The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-05-27

horn of Lisbon. and it is divided as
follows: Corn. 10 acres: potatoes. 10
acres; miIlet. 5 acres: oats, 23h
acres; barley. % 1-3 acres; alfalfa. Is
acres; clover and timothy seeded with
barley as a nurse crop. 5 acres: to-
matoes, 3 acres; celery and other gar
den truck. . acres. with the remainder
in wheat.
One farm of $50 acres Is to he used
next year for demonstration purposes
entirely. About % farmers are CO.
operating in the work.
II also will be doing considerable
drainage work." says Mr.. Chlhorn in
discussing his plans. ut will be all
tile drainage. Some OF this drainage
other work will be merely for the
purpose of drainage pot holes"
Dairy Work.
The testing of cows for butter fat.
tho organization of n boys corn club.
the launching of Il potato growers
association. There are prospects that
Lisbon will nave a canning factory
this fall. and for hat reason the
are being interested in the
tomato growing work.
Cavalier County.
Cavalier is another county in which
the work is being promoted with a
great deal of success by J. w. lIaw.
Up TO the present date the work in
cludcs e. agreements with farmers in
"a different townships. and a county
organization has been formed with a
director representing each township.
\ local organization. affiliated With
the general county association, has
been established in six of the more
central points in the district under
Mr.. 1Iaw's supervision.
There will he 995 acres in crop I'M
der his supervision. and it is divided
into small pieces with the various CO.
operators. Their are is demonstra-
ton plots showing rotations, made up
in part of some cultivated crops, and
some grass crop. The demonstration
fields. other than demonstration plots,
number IS, and are given over to corn
and alfalfa culture. eradication Of
quack grass. and work with the diff
ferent pasture and meadow grasses.
Stock growing has also beer given
n place. and one live stock farm has
practically been given Over to the care
of the association expert.
Know tho Need.
The farmers of Cavalier county,"
says Mr.. Haw. realize the need IF
diversified farming at no remote date,
and are heartily in favor of a work
of his nature which places upon their
OWL farm the first and foundation
Ny N'"'i' 81 u III tll'il dIIl-
ing practice. The revolution from
grain farming to N form of per-
nlanent agriculture is, if practical,
slow and frausht with difficulties; any
move towards its accomplishment
must. at the outset. seem ~unproduc-
tive of results. From this standpoint.
Cavalier county has received an i'm
petus toward the correction of a bad
habit which years of platform talking
would not accomplish.
An Individual Problem.
The conditions prevailing in this
county make a solution of its prob
len1s entirely al individual matter.
The farmers do not want g~eneraliza-
tions. What they do need and want
is specific helps applicable to their
own farms. Is it then a wonder that
personal. expert advice brought di-
rectly to their farms in a talk it over
manner has met With a sincerely APP
preciative reception?
The general work in progress is
only incidental to the daily growing
sentiment stimulated by the Better
Farming association, that improved
methods of handling the land and a
gradual diversitieation of the crops
and interests of the farm will. year in
and year out. pay better than the re-
suits obtained where tho insane ha-
Ritual craze to get the greatest num-
Der of acres in crop of greatest prom-
ise, is followed"
Milton District.
The Milton district vas created out
of a part of Cavalier county. and it
G mprises thirteen townships. The
work is under the direction of T. T.
Nrisflansen. The work so far de-
Neloped is on demonstration fields and
plots. and there now are ia demon
strati"n fields in operation. with small
grains. clover. alfalfa. corn. potatoes
and strawberries being raised. There
are tifty-four co-operators and they
have set aside a total of 723 acres for
demonstration purposes.
Ten of the demonstration farms are
IN charge of the co-operators. and ro-
fation systems are being worked out.
These farms are located i'm ten differ
emit townships. and the plats are
three n four acres in size. the total
mold acreage for each being between
40 and so acres. Where a four-year
d"m"nstration is practical. there will
ne tour fields of ten acres each. or an
entire plat Of forty acres.
ON one of these fields q cultivated
crop is used. either corr or potatoes,
and that field is MANFRED. The other
three fields are used for small grains
ana one of them seeded down to
timothy and clover.
Many Co~-opcrators.
There are thirty-five co-operators
working fields Of corn. ranging from
. to 35 acres each, with a total Of
ga acres; twenty-seven demonstra-
tion fields of alfal ia range in size from
a half to four acres each. About two
alfalfa fields are located in each town.
ship, Potato growing. winter rye.
instruction in the planting of forest
trees. fruit trees, strawberries, cur
rants. raspberries. are other features.
h are taking increased in
terest in the movement each week.
Wells County.
j. V. Bopp is in charge of the work
in Wells county. and in a series Of
meetings which he has conducted
since he went into the district, over
1.OOO farmers have participated. There
are about 100 farmers cooperating
with the association along various
lines, including the Improvement of