The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1902-01-17
THE GRAIN GROWERS.
They Meet at Fargo With Large Attend
ance and Satiss actory Results. VAL
able Papers are Presented.

The Tri-State Grain and Stock Growers
convention held at Fargo last week was
liar affair held in Fargo. Mayor Johnson
presided over the opening of the meeting
ana IN the organization was chosen pres
;asii, ..:.sa S,sjo: .'.c;-,-,ss, sec-e 800
L. A. Hoyerstad of Crookston, were Sc
lected as vice presidents. The convention
was given treat when Jas. Holes, living
to Cultivation
Mrs. Worst also spoke for a few mo-
ments upon the potato and its culture and
Lead an interesting discussion along that
Hon. r. ]. Turner, state commissioner
OF agriculture, was unable to be present,
put sent an interesting paper on the pros
paper was well received by the audience.
l.. A. LELAND, of Eagerly, then gave an
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
meeting as nearly every farmer begins to
the best results must be diversified and
that corn is almost necessity to diver
sifed farming and stock raising.
X. E. Fleming was the first speaker of
the afternoon and for some time enter
tanned the convention with a talk on the
raising of corn ensilage. The subject was
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 of the union.
Few, more interesting matters could
have been taken up than the discussion
of macaroni wheat following an interest
ing paper on that subject by Prof. D. A.
Saunders of the South Dakota Agricul-
tural College. The subject was, discussed
al great length, and many of those pres
ent decided to try the cereal next year.
: J. 70. 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 short talk on matters of
general moment to the profession, intro
duced Ernest G. Schollander of the Fargo
Agricultural College; who spoke at length
President Worst: of the Experimental
Station and College, emphasized the re-
marks. of MIR. Schollander, making a
strong and urgent plea for better seed.
better farming and. clean machinery.
Hon. M. A. Carlton, cerealist connected
with the government department of agri-
culture was called upon for few words
and took up 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
The first paper the next morning was
by w. M. House of Lidgerwood on 'Ag-
riculture and Education." The speaker
was formerly well-known educator and
years. His address was most able.
R. s. Barnes of Fargo spoke. on "Di-
yersified Farming, and convinced his
years, that the one-crop idea for the
northwest was a failure. Much of his ad-
dress was devoted to experience in farm
ing in both southern and northern Mime
sofa.
Mrs. E. P. Curtiss, of Moorhed, ad-
dressed the convention on Our Farm
crease it's Blessings" Her address was
sarcastic and witty, and she brought
down the house on some of her remarks.
M. A. Carleton, cerealist of the depart
ment of agriculture at Washington, who
was sent here by Secretary Wilson to as
sist in the convention, spoke on drought
resistent cereals. He described his ex-
geographically similar to the Dakotas.
Long efforts on the part of the govern
ment there had produced wheat that
was especially adapted to North and
South Dakota.
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
section of the country was also urged.
The afternoons work was concluded by
an address by . George A. Ralph, o.
River Valley in which the absolute ne.
cessity of some method for the protec.
ton of settlers and prevention of floods
was thoroughly exploited.
Resolutions Adopted.
Mr.. 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
fore, that in resisting the attempts OF
the Union Pacific Road and it's allies on
the one hand, and the Canadian Pacific
Railroad and its feeders on the other, Sc
Railroad, James ]. Hill has performed a
notable public service, and once more
displayed the far-sighted and business
like policy that has characterized his
long career as the great developer OF
northwestern resources, and the most
watchful guardian of northwestern in
tereStS.
Mr. Hill built a great transcontinental
railroad through wilderness, that has
grown through his ecorts, into the rich
est empire on earth, and never asked q
that railroad at one end with fleet of
vessels that carry American products to
the Orient and bring back the Oriental
trade to the northwest, and to the whole
nation and at the other end with ship
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, he
has entered every section that needed
transportation facilities and constructed
often at a loss to himself, linse into
sparsely settled and unproductive COM
munities. During all the years of rail-
road building, there has been regular
ly marked reduction of freight tariffs,
according as the volume of traffic in
creased and warranted it, and 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-
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 tranSpor-
tation facilities to be had by the people
of 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
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
a number of millions of dollars, to put
on the Pacifs ocean trade from this
country to the Orient. We notice by the
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