Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-11-16
MANY features
Will Interest
DRY farmers
Program for Congress to be
Held at Dickinson is
Being Prepared
Gathering Promises to be
Extremely Helpful to all
Delegates

UClCy yOtCO
The program for the second an
nual meeting Of the North Dakota Dry
Farming Association, which is to be
held at Dickinson December 7 and 8,
is being pounded into shape, and it is
evident that the meeting as far as the
platform is concerned will be the best
possible. It is not exaggerating to
make this statement for it would be
Impossible to get together list of
speakers better able to counsel and
make suggestions to the farmers of
North Dakota, and especially the west.
ern part Of the state, than We have
scheduled.
Mr.. c. L. Zimmerman, of Mandan.
North Dakota, President Of the North
Dakota Dry Farming Association, will
be present and deliver short ad-
dress.
President Worst, of the Agricultural
College, perhaps easily heads the list,
for aside from his thorough going
ability as a persuasive and pleasing
speaker, he understands as no one else
in the state the fundamental problems
and needs of the farmer and moreover
is In thorough sympathy with them.
Upon his farm in Emmons County he
learned first hand what farming means
in this state so that he does not speak
from the office standpoint but from the
standpoint of the farmer.
The great farm movement of today
is the one that has to do with increas-
ing the efficiency of the farm, likewise
the farmer. This is Extension Work.
There is plenty Of good farming
preached IN the books and farm pap
ers, but it is not put it is not put into
practice. The problem of today is to
have that put into practice upon the
farms. Among other things, Presi-
dent Worst will undertake to tell how
best this can be done: how to bridge
the gap between advanced farming
and farming as commonly practiced.
Frank L. McVey, able president of
the University of North Dakota, will
deliver an address Thursday evening,
December T. The nature of his ad-
dress will be announced later. Presi-
dent McVey aside from being thor
ough student of affairs is an orator
of no mean ability, and his address.
will be decided treat
Professor H. L. Bolley, of the Agri.
cultural College, will be present and
deliver an address on plant diseases
and crop rotation. Professor Bolley
is one of the leading students of the
diseases of small grains, and his repu-
tation along his special lines extends
even beyond this country. He has
lived in North Dakota over twenty
years and knows the state pretty thor
oughly. AS flax expert Professor
Bolley has probably no equal, and for
his opinions upon flax culture he is
often called to the larger cities.
The speakers mentioned are only a
few of thegood ones that will be here.
w. e. Palmer, agricultural editor OF
the Agricultural College, to wholL tie -
weekly papers Of the state are indebt,
ed for the articles regarding farming
and farm life, will be present and de-
liver a ta.., upon corn growing.
Mr.. w. R. Porter, superintendent of
the some thirty demonstration farms
in the state, will tell the audience
what these farms have been demon.
strating during the last few years in
comparison with the surrounding
farms.
Mr.. Hugh J. Hughes, the able edi-
tor of the Farm Stock and Home, has
promised his attendance and will de-
vote a. little time to the discussion OF
the business side of the farm, espe-
cially the reltion OF the farmer to the
business man. Those who have not
heard Mr.. Hughes have treat in
store.
The Dakota Farmer will also be rep
resented, probably by its live stock
editor. and he will 10 doubt want to
:ell US something regarding the i'm
oortance of hogs for the esra'n Da-
xotas.
The Northern Pacific Railway CON-
,any will be represented by seVeial OF
is officials Among them '7lll rrooa-
,ly be Mr.. Thomas Cooper, the de-
,elopment agent. Mr.. D. E. Willard
will be present and will probably dSs-
.uss the importance Of good roads.
The German speaking section of the
audience will be separately organized
md will have speakers of their own
r1e services of Mr.. John Christensen,
N able and prosperous farmer of New
Salem and good German sp7ker.
ave been secured and he promises
O discuss dairying. Mr.. Christensen
las one of the finest herds OF Hol-