The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-09-24
N. D. Agricultural College

nOpeu LnaL every IdfTners SSeuSLldu dAa
elevator man who expects to sow flax
or sell flax seed submit a half pound
or pound sample of the seed which is
to be sown or sold as seed. A report
will then be sent out from the labora-
tory showing exactly what percentage
of seed will grow, what percentage OF
weeds are present and the presence or
absence of disease with practical In
structions with regard to handling the
same This will make 1t possible to
stop the spread of flax wilt which Is
sweeping the flax crop before it.
The New Salem Breed Circuit make
an exhibit of their Holstein cattle at
the Morton county fair held at Man
dan. VIM. Tellman received first prize
on aged cow, John Christianson on
aged bull, John Christianson on two
year old heifer, Henry Hole on year
ling heifers, VIM. Tellman on yearling
bulls. John Christianson on six months
bulls and John Klussman on sucking
calves 1t was certainly a fine show
ing This breeding circuit was started
by the North Dakota Agricultural col
lege and the United States department
of agriculture in cooperation with the
farmers in the vicinity OF New Salem.
1t is also interesting to note that out
of the 300 cows entered in the dairy
COW competition in Wisconsin, on'y
one, Johanna Pauline Paul No. 9552S,
exceeded the record of Sally Dekol
Ormsby No. 1896 owned by VIM. Tell
man of youngstown, N. D., with 30
day record of 70 pounds of CONNER
cial butter against SO pounds by the
Wisconsin cow.
The Dry Farming congress will be
held at Spokane Oct. to 6. North
Dakota will be represented on the pro-
gramme by President Worst with an
address on Agricultural Education;
Dean Shepherd Dry Farm Crop ROta-
ton; Professor Bolley, Keeping the
Soils Free from Disease: Supt. w. r.
Porter, Report of the Demonstration
Farms; Superintendent Hoverstad will
have charge of one of the sessions in
Farmers Institute work. The speak
ers will be President Worst, Prof. Thos.
Shaw and Senator NJ. F. Greeley.
The North Dakota Agricultural COL
lege defeats Yale, Leland Stanford,
Chicago and Boston universities in a
literary contest. Professor Minard,
head of the English department, has
just received a pamphlet from the At
lantic monthly containing the prize es-
says written in a contest on the sub
ject, Best Use of the Atlantic Monthly
in the Glass Room. Students from sew
enteen of the most prominent educa-
tional institutions in America took
part, including such as Boston univer-
sity, Yale university, Chicago univer-
sity, Leland Stanford university, Uni
versity of Minnesota and the Ohio
State university. When the essays
came to the judges, they were unani-
nous in awarding first prize to Chas.
w. Hammond, a student in the Agricul-
tural department of the North Dakota
Agricultural college. Miss Helen X.
Little of the Ohio State university sec
ond, and Miss Myra A. Burrage, Bos-
ton university, third. North Dakota
ought to be proud of a student and an
institution that can bring such honors
to the state. Beating Boston and Yale
universities, to say nothing of the 9TH
ers, is no small task and especially in
AlLSL dry 4lIlGS. IIDASSSOE RIlIldIu just"
ly feels elated over the success that
has come to one of his students. It
also brings out another fact, and that
is, that studying agriculture does not
mean dropping out culture and a love
of the beautiful; in fact, the opposite
is the case. Literature is in one sense
a reflection of nature and must be true
to 1t, and nature is the domain of agri-
culture, so that 1t is a cultural study
of the very highest type. This is being
realized more and more by prominent
educators as they are coming to learn
the reaZ significance of this subject,
which has been in one sense looked
down upon. A person with a training
in agriculture will not make many of
the crude mistakes that one so often
runs across in books written by those
| ignorant Of nature, her laws, princi-
pies and facts, and such books no not
| live. Agriculture also has this advan-
tage, that 1t gives more sane view of
| life and Of life at the present instead
| OF in the past, and looks to the econ
| omic side of things more. Why not
study butterfly, a bird and a plant
from the standpoint of what good or of
what bad 1t does as well as from the
standpoint of classification? There Is
much more of value to the average
man in the first method, and 1t Is from
this standpoint that literature deals