Name/Title
University Farmers' Institute at Chino program and envelopeEntry/Object ID
2011.235.1.1a-bDescription
A program (a) with envelope (b) for the University Farmers' Institute at Chino, 5 April 1898. Sent to beet farmer W. Jacob Schaefer of Chino, whose home still stands, the item lists members of the committee members involved in the planning for the institute, conducted by the University of California, which had an experiment station at Chino before it moved to Riverside, and held at the Chino Opera House. The institute was conducted by Professor A. J. Cook of Claremont and for which town luminary Edwin Rhodes was secretary. The event included presentations on dairies, silos, gardening, food preparation, soil cultivation, beet raising, and poultry feeding. There was also an invocation, welcome address, and music The envelope has a preprinted address from the Chino Valley Champion newspaper and a German inscription probably by Schaefer. With original tri-folds a few creases and browning, the program is in good overall conditiion, while the envelope is fair.
