The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1910-12-29
LYNDEN ON THE
DAIRY MAP
The Three Days Meeting
at Lynden Was the Best
Convention Ever Held Here

The Washington. State Dairymen's
association convention closed last Fri
day afternoon. after. SO the officials
said, one Of the best conventions ever
held iu the state.
w. J. Langdon was reelected for
president, VIM. S. Izett, of Oak Har-
Dor. was elected vice-president and
DR.. F. Smith, of Seattle, was elected
secretary. The place for holding the
next annual convention will be select
cd later by the officers.
More than 100 delegates, prominent
datrymen from all over the state, and
many big dairyinen from other states
were In attendance the last two days
Of the convention, and, without ex-
ception they were loud in their praise
Of the entertainment accorded them
in Lynden. The weather was very wet
and nasty and but few delegates brav-
ed it to visit the country, but from
those few and from the number OF
local dairymen who attended the con-
vention the visitors got very thor
ough knowledge of the Importance Of
the Nooksack valley as dairying
center.
Near the close Of the session resolu-
tions were passed thanking the Dusi-
ness men OF Lynden for their hospi-
t..lity and the dairymen for their in
-,tst in and attendance Of the meet
ings. President Langdon sent the fol-
lowing letter of appreciation to r. w.
Green and the citizens Of Lynden:
Il want to express our apprecia-
ton Of your efforts in making our
meeting at Lynden the best Dairy
convention l ever attended-not ex-
cepting the National Dairy Conven-
ton at Chicago. It has given US great
encouragement and 1t must be al
great help to your people. especially
the dairymen. And, whatever helps
the dairymen helps the town. Lyn-
den is now on the map"
B. H. Bawl, chief Of the dairy div
ision, U. 8. Agricultural Department.
who was here for the three days and
who addressed the dairymen on the
second day, said to the Tribune:
Judging from what l can see and
from my talks with local dairymen,
you have here an ideal dairy Sec
tion. l am particularly pleased to see
SO many of your dairymen striving
toward perfection in breeds and pro-
ducing qualities. We are, everywhere
urging upon all dairymen the neces-
sity of making the dairy a business
venture and the need Of records. Here
l find that many of the farmers are
already keeping records"
Wednesday night the dairymen
were entertained by lecture and
moving pictures illustrating 6eattle's
milk supply, by Gust. Henderson.
Perhaps there was no more inter-
esting talk during the convention tha
that of Prof. w. H. Lawrence, of the
Pupallup experimental station, on
Forage Plants" Mr.. Lawrence ex-
planned the great work in experiments
that is being done at the station. He
had samples Of grasses, corns, cabbag
and other forage plants, and he
explained the exact results achieved
under exact conditions. One of his
most interesting plants was the Mer-
rill cabbage, a hybred plant, first pro-
duced in England, and as yet not
suited to this country, though Mr..
Lawrence believes he will have 1t
perfected within another season. 1t
is of the cabbage family and tastes
much like cabbage, though instead
of growing into a big round head 1t
has a long slender body few inches
in diameter and three or four feet
long, with succulent leaves growing
its entire length. Mr.. Lawrence says
1t will produce in the neighborhood
of 60 tons to the acre of good forage.
At the station they are now breed
ing this plant to make 1t more hardy.
Mr., Lawrence told that they had ex-
perimented with 123 varieties Of corn,
trying to find varieties that would
do we'll here. They have found four
varieties that will ripen In this ell
mate-they are the Wills North Oak
ota which ripens in l3O days; the
Wills Gehue. 1870 days; Russels White
Dent, 139 days and White Dent. 14O
days. Mr.. Lawrence very highly re-
commended vetch for this neighbor-
hood. He told Of experiments with
various kinds Of grasses and recon-
mended several varieties, but OF all
OF them Wood Meadow grass, the
most. This grass is imported. The See
cost Is cents a pound, and it takes
about IA pounds for an acre Of ground
Al the station It produced 5.S tons to
the acre.
One of the most interesting talks
was that Of Donald McInnis. OF Dun
geness, on Hogs as an Adjunct o.
Dairying. Mr.. McInnis knew his SUD-
ject. He told the delegates Just now
he went at it to make pigs pay. ne