The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-02-01
U. s. GO. ORNAMENT EXPERTS AT
NORT':i DAKOTA CORN AND
CLOVER SHOW.

No better list of speakers and insti-
tute workers has ever been offered
the farmers AID business men of the
Northwest than that of the third
annual North Dakota Corn and
Glover Convention to be held in the
big Grand Forks Auditorium, Feb
ruary 6, Z, 8 and 8. While much of
the work will be done before class
es or groupes working with actual
samples of the subject under dis
c%ussion, it is still planned to devote
a portion of each afternoon to large
public meetings with talks by agri-
cultural workers who are known all
over the United States. Many of
these men will work in the classes
also.
The list of speakers will include
the following we'll known authorities
on better farming methods: Prof.
P. G.. Holden of Iowa, who talks on
Corn is the best known corn man
of the United States and at the pres
ent time is the popular candidate for
governor of the State of Iowa. An
drew Boss, in charge of the agricul-
tural work of the Minnesota Agri-
cultural school, is we'll known all
over the country as an expert field
crop man. His subject will be Crop
Rotations and will be illustrated
with model farms worked out to
scale to show the rotations he recon-
mends.
A. E. Chamberlain, Industrial
Commissioner of the Great Northern
railroad, is a we'll know %agricultur-
list. He is perhaps better know as
associate editor of the Dakota Farm
err, published at Aberdeen, and as
the former superintendent of Farmers
Institutes in South Dakota. He will
speak on Rural Development" and
do some of the class work in field
crops. Prof. Bolley of the North
Dakota Agricultural College needs
no Introduction. His subject will be
plant Diseases and Remedies"
Prof. Dynes, also of the North Dako-
ia institution, will be the Potato man
of the meeting and will have charge
of the class work as we'll as lecture
work. Thomas F. Cooper, the sec
rotary and director of the new North
Dakota Better Farming Association,
will talk on Farm Management"
H. R. Smith, the new head of the
animal hu{5andry division of the
Minnesota Agricultural College, will
make his first official visit to North
Dakota to address the Grand Forks
meetings on the subject of Beef
Cattle and Feeding for Beef"
Dairy cattle will be cared for by the
United States Government, which
will have two representatives on the
ground. F. W.. Merrill, one of the ex-
perts has been stationed in Walsh
and Pembina counties the last year
doing personal work with the farm
ers along the dairy lines, A. K
Riser, who is stationed at Colorado
Springs, Col, is supervisor of the
government dairy division for the
territory west of the Mississippi
River. They will have charge of
both platform and class work. Cattle
of both the beef and dairy. breeds
will be used in the practical class
work.
Among the workers will be State
Dairy Commissioner R. F.. Flint, and
his assistant E.. II. Pierce, will con-
duct the school for better makers
j. v. Bopp of the Better Farming
Association force, j. D. Bilsborrow
of the Crookston A. c., F. c. Trip,
a former Iowa Institute man, Prof.
Dynes of North Dakota, and others,
will handle class work, and will
Judge products entered in the Winter
Fair division for the liberal cash
premiums that have been offered. T.
A. Hoverstad, the we'll known Super
intendent. of the North Dakota Farm
ers Institute work, has been asked to
act as principal and Superintendent
in charge of the class work.
The Domestic Science department
of the State University will conduct
a series of classes for the women
and girls, the management of the
work to be in charge of Miss White
and Miss Salisbury of the University
faculty.
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