The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1902-01-17
THE GRAIN GROWERS.
They Moot ut arEO With Largo Attcnd-
ance and Satisfactory Results. VAL
able Papers are Presented

convention held at Fargo last week was
with the largest ATTENDANCE OF any sim
liar affair held In Fargo. Mayor johnson
presided over the opening of the meeting
and IN the organization was chosen pres
tary, a. w. Scott from Grand Forks, and
II. a. Hoverstud OF Crookston, were Sc
lected as vice presidents. The convention
was given a treat when Jas. Holes, living
north of Fargo. read his paper on ''Pota-
to CultivatiOn.'
Mrs Worst also spoke for few mo-.
ments upon the potato and Its culture ana
lead an interesting discussion along that
line.
Hon. r. J. Turner, state commissioner
of agriculture, was unable to be present.
perity and advantages of the state. the
paper was we'll received by the audience.
interesting talk on the culture Of corn
which continued until the hour Of noon
adjournment. The subjects of corn and
potatoes are especially fitting for this
realize that farming in this state to get
the best results must be diversified and
that corn is almost a necessity to diver
sitied farming and stock raising.
r. E. Fleming was the first speaker OF
the afternoon and for some time enter
tanned the convention with a talk on the
handled in mastery manner and the
paper proved decided interesting.
w. F. Gushing spoke to the farmers for
a few moments on the corn exhibits Of
the state at the Pan-American exhibition
and the bright hope that one day North
Dakota should rank first among the corn
producing states ;nt OF the un1o aters coud
have been taken up than the discussion
of macaroni wheat following an interest
ing paper on that subject ha by prof D. A.
tural College. The subject was discussed
at great length. and many of those pres
ent decided to try the cereal next year. "
j. e. Phelan gave an interesting talk
on the raising OF live stock during the
afternoon session which proved very in
teresting to all present:
Supt. Hoverstad of the sub-experiment
station at Crookston, presided as chair
man and after a short talk on matters OF
general moment to the profession, intro
duced Ernest G. Schollander Of the Fargo
upon the subject, ''Selection Of Seed.
President Worst of the Experimental
marks Of Mr. schollander, making a
strong and urgent, plea for better seed,
better farming and clean machinery.
Hon. NJ. A. Carlton, cerealist connected
with the government department of agri
culture was called upon for a few words
and took up a continuation of Mr.. Ten
Eyk's talk on moisture, and told of the
success being attained in Texas and Kan
sas with new varieties of foreign wheat
lately imported.
The first paper the next morning was
riculture and Education.' The speaker
was formerly well-known educator and
has been practical farmer for many
Barnes of Farso spoke on
versitied Farming and convinced his
hearers as he had been himself for some
years. that the one-crop idea for the
northwest was failure. Much Of his adj
dress was devoted to experience in farm
ing in both southern and northern Mime
sofa.
dressed the convention on Our Farm
Life, How to Decrease its Evils and In
sarcastic and witty, and she brought
NJ A. Carleton. cerealist of the depart
ment Of agriculture at Washington. who
sent here by lis to
resistent cereals. He described his ex-
perience in southern Russia, which was
opograSay SIMILAR mi to ot the the
ment there had produced a wheat that
The speaker advised efforts to grow
winter rye here and praised the quality
of the Dakota grown oats. The import
ance OF the broom corn industry for this
The afternoons work was concluded by
an address by George A; Ralph, Of
Crookston: on Drainage in the Red
cessty of some method for. the .protec-
ton Of settlers and prevention of floods
was thoroughly exploited.
Resolutions Adopted.
Mr.. J. J. Hill, president of the Great
Northern, delivered an address at Fargo,
N. D.. on the 10th before the State
Grain Growers Association. Before his
arrival the following resolutions were
passed:
1T is the sense Of this meeting there
f5 Se ha ae Road a hs its aes
the one hand, and the Canadian Pacific
Railroad and its feeders on the other, Sc
SontG am of the Hin has
displayed the far-sightcd and business
like policy that has characterized hls
northwestern resources. and the most
watchful guardian Of northwestern in
terests.
railroad through a wilderness, that has
grown through his ecorts, into the. rich
est empire on earth, and never asked q
that railroad at one end with a fleet Of
vessels that carry American products to
the Orient and bring back the Oriental
trade to the northwest: ana to the wh h9n
ping facilities by water for the Atlantic
seaboard-all this. too. without dollar
of bonus or the semblance Of a subsidy
Trusting to the resources of the country
for the traffic to justify extension, ne
has entered every section that needed
transportation facilities and constructed,
sparsely settled and unproductive COM
munities. During all the years Of rail-
road building, there has been a regular
ly marked reduction of freight tariffs,
according as the volume of traffic in
creased and warranted 1t, and u uniform
disposition to make temporary sacrifice
for the permanent Improvement Of the
country.
I'm view Of this record, and in recogni-
ton of the honorable and upright course
of James J. Hill in his dealings with
the farmers Of the northwest, we con-
graduate the country upon his success
in preventing the absorption of the
Northern Pacific by Union Pacific inter-
ests, on the one hand and the Canadian
Pacific manipulators on the other, and
express our confidence In the purpose
and ability of Mr.. Hill to give to the
states of Minnesota and North and South
Dakota, the best and cheapest transport
tation facilities to be had by the people
c. any section of the nation.
Two years ago Mr. Hill came to our
convention and gave us some good points
on diversified farming and other matters
of interest to the farmers of the north
west and stated that he would furnish
free transportation to delegations OF
farmers from the different counties Of the
state to visit the Agricultural College
and State Farm, which offer many farm
ers have accepted to their great satisfac-
ton and benefit.
"He also stated that he expected to
build some large steam vessels costing
number of millions Of dollars, to put
on the Pacfis ocean trade from this
country tn the Orient. We notice by the