The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-04-07
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| Mayor Johnson appointed a committee
4, OF nine to arrange for a permanent or
ganizatlon. Three members on the commit
| teo are from each Minnesota, North Da-
kota and South Dakota, and a tri-state
grain growers association may be formed
| with q possibility Of Manitoba coming in
! and including all the hard wheat coun-
try. r. Andrews Of Mapleton was the
first speaker. and talked on
How TO Make Farming Pay.
He was followed by Pref. Ladd, the
chemist at the North Dakota experiment
| address on soil humus in its relation to
wheat. He showed that the land was be-
ing rapidly robbed of It's nitrogen by con-
tinuous cropping in wheat, and believed
that the deterioration Of the grade was
| due to this. He recommended the use Of
| lime growth Of grass seed and crop rOta.
tiol. as the only cure.
q. 8. Barnes, one Of the largest farm
ere in the valley, thought wheat raising
failed naturally every eighteen years Of
| continuous crops, and recommended q
| change to other crops for q few years.
interesting lecture on how to destroy
weeds, with special attention being paid
| to wild oats, the French weed and Cana
dian thistle. Director Hovestad, Of the
Minnesota sub-experiment station at
Crookston, was the last speaker of the
AFTERNOON and gave the convention the
result of his five years experience in the
valley. In the evening the committee to
decide the prize winner on the papers on
How to Make Farming Pay reported
unanimously in favor of Mr.. House Of
Lidgerwood, N. D., an ex-member of the
North Dakota legislature.
i Prof. Bolley, of the North Dakota ex-
pertinent station addressed the conven-
tion on the subject of treatment Of wheat
| tor smut. He went into the subject at
great length and was aided by stereop-
| ttcon views of the microscopic investiga-
lions. He was followed by Prof. Hays,
| OF the Minnesota experiment station on
| breeding pure seed wheat. The latter is
one OF the best authorities on that sub
ject In the North vest and gave one Of the
most interesting and instructive addresses
Of the meeting.
Thursday's Session.
The Interstate Grain Growers conven-
ton closed tonight in blaze OF glory.
The three-day session has been q record
Of increased interest, increased attend
ance and information.
| The result of the meeting has been the
| organization Of tri-state grain grow
ors' association. This was made an open
organization by the appointment of an
executive committee of seven, two from
each state OF Minnesota, North and South
Dakota, with one at large. The idea
ts to have the conventions rotate among
the three states triennially, but this
shall not interfere with annual meetings
in each state under the auspices Of the
executive committee, and professors In
the agricultural colleges Of the other
states will assist in the work in the ap-
pointment Of the committee Budd Reeve,
the originator and promoter Of the pres
ent convention, was named the member
at large: The others are J: H. Worst,
Fargo, N. D.; Charles McKissicl, May
Vile. N. D.; r.. D. Childs, Crookston.
Mimi: o. G. Gregg, Marshall, Mimi;
President Hoston, Brookings 8. D., and
Charles N. Harris, Aberdeen. s. d.
A great point Of interest in to-day's
President j. J. Hill, Of the Great North
ern railway.
1 He spoke Of his first visits to the Red
river valley and gave his impression of
the wonderful country as he found 1t
Twenty-Five years ago. Farming, as 1t
had advanced in the last quarter Of a
century here. was Interestingly discussed.
Some splendid advice as to methods was
given.
A discussion Of drainage methods in the
4 valley followed and a full history Of the
hard task of interesting the state In the
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Valentine of Breckenridge, for his great
share In the work. The evil policy OF
I shipping grain containing dirty and foul
+, seeds when the seed could be cleaned
here and the screenings fed probably to
cattle and hogs. was condemned, and the
history of the efforts Of his road to pro-
mote stock raising in this section ne.
viewed. His remark that more cattle
were shipped by his road east of Minot
In this state by thirty thousand than
! from all the rest of the line west of Minot
to the coast caused considerable surprise.
On the subject of wheat inspection, Mr..
Hill thought it impossible for North Da.
kota to have proper system without
terminal markets within the state. He
commended the Minnesota system as
standard and discouraged its being dis
carded until something better could be
substituted. Federal inspection seemed q
happy solution for Minnesota, and the
two Dakotas, as this would give the lat.
| ter representation
One Of the marked features Of Mr..
Hills address was the round denuncia-
ton of representatives in the national
congress for their petty methods of at.
tempting to preserve their political life
by securing appropriations for postoff1ces,
| river improvements and such work. He
spoke of a million dollars being appro-
prtated in the last few years for work on
the Mississippi, from Fort Smelling to
|
be to furnish a good boating course for
the students of the Minnesota university.
| Thirty thousand dollars, he asserted, was
recently appropriated for improvement of
the Red river for navigation. The Great
Northern owned all the boats on the
river and would sell the entire fleet for
half the sum mentioned. He went into
his favorite subject Of
The Asiatic Market
/, in detail. The Japanese line of steamship
was discussed. Hc held it could take
wheat across the ocean at $3.50 ton if
properly conducted. Japan and China
could use more wheat than the United
States could export. There would be no
danger of getting too much. If that
market could be opened it would do more
to raise the price Of wheat east Of the
Rockies than the value If the OOOO, 900
bushels shipped East. The difficulty of
shipping wheat by the Eastern route
across the equator twice around the Horn
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