The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-09-18
N. D. Agricultural College,
College 10 Oyer.

the Agricultural college opens dnS
new school year next Monday, with
the largest attendance in its history In
prospect. This LIS due In part to tht
excellent crop conditions that have OBJ.
tanned during the past few years. and
in still larger part to- the recognition
on the part of the state as to the rea
purpose and necessity OF the farmers
school. The success attending the sum
mer sessions OF the school has attract
ed some attention; the work OF the
Farmers Institutes still more; corr
contests have interested many the
demonstration farm work is standing
/ object lesson to many localities In the
state of the value of proper agricul-
ture; the state press is taking up the
practical side of farming is q very
general degree--all these things have
helped to call the attention OF the OF
the parents and OF the student to the
work done by this institution. Best OF
all, most direct in It's influence, is the
Established fact Of the success of the
men and women who go out from this
school as graduates, or as practical
farmers trained in any of it's several
short cources. Attention is called to
thsi matter at this time, not that we
desire to take undue credit for results
so far accomplished, but in recognition
OF the fact that the state appreciates the
work set for us to do, and the manner
of our doing Ii, for which we as a
school are thankful. 1t gives us ALL
faculty and students alike, courage to
go forward into what we believe will
be our best year of achievement since
the, foundation OF the college.
The Corn Show Assured Success.
The writer recently SWING down into
the Iowa part of the corn belt, and re-
turned via. South Dakota, covering on
the trip a good deal of country visited
eighteen and twenty years ago. On my
table are lying, as l write, samples of
corn picked from the South Dakota
fields. In those days i recall that they
did not think you could grow corn at
| a profit in South Dakota. Some Of the
corn on my table comes from Salem,
little city about thirty miles west Of
Sioux Falls, where today corn holds
the place with them that wheat holds
with us, and is considered quite as
safe.
Corn Moved Northward.
4 spent b couple VI years III LUaI SNhSS
eighteen years ago. Around Milbank
lone or two farmers were trying corn
a little. Out at Mellette, thirty miles
or so south Of Aberdeen they were ali
wheat--you couldn't grow corn. or so
they believed On the fifteenth inst.
picked at random three ears from a
field of corn a couple Of miles west of
Mellette, two of which are good enough
for seed, and the third would make
4 good corn for the crib. Nearly every
farm has it's field. not as large as the
great corn fields farther south, and
that is well, but fields Of fair size, and
run, not as a chance crop, but as one
of the regular paying crops of the
farm In fact, the Mellette corn field
as whole. was better than the Salem
field 80 miles to the south.
Promise for North Dakota.
This march of the corn belt across a
state in less than quarter of cen
fury leads one to believe that what has
happened to South Dakota within
eighteen years will happen to North
Dakota In less interval OF time. This
year have seen good corn at Langdon
and fair ensilage corn at Williston
with thirty days of corn growing season
ahead Of each crop. At Minot the
writer accompanied Mr. Colcerd, Of the
Ward County Independent, on two
days trip in that vicinity and saw at
least one field that was past the roast
ing ear stage over two weeks ago. In
the southeastern part of the state 1t
today holds more promise of successful
culture than it did in Blue Earth coun-
ty, MINI, in the seventies. It's promise
in the Mouse river loop is as great as
1t was in northern South Dakota TWEEN
ty years ago.
/ The Necessary Lesson.
The necessary lesson in corn growing
is to grow corn--how to grow corn
What took the farmers of other states
and former years decades to learn, the
people of North Dakota are learning
in a few short years. A recent article
in the American Thresherman describes
how the children of this state, aided
by the county superintendent of schools
and by the Agricultural college, are
| growing corn in little plots for their
school contests over five thousand oil
them are engaged in this work, and nj
Ipart of the state Is barred on account
of natural conditions. The lesson of 4
small ear, early maturity. through cul
/ tivation, quality-this Is being Learned
lby the men who will be farmers aftel
La while The farmers of today ar,
Iequally interested. The lesson is be
ling learned, and corn can and win b,
grown as paying, money crop.
Corn 10 Necessary Crop.
Corn is one Of those crops natur'
seems to have intended to be grown
1.-THE ground needs the thorough tillag'
that good corn demands. It puts 1t II
better mechanical condition. For thi
reason corn is better than summer,
lfallow for land 1t gives return fo
the work done; summer fallow wastes
q year. Corn is necessary to the mos
profitable stock raising and dairying
Other things may replace 1t in the feet
lIot-that is an open question--but 70
/ dairying it is one OF the necessary
things; and with dairying goes hol
raising, rotation OF crops, better yields
better returns. better living. bette
homes, safe and profitable farming.
1. Last Years Corn Show
WAS In every way a success. The on
that will be held this year in Farg
at the time of the Tri- State Grai
Growers convention gives, this early i
the season, promise of being In ever
way much larger. and better. Alread
, | a large number of growers from a.
: parts OF the state, have entered til
) lists. The result win be @ corn sho,
> that will delight the heart OF any cor
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