Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 196, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1912 — PURDUE AT STATE FAIR. [ARTICLE]

PURDUE AT STATE FAIR.

Twenty Experts Will Lecture to Inds ana Farmers. A corps of twenty experts from Purdue University will spend the week at the Indiana State Fhlr, opening on Sept. 2, and will attempt to make the fair of greatest possible educational value, Hie instruction will be chiefly along agricultural and tyousahold economic lines. The Purdue building, not far from the Coliseum, will he utilized by the instructors from the university, as well as for the fair’s general show of dairy products, and the instruction will be divided into the following departments: Animal husbandry, pouK try, soils and crops, dairy, botany, chemistry, veterinary, agricultural extension, household economics. The prime purpose of sending such a force of instructors to the fair is to give farmers who cannot attend the university at Lafayette the practical information that is available to the students. The farmers Will have opportunity to talk with the instruetbrs, see the Purdue displays, witness the demonstrations —all to the end of making the farms of the state more productive. The Purdue men will each day give lectures and demonstrations, and will conduct live stock and com judging contests for Indiana boys between sixteen and twenty years, who have not taken the eight weeks’ course or any of the longer courses at Purdue. Boys who enter the judging contest must send their names to Charles Downing, secretary of the fair, before Sept 3. The prizes will be free scholarships at Purdue