Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-07-11
farm INSTITUTE
WORK Of STATE
Closed Successful YeaI
Despite There Has Been
Lack Of Funds

During the year Just closed the
North Dakota Farmers Institutes
have held ninety-four institutes Of
231 sessions. The attendance was
37,O49. A Farmers Institute tarin was
also run by the Northern Pacific rail-
road. This made halfway stops at
fOrty.one towns and was visited by
$3.50 people; $4,000 copies Of the
Farmers Institute annual were also
distributed.
A year ago such a report was not
anticipated, as the Farmers Institute
treasury was empty. The appropria.
ton failed to materialize. Personal
instruction such as the Farmers In
stitute brings was needed. The insti.
tute board figured out that q two-day
meeting could be held for 500 and
a one-day institute for SIS. The towns
responded and seen there was enough
money guaranteed to start out. The
agricultural college helped by sending
speakers. The railroads furnished
free transportation. The Northern
Pacific and the 500 each gave $1,000
in cash, while the Great Northern fur
nished a speaker most Of the time
and two a part of the time.
There was money to print an in.
stitute annual so an implement firm
printed 5000 copies Of q book Of
over 400 pages and donated 1t to the
state. The copy was furnished by the
Farmers Institute.
When the Northern Pacific offered
to run a train the institute manage
ment had to 60 to the agricultural
college and to the towns again. The
agricultural college equipped the train
and furnished the lecturers forty
one In allan average of twenty-five
all the time.) This train contained
nine exhibition cars, which we're furn-
ished by nine departments of the agri-
cultural college, az follows: Live
stock, poultry, soils, crops, chemistry,
veterinary, science, dairydng, horticul-
ture and home economics.
The live stock consisted of types of
draft horse, beef and dairy cattle,
lard and bacon hogs, and sheep. These
animals were housed in a box q and
taken out onto a flat q for demon
strati0n lectures. The poultry exhibit
consisted Of a complete poultry plant
on q flat car. The other exhibits
consisted of material to illustrate
some OF the main facts worked out
by the different departments.
The towns each put up $50. This
made possible the running of the
train with the splendid success men.
toned above.
One of the new features in the in
stitute work was q series Of follow
up meetings. Ten towns were select
ed for this. The regular institute
corps held the first meeting. This
was followed up in two weeks by q
special meeting, at which clover and
alfalfa were made the main topics.
Two weeks later again q dairy insti-
tute was held, while the fourth one
was on stock. The attendance at the
dairy meeting was as good as any Of
them, which may be a little surpris.
Ing to some who think there is not
much interest in dairying In this
state. 1t is also interesting to know
that at these Institutes there has been
more questions asked on the silo than
on any other subject. There have
been few questions on grain raising
the interest having centered mostly
about corn growing, stock raising,
dairylng, soil culture, and tree grow
ing-in short, diversified farming.
Superintendent Hoyerstad is well
pleased with the splendid support that
he has received from the agricultural
college, the railroads and the people
Of the state. The question as to- the
value OF Farmers Institutes has been
most emphatically answered. This
attendance Of $1,000 certainly shows
an interest on the part Of the people
as we'll 40 the fact that they raised
enough money Of their own free Will
to make this the biggest year IN the
history Of Farmers institutes in North
Dakota.
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