CORX SCHOOL AND STOCKMEn's COXVENTION. 261 



1. The %York should be better organized and more definite work done. 



2. The second afternoon a talk on scoring by the expert should be 

 given in a separate room from the judging. 



."5. The judging room should be under a department superintendent, 

 who should require students to attend regularly and on time, or give up 

 their places to others. He should require good work instead of visiting. 



4. A few samples of good corn of each variety should be on exhi- 

 bition in the scoring room and in the lecture liall. Eacli sample should 

 l>e plainly tagged, and, if desired, returned to the owner. 



5. Testing cases sliould also be on exhibition in the main lecture 

 room, showing corn actually growing. 



(i. Each department should have a superintendent. 



7. Committees may do Avell to confer with Professors Skinner and 

 Van Norman on exhibiting live stock and dairy products in the lectures. 



Fine liorses for noted breeders can be secured free of charge and 

 would add life and charm to the week's work. An exhibition of new fea- 

 tures in farm machinery, such as edge droppers, spreader attachments for 

 fvu-rows. incubators, etc.. should also be made. 



The committee might consider the time of holding the Corn Scliool 

 eitlier before or after the short course opens. 



8. More illustrations should l)e given, such as the study of a fat 

 steer on foot, followed in a day or two by an exhibition of marbled paeats, 

 along with lectures by experts. I^ectures by experts should also be given 

 on foods and their preparation. 



'.t. Charts illustrating ciits of meat, fertilizers, feeding rations, liouse 

 plans, lawns and the like should be constantly hanging on the wall of 

 the main leciure room. 



Bulletins of various kinds should be on tables and a card stating that 

 to secure them free one sliould register his name and address in a book 

 on tlie table. 



A more systematic etfort should be made to secure membership to 

 the State Corn Growers' Association, wliicli should not be made em- 

 barrassing. 



The following committees were appointed: 



1. Committee on the Future of the Indiana Corn School — E. H. Col- 

 lins. Carmel. Indiana: J. B. Burris. Cloverdale. Indiana; E. C. Martindale. 

 Greenfield. Indiana: C. B. Benjamin, Leroy, Indiana; Amos Garretson, Pen- 

 dleton. Indiana; J. P. Davis, Sheridan, Indiana; J. P. Prigg. Daleville. In- 

 diana, and L. B. Clore, Franklin. Ind. 



2. Committee on Resolutions — .7. .J. W. Billingsley. Indianapolis. In- 

 diana; Oliver Kline. Huntington. Indiana; J. H. Gwaltney. Poseyville. In- 

 diana, and A. G. Mace, Lexington. Indiana. 



