Show iri cultural U college ollege e t experts experts visit price and lecture on farm methods meth 0 S bowd shows its of intelligent interest id 4 LL TINGS d methods of measuring d r water explained big attendance at ladies meeting 40 A rather small crowd of farmers j turned out wednesday to greet tho the agricultural special but what the people lacked in numbers they more than made up in intelligent interest professor L A merrill stated to the news that on the whole trip the agricultural college lecturers bad not encountered so much interest or had they stopped at a place where so many questions showing keen study were put to the experts the four cars m biking aking up the tram train were sidetracked in price early wednesday nesda morning and shortly arter daylight the work of the lecturers began the fixed pi ogre m was as follows in the morning meeting for men at city hall addressed by professor L I 1 1 winsor on the duty of vater prof winsor explained different crops required different amounts of water he ile also explain ed methods of measuring water and give ove a demonstration of the use of the weir I 1 prof P V cardon also spoke at the morning meeting his subject being potato growing alof pi of L A merrill was another speaker at the morning session best farming methods being his subject in the afternoon there was a meeting for the ladies at the school house this meeting is styled by the lecturers lec as the ladies school at this meeting there was a very I 1 argo attendance and a vast amount of interest miss leah ivins an authority on domestic science spoke on food combinations mrs belknap was the other speaker sanitation in the homo home being her subject in tho the afternoon there was a ond mens meeting at city hall ball prof J T cane III delivered an interesting te aeiress on the feeding of live stock at the tile same session prof L A merrill spoke on dairy possibilities after supper there wa still another meeting with instructive lecturers what was perhaps of as much interest and value as the lectures themselves were the hundreds of specimens of field crops nursery trees fruit live stock and even of soil properly prepared for crop planting which were displayed in the agricultural agricultural train tra in the alfalfa weevil was shown as was also his work of distraction dist ruction fruit ti ees with diseased des eased roots were also among the specimens the train canies one jersey cow one holstein hol Hola tein cow a herford steer three years old and neighing 2160 pounds a berkshire Berks hiie ne pig nine months old weighing pounds one poland chini chint pig nine months old weight j an eleven months old oli lamorth Ta morth piff pig weight and one fine per cheron alien st which professor merrill said was not a perfect horse and then explained to the tile crowd his various shortcomings in the party are eight lecturers a rio grande conductor and four cooks making a party of thirteen the trim left early thursday morning for wellington where the dav lay was spent and the attendance was good |