The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-01-06
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BARNES CO.
WIDE AWAKE
Splendid Meetings. Being Held
at Valley City

Valley City, N. D., Jan. 6.-That
Barnes county farmers and citizens in
general are wide awake to the modern
trend of Improvement and progress
along agricultural lines is proved by
the big turnouts at the mid-winter
fair and convention here The second
day of the annual meeting of the One
Hundred Dollar an Acre club saw
big increase in attendance.
One of the features of the convention
is the Wimbledon concert band. 1t is
one of the finest musical organizations
in the state. Outside of Valley City,
Wimbledon is the best represented
town at the convention.
Yesterdays Meeting.
Yesterday afternoon the first ses-
sion Of the Annual Farm Conservation
convention and Poultry and Grain
show Of the Barnes County Farmers
One Hundred Dollar an Acre Club
was held. The meeting was presided
over by E. S. Delaney, president of
the club and director of the state Bet
ter Farming association. In spite OF
the severe weather and bad condition
of the roads and the irregularity Of
the train service, the hall was filed to
overflowing, and the enthusiasm was
great for better farming and better
farm life conditions in Barnes county.
Thomas Cooper, the new director of
the North Dakota Better Farming as
sociation, delivered the keynote adj
dress. He showed that by better
farming greater returns could be made
to the farmer. He told of a group of
farms in southeastern Minnesota
where the farming was diversified and
livestock farming was one of the prin-
cipal sources of revenue where the
return was $500 an acre and of on
other group in the Red river valley
where the return was 1920 per acre
and the Red river land was probably
better land than the Minnesota farms.
He explained at length the aim of the
new state organization and offered to.
make Barnes county one of the coun-
ty's for experiment this year. His pro-
posal was met with great enthusiasm
and provision was made to raise s2,5O0
which viii be met with equal appro-
priation from North Dakota Better
Farming association. This will se-
cure for the county an expert agri-
culturist and three assistants to super
wise agricultural extension work
State Dafryman Flint discussed the
silos. Barnes county has sixteen, the
second largest number in the state. He
discussed the various kinds but rec,
commended the reinforced concrete
which would be cheaper than the
ready made affairs which the farmer
purchased. The number of silos in
the state are increasing very rapidly.
Shepperd and Worst.
Prof. ]. H. Shepperd of the agri-
cultural college spoke on Live Stock
on the Farm. In fact, the keynote of
the meeting was live stock" Pro-
fessor shepperd urged the farmers to
go slow in the matter Of livestock. 1t
was better for the farmer not to be
converted than to go into the reg
istersd stock at the beginning and
without knowledge. He urged upon
the farmer the necessity of keeping
cattle, horses, hogs and sheep on the
farms to eat the rough produce, to
keep down the weeds and enrich the
land.
Pres. ]. H. Worst was present and
urged the farmers of the county 70
adopt the scheme of the State Bet
ter Farming association. He urged
upon the farmers the DIGNITY of their
work; alleging that it opened the best
occupation with more ease and re-
turns for the labor Of mind and body
expended than any other occupation
If the farming was done right. He
told of the work being done in the
kingdom of Holland by just such a
superfntendency of agriculture and
during the twenty-five years 1t has
been in vogue, the increase in the yield
of wheat in the kingdom is fourteen
bushels to the acre and all other farm
products in about the same proper
ton. He declared that the farmers
must see to 1t that the state and fed
eral governments made in investments
in this work of extension of scientific
farming.