The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1904-12-23
SUCCESSFUL
INSTITUTE
Good attendance and Much Inter-
est shown in the work. All well
pleased with results.

day at 10 no a. m. in the court rooms.
The attendance was good and was
better still at the afternoon and even.
ing sessions. Representative farmers
from every part of the county took
part in the institute and a keen in
terest was displayed throughout. The
morning session Tuesday was taken up
by opening talks on the work to be
accomplished and in strong plea for
mixed farming made by Mr.. Hover
stad. He very clearly pointed out the
benefits resulting from giving atten-
tion to the various resources at hand.
The afternoon session began at :3O
Mr.. Hoverstad spoke at some length
on the value of dust blanket in re-
tanning moisture in the ground and
thus insuring to the growing crop am
pie moisture. Questions from the au-
dience called out talk from Mr..
Schollander, of the Agricultural Col
lege. on the yields secured under diff
erent crop rotations, the choice of seed
and the best methods of killing out
weeds. Each of these subjects would,
to attempt to do them justice, occupy
more space than we can spare this
week and must for the present be
passed without comment except that
the suggestions made were sens ible
and practical and the result of thor
ough experiment.
James Austin made a nice talk on
the horse. He dwelt OH types rather
than breeds. He advised the breed
ing up of Il particular strain of horses
and was opposed to cross breeding.
He was of the opinion that North 'Da-.
kota has bright. future in the way of
horse raising.
An evening session began at 7:3O.
A nice address on the farmers home
and the model farm kitchen was first
and contained many practical sugges-
tions.
Schollander gave summary of the
methods employed at the experimental
farm in seed selection. crossing of
different grains and the general work
of the station. all of which was in
teNsting and instructive. He wants
all farmers to choose their best grain
to sow and assures them that "llke
produces like in grains as every
where else.
Mr.. Hoverstad spoke at length on
the raising of poultry, the methods
employed in the conduct of poultry
farm, the construction of the poultry
house and the arrangement of the rec
essary furniture, the difficulties OF
ventilation and the feeding Of the
birds. It was very thorough talk
and we expect to review it in some
future issue.
After short talk by Austin on the
literature which should come into the
farmers home the evening session
adjourned.
Wednesday mornings session op'
ened with a comprehensive argument
for corn growing by Mr.. Hoverstad'
The balance of the forenoon was taken
IN in an address on hogs by MI.
Austin and in answering questions
brought up by farmers. 1t was an in
teresting session.
The afternoon session began with an
address on "the care Of horses py
Mr.. Hoverstad. There were many
good thoughts in this talk that some
Of our farmers could we'll take to
heart. The next subject discussed was
that Of. cattle raising. In general
talk every phase Of the subject was
touched. Attention was given to the
relative merits and types OF dairy ana
beef cattle, their care, the breeding Up
of one type. the ventilation OF barns
etc.
This was followed by most IN
teresting talk on the growing OF fru't
by John Dinwoodie. He is an earnest
advocate Of ssmore intensive farming
and less extensive farming. NE. NE.
Dinwoodie's argument was very 'n-'
teresting. especially as he has Deen