Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1902-07-17
Everyone Well Satisfied With What

Everyone Well Satisfied With What
was to be Seen and
Learned.
The excursion Of farmers from this
county to the Agricultural college
was very pleasant affair for all who
Weht, and if the expressions of the
farmers themselves are any Indication
the trip will be of practical benefit in
numerous ways. 1t is to be regretted
that a number of those who were ask
ed to notify the agent of the N. P
company of their intention not to go,
failed to do SO as there were many
farmers in the county who did desire
to go but were unable to. Not until
the last moment was it learned that
several parties were not going when it
was too late to get substitutes.
The college grounds were visited
and the work of the experimental
station inspected during the morning.
In the afternoon the visitors returned
to attend the lecture by the college
professors and listen to the questions
and discussion OF farm methods at the
college hall. This proved one Of the
most interesting and instructive feat
ures of the trip. Two Stutsman
county boys who have attended the
college, Thos. F. Manns and Ernest
Shollander took part in,ansWering the
questions of visitors and explaining
the results of the college investiga-
tions along certain lines of work. The
young men are doing good work there
and are credit to the county.
There isso much to be seen at the
college of vital interest to everyone
engaged in farming, that many farm
ers felt that one day was not enough.
Two full days are needed to get the
entire benefit Of the trip, but as it was
every one was well satisfied with what
was seen and learned in the time al
lowed. The college experiments in the
growing Of grains, grasses, vegetables,
trees etc, are extensive, and it takes
time to 60 the rounds of the farm for
which purpose at least one full day is
needed, with the following day for the
lecture work and discussion. Many
farmers also said that their wives
would be greatly benefited with such
a visit as they are equally interested
in farm success and in dsirying are
more than equal partners.
1t may be possible in the future that
some such provisions are included if
the railway companies continue their
generosity in the way of giving the
excursions.
1t is to be regretted, however, that
from some of the counties in the
northern part of the state, few Of the
visitors went to the grounds at all, but
seemed to consider the trip as a
mere junket and patronized Moorhead
and transacted other business than
that which the railway manage
ment intended that the trip was for.
Unless those who are invited to attend
the excursions take the trouble to in
vestigate the merits of the college
work by attendance on the grounds
and the lectures, the excursions will
be abandoned. To the credit of those
living along the n. P. line and
branches, be it said, that nearly all at
tended both in the morning and after
noon, and seemed to appreciate the
efforts Of President Worst and the
faculty and endeavored to get the
most practical benefit from the trip.
An account Of some of the work the
institution is doing and notes of the
discussion of improved farm methods
will be given in another issue. The
visitors from Stutsman county at a
meeting afterwards, prepared the fol-
lowing resolutions as expressing the
sense of all who were present on the
excursion:
RESOLUTIONS.
Resolved, That we, the Stutsman
county delegation of farmers to the
North Dakota Agricultural college,
desire to thank the Northern Pacific
Railway Co. for the very profitable
and pleasant excursion extended to
them to visit that institution on the
10th inst.
Also to extend our thanks
to President Worst Of the college, and
to the members Of the faculty for
their efforts to entertain and instruct
us in the various departments with
which they are connected.
/! Further we desire to state, that in