The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-10-02
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al diversification, will be let alone.
Only the man who does his own plow
ing will be included In the demonstra
ton farm allotments.
Flowing, narrowing and moisture
conservation will be shown on these
demonstration farms and rotation Of
crops VIII be a part Of the educational
pians Tor the North Dakota men who
are back Of the plan are going to
nnance IL for three years and there
VIII be q chance. even in that time
20 show the farmer how he can better
himself and save his soil from infec-
ton or exhaustion by proper rotation.
y. J. Weiser, of Fargo, who was in
Minneapolis this week with an exhibit
OF corn believes that the productive
possibilities OF the state can be in
creased immensely, even next year, by
good farming.
The season Of 1910 taught us that. +"
said Mr.. Weiser. TN many cases there
Were patches that stood up well and
others that deteriorated, where the eff
fects Of better or more Indifferent farm
work could be seen. We learned some
thing.
Again this year we have had such
experience. 1t all comes down to this,
tnat the farmers can be shown how to
90 better work. better crops can be
obtained and the 500 an acre PROPOSE
ton made a fact in North Dakota.
When land can raise corn such as
North Dakota land has raised this year
1t 10 worth 800 an acre"
Three Cities viii Help.
Although purely a North Dakota
proposition, originated and backed bv
North Dakota men, the plan to carry
practical agricultural demonstration
upon the farms of North Dakota made
so strong an appeal to the business
men of Minneapolis, st. Paul and Du
luth, who were at the Bismarck indus
trial exposition last week, that the
three cities will be represented In the
fund that will be raised to carry on
the work, although the bulk OF the
money will be raised in North Dakota.
To find sufficient number Of agri-
tultural experts to carry on the work
and man to direct the whole will be
the duty of the 800 an acre associa-
tion, for it has been decided that the
money will be handled by the treas
urer of that organization. When q
farm has been located, the work of
cultivating II will go on under good
farming methods, and the crops that
Will grow upon II will come up side by
side with those that the farmer will
grow off his regularly cultivated land.
Such differences as will appear at the
seasons close and such advantages as
the good farming method may be able
to show, will be traceabIe In every in
stance back to work that was done
right where the farmer could see Ii.
and that the farmer will be quick to
take advantage of such a practical
demonstration the men back the
movement do not doubt.
The demonstration will not stop at
grain or the root crops. There viii be
practical showings In livestock feed
Ing and raising, and as North Dakota,
with increasing wealth, is developing
the dairying industry very rapidly, that
increase is one OF the most important
changes under way, the COW will be
studied as d source or wealth and the
farmer shown the things that good
farming teaches.
Plan Is Practical.
p. T.. Howe, who attended the Bis
marck show and met many men there
who are interested In good farming in
North Dakota and in the organization
OF the Hundred Dollar an Acre asso-
citation, said last night that the plan
that North Dakota has announced
should meet with support from Mime
apolis. ST. Paul and Duluth, and that
1t will receive such support. 1T Ii the
biggest plan Of the kind ever heard Of"
Mr.. Howe said. 1T means the TAX
ing OF the accumulated experience OF
years, making OF 1t practical lesson
and giving that lesson right on the
warm where II can be seen.
1T gets entirely away from the idea
Of telling the farmer how he ought to
run his farm and that he ought to farm
according To book. IT goes the the
farmer and conveys to him the idea
that II he will take little more pains
and do his work In somewhat differ
ent manner. the results that he win
obtain will be 50 much greater az the
close Of the season. that he will be
compensated. and 1t pro-
poses to show him this and prove 1t to
him. right on his own farm
Arthur n. Rogers. who has Interest,"
"a himself In the work for Minneapo-
lii. said 1aat night that the plan iii
splendid. with our large business in.
Eerests III North Dakota we are nat
urally In favor 0f the plan ana wish
II Ill success he said. North Da-