The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-07-10
FARM INSTITUTE
WORK OF STATE
NoRTH DAKOTA FARMERS IN
sTITuTE HAS CLOSED Sue
cEssFuL YEAR DESPITE THE
FACT THAT THERE HAS BEEN
A LACK or FUNDS.


During the wear Just closed tho
North Dakota Farmers Institutes
have held ninety-four Institutes of
23l sessions. The attendance was 3T,-
049. A Farmers Institute train was
also run by the Northern Pacific rail-
road. This made halfway stops at
foTty-one towns and was visited by
$3.50 people, $4,000 copies of the
Farmers Institute annual were also
distributed.
A year ago such a report was not
anticipated, as the Farmers Institute
treasury was empty. The appropria-
ton failed to m~aterialize. Personal
instruction such as the Farmers i'm
stitute brings was needed. The insti-
tute board figured out that a two-day
meeting could be held for 800 and
a one-day institute for SIS. The
towns responded and seen there was
enough money guaranteed to start
out. The agricultural college helped
by sending speakers. The railroads
furnished free transportation. The
Northern Pacific n the 500 each
gave s 1000 in cash, while the Great
Northern furnished a speaker most of
the time and two a part of the time.
There was money to print an In
stitute annual so an implement firm
printed $4,000 copies Of a book Of over
tUu DdSEc dILu Ol4EILCA ~ ~ AAO 1880
The copy was furnished by the Farm
erS' institute.
When the Northern Pacific offered
to run a train the institute manage
ment had to go to the agricultural
college and to the towns again. The
agricultural college equipped h train
and furnished the lecturers (~forty-one
in allan average of twenty-five an
the time). This train contained nine
exhibition cars, which were furnished
by nine departments of the agricul-
tural college, as follows: Live stock,
poultry, soils, crops, chemistry. veter-
mary science, dairying, horticulture.
home economies.
The live stock consisted of types Of
draft horse, beef and dairy cattle.
lard and bacon hogs, and sheep.
These animals were housed in a box
car and taken out onto a fat car for
demonstration lectures. The poultry
exhibit consisted of a complete poul-
try plant on a fat a r The ex-
hibits consisted Of material to illus
trate some of the main facts worked
out by the different departments.
The towns each put up $50. This
made possible the running OF the
! train with the splendid success men
toned above.
one of the new features in the in
stitute work was a series OF fol-
low-up meetings. Ten towns were
selected for this. The regular insti-
tute corps held the first meeting. This
was followed UP in two weeks by q
special meeting, at which clover and
alfalfa were made the main topics.
Two weeks later again a dairy insti-
tute was held, while the fourth one
was on stock. The attendance at the
dairy meeting was as good as n of
them, which may be a little surpris-
ing to some who think there is not
much interest in dairying in this
state. It Is also interesting to know
that at these institutes there has been
more questions asked on the silo than
on any other subject. There have
been few questions or grain raising
the interest having centered mostly
about corn growing, shock raising,
dairying, soil culture and rec grow
ing-in short, diversified farming.
Superintendent Hoverstad is well
pleased with the splendid support that
he has received from the agricultural
college, the railroads and the people
Of the state. The question al to the
vo;cc of Farmers institutes has been
most empua@-"l1v answered. This
attendance. of 90,69y vvsinly shows
an interest on the part OF the people
as we'll as the fact that they raised
enough money of their own free will
to make this the biggest ear in the
history Of Farmers institutes in
North Dakota 80. "