The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-02-12
FARMING
EXPERTS NAMED
Seven Men Well Qualified
For New Line of Activ-
ity in State

Thomas Cooper of the North Dakota
Better Farming association has an
nounced the personnel of the asso-
cations field experts who will have
charge of the work in the different
counties within county organizations
have been formed. So far only two of
these experts have been assigned to
their localities, but the rest of the
appointments are expected from Sec
rotary Cooper's hands within q few
days.
Chris Schroeder will have charge of
the Barnes county district and will
take up his residence in Valley City
about February %. T. T. Kristjan-
son who has been superintendent of
the Mcleod demonstration farm and
is therefore familiar with that por-
ton of the country, will be assigned
to Ransom county.
The field agents selected to date are
Chris Schroeder. T. T. Kristjanson.
Edwin Maryland, w. r. Lanxon. NJ. B.
Johnson, A. F. Borchert and ]. v.
Bopp. The following is a brief state
ment of the work hat these men have
been engaged in and their former 10.
cations:
Mr.. Schroeder was born and brought
up on a farm in Wisconsin. Leaving
the farm after he had attained his
majority to attend the Wisconsin ag-
ricultural college. He graduated
from the agricultural college in 1906.
During the time he vas a student, he
was employed as one of the livestock
feeders. After leaving college he vas
identified for some time with farm in
terests in the state of Wisconsin and
was then secured by the Minnesota
agricultural college to act as assistant
in the animal husbandry department.
He left the Minnesota agricultural
college to become assistant editor OF
the Wisconsin agriculturist. He has
had a very wide training in agricul-
ture and his work has brought him
into contact with and enabled him to
become intimately acquainted with the
various farm problems which exist
in the state.
Mr.. Kristjanson graduated eight
Years g from the farm husbandry
course of the North Dakota agricul-
tural school. Since that time he has
been engaged in farming in the nor
thern part of the state and for the
past two years has been s~uperintend.
n of the Mcleod demonstration farm
which he has developed very eficients
ly. His work there has demonstrated
the fact that he knows how better
methods can be applied to farm con-
ditions to good advantage.
Mr.. Maryland is a graduate of the
Minnesota agricultural college. He
was brought up on a farm in SOUTH
ern Minnesota. During his college
field statistical route, where he acted
as joint agent for the United States
government and the Minnesota ex-
pertinent station. Since graduation he
has bee Unemployed as agriculturist at
the Cokato high school. He has de-
veloped a splendid line Of work with
the farmers in Wright county and is
thoroughly familiar with farm prac-
tees. Much of the agricultural prog
ress made in that county during the
past three Years, as we'll as the de-
the high school at Cokato has been
due to his efforts.
Mr.. Lanxon is a graduate of the
North Dakota agricultural college and
is thoroughly acquainted with farm
conditions in North Dakota. For sew
eral years he has worked on and OPP
Grated farms in the state. During his
college course he acted as assistant in
husbandry at the North Da-
kota agricultural college. He has al
SO had a great deal of experience in
feeding and preparing cattle for fairs
and the show ring. After graduation
was employed n year as agricul-
in the high school at Alexan-
dria, Mimi, leaving Alexandria to take
charge of the North Dakota agricul-
tural sub station at Hettinger.
Mr.. johnson is a graduate of the
farm husbandry course of the North
Dakota agricultural college and has
had a great deal of experience in
farming in the northern part of the
state. He operated a farm there for
years. The past two years
he has been assistant in charge Of
demonstration farms for the state of
Dakota and through this work
has gained a very wide knowledge of
practices and methods, as
we'll as the practical changes which
can be made in our farm practices to
good advantage.
Mr.. Borchert was a graduate of one
the first classes in the Minnesota
school Of agriculture. Since his grad.
he has been engaged in farm
ing in central Minnesota. Through
various interests in this state he has
become we'll acquainted with agricul.
conditions here. Il
Mr.. Bopp was brought up on a
farm in southern Illinois. In 1908 he
from the Illinois college Of
During the time he was
a student at the college ne spent two
on the Illinois state soil sur
vey. In 1908 he became associate
professor Of agriculture in the South
Dakota agricultural college. He lat.