Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-06-10
TRIBuNE'S STAFF CORRESPOND
ENT TELLS OF THIRD DAY
OF TRIP
crowds At every STATION
SOCIAL FEATURES ARE INTRO
DucEp AT MANY OF THE
PLACES VISITED
Rain Fails to Keep the Crowds at
Home and Great Enthusiasm Shown
Along Line-OnIy Whistle OF To-
connective for Start will Empty Cars
of the Crowds.

comotIve TOT otdVt VIII 1"PJ
of the Crowds.
q. X. Doran, Staff Correspondent
jamestown, June 8.-After the
glorious rains of the past twenty-tour
hours every one was full OF good
cheer and the work on the train went
with a vim that was exhilerating. Inc
people came in great crowds and as
one man expressed it at Lisbon, not
by scores or hundreds, but by acres.
There has been such interest, deep
and intense, shown by the people at
every stop that the lecturers and
demonstrators are doing work that
must result in great general good.
The advertising by the local COM
mittee has been of an excellent CHAR
acter, in addition to that OF the col
lege and institute. At Lisbon the
Commercial club sent out 22oO per-
sonal letters to the farmers ana peo-
pie were there from the adjoining
counties. At Cakes and other towns
the advertising had been we'll done.
But another feature of untold value
is the way the local newspapers are
handling the matter in the way OF
telling what was said and done and
thereby preaching the gospel OF bet
ter farming to other thousands that
could not attend.
Social Features
The social features are prominent
on every occasion. At one place 1t
was a bread contest, horse judging,
baseball, a free dinner and other
things and as a result Davenport hon
ored herself in honoring others and
will receive the benefits always derived
from unselfsh acts in return OF great
or benefits to those bestoWing them
than was expected.
Streeter did nobly, and the work
at Edgely was doubly important on
account of the sub-station report. AT
LaMoure the rain apparently would
stop much of the work, but after nine
o'clock the hall filled and in addition
to the demonstration work on the
cars the lecturers were busy until
nearly eleven o'clock.
Corn Growing Contests
There we're able addresses deliv-
cred by Hoverstad, Willard and Rand
lett. Prof. Randlet spoke especially
to school teachers and the boys upon
corn growing and corn contests.
Among other things Prof. Randlett
mentioned how, when he was young,
that the people in northern Iowa,
where he lived, thought that they
were too far north for corn and that
after one freeze and three successive
years of chinch bugs that the wheat
outlook was gloomy enough. Then
the farmers went to work in earnest
to grow corn and to find variety
that would ripen. He claimed that
similar results were in store for
North Dakota and said that by prop.
er seed selection and breeding that
there could be no doubt as to the re-
suits. Then he gave a very able
talk on varieties and corn Judging and
illustrated every word he spoke by
ears of corn on exhibition and grown
in the state.
His words were full of inspiration
and hope, and when he showed that
out of the 46 counties in the state
then organized that 81 counties held
contests last year and that over 10
boys were engaged in them.
Next was shown the quality of the
corn, varieties to use and many other
matters of real, practical value.
At Adrian the lecturers had to
leave an early breakfast and rush
to their places, Mrs. Campbell being
surrounded by mothers, daughters
and even intensely interested men,
explaining the greatest art ever stol-
en- from the gods for the benefit of
man, home economics. Mr.. Evenson
was hurriedly milking Bessie and get.
ting the rich fluid back to the dining
car and Dick, the great grade short
horn steer, and the other. pets on
the train had not even been curried
and watered properly until that cal
was overflowing with bright boys and
lntelhgent farmers, and so it wen,
until the engineer sounded four toot;
OF the whistle and away to James
town.
The Beautiful James River Valley
Leaving Adrian on schedule time
the train passed up through the
beautiful valley through which thu
James flows southwark. This vale!
IS one OF great fertility and thickl!
settled with prosperous farmers.
Arriving at Jamestown the dutie
began, and no better work has beef
done so far on the itinerary. Their,
was no speaking in the hall, as Mayo
BleWett and others thought the dem
onstrat1on work on the cars was to,
important to be missed by any of tn
people, and if speaking was had il