Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1910-06-09
BETTER FARMING
SPECIAL train !.
AT JAMESTOWN THIS AFTER
NOON. VALUABLE AND m
sTRUCTIVE EXHIBITS
AND LECTURES
A Travelling school Of Instruction
Visited by Thousands Of
Farmers

W. Farmers
The better farming special train
of the Northern Pacific railway COM
pany, working in Cooperation with
the Agricultural College and farmers
) institute, arrived from the south
Wednesday, and was at Jamestown
from 1880 to 5 p. NJ, leaving for
Pingree at 2, where the train remain
ed until ten O'Clock.
The better farming train was Wis
ited by many farmers of this vicinity
and citizens of jamestown and num-
Der of ladies, also attended to inspect
the exhibit drawn by the car devoted
to domestic economy. Interesting
and valuable lectures were delivered
Informally thruout the afternoon, on
agriculture, animal industry, farm
machinery, horticulture, domestic
economy, ETC., by. members of the
college faculty. The train was in
charge Of President J. H. Worst of
the agricultural college and T. A.
Hoverstad, superintendent of the
farmers institute. There were eight
cars in the special train.
Car Farm machinery. Prin-
!, cipally working machinery; stubble
disc subsoil, sod plows, harrows of
several makes, cultivators, disc, corn
planter, potato planter. drill and
fence exhibit. Lack of space pre-
vents more being brought.
Car Horticulture. Contains an
exhibit of trees that are especially
adapted to this section, as birch, elm,
hackleberry, bulis pine, blue sspruce.
ash, plum, apple and ornamental
shrubs and plants. It is also illus
trated with photographs and litera-
ture is provided. Prof. Waldron is
in charge and is assisted by PORT.
McMeans. Another part Of the car
Z Is in charge of Mr.. c. E. Nugent and
contains grain exhibit in straw and
! loose grain, also an exhibit of grass
/. es. These grain and grass samples
were furnished by Commissioner w.
G. Gilbreath.
Car 3.-Animal Husbandry. Con-
tains modal pig pen with troughs.
pigs and everything complete. An
other pen contains two sheep, two
4 lambs and feed rack. At the other
end Of the car are stalls and STAN
chions. A Jersey COW and short
horn steer occupy them; the cow to H.
lustrate good dairy type and the
steer good beef. The work of the de-
partment is illustrated with numer-
GUS photographs which decorate the
walls. Literature Is also provided
for distribution. This exhibit is in
charge of Prof. Richards, E. Even
son assistant.
= Car 4.-Agronomy. This car con-
sists Of material illustrative Of plant
diseases Of farm crops, samples OF
weed seeds and pressed specimens
I Of weeds common to the state. MI
croscopes are provided under which
can be seen rust spores and other of
the plant diseases that are too minute
to be seen with the naked eye. Sam
pies Of fax are shown. Flax fiber
! from North Dakota and also from
X Russia are placed side BY side show
ing that the North Dakota article is
superior. A sample Of hemp and
fiber made from it shows that this
is Of a fine quality and that the state
is we'll adapted to the growing of
I this crop. It Is also weed killer
~ In that it makes q very rapid and
Y rank growth. There is one exhibit
to illustrate the root rot of wheat
but lately discovered. This port of
the exhibit Is under the direction of
q Prof. Bolley assisted by Mr.. Stevens.
There is also an exhibit in this car
y Of clover, alfalfa and peas showing
u the nodules on the,roots. The speci-
Ii d mems are preserved in q liquid which
keeps the roots in natural condition.
# There Is also q germinator here for
1 testing each ear Of corn separately.
1t has a capacity Of one hundred
ears. Five kernels are taken from
each ear and planted In two inch
square. The corn was planted before
the train started and is now up sew
$ eral inches. There Is also . rack for
drying corr. Several varieties Of
corn are exhibit ID. Diagrams soi
q .r farms om1aplete this exhibit. It Il