Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1906-03-29
The :! SEED Sc: !: TRAIN
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GETS MUCH PRAISE
Everybody Well Satisfied With
They Saw and What
They Heard.

They Heard.
A Sheaf representative met the
500 Line Seed Special at Thief
River Falls Tuesday morning and
accompanied the train as far as War
rem on it's way west. He wanted to
see what kind of a reception it got
along the line. -
The management of the train was
delighted to have accommodate him.
There was only one other press re-
preventative on the train, W. R.
Edwards, of the Fargo Forum, a son
Of the redoubtable Major Edwards,
now cons IL general at Montreal, Can
ada. The younger Edwards has a
title of his own, as lieutenant of the
North Dakota regiment in the
Spanish war, in which he won dis
tinction at the attack on Manila by
the United States troops.
! The members of the lecture staff
were President John H. Worst of the
IN. D. A. c., Prof. II. L. Bolley the
well-known North Dakota wheat and
flax expert who originated the form
aldehyde treatment for smut, our
own Prof. Hoverstad, A. W. Litch-
ard, of Rushford, N. Y, and G. Z.
Nugent, secretary of the N. D. A. G.
These certainly made up a staff that
would be hard to beat. g.
The train reached Viking for it's
first stop at about 9 O'Clock in the
morning. Early as it was there was
still more than fifty farmers on hand
to hear what was to be said and see
what might be seen. AS a simple
seed grain meeting it was success,
and BODIED well for the days run.
At Radium the crowd did not ma
terialize, this station being to- near
Warren and everybody had gone there
for the larger program.
When the train reached Warren at
ll:l5 the Fourth of July broke loose.
The band was at the station and the
train came to stand in a swirl of
music and the visitors stepped off
wearing smiles that said: This was
something like. a.>:.
The convention crowd was held at
the city hall and the speakers con-
p Quoted thither and the meeting
turned over to them. They wasted
not minute. Tney simply pitched
in. -Four such farm lecturers are
), seldom heard in one hour. They
) went through the category of COM
plimenting the town, and the aud
ience, and the arrangement COM
} mittee, value Of grasses, grains, fer
: tilizers. cultivation, selection, rota-
} tion, pedigree and progress so swiftly
and made their remarks so clear and
pertinent that the listeners could do
Z nothing but swallow and bat their
eyes. There were anyway 300 farmers
, crowded into that city hall and a
hundred more were hanging on by
their toenails and eyelids on the stair.
ways and door frames. The speakers
cut out all that superior style that
practical farmers dislike and struck
at just the things wanted. There
ought to be one such meeting every
week from now on until planting
season is on.
For the benefit OF those who were
not there, but ought to- have been
we give the gist Of what was sale
regarding seed selection: Just as II
the cas- e Of live stock, pedigree, o.
a record of a heavy yielding, gooc
grading ancestry, is the featur,
whicn insures wheat to be Of tn,
right sort to SOW.
Changing wheat seed for the sake
of a change is a mistake. The Elk
pertinent Sattion has tried changing
wheat by sending it to the vicinity
of st. Paul, Minn,. where it wa
grown for one or more years, afte
which it was returned to Fargo ant
grown beside seed which original!
came from the same bag. In ever!
case there was a lower yield from tn,
seed which had taken a vacation ii
Minnesota, and it gradually came vi
+ in point Of yield after it returned
home. Does some one say, hoy
about wheat from the Saskatch
Valley in Canada? The North Da
kota station has repeatedly secured
from the Canadian experiments
u farm what they consider the bes
wheat in the Dominion Of Canada
and If you will examine our reports
you willssee' that; no Canadian strait