The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-06-28
The SLOPE
Welcomed
BIG TRAIN
Towns Visited To-day.
$3.50 8. M, Dickinson.
100 p. m. Belfeld.
100 p. M, Beach.
Towns Scheduled Saturday.
300 a. M. Richardton.
1880 p. M, GienuIlen.
$50 p. M, New Salem.
"a report RON the Farnnars. ~.

"A report from the Farmers Institute
train today is to the effect that one
Of the most enthusiastic -reeentions
Of the trip was received at Dickinson.
Inc roads were lined with autos this
morning making their way to the
hustling Stark county city and it was
a hitting welcome to the famous Mis-
souri, slope country.
Glenullen likewise turned out a great.
and enthusiastic crowd this afternoon
Both cities made the day q holiday.
There was special music, flags were
hying and the people were eager to
seen and hear.
One of the chief sources of atfrac-
ton was the poultry car.
When the hen cackles it may be not
much attention is paid, but vet IL is
the biggest noise in the United States,
as her days work is the producing of
$4,000, 900 worth of product. When the
rooster crows in the morning he is
calling his harem to their mighty work.
Many Autos Seen.
One of the features of the trip is
the number OF automobiles that are
in evidence at every point. Another
feature is this that whoever wants to
go out and see the country, there are
plenty of automobiles ready to take one
out; often times trips are made fifteen
or twenty miles which gives a splen-
did idea of the country. Crops are
looking uniformly good. In fact it
would be difficult to imagine a finer
prospect for a crop Of grain. Corn
is somewhat backward, though it is
doing very well considering the sea-
son and there is more Of it planted
than one would have n idea Of be-
fore one gets through the country dis
tricts. The corn field is getting to be
as indispensable to the northern farm
as wheat.
The next three days will be spent
west of the Missouri-in the slope
country.
Poultry Plant on Train.
OF all unique things a poultry plant
on a train! This is one of the things
that could be seen on the Northern
Pacific farmers institute train-a
complete ~up-to-date poultry plant with
real live chickens laying eggs, and
announcing the fact to the world with
AN ordinary cackle.
Prof. o. w. Dynes, In charge Of the
poultry Investigations in getting up
this exhibit had in mind bringing to
the farmers Of North Dakota a demon
stration in poultry raising. The things
that would strike one in looking over
the house was that it was not warm
enough, being composed of but a sin
gle layer of boards, covered on the
outside with tarred roofing. However,
Prof. Dynes assured us that this had
been found to be n of the most sue
cessful poultry houses at the station.
There is however a little kink in this
in that the back is double boarded as
we'll as the roof over the roosts. In
front of the roosts is a curtain on roll
ers, a good deal like an opera curtain.
In cold nights this is dropped down in
front of the chickens which shuts off
the rest of the poultry house making
this a sort of bedroom. In the front
Of the house was, of course, the door,
two windows and ar opening covered
with a duck screen.
The house on the fiat car was the
regular width but was only 7 feet in
length wheheas the regular house is
IA by is. In front the house is s feet
high and 5 feet in the rear with a shed
roof. There are two windows on the
south side, Q feet s inches by 4 feet s
inches and the opening for the duck
curtain is 8 feet by 2 feet. This is
also screened and the curtain Is
dropped only on cold days. This pro-
vides for ventilation without causing
draughts.
Unique Scheme.
At the rear was a box Shat attracted
everybody's attention. 1t was covered
with a fine mesh wire and was filled
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surface with soil. 1t did not seem to
be a rational way of feeding the grain,
as the chickens could not get at the
grain until it sprounted. The pro-
lessor, however, explained that this
was the way he provided green food
in case the chickens had to be shut
up or in case they were raised on a
small lot. The wire screen was to
keep the chickens from scratching out
the grain so 1t could grow and as the
grain sprouted up through the wire
q farm where the chickens have free
range they could get all the green food
they need on their own account.
In this house were the different kinds
of nests. One was a nest so arranged
that each hen would make a record
when she left the nest. In this way
lsone could tell which hen laid which
egg.
There were also the boxes for feed
ing dry mash, grit and oyster shells.
Grit Or oyster shells are very neces-
sary to chickens as they have no teeth
and grind their food with these things.
There were also ~incubators and hen
coops, egg testers, in fact everything
that the poultry man can use to adj
vantage. One Of the good things about
the whole poultry plant was that all
this poultry equipment was not ex-
pensive. 1t is within the reach of
anybody. The Importance of the poul-
try business is. usually overlooked yet
when we think Of the agricultural
wealth that the chickens produce ii is
a tremendous figure, in fact it amounts
to as much as the wheat crop for the
whole United States. The hen, though
she is small, yet her regular days work
In the United States is to produce