The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-10-02
At
500 AN ACRE
CAMPAIGN
Fund That Will Be Raised
Insured of Support From
Three Cities
SCATTER OVER 500
R IN STATE
Broad Basis of Plan Com.
mands Attention-Help
For Small Farmer

With the most influential men in
North Dakota back of it, and assur-
ances that 100000 or more If neces-
sary will be raised to put it through,
the most comprehensive plan for prac-
tical agricultural improvement work
ever Undertaken by any state in the
union will be started at once in North
Dakota. and when the text crop sea-
son m on there will be hundreds
of practical demonstration farms Of
five to ten acres scattered v e the
state" says h Minneapolis Journal
of Sunday. "E. Y. Sarles of Hillsboro,
E. ]. Weiser, Fargo; C. B. Mcmillan,
Hannah: c. w. Kelly. Devils Lake;
c. L Zimmerman, Mandan. j. E.
Phelan: Bowman. P. Bartelson. Ken
Cathro. Bottineau: r. c. Kittel. Cas-
SETON: R. S. Adams, Lisbon; j. j.
Nierling. jamestown. and j. Austin
Regain, Fessenden, are some of the
North Dakota lei back of the move
They are the men who were named as
the first board of directors of the new
~ formed North Dakota One Hundred
Dollar an Acre association and the n
nouncement of the plan for the estab-
lishment Of the practical demonstra-
ton farms is the first indication Of the
lines along which they intend to work
for the betterment of farm conditions
and the increase of the productive
powers of the state.
THE plan is based upon the idea
that good farming cannot be taught by
telling the farmer to read a book, that
1t cannot be taught by sending him
pamphlets through the mails and that
the way to do it is to go right to the
and demonstrate to him that
good farming brings its returns many
fold. No such plan, on 80 large a
scale, ever was worked out for reach
ing the farmer. The Denmark plan,
which is a model that other countries
interested in agricultural improve
ment work have followed, and which
the state of Illinois took up. will be
enlarged upon in North Dakota and
500 of the five and ten acre farms
will be established.
For the Small Farmer.
THE big farmer will be left out Of
1t when it comes to locating the farms.
The man with 5000 acres. who is still
to be found in North Dakota, but
whose large holding becomes more
and more conspicuous by contrast as
the breaking up process follows agri-
cultural Investigation, will be ig-
nored. Only the man who does his
w blowing will be included in the
oSioAi
"Plowing, narrowing and moisture
conservation will he shown on these
demonstration farms, and rotation of
crops will be a part of the educational
plan, for the North Dakota men who
are back of the plan are going to
finance it for three years and there
will be a chance. even in that time,
to show the farmer how he can better
himself and ave his soil from in
lection or exhaustion by proper ro-
tation.
"E. 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. In many
cases there were patches that stood up
Well n others that deteriorated,
where the effects of better or more in
different farm work could be seen. We
learned something.
Again this year we have had such
experience. 1t all comes down to this,
that the farmers can be shown how to
do better work. better crops can be
obtained and the 500 an acre propo-
sition made a fact in North Dakota.
When land can raise corn such as
North Dakota land has raised this
year 1t is worth 500 an acre.
Three Cities Will Help.
although purely a North Dakota
proposition. originated and backed by
North Dakota men, the plan to carry
practical agricultural demonstration
upon the farms of North Dakota made
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