Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1903-07-16
FARnERS VISITED
COLLEGE AT FARGO
5tutsman County Farmers Visited and Viewed the
Work being Done at the Government Expert
ment Staton---Interesting Results of Expert
ments at the College With Grain and Other
Products.

thistle, broad plantain, wild buck
wheat, sweet clover, purslane, fox
tail, peppermint, wolf berry, tumble
weed, pansy mustard, pepper grass,
French weed, English charlock, marsh
mustard and shepherd purse. An
array of bottles containing seeds of
these different weeds were also on -ex-
hibition with other things of inter
est to agriculturists.
Coming down from the musem the
ladies were invited into the reception
hall where coffee, cake and lem onade
were served by Mrs. Keene, Mrs. G.
b. Waldron, Miss Loben and Miss
Feldmyer.
A fine exhibit of between thirty
and forty different kinds of farm ma
chinery of the nnost recent make and
which have been donated and loaned
the college were arrayed on the
grounds. These including the new
Deering combination header and
binder, The Hodges, Milwaukee,
Champion Rnowers, bean haryesters.
potato diggers, disc and several diff
erent makes, gang and acme plows,
harr0ws and five different surface
corn o,ati<ators used in the field tri-
ais at the station besides single and
double disc drills of the latest pat
terms.
In Francis hall the domestic sci
ences are taught the young ladies
who attend the college, teaching the
most economical and practical ways
of doing household tasks, and with
the teast expenditure of physical or
nervous energy The study also ena-
bles them to return home with all the
knowledge of sewing, necessary to do
the plain sewing of family and in
cluGes lectures on the science of aiv-
Ling, personal hygiene and emergency
nursing.
e. C.. Schollander demonstrated
the method of breeding grain by Sc
lection and crossing i've distinct
types of Imillet that four years ago
came from one head, also two dis
tin@ types OF fax that six years ago
came .Out'Of the same field of seed
fax, 'out' one was selected for heavy
seed product, and the other for a
fiber plant with long stem and few
seed both showing difference at the
present time O: over six inches in
length in favor of the fiber and about
three times as much seed upon the
seed producing plant.
Great interest was shown in the
different varieties of hedges growing
throughout the garden and we learn
ed that the Golden Russian willow
was the most practical for this eli
mate, all things considered. They
are stauted from cuttings, using wood
from one41ourth to one-half inch in
diameter made into cuttings about
ten inches long. These to be made
any time after the leaves have dropp-
ed in the Sail up to the lst of May.
then stuck i'm the ground after the
frost is out, about foot apart at an
angle of about thirty degrees from an
upright position, leaving a bud or
two above grOund. Cultivation must
begin almost immediately and con-
tinue every week or ten days until
freeze up time. They grow rapidly
under cultivation. One hedge at the
station which was cut down TO the
ground last spring is now nearly nine
feet high. The buffalo berry, buck-
thorn, wild plum, caradena, soft
maple, elm and ash also make good
hedges.
Returning after lunch, Prof. Wal
dron gave a talk on the "Vitality
of Seeds in the Soil.'' He said wild
weeds would grow at the depth Of
from one to eight inches, the common
mustard would not come up if seed
was down deeper than one inch. He
urged all to familiarize themselves
with the different weed seeds in or
der to intelligently clear grains of
noxious seeds and offered to furnish
every farmer in the state with a
small bottle of each variety for just
what it cost him to gather. bottle
and label it
Prof. Ladd, the chemist at the A.
c., who has done SO much toward
correcting the food adulteratiOns in
North Dakota. gave an address show
ing the poisOns taken into the sys-
tenn every day by the use of adulter-
ated makes OF jeliies, catsnps, soda