The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-03-06

The Farmers Institute was held here
'on Saturday and was we'll attended both
morning and afternoon. Professor.
Shaw, Professor Churchill and Super
intendent Hoverstad conducted the
meetings.
In the morning about $50 were present
and afternoon the hall was full. Farm
ers were present from within radius of
Is miles. The meeting was conceded to
be very resting and helpful, even
though as Supt Hoverstad put it ''They
could only hit the high spots in the
limited time"
The farmers were brought together
and discussed farm matters and this
was really the aim of the institute.
The following are some of the best
points that were brought out in talks
and discussions.
Supt. Hoverstad opened the morning
session by talk on crop rotation. Even
the grass don't want to remain for a
long time. Nature is demanding a
change of crop even in the wild state.
The pioneers crop is wheat. While the
country is new it lis pretty hard to tell
the good farmer from the poor one, but
after they have Ebeen farming for little
while, we find one farm does better
than the other, one has better houses
and more pleasant homes, while the
other farmer has to give up his farm to
a successor, and go to some new country.
I:.don't see why any body should not be
satisfied with your country. 1t is cold
but I believe cold weather has it's ad-
vantages and may .bea blessing in dis
guise.
We have not yet learned how to grow
grain. Yet think the time is coming
sometime in the future that. we find
methods to grow grain that we. are not
aware of at the present time. Wheat has
been valuable crop to people in various
countries. Wherever you find dciyilized
men they like to eat bread, the bread
that is made from wheat and / don't
know of any other place in the world
where the country is more admirably
adapted to growing grain. The farmer
should grow grain in larger quantities
all of the time. Is there anyone in this
room who raises just rs large crops oi
wheat now as he did when the coun-
try was newf Mr.. Douglas answered he
knew of one who raised 20 bushels tc
the acre near Drayton and that was as
much as he had in the eany days. Mr.
Hoxerstad continued, 1885 was the first
year I was in this country and used to
feast my eyes on the tremendous grain
fields Is it, that you knew something
then that you do not know nowf / be.
lieve that farmers are farm.
ing better now than ever. The crops
are dependent on the season and the
farmers have not complete control Of
the weather. Is it reasonable tDf you to
putso much time and attention on any
thing 50 uncertain? We should put onr
attention to other crops IN the farm
and when'we Dc we will again 60 back
to the good yields. Now Is there any
reason why the production has gone
down? The reasons given we're weeds.
climate 81 the country, soil being robbed
Of what's necessary for the good Is the
wheat working too much land and the
effort oi nature e. change tbet crops
The later Re know nothing about for we
do not know the secrets Of nature.
No one present was satisfied with the
present yield of grain. Does any ono
know the remsdyi NJ. Emerson's
|epinion - by seeding down ~ clover
I'D lessping Smose stock md keeping
our Land in bstter shaps. "a