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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""""" -
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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