Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 223, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1911 — FARMERS VISIT PURDUE FARM [ARTICLE]

FARMERS VISIT PURDUE FARM

luMk Over Experimental Plots and A inspect Buildings at School of Agriculture. About 300 farmers from Case county visited Purdue during the week of August Oth. Arrangements were made with Prof. G. I. Christie, superintendent of agricultural extension, so that ample entertainment was provided. All of the principal buildings about the campus were Inspected by the vie ttors after which considerable time was spent looking over the experimental plots, dairy barns, hog houses, poultry plant, and the Purdue orchard. At all points the men in charge explained the different phases of the university work and answered all questions. Everybody took hmch on the campus. The tour of inspection was completed about four o’clock. The crowd then went to Battle Ground and Soldiers* Home, where they spent the remainder of a very profitable excursion.