Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1914 — MAY HAVE SHORT COURSE FOR JASPER [ARTICLE]

MAY HAVE SHORT COURSE FOR JASPER

This Plan Was Advocated at Farmers' Institute Meeting Held at Rensselaer Friday. The popularity of the agricultural short courses has increased to sfich an extent that it is now planned to hold these courses in several counties of the state next year and at the meeting of the Farmers’ Institute held in Rensselaer Friday the plan was inaugurated to conduct a short course here. For-' Senator L. B. Clore. for several years one of the country’s prize corn growers and a resident at that time of Johnson county, was one of the speakers. He is now the county agent of Laporte county and one of the best com judges and farmers’ institute workers in the state. He gave his sanction to the plan for holding a short course in Rensselaer and it is highly probable that the plan will be adopted. Mr. Clore spoke in the morning #>n corn growing and in the afternoon on the duties of the county agent. He praised the work of County Agent Barrett and said that it would result in great good to the agricultural development of the county. Mrs. R. A. Ogg also spoke at both morning and afternoon meetings and her talks were regarded by those who heard them as of exceptional excellence. Her morning subject was “House Keeping vs. Home Making”, and her afternoon subject was “The Housewife’s Problems.” Her talks are the kind that sink deep Into the minds of all who hear her and are sure to influence for permanent (benefit. There were only about thirty at the morning meeting and about seventy-five in the afternoon. —lt would have been worth the whili lor every fanner and every farmer’s wife in the county to have heard these splendid talks.