Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1907 — PURDUE EXPERIMENT STATION [ARTICLE]

PURDUE EXPERIMENT STATION

Will Exhibit at the Indiana State Fair September 9-13,1907. The Purdue building recently remodeled by the Indiana State Board of Agriculture is now completed. In this building the Experiment Station will conduct a working cfcaijy and will make exhibits from the Soil, Crop, Animal Husbandry, and Horticultural departments. To snppliment this work snd exhibit, lectures will be given in the auditorium adjoining the exhibit rooms, on all popular phases of agriculture and domestic science. The lectures which will occupy about twenty minutes each, will be illustrated with stereoptioon views. These will be given every day of the fair according to the following schedale: 9:30 a. m. Treatment of soils for wheat and corn. 10:30. Methods of eradicating the San Jose scale. 11:30. Selection of feeders, 12:30. Harvesting and storing seed corn. £- 1:30 p. m. Improvement of dairy herds. 2:30. Domestic science demonstrations. Those interested in any phase of agriculture or domestic science work should plan to visit the Pardue building during State Fair week, inspect the model dairy and agricultural exhibits, hear the leo* tares and receive the printed bulletins. It will be an interesting and profitable visit for both young and old. -