Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1899-03-30
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Mayor Johnson appointed committee
/, of nine to arrange for g permanent or
| ganization. Three members on the commit
| tee are from each Minnesota, North Da-
| kota and South Dakota, and a tri-state
| grain growers association may be formed
with possibility of Manitoba coming IN
| and including adj 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 it's relation to
wheat. He showed that the land was be-
ing rapidly robbed of it's nitrogen by con-
unuous 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-
ton as the only cure.
| G. S. Barnes, one of the largest farm
ers in the valley, thought wheat raising
failed naturally every eighteen years of
! continuous crops, and recommended
| change to other crops for a few years
Charles Braithwait of Manitoba gave an
| 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.
! Prof. Bolley. of the North Dakota ex-
pertinent station, addressed the conven-
| ton on the subject of treatment of wheat
| for smut. He went into the subject at
| great length and was aided by stereop-
| ticon views of the microscopic investiga-
| tons. 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
Thursdays Session.
The Interstate Grain Growers conven-
| ton closed tonight in blaze OF glory.
| The three-day session has been a record
of increased interest, increased attend
| ance and information.
| The result of the meeting has been the
/ organization of a tri-state grain grow
| crs' 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
is to have the conventions rotate among
| the three states trieanially, 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-
| pointnlent 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,
| VILE N. D.; E. D. Chlds, Crookston,
Mimi; O. c. Gregg, Marshall, Mimi;
President IIoston, Brookings, S. D., and
Charles N. Harris, Aberdeen. S. ..
| great point of interest in to-days
meeting was the presence and address Of
President ]. j. HILL of the Great North
ern railway.
He spoke of his first visits to the Red
| river valley and gave his impression of
the wonderful country as he found it
Twenty-Five years ago. Farming, as it
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
valley followed and a full history of the
hard task of interesting the state in the
work was given with due credit to Ezra
Valentine of Breckenridge. for his great
! share in the work. The evil policy of
shipping grain containing dirty and foul
,, seeds when the seed could be cleaned
here and the screenings fed proftaby to
cattle and hogs, was condemned. and the
history OF the efforts of his road to pro-
/ mote stock raising in this section re-
| 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 a proper system without
terminal markets within the state. He
standard and discouraged its being dis
carded until something better could be
substituted. Federal inspection seemed a
happy solution for Minnesota, and the
two Dakotas, this would give the lat
ter representation.
One of the marked features of Mr..
HIS address was the round denuncia-
ton Of representatives i'll the national
congress for their petty methods of at
tempting to preserve their political life
by securing appropriations for postofices,
river improvements and such work. He
spoke of a million dollars being appro-
priated in the last few years for work on
the Mississippi from Fort Smelling to
Minneapolis, when the only benefit could
be to furnish a good boating course for
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 fayorite subject of
The Asiatic Market
in detail. The Japanese line Of steamship
was discussed. He held it could take
wheat across the ocean at $3.50 a ton if
properly conducted. Japan and China
could use more wheat than the United
Suites 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 4O,O00,O00
bushels shipped East. The difficulty Of
shipping wheat by the Eastern route
across the equator twice around the Horn
was discussed. He wanted the goverl-
ment to pay a subsidy of $1.50 per ton
for Oriental shipments. This would cost
a million and half and would raise the
value of the wheat product of the North
west $35, 900, 600. Newspapers took up his