Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-10-31
WILL TALK TO
OUR FARMERS
Noted Speakers Will Visit Lewistown
for the institute to be Held
Here December %.
PROF. LINFiELD's STATEMENT
Good That Has Been Done by These
Meetngs-Suport Of the Farm
ers Asked.

spring Of attending the farmers instl-
tute held in this city will be espec-
tally interested in the plans of the
board of administration for the COM
ing season. Fergus county is now in
cluded in district No. 4, the other cOun-
ties being Gallatin, Meagher and
Broadwater. The institute is to be
held at Lewistown Dec. %, and there
will be two sessiOns-afternOOn and
evening. The speakers to be sent
by the board to this locality will be
new to our farmers, and all are au-
thorities in their respective lines
They are Prof. R. W. Fisher, of the
agricultural college: DR.. H. c. Gard
ner, of Bozeman, and J. E. Morse, OF
Dillon. These gentlemen will also
speak at Belgrade and Manhattan.
in Gallatin county, Dec. is and 10.
On Dec q and % they will speak
at White Sulphur Springs, and after
visiting Lewistown on Dec. %, will
go to Utica and hold an institute Dec.
%. The next day. Dec. 81, they will
speak at Moore, and then proceed to
Broadwater county, where an institute
will be held at Townsend Dec. 29,
with two other meetings in that coun-
ty not yet definitely arranged for.
Prof. Linfield's Statement.
In his preface to the bulletin giving
these announcements, Prof. F. B. Ll1i-
field, director of the experiment sta
ton at Bozeman, and secretary OF tn
he II
says:
1T is gratifying TO notice the liz
creasing interest in the work of tn e
farmers institutes during the past
year. The increasing demand for
meetings. makes it necessary TO divide
district No. l into two parts, making
districts No. l and 6. District No. l
will comprise Cascade. Chouteau and
Valley counties and District No. will
be made up of Teton and Flathead
counties. These northern counties are
very large and quite distant from the
center of the institute work. SO that
together they made quite long trip.
The officers of the local farmers
institute and the local representatives
of the board rendered very efficient
service during the past year in max
ing the meetings success. These
men have done excellent work in max
ing all the local arrangements for the
meetings. They are deserving of the
hearty support and cooperation OF
the people in the various commune
ties.
This bulletin is an early announce
ment of the meetings for the next
winter and | hope all those who get
copy will keep it for reference so
hat they will not forget the time the
meetings will be held in their district
and town.
when the time of the meeting ap-
proaches posters will be sent for dis
play in the county. Notices will also
be sent to the press, and this should
be supplemented by the distribution of
programs and such notices to the press
by the local representative of the
work as will make the meetings gen
orally known.
Importance of the Institute.
"These meetings may be made OF
very great educational and practical
value to the people of the districts
visited provided all will attend and
take part Those selected to address
these meetings are persons of eXper
fence and training, and all should en-
deavor to make use of the opportun
ity afforded by these visits. The cOun
try towns of the state, which to a
greater or less extent live on the bus
mess of the agricultural communit.
surrounding them, should also be in
terested in these meetings. Upon the
success and prosperity of the farming
population depends in a very large
measure the growth and prosperity O
the town. The people of the town:
owe it to themselves to help make
these meetings as successful as pos
sible.
'The persons sent by the board tt
address the institute are sent to tall
with you, not to talk at you. These
meetings will be made all the NOR,
valuable if in arranging the program
some local papers are provided for
and ample time is allowed for ques
tons after each address. A question
drawer may also be provided to brinl
up discussions on topics not on tn
program.
while the main part of the mat
ter presented at these meetings viii
have to do with practical agricultur
yet we desire to touch all phases o
country life. The home, the socia
and educational factors that go t
build up and develop the farm life
are parts of the field we desire t
cover in those meetings. and shoul
be included on the program. | wou
be pleased at any time 10 receive sue
gestions on the arrangement and az
vertising of the meetings from thos
interested in the work.
"The third annual report of tn
farmers institutes will be distribute
at these meetings. This is volum
of owe 200 pages of reading matter an
contains the most complete written
on the growing and feeding of alfalf
that has been published in the state
Addresses by l. D. O'Donnell, W. "
Wylie, ]. E. Morse. John NJ. Robir
son and F. B. Linfield; together wit
very full discussions on these ad
dresses, make very complete maj
ual on the alfalfa question in MOI
tana. No person should miss cop
of this report
Taxes Are Now Due.