Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-06-21
Great Activity Is Noticed at
Thriving Eddy County
Metropolis
Enthusiastic Darlington Cit.
zenS Crowd Cars IN Great
Numbers
Special to The Tribune.
BY J. K. 0oran,

NEW ROCKFORD, June 21.-The
Farmers Institute train over the N.
p, put in her this morning and the
workers have had one of the busiest
forenoons yet since leaving Fargo.
The work at Sheyenne yesterday ev.
ening Was good but the rain kept
many away and the conditions were
not favorable. But the interest was
good.
Today Is the highwater mark, for
forenoon work. A deputy sheriff was
placed on the crossing at the rear of
the train to watch the crossing for
teams and automobiles as the jam
was so dense. He stood at the rear
end of the train the entire forenoon,
and said that not less than $500 had
boarded the train from that one en-
trance. In no place have the city
people turned out in such numbers as
at New Rockford.
Great Railroad Activities.
The G. N. Steel crew stopped at 5
o'clock yesterday evening with the
rails touching the N p. track from the
east and this force is putting in the
diamond today and will soon be ready
for the G.. N. trains to cross. 1>he
Great Northern has through its d.
rectors just appropriated $75O,0OO for
improvements at this place. They
are to build thirty eight stall round
house, a modern depot, and to put in
the trac..'age necessary to carry on
the immense business OF central
point in modern railroad business.
tbs is the line that is to cross the
Missouri rver somewhere near old
Fit. Stevens and west to Lewistown
Montana.
Work Of the Better Farming Assn.
The Better Farming Association of
North Dakota has one of its best men
stationed here, Field Expert w. H.
Burns. who is doing a good work and
has accomplished much in very
short time. When the usual auto par.
ties were being made up for trip
around the country Prof. Macintosh,
If the horticultural department Mr.
Larson of the Northwest Farmstead
anG J. K. Doran of the Tribune. were
rut into a machine in charge of Mr.
Burns and took tn the commercial
truck gardens in charge OF the Bet.
ter Farming Association, where the
real results could be observed.
Great Roadway is being made and
the practical work Is being done on
commercial basis. In such fields
as this many of the practical prob.
lens will be settled and the people
will be shown by actual demonstra.
ton whether the teachings of the
colleges and the press is true or false.
Theory is a great thing, but the real
work done and the books properly
kept tells the final story.
The people Of the county 60 to Mr..
Burns for all kinds of information
from the drifting of the soil to how
to set an old hen and they do not 20
away empty. handed. This was we'll
proven by a further trip to fields that
needed attention and an inspection
of gardens and strawberry patches.
Here was an inspection of the real
field work. Prof Palmer was set for
and photographs of the gardens and
fields were taken to be used for fu-
ture reference.
The lecturers report equally inter-
esting work in their several depart
ments.
There has been more rain around
New Rockford than for years and
some damage done by flooding low
lands. Otherwise crops are excellent.