The Dickinson press., 1911-03-04
FARMERS MEETINGS AT
TAYLOR and GLADSTONE

ing Very Interesting. More
Meeting at Richardton on 18th.
The farmers of Taylor and vicinity
demonstrated on February 24th that
they were intensely interested In ehe
Stark County Dry. Farming movema1t,
and over one hundred people wer6sin
attendance at the school house TO listen
to the. addresses Of speakers who hid
been, advertised forIthe meeting. ,,ss Y
The school had been dismissed for the
day to make suitable place. for the
gathering OF large crowd. s.s.
Al 80 the morning session WINS
called to order by Mr.. Bobb. who sxss
acting as vice president in the abseaSe
Eof Herman i4eutz. Dr.. l. M. Cady gasB
an appropriate address of welcome, ex-
pressing his pleasure at seeing 90 large
number present. One of the impoc-
tant bits Of history Dr.. Cady gave was
the grain shipments from Taylor ,fef
1910. He found that the village elevs-
tors had shipped $4,000 bushels q
wheat and $4,000 bushels of fax, and
he also stated that there was quitee .
little grain unmarketed still with the
farmers. A few loads were being
offered ut the elevators almost everY
day. This. the speaker said. demon
strated that the Taylor farmers were
producing something even in year
which was looked upon as unusually dry.
Secretary F. Maser was made chair
man of the meeting and as a preliminary
to the introduction of regular speakers,
stated that he thought the farmers Of
Stark county and country tributary were
very much more interested in good farm
ing methods since the State Dry Farming
Congress held at Dickinson month ago.,
Supt. {. r. Waldron of the Dickinson
experiment station was introduced for;
the morning session. He explained to:
the people that the State Farming
Congress at Dickinson was so. much
larger than had been expected that it
was absolutely impossible at that time
to complete all the detail work, there
fore it becomes necessary to extend the
good work started there a, the various
county meetings. Supt. Waldron said
that he did not care whether the people
styled the gatherings-''Dry Farming,
OF Good Farming The meetings
were for everybody. the farmers and the
professional men and the ladies. in
order that we may help each other and
make our acres more productive, and in
this way enhance the value of land.
Ia Mr.. Waldron explained the benefits of
joining the National Congress. the fee
being $1.O0, and emitting the member
to valuable year book and publica-
tion issued once in two weeks. About
twenty handed in their membership
fee during the day.
A general discussion followed on put
ting grain in on stubble, depth Of plow-
ing. fall or spring plowine, etc. A vote
indicated that fall and spring plowing
were about half and half. Supt. Wal
dron explained why the land should not
be plowed when it was dry. He also
illustrated on the blackboard what was
meant by a good seed bed and dust
mulch.
It-seemed to be the general opinion
that while durum wheat yielded several
bushels per acre more than common
wheat, the decreased market price about
made up for the difference of yield and
that it was not particularly attractive
for the farmer as q crop:
AT the. Dickinson station it had been
found that Fife yielded half bushel
more grain to the acre than Blue stem.
and as it had been figured out that ten
pounds increase per acre in wheat pro-
dlct ion for the state meant 81, 600. 600
4 extra to the farmers. it was easy for any
zone to calculate what the increase of a
few bushels per acre would do for our
commonwealth.
MI. Waldron said that statistics
showed that in 1895 the average wheat
yield in North Dakota was 14h bushels
Item years later, in 1905. the average
was but IL 2-10 bushels: and there had
been a. further decrease since. This,
he said, indicated the need Of better
farming proper crop rotation, ETC.. to
the end that farmers increase their
wheat yield to twenty and thirty bush
els per acre. s4ss 4, NJ
In closink the forenoon session Mr..
Weldron stated that as far as he knew
| this was the first farmers. institute
meeting at Taylor and he congratulated
the people on their liberal attendance
and general interest shown.
AFTERNOON SESSION
The seating capacity was not sufficient
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