The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-07-30

| President and Mrs. ]. H. Worst left
for Cuba and Isle of Pines wednesday
They go via New York
Professor Richards has been Judging
| clydes and heavy horses at the Brand $
on, Manitoba, fair this week.
Professor Shepperd was at Williston
Monday and at the Edgeley sub station
on Wednesday. Professors Chilcort
| and Scofield of the department of agri-
| culture are loking over the sub sta
tons. Mr.. ChiIcott states that North
Dakota has the best system of sub
stations of any state.
Alexander Kol, assistant commits
sioner of agriculture of Russia has
been spending several days this week
looking into the experimental work at
the college.
Professor Ladd returned home from
| California Friday morning.
Prof. w. G. Palmer made an address
before the Souris annual festival Tues
day evening.
The A. G. extension department has
an educational exhibit at the state fair.
The home economics exhibit consists
of food display, mechanical appli-
ances for the home and dressmaking
The corn exhibit is made up of corn
grown in the different parts of the
state. The weed exhibit of pressed
specimens and seeds and methods Of
eradication. The plant diseases ex-
hibit shows the effects Of different dis
eases, how TO detect them and also how
to get rid of them. Different kinds of
grains are shown. The demonstration
farm exhibits has one display consist
ing Of clover and alfalfa growing in
soils from each Of the demonstration
farms. 1t seems that they do about as
well in the soil from one part of the
state as from any other, showing that
these two plants will do we'll in the diff
ferent parts of the state when properly
handled. Another display illustrates
how the grain yield has been doubled
on the demonstration farms. Another
exhibit consists of products from the
mechanical shop. The pure seed lab
oratory has an exhibit showing seeds
as they are brought on the market and
exhibit different kinds of weeds that
they contain which demonstrates how
easy 1t is to get weeds in seed. The
exhibit was in charge of Professor
INdhutSLL, ulFSStOT Oh the GALSISlOn uS-
partment. He was assisted by Miss
Hooverand Mrs. Campbell in the home
economics exhibit; Professors Keene
and Dolve in the mechanical display
and Professors Bergman and Stevens
in the weed and plant disease exhibit.
Professor Shepherd went to Mime
apolis Thursday evening to be present
at the committee meeting which has to
take up the subject of Education for
the Northwestern States.
The university had a rest room at the
fair where they also exhibited work
done by the students in drawing. They
also had literature 20 distribute. DR..
Stems had charge Of 1t.
Winter Wheat and Rye.
Winter rye and winter wheat have
certain advantages over the spring
grains. They make start in the fall
SO that they can grow fast in the spring
and mature early and so be ripe before
the warm drying weather comes, and
thus yield better and are also more
sure. They also make heavy growth
so that weeds cannot get started in
them in the spring and ripen before
such weeds as wild oats and kindred
and hence are weed eradicators.
The best rye to grow is N. d. A. c.
e5s. variety developed at the agricul-
tural college and is the hardest known.
A. p. Hertzgaard of Kindred has
grown 1t and the common rye side by
side and found that the $50 will go