The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-10-05
BOOSTS FOR N. D. A. c.
J. ). Hin In Wahpston speeoh says .
Good Word for North Dakota
Institution.

James J. 5ill took occasion, during
his speech at the recent Richland
county fair, TO say q good word for
the work being done by the North Da-
kota Agricultural college. According
to The Globe-Gazette, Mr.. Hill said:
Now through your agricultural coll
lege you can get the benefit Of every
thing that Is done In every civilized
nation In the world, whether 1t is in
Denmark, Austria Hungary, France,
Great Britain, in Holland or in the
United States or wherever on the face
of the earth agricultural science is car
ried forward. You can not only get
the benefit Of 1t, but you can get 1t
through your own door. through your
own college, and I want to say TO the
farmers that the agricultural college OF
North Dakota means more to them
than any other institution in the state
II 1t is not doing the work that 1t ought
to do, help it, strengthen its hands
II the men who are carrying II on
are not doing their duty, and think
they are, think they are very capable,
and think they are improving.
II was down in Wisconsin a year ago
and saw four punches, four lots, Of
six steers in bunch, fed on different
rations. They were all OF the same
breed. The results were interesting.
Some were fed with bone making food.
great big rangy steers; others were
fed to make food and were as round
as butter bowls. II was the most in
teresting thing because 1t was done
with the highest degree Of science by
the careful supervision Of an intelli-
gent man. found there that PROBES
sor Moore had developed a variety Of
Indian corn suitable to the climate and
soil, and other conditions of the state
of Wisconsin. When he started in the
average yield of that state was TWEEN
ty-seven bushels of corn to the acre,
but his efforts had raised 1t to forty
seven bushels to the acre (applause),
and the difference in only a single
crop amounted to nearly $15,00O,000
Now, think of man, who will through
his own intelligent effort breed va
riety OF corn that will add to the
wealth of single crop in a single
year s15,0O0,00O. He is a benefit to
his kind and to his race, isn't he?
That is the kind of work that your
agricultural college can do. Keep 1t out
VI pOlllACS. 1hGAlGKubST that II .D6-
longs to the people of the state Of
North Dakota, and the soil OF the state
of North Dakota must support every
human being living within the borders
of the state. Your mines are as moth
ing. You have no forests. Every
thing of value, Of real value in the
world comes out first and last from the
soil. The forests produce large por-
ton of the wealth of the world and
you have no forests The mines pro-
duce their properties. Where are your
mines? But far and above all in vol
ume and in value is the product Of the
land, of good old mother earth and
kindly renews her fertility every year
If we give her a chance, Natures laws
are inxorable and interchangeable They
must be so or they would certainly end
in confusion. But let us get that law
that like key will unlock the infor-
nation and get 1t before us. That can
be done by the work that Is being
done in your agricultural college. It.
has the benefit OF what ALI the others
are doing and they have the benefits
of what it Is doing See to 1t that If
it is not doing the work it should do
it is your responsibility to see that 1t
does do it.