The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1904-01-30
TRi.sTATE GRAIN AND STOCK
GROWERS.
Fifth Annual Convention 10 Held at
Fargo - Interesting and In
structive Addresses Are
Delivered by Well
Known Experts.

Tri-State Grain and Stock Growers
association was convened Tuesday at
the Fargo opera house. The annual
address of ]. A. Johnson, president of
the association, was the feature Of the
forenoon session. President johnson
took occasion during his address to
detail some of the evils of the eleva-
turned his attention to the beef trust.
On this subject he said:
You have it in your power to de-
feat the formation at least in the
future of these trusts. Your power lies
in the ballot. Ii yol will attend your
primaries and conventions and make
every man who aSpires to a seat in
your legislature and congress pledge
himself in writing, before nomination,
that he will vote for laws both in the
state as we'll as in the national legis.
latures thai will prohibit their fcrma-
ton and pledge themselves not to
vote for any ma. fer United States
senator wntil the man or men who
aspire to these exalted positions will
pledge themselves in writing before
election that they will Use their votes
and influence in the same direction,
you will soon see a difference. There
is nothing lnat scares a politician so
much as votes, or the want of them;
THEY will do anything you demand,
If you make them promise in time.
unless you will take radical measures
you will be bound hand and foot in a
few years. You will be as powerless
with the new trusts as you are to-day
with the eleva tDr trust. You will adj
NIT that while there my be half a
dozen or elevators in your town,
all competition has been killed. The
agents all strive to secure your grain,
but the price is the same at each ele-
vator. That trGst has made million
aires out of a few men at the expense
of you and %otilels, who are at theil
mercy.
until this year the elevator COM
panies contributed. In reply to an in
quiry made by me some time ago as
to whether they would assist us, one
part as follows:
Judging by the statements made
by the various elevator people after
THE last grain growers convention, l
should not expect that any of them
would contribute a cent toward that
proposition again. The elevator peo-
pie feel that while they have contrib
uted for several years past to this
proposition that matters have been al
lowed to be discussed in these meet
ings which were distinctly detrimental
to the inter asts OF the elevator peo-
ple.'"
J.. H. Worst, president Of the agri-
cultural college, was the next speaker
and he outlined in an interesting man
ner the work of the convention.
Prof. j. H. Sheppard, of the agri-
cultural college, was the first speaker
at the afternoon session. on Breed
ing Stock for the Northwest"
The address of Prof. Sheppard was
enthusiastically received, and it was
pronounced by all a very able and in
structivo discourse. When he had
concluded Prof. Susan M. Reid of the
agricultural college, was introduced
and delivered a very instructive paper
on Domestic Science" She handled
her subject with a master hand and
brain, and the paper will undoubtedly
prove one of the best and most in
structive of the congress.
L. A. Huntoon of Moorhead, with an
address on Manufacturing Corn Fod-
der Into Beef and Pork" followed.
Mr.. Huntoon is AZ orator Of no mean
ability, q sound reasoner and in all an
Interesting talker, and for about twen-
ty minutes highly entertained his au-
ditors. A paper on the Shelter Belt
for Stock and Remedies for Insects In
furious to Animals" by Prof. Waldron
of the agricultural college, concluded
the first days program.
Wednesday, Jan. 20.
To.day's sessions of the Tri-State
Grain and Stock Growers association
were large attended, a greater num-
Der being present than has ever before
attended an annual meeting of the as
sociation.
President johnson announced the
following committees:
Committee to Report on the Nc
Cumber Bill-Capt. D. L. Wellman of
Frazee, Mimi; E. d. Childs Of
Crookston, MIMI, and P. ]. Rance Of
Webster, N. d.
Committee on Future of the Asso.
ciation-J. H. Sheppard of the North
Dakota Agricultural college; T. A.
Hoverstad, Of the government station
at Crookston, Mimi; s. w. R. Pack
ard, Niagara, N. D.; w. F. Greeley,
editor Dakota Farmer, Gary, S. D.; N.
e.. Carnine, Aberdeen, S. D.; L. A.
Iceland, Edgeley, N. D.
Prof. Hoverstad Of the experiment
station, Crookston, made the opening
address this morning. bis ther'e ''"'ng
along the lines Of rotation in farming.
He spoke of the almost exclusive
tendency in the past Of the farmers
to grow wheat. He thought that grain
should be held as a basis and that sec
ond in rotation should come the
grasses, and recommended timothy,
Austrian bronze, red top and the slen-
der wheat grass, and in planting he
suggested q mixture Of these seeds,
in Just what proportion he said he
was unable at this time to advise.
Prof. M. A. Carleton, ~cerealist of the
AGRICULTURAL department at Washing