The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-01-20
WORST AGAIN
IS PRESIDENT
President McVey Appointed
Member of Country Life
Commission.

ing of tn Tri-Statc Grain Growers as
sociation yesterday afternoon officers
were elected as follows:
President-Prof. j. II. Worts. Far
go.
Vice Prcsident-Col. II. \. Wilkcr.
son, Lake Elmo. MINI.
Secretary-Supt. T. a. lIovcrstad,
Fargo.
In accepting the presidency Presi-
dent Worst said that he regarded the
office as one of the highest honors
that could be given him.
~ monument that would mean
more to him than the costliest and
most beautiful work in granite or
marble, would be two long rows of
trees extending across the state of
! North Dakota, he declared.
AT the close of the convention this
afternoon President Worst appointed
Il commission which will be known
as the country life commission. Those
he appointed We're W. G. Palmer. Far
go, chairman; Sen. Frank S. Talcott.
Buffalo: Pres. Franklin l.. McNey of
the state university at Grand Forks;
Trof. l.. r. Waldron, head of the Het-
finger sub-experimental station, and
Clark W. Kelly of Devils Lake.
h commission will meet in thu
near future and will attend to the life
in the country of the state encourage
ing suburban and farm life in the
country of the state encouraging sub
urban and farm life and the beauti-
f~ication of farms and the moderniza-
ton of the farm homes and houses.
All the appointees are active and en-
erSctic and know the conditions of
the farming interests of the state and
are we'll acquainted with the farmers
themselves.
The program of the day was as fol-
lows:
Fixing Land Nalues-E. S. De Lam
cey. Valley City. n. y.
Address-Dr. A. +. Woods. Dean
Agricultural college, University of
Minnesota.
The Country Life Problem-.A. l..
chamberlain. development commits
%sioner, G. n. Railway.
AddreSs-G. w. Randlett, director,
extension department, North Dakota
Agricultural college.
Human Nutrition-Prof. Jessie NJ.
Hoover, dean hon economics depart
ment. a, G.
Relation Between Rotation and
Fungus Diseases of Plants-H. l..
Eolley. %botanist. A. G.
The resolutions adopted by the as
sociation We're in part as follows:
Whereas. 1t is common knowledge
that the system of agriculture in
IN'GuC III tue Ilteu States docs not
meet the requirements of the times,
and is not calculated to build up n
permanent agriculture. restore and
maintain the fertility of the soil,
which is the nations greatest asset;
and $50.
Whereas. the state and the federal
government have expended large
sums in accommodating vast funds OF
knowledge that should be applied i'm
4 nrat,tyfaA imam, am. e, y.,,, mi <l,,t -.
perience shows that the most direct
n effective way of doing so is by
the method of extension work known
as field demonstration: and
Whereas. The National Soil Fertile
ty league and the executive committee
of tn American colleges of agricul-
ture and experiment stations have
prepared a bill looking to the co-ope
GRAFTON of the federal government and
the several states to make increased
appropriations to the agricultural col
legcS to enable them to undertake.
and carry forward the work of field
demonstration until ultimately a
trained and practical nan will hc
placed in every agricultural county to
them to adapt and apply the now
methods to their farms:
Therefore. be it Resolved. That the
members of the Tri-State Grain and
Stock Growers convention. assembled
at Fargo. \. D.. lam. II. 1912. hereby
endorse unqualifidely said proposed
bill and we urge our senators and
members of congress to do their ut
most To secure its passage.
Rural School Problem.
Whereas. The present one-room
rural school for the ountry being
proved as out of place in modern life
as is the handsickle for harvesting
grain:
Be it Resolved. That the members
of the Tri-State Grain n Stock
Growers convention earnestly urge
the consolidation of these small. weak
and inefficient one-room rural schools
into larger units that can provide
efficient training needed as we'll as do
better work in all branches.
Whereas. One of the things neces-
sary to the developing of better farm
ing is capital. which is often times
diff cult for the farmer to get:
Be it Resolved. That the president
appoint IA committee to make an in
v~estisation into securing of farm
credits, which will enable farmers to
secure capital at Il low rate of inter-
est for h better development of his
farming-such committee to make a
report at the Tri-State Grain and
Stock Growers convention 1913.
NluDS.
Whereas. Every community has its
farmers who have made "a success in
the different ines of farming and
Whereas. Their neighbors could he
benefited by knowing how this was
done. and
Whereas. The coming together of
farmers in meetings would do much
In supplying social life;
Be 1t Resolved, That the members
assembled at the Tri-State Grain and
Stock Growers convention urge upon
the farmers of the different
tiles in the state that they form farm
ers' clubs in which those who have
mad a success in any particular line
impart their information t. their fell
low neighbors. and also that it may
be a place for their social pastime. It
is also suggested that the wives be
members of such clubs and that they
attend the meetings. as where this
has been done the success of the club
has been much better and longer liv-
ed than where the women have not
been included in the membership.
Therefore be it Resolved, That the
members Of the Tri-State Grain and
Stock Growers convention urge upon
the president of the Tri-State Grain
and Stock Growers convention the
need Of a commission in North Da-
kota to study the organization Of such