from this body flesh to supply nutrients for the production of milk and that this milk will contain an abnormally high percentage of fat, showing that many of tho large present day tests are a direct result of this high fat content of the milk. A few years ago he went abroad and studied dairy conditions In the European countries. He comes hero almost .direct from Massachusetts, where he addressed the Massachu setts State Dairymen's Association. Professor Eckles will address the Oregon Jersey Cattle Club and tho Oregon HolBteln Breeders' Assocla (Concluded on Pass T.)
