Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1903-02-13
STATION WORK
ANNUAL REPORT OF ExPERI.
MENT STATION FILED WITH
GOVERNOR
WORK ACCOMPLISHED THE PAST
YEAR AND PLANS FOR TAE
FUTURE.

substations in Other Parts Of the
State.
The annual report of the state ex-
pertinent station to the governor has
been fled. In his report to the board
of trustees. President Worst says:
During the past year the weather
perimentation and the results of ex-
periments made and other investiga-
tons. as outlined in this report by the
heads of the several departments. con-
tain much that is interesting and in
structive. AS during former years the
experiments have been largely devoted
to crop rotation. seed breeding and
seed selection. methods of cultivation.
conservation of moisture, and the Gull
tivatiOn of fruits, berries. and vegeta-
bles. Planting trees for shelter belts
and to produce forest conditions and
growing hedges for shelter and for or
namental purposes have received con
siderable attention. The results have
been very gratifying. Analysis of foods
has largely engaged the attention of
the department of chemistry.
The following bulletins were pub
lished during the year:
No. 51-Corn Culture.
No. 52-The Length of the Growing
Season in North Dakota.
No. 53-FoOd Products and Their
Adulteration.
No. 54-Flax and Flax Seed Selec-
ton.
The work planned for the coming
year will not differ materially from that
of former years. except that more at
tention will be given to stock feeding
and diseases of grain with a view to
their eradication-especially flax wilt.
Since the twelfth annual report was
published farmers institutes were held
at Oberon, Darlington, Cooperstown,
Wimbledon, Fingal, LaMoure. Tower
City. Hillsboro. Sheldon. LaMoure, Ell
lendale. Hankinson, Forman. Fessen-
den. D~onnybrook. jamestown. Rollas
Cando, Towner, Leeds. Lakota. Graf
ton and Finley.
iiNnt institutes Mtlt ttlluutttu pN
T. A. Hoverstad. of the Minnesota Sub
Experiment Station. at Crookston. as
sisted by NJ. F. Greeley. editor of the
Dakota Farmer. published at Aber-
deem, S. d., and John Armstrong, of
De Smet, S. D., and z. G.. Schollander,
Of the North Dakota Experiment Sta
ton. At several of the Institutes held
during the year members of the sta
ton staff rendered assistance. Mr..
Armstrong. who was a valuable assist
ant. died during the institute season.
The demand for farmers institutes
continues and is far beyond the abil-
ity of the institute board to fill. with
the present megre appropriation for
that purpose. Not loss than 5000 per
year should be appropriated by the leg
i~slative assembly for farmers insti
tutes, and a farmers club or agricul
tual society should be organized in
every county with assurance of having
IN institute at least once a year al
state expense.
A very strong sentiment is growing
up throughout the Red River Valley in
favor of diversified farming and man,
farmers who formerly devoted al
their energies and land to growini
wheat have already added live stool
and dairying to their farming opera
tiOns.
Another condition has lately deVel
oped. The immense ares of the STATE
iylng west of the Red River 'Vallel
now settled up b. farmers, present.
MANY new problems for investigation
by the experiment station staff. The
soil and agricultural conditions of this
vast territory, nov occupied by small
farm holdings. differs radically from
the soil and the Agricultural conditions
OF the Red River Valley where the eX
pertinent station is situated. that q
Inc OF experiments should be BEGUN
at he earliest moment to meet these
conditions. would suggest that The
sub-eXperiment station al Edgeley. La
Moure county. be fully equipped and
extensively operated for this purpose.
me range country also requires at
tention. From ove~stockine and other
causes tho grass is rapidly disappear
ing from many ranges and extensive
experiments should be made with a
view OF renewing the grasses or intro
ducing new varieties of hardy grasses
and forage crops. | would suggest
tHdi d SidSS tilal station be located in
the range country whore such expert
ments may be conducted.
Improved strains of thorough bred
stock are also badly needed al the ey-
pertinent station for breeding
and for giving instruction to the class
es IN animal husbandry. An assistant
should also be employed in the depart
ment OF dairying to enable that deDart-
ment TO inspect the dairy herds of the
state for the purpose Of assisting
dalrymen 10 weed out unproftahle
cows and for substituting dairy stock
OF proper type and quality TO make
mat industry more profitable.
| would also call your attention to
the fact that every department of the
experiment station is in need of add
tional help To enable them to do more
effective work and to meet the de
mands made upon the station. As the
experiment station is q cooperative
institution receivin" $4,000 annually
from the federal government, the time
has come when the state should fully
cooperate by providing an annual APP