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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1912-09-12
YOUNG MEN, HERE'S YOUR
CHANCE.
Free Course at College of Agriculture
to Winners of Stock and Corn
Judging Contests.

The management of the Missouri
State Fair has arranged to hold a
live stock and corn judging contest
during the state fair held at Sedalia,
Sept. % to Oct. 4. The winner in
each of these contests will receive a
$50 cash scholarship which will pay
the expenses of one term at the short
course in agriculture at Columbia,
NO., which begins Nov. 4. Besides
this there viii be 1866 in cash divided
into twenty-five premiums ranging
from 80 to $3.50 which will give
every contestant a good chance to
win one Of the cash prizes if he does
not succeed in getting the scholarship.
For prize list and copy Of the rules
governing this contest, write to Sec'y
John 7. Stinson, Sedalia, Mo.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-01-16

He recommended that every nom-
mercial club have in its membership
the strongest farmers in the commun-
ity; that these clubs Should undertake
to do for the community the things
most necessary to upbuild 1t, not in
the interest Of the bankers, nor the
merchants, nor the farmers but for
the common good Of all. and he held
that were this done that the tide Of
life and property would cease to flow
toward the cities and that a return
| tide would set in toward the farm.
In place OF State Engineer Atkinson,
who, as previously stated, was unable
to be present today, PROF.. M. L. Will
son of Bozeman, Mont, assistant in
dry land Investigations OF that state,
spoke on the prize grains in the New
York land show. Professor Wilson's
address was very interesting and he
was listened to a~ttentiveiy.
Il am from Montana" he said, "and
it is with a great deal of pleasure that
I tell you people Of North Dakota that
Montana won the grain prizes at the
New York land show. However, my
friend Superintendent Hoverstad here
has got me into trouble when I tell
you how they were grown. ! was up
in the Judish basin country this fall,
when we received the news that Mr..
Todd at Geyser won the ]. J.. HilI cup
for wheat. Being a Scotcaman myself,
/ pointed with pride to my friends that
the Scotch were the best class Of
farmers, and that this Mr.. Todd evil
IDENTIFY was a good Scotch farmer.
drove to his place and found that, in
stead of being Scotch, he was born IN
the Emerald Isle. and instead Of hav.
ing a large acreage of wheat he had
but one acre.
AS he was an Irishman he would
have to have a good sized potatos
patch, and as the family consisted o.
nine children he had one acre. which
he kept In potatoes for two years. The
wheat was sown On this acre. ! asked
him how deep he plowed his land, anf
he replied: I plow 1t ten inches deep.
said, You must have been readini
some Of Professor Shaw's articles OF
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-01-16
JOHN 7. STEWART
ON GOOD ROADS

John Z. Stewart, professor of agri-
cultural engineering of the University
Of Minnesota followed Mr. Shaw.
Mr.. Stewart said: The road prob
lem is moi new, neither is 1t one that
is only of interest to civilized man, for
we find that the savage tribes as well
as animals of the lower order are
prone to move from place to place by
the route which offers the least re-
~sigtance. After having established a
route they continue to use it. The
roads across many OF the mountain
passes or into the deep canyons were
first made by mountain sheep or deer.
The Indian on hts hunting trips learn
ed these trails and made use of them
as roads in his travels; the trapper
packed his furs over them; the frontier
settler widened them out for his wag-
on; and not infreQuently the locating
engineer followed them with a rails
way line-each in turn making and
improving a highway that had origin
route to pass from n feeding ground
to another.
A road in its earliest stages may be
considered rs a Dign board to show
the easiest route OF travel between
points. In prairie country. these roads
indicate a route which follows the
high lands around swainps and leads
to stream crossings. In mountain
country, they avoid precipitous slopes
and lead to the more accessible pass.
es.
The load hauled over such i road ID
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-01-16

deep blowing He said: NO, sir,
my people were poor In the old coun-
try, and / had never a chance to go tn.
school, sc that / neither read nor
write, but l have talked to my own
children when they come home from
school, and ] am not as big a fool as
some of them think / am.
THE wheat was sown very late IN
the fall, and made no growth, what
ever. The next spring 1t grew Wig
orously, hui was two weegs later than
the winter wheat, which had been
sown at the right time the fall before.
Being two weeks later it caught a
rain storm which fell too late to be of
any benefit to the other winter wheat,
but caught this just at the critical
stage, and assisted in giving a yield
of se~venty-four bushels to the acre
and weighing sixty-five Wounds to the
bushel. You can see by this descrip-
ton that this yield was q good hap
penstance of III knowledge of wheat
raising o of seed grown has not, been
increased. The champion oats yield,
151 bushels to the acre, and weighs
forty-eight pounds to the bushel. They
we're grown in the ,Galata valley ON
land Wnlch q been In clover W
years. They were Of the Big-Four
variety and was irrigated twice.
II saw DR.. Hartman, who raised
them. and asked him if he had any
seed for sale, he said that he did not,
as his field contained too many wild
oats, so that you can see we can get
no seed from this field. The barley
was also raised in the Galata valley
and was irrigated and yielded sixty
FIVE bushels to the acre, it was on
summer fallow ground.
1.-THE great lesson which us people
in Montana have learned from this
land show, is that thousand dollar
cups and prizes of that kind do our
farming interest no good, and but very
little good to the man who wins the
prize. The suggestion that / have to
make from the standpoint policy OF
the Montana Agricultural college, is
that prizes be given-taking grain into
consideration from the standpoint OF
good seed, freedom from weeds and
good farming, rather than freak
causes, such as / nave described"
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-01-16
contraaed From paFe one.

welcome to the agriculturalists. Presi-
dent Hardy was greeted with great APP
plause and with his usual customary
c~heerfulness and hearty Mr..
Hardy said:
Mr.. Hardy said: "Mr. President and
Gentlemen Of the Convention: The
pleasure is all mine. AS a representa-
tive of the Fargo Commercial club, /
have been asked to tell you how
pleased we are to have you with us.
The honorable mayor has requested
me to present to you the keys of the
city, with his compliments As pres
ident Of the commercial club, / wish
to advise you hat there are no locks
on our doors, and that we hope you
will, one and all, do US the pleasure
of visiting our club rooms and be-
come personally acquainted with our
members. / do not agree with the
mayor, who seems to predicate the
thought, that you have no license or
privilege here except those afforded
you through his courtesy. AS a MAJ
ter of fact, all that we have here IS
yours by right of priority and we
have nothing in the city that is not
NlfG ulLS(N 1G5hAL OL yOoA . H va
are the producers of wealth, we the
stewards, and to you We nus render
an account Of our stewardship. This
we have attempted to do by preparing
for your inspection a home product
show. This you will find in a building
nearly opposite the Gardner hotel: we
want you to visit it and see the use
we are making of the wealth you have
dug out OF the soil; we also want you
to visit our chicken show, that we may
demonstrate to you Jul interest in the
little brown hen'-and, last but not
least, we have gathered together 4
corn exhibit, which will be well worth
your time and attention.
an conclusion allow me to congrat-
ulate you on the good work you are
doing in your annual convention, and
to remind you that, encouraged by
your example, we have organized for
the purpose of battering and further
ing our civic interests, and that we
realize that this can only be done
through cooperation with you in your
work. We are the younger ~organiza-
ton and need your advice, and now
come to you asking in what way we
can help your work along. We stand
ready to act, if you will point the
way.
II have already exceeded the time
limit placed upon me. You came here
to listen to real speakers, and I trust
you will pardon this encroachment on
Your programme for which l know the
time is all too short. l thank you one
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-01-16
ADDRESS OF
PROF. 7HOS. SHAW

Prof. Thos. Shaw, In charge OF
the ffty-one demonstration stations
conducted by the Great Northern and
Northern Pacific railroads in the Da-
kotas and in Montana, addressed the
convention on the subject, The Ele-
ments Of Success in Agriculture. He
began by saying, that while in the
abstract these elements were many,
they could usually be included under
i've distinct heads. These are as fol-
lows: 10 The farmer mus recog-
nize the conditions amid which he Ia
bors. ca He must adopt some sys-
tenn of crop rotation. CD He must
maintain producing power in his and.
|(4) He must cut down all waste TO
a minimum, and CD He must follow
some system that will give him en-
ployment all the year.
The conditions that should deter
mine in great part at least the kind
OF farming that should be followed, are
such as relate to soil, climate and
markets. The crops should be given
the right OF way that will give the
largest cash returns under the condi-
tons of soil, climate and markets
taken together that ma be present.
This means that at the present time
under the conditions that exist In the
| Dakotas. wheat and fax should be
| given the right of way among cereals.
This does o mean that other cereals
| should not be grown, but that when
grown they should be made subservi-
ent to the growing of wheat and fax
BY feeding them to live stock and put
ting the manure resulting on the land.
violence should not be done to exist
ing conditions. Corn though extern
| sively grown should be fed mainly
| without husking. Clover though very
valuable where 1t can be grown sue
| cessfully. should not be sown extern
siveiv on the dry lands of the western
Dakotas. but alfalfa should be sown
in its stead. whereas clover may be
greatly profitable in the Red river val
lev. Where the rainfall Is not more
than fifteen inches in q year, farming
cannot be successfully done unless due
regard IS given the methods that con
serve moisture in the soil.
without some wise system of rota-
ton. the producing power Of the land
cannot be maintained.
Growing one crop continuously and
selling &c, will reduce the production
power in the land as sure as the sun
shines in the sky. It will reduce IL 10y
removing more or less of its fertility
by promoting increase in weed growth,
bv removing hur1us and by ~favorina
the increase of fungus diseases and oi
damaging insect life. The evil day
may be long deferred as 1t has beer
In some OF the rich soils of Dakota
lh.,t ~ All "A these hnxvavAr rich tx
will surely come at length. BY SUM,
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-01-16
Your Druggist Stops That Itch

If you are suffering from Eczema,
Psoriasis or n other kind of skin
trouble, drop into our store for instant
relief. We will guarantee you to stop
that itch in two seconds.
We have sold other remedies for skin
troubles, but zone that we could
recommend as highly as this, a mild
wash of Oil of Wintergreen Thymol
and a few other ingredients that have
wrought such wonderful cur all
over the country.
This compound is known as D. D. D.
Prescription for Eczema and it will
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-01-16

regulated by the knowledge of the
road; the weight and amount OF STOCK
attached are fitted to the road. Hence,
in a newly settled country poor roads
are to be expected and cannot be
avoided. AS a community improves.
the road requirements change and the
road is built to suit the load The
problem becomes one of constructing
a road which will permit the hauling
of a maximum load at a maximum
speed with a minimum motive power.
Consequently the road problem is n
Of development. The game trail
through the brush answers for the
travoi of the Indian; the prairie sod
broken by a log dragged from the
front wheels OF a wagon, or a line of
blazes through the timber answer the
pioneers purposes; but the best oil
surfaced macadam road is scarcely
satisfactory for the modern automo-
bile and the heavy loads of u well
settled and highly intensified farming
communities. Roads which a few
years ago were considered almost
everlasting and good enough for n
community, are now a back number
and inadequate on account of the in
~creasing automobile traffic. With the
steady Improvement of automobiles
and flying machines it is somewhat
difficult to tell just what demands may
be made or the road engineer by the
end of another twenty-five years.
With this association which has met
to consider rural Improvement, it
would seem to the writer that it is
not necessary to consider roads in the
earlier stages Of development, as our
agricultural districts have passed that
stage; neither is it desirable to take
up the higher class Of construction
which properly belongs to the highway
engineer, and which will naturally
follow in any community where there
is a demand for them after that com
munity has learned the value Of hard
roads by the use of good roads. To
my mind, u problem is to deal with
the agricultural communities which
have arrived at the stage Of develop
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-01-16
Fargo Now n Hands Of %GrainGrOWers Of Northwest

and all for the privilege Of meeting
with and talking to you"
President Hardy was enthusiastical-
~ applauded and responding to his
well chosen words OF welcome to the
great number of visitors. in the city
this week who are making Fargo an
educational center, Prof. G. G. Selvis
OF the Crookston Agricultural college
at C~rookston, Mimi. made a reply that
fully expressed the feeling of the dele
gates who are in the city Inc enjoy
ing the preferred cordially of the
Fargoans.
Professor Selvig was particularly
happy in his remarks and said in re-
Spouse to the address Of welcome:
Mr.. selvig said: / am requested by
the officers Of the Tri-State Grain and
| Stock Growers association to respond
to the very cordial welcome to its
thirteenth annual convention, which
we have just heard. / desire to tel
you how glad we are to come to this
| convention and to Fargo. We come
from all parts of the great north
west. We see all about us a tremend-
GUS activity among farmers. We see
| North Dakota in the midst of ar
agricultural enthusiasm that delights
us and spurs us IN. We hear South
Dakota's voice coming over her ricl
prairies singing brilliantly the song
of happiness and contentment. We
see Minnesota digging into agricul.
tural problems as before anc
achieving wonderful results. We
| -, ~ - aRrovo fhona tn1an ufaAnu ff
participate in the well matured anC
experienced results achieved by mer
who are striving to unlock natures
secrets and to solve problems tina
confront the men engaged in the old
est and the greatest business on earth
farming. From the day when Adam
delved to the time when XenophoI
expounded his first principles of scien,
tific farming; from the day when Fri,
the Red discovered the new land ives
Of Iceland and with a promoters op,
timism called It's icebound area Green
land, to the present time, farming hai
been, and will contiue to be, the mos
fundamentally important work OF
earth.
We come as friends and kinsmel
together to share each others ex
periences and to gain knowledge ant
enthusiasm for our work. We ar
glad to be in the state of vast fields
prosperous cities and homes, Nortl
Dakota. We r pleased to come t.
the beautiful city Of Fargo, a city full
of good works and eager to serv
the common veal. We recognize witt
profound regard the argument
Of the state agricultural college 10
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-01-16

mer following and growing corn, weeds
may be kept at bay, but these opera
tions will not give humus to the land.
That can only be done by putting
vegetable matter into it, and the lost
fertility can only be restored by apply
ing to the soil farm or artificial fer
tilizers, the former including legumes.
To maintain producing power in the
land, an equivalent must be put back
into the land equal to what has been
removed from it as previously inti-
mated. This equivalent can best be
put back again under Dakota condi-
tons at the present time by growing
Elegumes and keeping live stock. The
best all round legume that can be
grown at the present time is alfalfa,
but peas may also aid materially and
also clover in the central and east
ern portions OF the state. 1t is ques-
tionable if the application of m
cial fertilizers will pay at the present
time on average soils, but it may be
different in the future.
The waste in the Dakotas in many
instances is not only prodigal, but
sinfully SO. 1t is seen in the burning
of straw, in the great waste Of un-
| Ed1l1SlG u# eau Ia TIE HluDOlSS I'LL ~
the crops that are planted so late that
they are destroyed by frosts. At the
present time grain worth millions is
lying under the snow, a waste nearly
all of which could have been avoided.
1t could have been avoided by timely
sowing, timely stacking and timely
! threshing. The evil of those tremen-
dous t~hreshing outfits must be remov-
ed. Small machines owned and con
trolled by three or four farmers are
wanted in order to thresh all the grain
on time, and where this cannot be
done 1t ought to be put into stacks.
If the farmer is to follow some sys-
tenn that will give him employment all
the year, he must do something else
besides growing grain. He must keep
that amount of live stock on his farm
that will consume all the coarse grains
and roughage grown on the farm, and
that will turn to good ccoun all the
straw. This will furnish profitable
employment all the season through, for
the farmer and his family. While en-
gagged In caring for the live stock In
winter farmers will be employed II
turning products Of limited value into
products Of higher value, and they will
in this way increase their revenues
The work need not of necessity be
laborious. 1t will also favor the main
tenance Of moral stamina in a sturdy
peasantry and also in their growing
up sons and daughter. One OF the
greatest hazards that threatens the
agriculture Of the northwest is the
long season of enforced idleness thai
comes to grain growing farmers.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-01-16

M W. ED0A
trouoaed wath constipafkOn, and have
trsed many rernedies, all 81 whsch
seezDed to cause pain without xfvin~
much relied. I finally tried Dr.. M1es.
LAXATIVE Tablets and found then ex-
ce4seqG Their action Is pIeaaanf ava
mind, and their chocolate taste maares
them easy to take. I am more thas
glad % recomznend them"
4Clcan DIP the bowels and keen
them Clean" 10 the advice Of iii
physicians, because they realize the
danger resulting from habituaI con-
stipatiOn- Do not DELAY too lona
but begin proper curative measures
DR.. Miles Laxative Tablets are !
rev remedy for this old cosnnsa;nt
and a great Improvements over the
cathartics yop have been using Il
the past. They taste Ike candy
and work like a charm. A tr;ai
will convince you.
DIR. Miles Laxative Tablets -.
sold by oil druggists, at ID cents
9 box containing 2s doses. IF MOI
found satisfactory after trial. =.
TURN the box to your druggist ana
he will return your money
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1M ~
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-01-16

cool and heal itchy, burning skin as
nothing else can.
A Csc trial bottle will prove it.
OF course all other druggists have
d. D. D. Prescription-go to them If
you can't come to us-but don't ac-
cept some big-profit substitute.
But il you come to our store, we are
SO certain of what D.. D. D. will do for
you that we offer you a full size bot
tie on this guarantee:-if you do not
find that it takes away the itch AT
ONCE it costs you not a cent.
Fargo Drug Co.; Waldorf Drug Co.;
Economy Drug Co.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-01-16
@Cean Up the Bowels and
Keep Them Clean"

There are many REMEDIES TO be
had Tor constipation, but the difd-
culty - to procure one that acts
without violence. A rersedy that
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-01-16

does not perform
by force what
should be accom-
plished by persua-
sion is DIR. Miles
Laxative Tablets.
After using them.
Mr.. N. A. Waddcll,
SIS Washington
ST, Waco, Tex,
says:
s.Ahm0gt an my
EC
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-01-16

Superintendent Porter gave a very
excellent talk IN the subject of Dry
Farming which graphically presented
his ideas and various observations of
crops in different parts of the state
and in the several eason that have
just passed. He talked steadily for
half an hour, never h~esitating for a
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Continued on Page Nine.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-07-25
ANOTHER BUNCH or MONEY
FOR ROOSEVELT FAMILY

Washington, d. c., July 225--Mrs.
Olga Roosevelt Bayne, wife of Dr.
Joseph Breckenridge Bayne Of this
city and cousin of Colonel Theodore
Roosevelt, was awarded her interest
in the estate Of her mother, Mrs.
Grace G. Roosevelt, who died July 20,
1894, leaving the bulk of her estate
10 her daughter who was then
years old 1t amounted to more than
$"65,000 and is the second legacy
received by Mrs. Bayne within a
month, the first being a bequest Of
S35O,000 held in trust under the will
of her grandfather, Lorenzo G. Wood
house, of Burlington VT
Mrs Bayne, who was married to Or.
Bayne on November IS, 1911, became
of age Oh April 6, last, and the court
Yesterday discharged her guardian,
Robert B. Roosevelt Jr. Three years
ago she inherited 100000 from the
estate of Mrs. Stephen S. Cummins.