Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 194, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1915 — 25 PURDUE EXPERTS AT THE INDIANA STATE FAIN [ARTICLE]

25 PURDUE EXPERTS AT THE INDIANA STATE FAIN

A staff of about 25 oxperti from Univer»ity will spend the WMK Of sept, 5 at the Indiana State FVflr pmf their entire attention to helping Hoosier fanners with their hetae problems. This is one of the greataet educational forces at the InAtana Fata> and is one of many educational f«Ntares that the exposition alwaps offers to the tillers of the soli, breeders and fruit growers of the state. The Purdue exhibit is being entirely re-organized for the coming Fata and it» as well as the instruction, will keep pace with the advancing interests of people from the farms. The Purdue dairy exhibit, demonstrations and discussions will make this kind of instruction of still more benefit to men and women from the farms who come to the Fair. The Purdue chemists will instruct the farmers in the sale of feeding stuffs and fertilizers, as the new state law requires, and an extensive exhibit of fertilizers will be shown. Soil and crop improvement, rotation of crops, farm drainage, cultivation, and many more subjects will be treated by the Purdue men. Fighting hog cholera, garden and orchard peets, poultry raising, and other lines of farming activity will be other kinds of instruction available. The Purdue instruction and exhibits will, in fact, make short cuts to scientific farming that every farm man and woman may go home from the Fair with new ideas. The State Food Commissioner will have a unique display showing weights and measures of legal and illegal kind, sanitation in keeping foods, fraudulent medicines and drugs.