The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1912-01-12
"BETTER FARmlNG''
This Is the Slogan OF New Association
Of Great importance
WILL Benefit B0TTlNEAU COUNTY
Thirty or Forty Demonstration
Plats May be Operated Dur
Ing tho Year 1912

Last week we made brief
mention of the fact that F. w.
Cathro, one of the directors of
the Better Farming Associa-
ton, which is the corporate
title of the new organization,
which grew out of Hundred
Dollar an Acre Club, and about
a dozen leading farmers, whom
he had interested in the work
of the association, appeared be-
fore the county commissioners
with request that the board
make an appropriation of about
81, 400 to aid in the great work
the association has. been org
anized to accomplish. This
would mean that nearly $5, 900
would be expended in Bottin-
eau county during the year
1912 for the Good Farming as
sociation has planned to spend
about $40, 900 in the state and
will put up dollar for dollar of
the amount raised for this pur-
pose in the counties taking up
the work this year.
1t would be impossible with
in the limits of newspaper
article to give the details of the
plan worked out by the direct
ors of the association but the
matter will be fully explained
at a meeting to be called for
that purpose in the near fu-
ture. Briefly stated, however,
the purposes cf the association
are: To disseminate informa-
ton upon scientific methods of
agriculture; to promote better
methods of farming; to encour-
age better cultivation of the
soil, rotation of crops and
= diversification in farming; to
promote the raising of live
stock and poultry ..and encour-
age the manufacture of dairy
sproducts.
The association will employ
experts in the various depart
ments of the work and CO.
operate with farmers in con-
'ducting experiments on demon
stration plats of ten to twenty
acres each. Records of all ex-
periments will be kept and re-
ports issued. Results cannot
fail to follow work of this kind
and it is certain that with the
cooperation of the farmers
land values in North Dakota
will advance rapidly and will
pass the mark set 500 per
acre.
One of the very significant
things about this movement is
that the benefits within reach
are 80 great and the success of
the movement so we'll assured
that the bankers, wholesale in
stitutions, railway interests,
machinery and lumber jobbers
and elevator concerns of the
Twin Cities have volunteered
to give large sums of money to
the cause because of the in
direct benefits that will accrue
to them by the increase of
North OAK ota's 8 wealth through
the development of her almost
limitless resources. And it
must be remembered tn
where they will receive one
dollars worth of increase in
trade the residents of the state
will receive many dollars in
direct return from their toll.
The Better Farming associa-
tion is doing the pioneer work
along it's lines but it is predict
ed that within few years the
results from this plan will be
such that the national govern
ment will take oyer the work
in manner similar to that by
which wonders were worked in
the cotton states.
Mr.. Cathro is in charge of
the work of the association in
this county and IS giving al
great deal of his time and
energy to making it a success.
He is making arrangements for
meeting in the near future at
which the important details of
the plan will be discussed with
leading farmers. and business
men from all parts of the coun.
ty. We understand that the
speakerssat that meeting will