The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-03-09
ATTAINED
. IN SESSIONS r.
.tI TO DAY
Large Attendance Greeted
State Workers-Farrners
Get Good Pointers

State WorkerS-FarrnerS
Get Good Pointers
Practical talks by mon who hav,
been Through the milf in nearl,
every branch Of farming are interest,
ing farmers and their sons at the in.
stitute which opened in the high
school auditorium shortly before II
o'clock this morning.
The group Of experts In charge o.
skine. conductor; L. H. Bugbee OF
Carlton. F. F. Marshall Of Grove City
p. w. Smith Of Parkers Prairie and
M. p. Somes. field agent Of entomol.
ogy Of the Minnesota agricultural col
lege.
The attendance wal not large wher
the institute opened this morning. bu,
farmers have been arriving in towr
all day and the sessions this after.
noon are we'll attended.
The stores Of the city are offering
and this has assisted in. drawing some
farmers from a considerable distance
Urges Beef Raising.
In opening the institute this morn.
ing Conductor Carlson made an UT.
river valley-and he is one himself
to make more Of the beef industry
He said that beef raising was far more
important to the farmers Of this sec.
ton than dairying and he doubted
whether dairying would ever get al
firm a hold here as the raising Of bee
will.
The Chicago markets can eve gel
enough beef. Mr.. Carlson said, and the
farmer who goes into this industry
thoroughly and to make money will
always y that there Is ad emand fol-
his product.
In his opening remarks Conductor
Carlson urged diversified farming and
suggested that grass be seeded at leas,
every five years. He said that many
farmers Ire raising beef because IL Is
less work and brings in more money
almost anything else.
"Potato Professor Talks.
e. w. Smith of Parkers Prairie, a
farmer who has o out because he
was not. afraid to get in and Dig
his friends say. talked on potatoes.
MT. Smith has made this subject a
study. The other experts travelling
With him have styled him the Potato
FTO1e6SOr.' .. tt .
There r ten potent potato pointers
Smith AYERS and he says they will
put dollars on your pockets" These
Secure a perfect seed; secure ac-
curacy and uniformity in planting;
use seed with a performance record
n proper storage: treat the seed for
scab and cut 1t properly: give timely
n proper cultivation; keep off in
sects: ward off diseases. and the bad
weather can't get you: form a club
and grow only two standard sorts;
and market them through the club. =
Mi. Smith told of one man in Min
that started in the potato in
dustry' without a. thing in the world
that he could call his own and last
900. "
Farmers Pleased.
This pleased the farmers and they
Mr.. Smith also told of farms that
returned a net profit last wear Of S65
acre in potatoes. These were
forty-acre potato farms, each yielding
a net profit OF $500. The average
cost was not over $3.50 per acre,
making the net profit three times
than the cost Of planting and
raising.
III you want to pay Off that mort
gage. have better buildings on your
place and have automobiles and other
little luxuries go into potato raising"
sdmonished MI. Smith. This is the
country right here to raise the finest
potatoes in the world. Red river val.
ley potatoes are in demand all the
time. S
Right now potatoes raised in this
section are selling for SLIT in Texas
More than 1000 cars Of potatoes will
go south for seed this year. The de.
mand cannot be supplied. Think OF
the enormous amount. of money this
condition means to the farmer who
will go into the business.
In speaking of potato bugs, NJ. p.
Somes. expert in Chronology. declar-
ed that bugs were not a mysterious
force or a hoodoo and that paris
green and other bug killers" were
entirely worthless unless the potato
raiser understood what kind Of q bug
he wanted to exterminate.
Look the bugs in the face" in
structed the speaker. II they have
beaks they will penetrate into the
plant and ANYTHING that you put on
the outside will do no good. II the
bugs are the chewing kind they must
be gotten after from the outside"
Mr. Somes suggested the use Of
paris green or arsenate Of lead with
bordeaux mixture, which 10 composed
OF blue stone and lime. This will no,
only kill the bugs. he said, but viii
also cure blight on the plant.
Controlling tho Hoppers.
n afternoon Mr.. Somes talked
OF the grasshopper pest. He said that
there was one crop upon which the
armer got no returns and this crop
was bugs. The state Of Indiana. he
said. has appointed an expert to fiRht
the grasshopper pest and other states
are likewise taking marked interest
In preparations to combat such q pest
should 1t come on and 1t lie liable to
be h experience anywhere in any
dry year. he asserted.
In telling now to control the grass.
emphasis on early action, DECLARING
that early action is the most efec.
tive action against grasshoppers. ~
this We mean action between the mid.
die Of May and the middle Of June.
More can be accomplished then than
at any other time; and indeed that r.
the only. effective time for work
against the grasshoppers. The youns
hoppers first appear early in May:
and. since they cannot ny. they spread
slowly; and, being gregarious, in hab-
IL. ~ IN groups or masses. and can
therefore be attacked much more ef-
fecttvely than later. having wings they
scatter in all directions"
Mr.. Somes said that in the past YEA r
ne had numerous complaints from
farmers In this section Of Minnasota.
who feared q pest and desired infor.