The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1906-02-02

The special train bearing d force
Of college professors who are touring
the Milwaukee lines in the interest OF
better seed grain, drawn by a crippled
engine, arrived in the city "Wednesday
night oyer an hour late, only to DC
wrecked at the entrance to the Aber-
deem yards. The scientific fellows got
out Of the partially capsized a and
made their way into town unable to
bring their demonstrating outfits.
The. courtroom contained a good au-
dience who had sat in their seats for
over an hour in patience awaiting
their arrival.
Without any preliminary ceremony
they went straight at it, Professor
Parker of the Minnesota Agricultural
college, opening the meeting with a
talk on pure seed wheat. He empha-
sized the Importance Of sowing the
heaviest grain, relating how tests at
the experiment stations show a yield
of 81 more bushels of oats from the
heavy seed, and Al bushels more of
wheat to the acre. The largest kerr
nels were not always the heaviest, so
that screening was not che best meth.
cd of grading the wheat. He preferred
grading it by mean of wind, saying
that a tanning mill could be so arrang-
ed that the wind would separate the
heaviest grain in a very satisfactory
manner.
Prof. Cole of the South Dakota Ag-
ricultural college followed with an in
teresting talk on corn. He held up
an a OF corn about eight inches in
length, saying that n such a on
each hill of corr would makes yield of
Is bushels to the acre; two ears to the
hill, so bushels; three ears, Is bushels.
He said it was possible to have the lat
ter yield. He said it was true that
the average yield inthe United States
was but q bushels last year, and in
this state 80 bushels. He said there
were three reasons why we fail to Sc
cure the maximum yield: first, because
Of a poor stand; second, because of bar
rem stocks; third, too many small ears.
The first trouble could be easily rem
edied by taking care of seed and keep
ing it thoroughly dry. The second
and third troubles could only be done
away with by a long curse of breed
ing. The barren stocks in the breed
ing plant should all be detassled, and
seed from best ears year after year
would grow less and less small ears.
The next speaker was introduced by
Prof. Wheeler as DR.. McVeagh, pro-
fessor Of social science and political
economy in the University Of Mime.
sofa. He was brought along to show
how little a man need know about
farming to be fully warranted in going
about telling them how to farm. He
started out in the humorousv vein feel
ing that he was capable of being fun
ny. The object of his talk seemed to
be to impress on the farmers the me-
cessity of keeping books so that they
would know where they are at and
just what their profits are. He said
in every other business a man keeps a
careful account and knows what price
he should charge to make a profit. just
here he got a pointer in political econ
omy from Jack gilbert, who called his
attention to the fact that farmers had
nothing to do with fixing a price on
their products. This interruption sort
OF wrecked the train of the DOCTORS
argument so that he hurried to a tame
and impotent conclusion.
This about ended the session. neo.
pie, feeling it vas pretty late, were
leaving In squads. Professor Cole was
called back to say which he believed
the best, drilling or checking corn. His
answer was that it depended largely
lon the sman. If corn could be kent,
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