Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1919 — 500 STOCKMEN ARE EXPECTED [ARTICLE]

500 STOCKMEN ARE EXPECTED

RALLY MARCH 29 TO BE FIRST OF ITS KIND IN THE country. Lafayette, March 6.—According to John H. Skinner, dean of the Purdue university school of agriculture here, who is chairman of the program committee for the state-wide live stock growers' rally' “to "be held in Indianapolis March 20, there will be more than 500 stockmen at the meeting, the first of its kind ever called in the country. Prof. Skinger has announced the program for the rally, the speakers in addition to Governor Frank O. Lowden, of Illinois, and Thomas E. Wilson, president of the Wilson Packing company of Chicago, already announced, being as follows: Prof. G. I. Christie, assistant secretary of agriculture; A. J. Glover, of Ft. Atkinson, Wis., editor of Hoard’s Dairyman, and M. L. Houser, of Mondovi, Wis., president of the Wisconsin Live Stock Breeders’ association. ... . A’.

Representatives from every county and every live stock association in the state will attend the meeting as wel las the banquet to be given the evening prior to the rally. Meetings of the various beef cattle and dairy cattle breeders’ associations of the state will be held March 19.