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December 23, 1916
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Sainte Genevieve, Sainte Genevieve County, Missouri
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The annual Farmers' Week at the University of Missouri in Columbia, January 1-5, 1917, will feature short courses, association meetings, speeches, and a banquet. The Missouri Calf Club for youth, revised by E. G. Bennett, promotes calf ownership and sales to teach responsibility.
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FOR FARMERS' WEEK
Annual Gathering Will be Held at Columbia From January 1 to 5.
"CALF CLUB" TO BE FEATURE
Recently Formed Organization for Boys and Girls of State to Be Pushed at Meeting.
Missouri farmers will celebrate their big yearly meeting in Columbia January 1 to 5, 1917. The occasion is the annual "Farmers' Week" of the new year, and representatives are expected from every county and small town in the state. The county courts, commercial clubs, granges, unions and farm clubs will all send delegates, and all farmers also are invited to attend the big agricultural congress.
The college of agriculture of the University of Missouri will offer its annual farmers' short course program. More than twenty state-wide associations will hold daily meetings each afternoon. A state convention of farm clubs will convene. A program of speeches will be given each night, and the congress will close with a farmers' banquet at Rothwell Gymnasium Friday night, given by the school of agriculture.
The "Missouri Calf Club," an organization for the boys and girls of the state, probably will be pushed forward at the meeting. The "Calf Club" plan has been revised and improved by E. G. Bennett, state dairy commissioner, and is already in operation in many different communities in the state. Other states also have it working in full force.
The "Calf Club" makes every boy and girl a cattle owner. Forty children are gathered together in a club, and their parents furnish the money for each one to buy a heifer calf. The "Calf Club" makes arrangements with different banks where the children may sign a year's note for the average cost of their calves. At the end of a year, on "Calf Club Sale Day," the calves are auctioned off, and the money above the amount of the note goes to the child who fed the calf.
Annual Gathering Will be Held at Columbia From January 1 to 5.
"CALF CLUB" TO BE FEATURE
Recently Formed Organization for Boys and Girls of State to Be Pushed at Meeting.
Missouri farmers will celebrate their big yearly meeting in Columbia January 1 to 5, 1917. The occasion is the annual "Farmers' Week" of the new year, and representatives are expected from every county and small town in the state. The county courts, commercial clubs, granges, unions and farm clubs will all send delegates, and all farmers also are invited to attend the big agricultural congress.
The college of agriculture of the University of Missouri will offer its annual farmers' short course program. More than twenty state-wide associations will hold daily meetings each afternoon. A state convention of farm clubs will convene. A program of speeches will be given each night, and the congress will close with a farmers' banquet at Rothwell Gymnasium Friday night, given by the school of agriculture.
The "Missouri Calf Club," an organization for the boys and girls of the state, probably will be pushed forward at the meeting. The "Calf Club" plan has been revised and improved by E. G. Bennett, state dairy commissioner, and is already in operation in many different communities in the state. Other states also have it working in full force.
The "Calf Club" makes every boy and girl a cattle owner. Forty children are gathered together in a club, and their parents furnish the money for each one to buy a heifer calf. The "Calf Club" makes arrangements with different banks where the children may sign a year's note for the average cost of their calves. At the end of a year, on "Calf Club Sale Day," the calves are auctioned off, and the money above the amount of the note goes to the child who fed the calf.
What sub-type of article is it?
Historical Event
What themes does it cover?
Moral Virtue
Triumph
What keywords are associated?
Farmers Week
Calf Club
Missouri Agriculture
Youth Farming
University Of Missouri
What entities or persons were involved?
E. G. Bennett
Where did it happen?
Columbia, Missouri
Story Details
Key Persons
E. G. Bennett
Location
Columbia, Missouri
Event Date
January 1 To 5, 1917
Story Details
Annual Farmers' Week event at University of Missouri features short courses, meetings, speeches, and banquet; promotes Missouri Calf Club where youth buy, raise, and sell heifer calves to earn profit after a year.