The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-02-08
BUSINESS men IN ClASSEsI
STUDYING RURAL QUESTIONS
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wives and boys and girls thar to the
ment. He wanted to know the reason
and said that the mex time he came to
North Dakota he wanted to see the
farmers wives and boys and girls as
why there were so few women present
we'll as the heads of the house. He
paid a splendid tribute to the farmers
wife AND in no uncertain language
charged his hearers that before they
went further in piling up material
welfare, they should see that the wife
is furnished 4 home supplied with the
comforts of life.
Professor Holden warned the farm
ers against moving into town Ito die
cheap" Stay on the farm was his
admoniti"n. You fellows he on
tinued. ARE no good in town and
when o die only d few will mourn
your loss. Stay ON the farm and your
anyway. Besides, you fellows don't
know how to act in town and you are
always blocking progress. A town of
retired farmers is a dead town. SIM
ply because its citizens are d bunch of
dead mes who have come in to town
to die cheap and don't want to spend
any money making living worth
while"
A Working Motto.
Beat Your own record every day
wa the motto offered by Professor
Holden as the best working motto he
knew. Drudgery. he said. is working
without any heart in the work. Why,
even hauling a load of manure may be
a decidedly pleasant occupation If the
farmer has in mind the increased
value thai the work is giving the
land. lie urged the farmers to be
proud Of the business of agriculture.
Passing on to the subject of corn.
Professor Holden called attention to
the fact that corn means live stock
and dairy. and wherever corn has
gone the value of land has doubled.
Hc prophesied that this would take
place in North Dakota. Five corn
commandments We're LAID down by the
speaker as follows:
Tirst-Thou shalt test every ear of
corn to be planted during the month
Of March. Six kernels shall be tested
from each ear.
Second-Thou shalt harvest and
store during the month of September
all corn intended for seed.
Third-Thou shalt improve thy seed
by selecting the choicest ears.
Fourth-Thou shalt shell and test
the corn in the planter.
Fifth-Thou shalt not import seed
corn.
These various commandments were
taken UP at length by Professor Hold
en- n he showed how to test corn,
how to tie it up and illustrated this
part of his address with a number of
similar appliances that any farmer
can make.
Professor Holden used a number OF
charts to show how by adding just a
little 'nubbing" to each hill of corn
planted an immense increase in yield
is the result.
The Better Farming association of
North Dakota. he declared. is the
greatest modern movement in the field
of agriculture. The eyes of the agri-
cultural world are on North Dakota to
sec how the plan which is now being
launched will come out.
Professor Holden's talk was one
that was listened to with eager inter
est by the farmers present In view OF
the way in which corn has become
one Of the big crops n North Dakota,
A question from the speaker as to
how many of those present raised
corn during the season just past
brought up nearly every hand in the
audience.
During his address Professor Hold.
en- spoke of the corn show and espe.
cially of the corn raised by MIR.
Thorpe OF MayVllle which he said wac
unusually fine. but he also called at.
tention 10 the fact that much of the
corn show was frozen and that to
have a successful stand, the only way
to be certain is to test the corn. He
drove home this point of his address
in no uncertain manner.
Evening Session.
The evening session was given ovey
to an address by A. e. Chamberlain
industrial commissioner of the Great
Northern, and former superintendent
of institute work in South Dakota
MI. Chamberlain gave a splendid nd.
dress on the subject of rural devel.
opment and brought home to hi,
hearers the need OF cooperation on
the part of the farmers Of North
Dakota in building up the rural com.
munities.
Probably a perfect optimist would
regard a hird ding aS. ponh iny,oat.