The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-02-16
HAVE A
PRACTICAL CLUB
INCONSISTENCIES FARMERS
CLUB IS A LIVE ONE AND
HAS ALREADY ACCOMPLISHED
GREAT REsuLTs-sAvE MONEY
BY BUYING LARGE QUANTITIES.

bY BUYING LARGE QUANTITIES
THE Niagara Shawnee Farmers
club is one of the most successful that
has been organized In the state says
Professor wv. @. Palmer Of the A. G.
They have incorporated all the ele-
ments that will make II permanent
They have included the ladies, so that
when they come to the meetings they
bring their families, making 1t So
cial as well as an educational and a
business organization.
1.-The club was organized with elev-
en- members and now has member
ship of seventy. The meetings are held
the second and fourth Tuesdays OF
each month. The meeting begins ear
" enough so that they bring lunch
baskets and have picnic dinner. Fiji
teen Of the ladies bring the necessary
food, excepting the coffee and sugar
which is purchased by the club. The
fifteen who are to bring the dinner
are appointed at the previous meet
ing and three OF the number are made
q committee who are responsible for
seeing that everything Ia brought in
the right proportions and that the
necessary preparations are made. AS
there are seventy members each lady
viii have to bring food only once in
ten weeks. The membership fee is so
cents a year, and IL more money will
be needed an assessment will be made
The expenses need not be very much
The rent OF the hall for the winter
Is small. During the summer the
meetings will be held at various farms.
The day Of the farmers institute
the club was in session when the
speakers arrived. They were just
then appointing the committee ON din
ner and a programme committee for
the next meeting.
AT some of the meetings they have
outside speakers, but more often some
farmer addresses the meeting on some
subject that he had given special at
tention to--for instance, at one meet
ing w. +. Kruger, who for two years
took the first prize on clover at the
state fair, gave a talk on clover
growing, telling of his failures and
successes. This was very valuable as
he had his experience right at home.
Geo. Grocer gave a talk on potatoes.
He grows twenty to forty acres each
year with much success. Matt Kelly
gave talk on timothy; Prof. A. B.
Hess, Larimore, a talk on general
farm topics; Prof, #. Il. Smith, super-
intendent of schools, a talk on educa-
ton; e. C. Wilcox, who grows good
deal of corn, a talk on corn. Every
has men and women who
are experts in their line and who
could give talks that would be very
helpful to the community. Here is a
chance for these people to serve their
neighbors, to become greater pow
err than would otherwise be possible.
"The officers are;
"President-Hans Georgson.
''Vice President-Albin Olson.
Corresponding Secretary - Walter
Packard.
Recording secretary-J. p. Hem
mington.
"Treasurer-H. G. Link.
'LibraFian-Ernes Kirk.
Notice the last officer-the librar-
ian. There is no more important of
flee IL he will do his duty and Mr..
Kirk of the Niagara Shawnee Farm
ers' club is a live one. He has sent
to the library commission at Bis
marck and secured two travelling Ii
braries-one, books on general sub
iects and the other on farm topics
The farmers travelling library came
the day Of the institute, yet there
were three requests in for JOS. e.
Wings book on Alfalfa. 1t did one
good to see these farmers and their
wives and children taking books home
to read and study. This viii also fur
nish material for talks at the club
little later on. What a wealth OF ma
terial there Is If ii would only be used.
Il would like to see every comnuni-
ty organize, get together and get the
benefit Of the talents that different
people In the community have, and
get the travelling libraries, that can be
ha0 for nothing except paying for
the freight on them, which amounts
TO only a few cents Think of the
educational and social value of such
a club. Bankers, editors, manufac-
turers, laboring men, railroad men, all
get together and swap their expert
ences, and have a social time; among
no other people Is there more need
~ ~ THAI AluHh the farmers ana no
other people have such good oppor-
tunities for doing so.
''This liz not all that has been ac-
complished at this club. Needing to
buy corn and bran they found that by
buying by the carload they could get
the corn for from 5 to 10 cents less
per bushel than at the elevator, that
they could get bran In carload for SO
less per ton than they would other
wise have to pay. They have bought
several corloads with quite a saving
to the members OF the club
New Leipzig News.
New Leipzig, N. d., Feb. Ito The
Forum: Rev. J. f. Grove, who has