The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1913-01-01
FIRST ANNUAL REPORT
Continued From Page One.

Continued From Page One.
Grand Forks county, Adams county,
Hettinger county.
In addition to the above named
counties and districts, work has been
carried on in the following areas:
Northeastern corner of Towner
county, southern townships in Billings
county contiguous to Bowman, and O.
small portion of the southwestern part
Of Pembina county.
Expenditures for Work.
The development of work for the
fiscal year has required expenditures
or $43,l10.70. This sum has been
jointly furnished by the cooperating
counties and districts, and by the con-
tributors to the general fund of the
association, namely, the railroads
wholesale houses, implement dealers,
lumber elevator. and milling interests
the banks, and the North Dakota
Bankers association.
Field staff.
The association has been fortunate
in securing a large number of COM
petent agriCulturists to carry on its
work. The success uf the movement is
very largely dependent upon the men
in the field. Their competence and
their ability to convince people gem
orally of the advantage of applying
better methods of agriculture to their
farms has proven in all localities that
better farming is fact not a theory,
and that farmers may with profit
adopt the methods advocated. The
present field staff with the counties in
which located and the time at which
they were appointed, is shown as fol-
lows:
O. D. Center. April 20. Grand Forks
county.
N. L. Jewett. July l, Grand Forks
county.
J. w. Haw, Feb. 27. Cavalier county
Th. T. Kristjanson, March /, Cava-
lier county.
o. o. Uhlhorn. March %. Ransom
county (Lisbon district).
Edwin Maryland, March Z, Barnes
F. W. White, March %. Barnes
county.
M. B. Johnson, Jan. 7, Bottineau
county.
r. A. Chitty, July 10. Bottineau
county.
c. o. Phelps, Oct %, Wells county
T. e. Clarke. Sept. /. Wells county
W. H. Burns, April 8. Eddy county.
A. F. Borchert. Jan. q, Stutsman
J. w. McNary, Sept. 1. stutsman
county.
w. A. Peck, March 18, Ward county
(Minot district).
r. D. Latin, Oct. l, Adams county.
J. r. Campbell, Nov. 1. Hettinger
| county
T. E. Mills, March IS. Bowman
| county.
Specific Work of the Association.
The form of work is such that it is
difficult to properly convey to the mind
| the various activities that have been
| carried on and their effect upon the
community. 1t is only after a period
of years that the value of work can
| be shown and then as reflected in the
changed conditions that prevail in the
| community or county. Specific forms
Of field work have been carried on the
| past year with 2.346 farm co-opera-
tors. Each of these men carried on
| some special form of work under the
| direction of the representatives of the
| association. The results of the work
so far as possible are expressed in
numerical terms. The following sum-
maries show, so far as possible, the
classification of the work, and the
cropping results obtained this year,
| Summary Cooperative Work.
Demonstration plats operated
under supervision ....- S4
Acreage of demonstration
plats operated under super
vision .................... 1896 8
Demonstration fields operat-
| ed under supervision . SAB
! Acreage of demonstration
fields under supervision -. S,377 s
Total acreage operated under
supervision ......... 1874 Z
| Farmers signing cooperative
q
Farmers cooperating, but not
signing agreements .. 238
Farmers with whom definite
advisory work was carried
out to completion-no other
agreement other than verbal 555
Definite advisory work-no
| agreements:
Livestock demonstrations. -. Is
Building construction .. 81
| Planning farmstead and lay
| out of same ............
Livestock purchases ...... 35
| Special feeding methods .... %
| Special cropping methods .... So
| Special tillage methods ...... AZ
Seed corn work .......,..... 151
Weed eradication ..........S 81
| Livestock work ............. 2SS
| Miscellaneous work ....... 144
Drainage work .............
S61
| (a) Total number of farm
ers carrying advisory work
| not under agreement ...... sos
individuals accepting definite
advice on farm problems,
returns unreported ........ 446
Total number farmers CO.
| operated with ........... 2,346
During the year cooperative work
was carried on in 80 per cent of the
| townships in the counties and districts
1 t. rx,hEol