The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-02-24
RECORD BREAKING FARMERS
INSTITUTE AT CAVALIER
Commercial Club Of That City Has Backing Of Every Cizel
and the Two Days Session Just Ended Has
Been Rousng Success

Cavalier, ". d., Feb. 24,-The farm
ers' Institute held at Cavalier, Feb. q
and % brought together larger num-
Der than any other farmers institute
in the state. People came from all
over the county, some driving thirty
miles and others coming on the train
for even longer distances. A banquet
was. served on Wednesday evening
and free dinner to all who attended
goth days Free lodging was also
furnished to those who cared to stay
over night and many availed them
selves of this hospitality. The at
tendance was so large that no hall or
church in the town could accommo-
date all at once so two meetings were
held at the same time. AT the ban
quet which was open to all visitors
music was furnished by the orchestra
and the band played on the street and
in the hall.
Miss Anna Barrows OF Columbia
university gave several demonstra-
ton lectures on the cooking Of meats,
eggs, fish, cereals and the use of milk,
She also lectured on the saving of
steps in the home and on gardening.
She called attention to the fact that
while the more tender meat as the
sirloin is higher priced the less tender
meat has as high food value, and
by a little longer preparation can be
made tender and palatable. When fry
ing or roasting meat subject it to
a. high heat at first to close up the
pores through which the juices run
out. When making soup start the
meat boiling slowly to let the juices
soak out into the broth.
Professor Shaw's Address.
Prof Thomas Shaw gave talks on
alfalfa clover, corn and dry farming.
He emphasized the value Of alfalfa as
a hay crop. In addition to producing
hay it also adds fertility and humus
to the soil. He stated that it would
do well in this section where the soil
was we'll drained and not underlined
with hard pan. The land should be
MANFRED and either summer fallowed
or in some cultivated crop the year
previous to sowing the alfalfa. Sow
ten pounds of alfalfa per acre in the
latter part Of May and without a nurse
crop. In discussing corn he said that
it was a good crop to prepare the
ground for a crop of winter wheat. The
wheat to be swon in with a one horse
drill in August and in cutting the
corn to leave three rows then cut ten
or twelve rows, leaving three and SO
on This is to hold the snow for a
winter protection.
Col. r. A. Wilkinson said that the
only thing that grain growing seemed
to do successfully was to make q
mortgage grow. In this kind of farm
ing we sell the fertility to other ma.
| tions who then farm at our expense
Corn. clover and alfalfa must be rails
ed to clean the land to add humus tc
| 1t and q rotation of crops with the
grain. To make the most out of these
| crops they should be fed to livestock
which returns fertility to the land. In
starting dairying he recommended sell
Getting out the best of the native cows
and breeding them up with a sire
from one of the dairy breeds. He con-
tended that the raising of stock makes
the farmer more Industrious and
thrifty and that 1t would interest the
children more than any other kind of
farming provided the work was done
within regular hours, and not when
civilized people should be in bed.
Hoverstad On Weeds.
Superintendent Hoverstad in dis
cussing weeds brought out how simple
matter the growing Of weeds is.
Most of the weeds can only come from
seed and to kill them it is only neces-
sary to see that they are not allowed
to go to seed. In the continuous grain
growing the weeds ripen through seed
before the grain. Some of the seed
will shatter when cutting the grain.