Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 177, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1913 — INDIANA LIVESTOCK BREEDERS* PICNIC [ARTICLE]

INDIANA LIVESTOCK BREEDERS* PICNIC

Barbecue to Be Feature at Big Meeting to Be Held at Battle Ground on August 7th.

All arrangements have been completed lor the annual picnic of the Indiana Livestock Breeders’ and Corn Growers’ Association, which this year is to be held at the Tippecanoe Stock Fann, Battle Ground, Indiana, on August 7th. Battle Ground may be reached by automobile, by the Monon rail road, or by interurban from Lafayette. Interurban cars run every half hour. The program of the day provides for an inspection of the splendid farm, stock, and equipment which Messrs. J. H. and J. W. Vanatta, owners of Tippecanoe Stock Farm, use in producing the superior Herefords which have been bred there continuously for over thirty years. The farm, which comprises a thousand acres of fertile land, has been in the family over seventy years, has always been a stock farm, and is at the present time highly productive. Hereford history has been made on this farm, and visitors will have opportunity to see the magnificent animals which at present comprise the show and breeding herd. A feature of the day will be the grand free barbecue at noon. Tippecanoe Stock Farm donates a prime Hereford steer for the occasion, and Mr. Goodnight, of the world-famous ranch of Texas, where the largest herd of buffaloes in existence is maintained and'bred, and where Persian lamba and other rare animals are produced, has expressed a number of Persian lamba to be added to the barbecue. Pop June; of Indianapolis restaurant fame, has been engaged to prepare and serve the barbecue. Potatoes, com, pickles, bread and free lemonade will be the rest of the menu. At 1:30 p. m. the addresses of the day will start. Mr. Warren T. McCray, of Kentland, at whose farm the picnic was held last summer, and who is president of the association, will open the program. He will be followed by Mr. F. C. Palin, of Newtown, who, it will be remembered, grew few years past, winning the Kellogg Trophy, and who is president of the Indiana Corn Growers’ Association. The address of the day will be given by Prof. Andrew Boss, of the University of Minnesota, whose theme will be Production of Livestock and Grain.” This is a subject which is before the people of Indiana at present in a big way, and it will do all good to hear of the work that is being done in other states and of the possibilities that lie before Indiana along this line. Remarks will be made by Dean J. H. Skinner, of Purdue, who for many years was the secretary of the Indiana Livestock Breeders? Association, and by Superintendent G. I. Christie, secretary of the Indiana Corn Growers’ Association. Aside from the barbecue, other picnic features of the day will be bathing and swimming In the Tippecanoe river, upon the banks of which the event is to be held; and a baseball game between members of the two associations. A large tent has been secured so that the event will happen regardless of the weather. The date is August 7th. AH are invited. Come and bring the folks. Roy Blakesly, a Lake Shore shopman at Elkhart, reset his own dislocated hip after he was injured when working alone. He locked the foot between a car wheel and the rail and by well directed maneuvers pulled the hip back Into place.