The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1912-02-16
Farm Congress Comes to an End.

Farm Congress Comes to an End
Gov. Chester II. Aldrch closed the
three days session of the Country
Life congress in Norfolk Thursday
night with an address on agriculture.
The governors subject was The Far
mer and the States"
The governor speaking of the Aid
rich currency plan. said the people
should think it over. at is true our
banking system needs some legisla-
ton but the money of this country
should be in the hands of the ma
tional government
To prove that the Nebraskan is the
best man, the governor gave an inter
esting review of the last Michigan
Nebraska football game.
The members of the Michigan
team represented twenty different
states. Ninety-seven per cent of the
young men on the Nebraska side were
born and reared in this state, and ev-
cry member on the team was a citi.
zen of the state" he said
Gov. Aldrich discussed the good
roads problem
When the next Legislature meets. -
he said, - wish men could he sent to
the legislature to have roads put un.
der systematic management. We
should pass laws authorizing a high.
way commission and have the state
divided into districts under the super.
vision of ali engineer of the commits
sion. We could get good roads and
more cheaply than under the system
now used"
GOV. Aldrich was applauded fire.
quently during the course of his ad
dress. He was introduced by Presi
dent w A. Witzigman of the Norfoll
Commercial club, who was chairman
of the evening.
On behalf of the Norfolk people and
Norfolk farmers, President Witzig
man thanked the members of the
Country Life commission for the pro
grom given in Norfolk. He highly
complimented the commission on the
program and declared the work being
done by them was great one
Just before the address given by
GOV AldriCh and at the conclusion OF
an interesting address by Dean Z. A
Burnett, Secretary Odell of the Rural
Life commission made a motion that
the audience is in favor of house roll
No 1850, now in congress. a bill ask
ing for an appropriation from the ma
tional treasury for the present work
being done in all states for improving
of arm conditions. The president put
the motion and it was carried almost
unanimously
Dean E. A Burnett greatly inter
ested the farmers on how the expert
ment station can help the practical
farm. Dean Burnetts address was an
able one and he told clearly the won
derful work already achieved by the
state experiment farm. After telling
how il was possible for the station to
produce four different strains of tur-
key red wheat ana increase the yield
of wheat in the state four bushels to
the acre, he told the farmers how to
tatten cattle and hogs more econom-
ically by feeding them more alfalfa
hay and less corn.
In concluding his address he show
ed the critical nature of the next
years corn crop and explained how to
raise good corn. He declared that
seed corn from local corn would grow
better locally that seed brought here
from Iowa, Kansas or Indiana.
I'VE have found as a result of work
AT the experiment station" said Dean
Burnett that every region must have
a type of corn selected. II is far bet
ter TO find corn on your own farm
than to get it elsewhere We found
that you are not likely to get corn
from Iowa, Kansas or Indiana that
will grow as well as that obtainable
from your fields here"
Immediately after Commissioner
Lawson called Thursday afternoons
session TO order c. II, Kelsey, a Nor
folk attorney, stirred up some OF the
greatest discussion heard during the
meeting, when he talked on the
Landlord and Tenant" question. Mr..
Kelsey believed that the farm should
be rented in such a manner as to en-
able the tenant TO receive a fair com
pensatiou for his labor The acreage
of the farm should be mapped out as
to different crops before a rent con
tract is made, A certain number of