The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1911-12-15
MADE GOOD START
Farmers Institute at School OF For es
try Is a Success
BIGGER PLANS FOR next YEAR

Farmers Are Enthusiastic About
The Work Being Done by
The School
The Farmers institute held
at the School of Forestry this
week has been a success 80 far
las paving the way for a lot of
livery effective work in the fu-
1ture is concerned and in prov
ing to those who attended that
there is a great future for the
school and it's work. The at
tendance was not what it should
have been but considering the
season and the fact that this is
the first institute of the kind
that has been held here it was
good. The number of farmers
present has increased steadily
each day of the institute and
Judging by the enthusiasm of
some of the leading farmers in
attendance it will be very
much larger next year. One
prominent farmer said yester-
day, There are a whole lot of
farmers who should have been
present and on the other hand
there's a lot of business men of
Bpttineau who have not shown
the interest in this matter that
they should have. If only as a
business policy they should
ke a deep interest in any
ltH ing that benefits the farmer
an id the farm. They should all
be out boosting this game
On Monday DR.. FIT. O'Brien
gave a very instructive talk on
The Value of Blooded Stock"
Fapd on Tuesday morning OF,
Tuberculosis" Rev. -Barnum
spoke on Opportunities Offer
ed Here in Education" +" Mem
bers of the faculty have ap-
peared daily in talks on their
specialties.
Prof. Waldron of the agricul-
tural college was to have given
his address on The Future of
Forestry Schools yesterday
afternoon but through a mis-
understanding did not arrive
until last evening.
President ]. H. Worst of the
agricultural college gave a
splendid address last evening
in the School of Forestry as
sembly room in which he call
ed attention to the importance
and dignity of agricultural
pursuits, drew striking word
pictures of mans ability to
breed up and improve birds
and beasts and the vegetable
kingdom, pointed out that
agriculture was the oldest and
greatest vocation of man and
that all the centuries of civiliz-
atien had done was to improve
methods and by the improve
ment secure larger results. He
argued that there was great
need for improvement in our
farmering methods, that we
must make two bushels of
wheat grow where one grows
now, that it can be done, that
there is no reason why we
should ever suffer the loss of a
crop by drouth if we will but
take advantage of what has
been learned about conserva-
ton of moisture and correct
farming methods. He promis-
ed to 60 into the matter of
methods more fully at the big
meeting in the court room at
the court house this afternoon.
The meetings of the School
of Forestry institute and the
annual gathering of the school
officials has been merged this
afternoon and the joint meet
ing will take place at 2 o'clock
at the court house. Prof. Wal.
dron will speak on the Flu
ture of Forestry Schools" and
President Worst on "Preventa-
BILE Evils in North Dakota
Farming" In the evening
President Worst will speak on
The Education of theMasses." +"
Every live farmer and business
man should attend these meet
ings.