The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-02
ADJOURNED SINE DIE
Close of the Farmers Institute After
a Pleasant Session.
CANDIDATES FOR THE FAIR
Ii VIII Be Held Either In Great
Falls or Sand Coulee - Adj
dresses by President
Stork and Others.

Great Falls, March 1.-The Farmers
institute at Belt yesterday was opened
by an address by c. r. Stork, president
of the Cascade County Agricultural So
ciety, on Farming for Profit" He
stated that he had found bench land
farming to be pleasant and profitable.
In support of this assertion he produc-
ed figures which showed that in few
years of bench-land farming his re-
ceipts had been s14, 231. 80. OF this total
S4,192.29 was received in 1895. His yield
of wheat each year per acre was as FOL
lows: In 1891, so bushels; 1892, 25 bush
els; 1893, u bushels; 1894, 271s bushels;
1895. 261z bushels. Making an average
yield of 2SA bushels of No. 1 hard
wheat per acre. Now, when the high
est average yield of any OF our pest
wheat-growing states" said Mr.. Stork,
lis only Is bushels per acre, and many
of the states average only five to eight
bushels, we see instantly that we are
living in one of the best grain-growing
sections in the United States. We have
been able to get from 50 to 81 cents for
our wheat, whereas the Minnesota
farmer has had to market his crop at
S5 and 40 cents per bushel"
Mr.. Stork, in conclusion, urged the
farmers to diversity their farming, rails
ing some of all the products and plant
those crops for which reason teaches
us there will be the best market"
Mr.. Stork was followed by George H.
Scott of White Sulphur Springs, who
read a paper on Tree Planting and
Horticulture as a Business" The pro-
duct of the orchards of Montana reach
es the highest state of perfection. The
90, ~ ha n the Ritter Root
valley has bene spread broadcast, but
nowhere is fruit so plentiful as in the
Yellowstone valley and all Eastern
Montana, which section has superior
advantages to offer to the horticulture
alist. The field is the grandest in the
state, so large that all may work in
perfect harmony. Mr.. Scott advised
that young trees should be planted as
the old ones sent out by nurseries are
inferior, and strongly recommended
that only Montana nurseries be patron
lied.
In the general discussion which fol-
lowed Professor Emery of Bozeman
said that within one year there would
be larger single orchards in the Bitter
Root valley than in North Dakota,
South Dakota, Iowa, Wisconsin or
Michigan, and yet there are grown men
in Montana who never saw an apple on
the tree.
At the afternoon session Professor S.
c. Remington of Belt spoke eloquently
on Patriotism and Politics." taking an
optimistic view, and was followed by
Judge r. S. Ball of Sand Coulee. who
spoke on 1.-The Money Question" and
in favor of free coinage.
The question shall we hold the Fair
at Belt?" was then discussed. John X.
Cashier, w. r. Glasscock and other cit
liens of Belt stated that the people of
Belt would be glad to have the fair held
there, but they realized that the town
lacked hotel and livery accommoda-
tons, and probably could not contrib
ute largely to making the fair a finan-
cial success. Mr.. Cashier finally moved
that the fair be held in Great Falls.
but withdrew his motion in favor of a
motion that the directors be empowered
to choose between Great Falls and Sand
Coulee for the location of the fair and
TO fix the dates and attend to other pre-
liminary arrangements. This motion
was unanimously adopted.
After adopting resolutions thanking
the citizens of Belt for their hospitali-
ty, the speakers, the institute, the press
of the county and state and the direct
ors and officers of the fair held in Great
Falls last October, the institute ad-
journed sine die.
A meeting of the directors of the as
ISOLATION to decide upon the location OF
the fair will be held at Belt the latter
part of this week.