The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-01-17

The final day of the Grain Growers
convention was by far the best of the
whole 1918 session. The programme
offered for both morning and after
noon meetings was out of the ordin-
ary and filled with many representa-
tive speakers from North Dakota and
Minnesota. Among these were Tread
well Twichell of Mapleton, former
speaker Of the house of representa-
tives, and james Manahan, congress-
man t-large from Minnesota.
When President Worst opened the
convention this morning he read an
address written by Dean "A. r. WOODS
of the agricultural college of the UNI
versity of Minnesota. Dean Woods
subject was Agricultural Education,
and his speech was to have been de-
liyered yesterday afternoon, but on ac-
count OF illness he was prevented from
attending the convention this year, SO
sent his address which President
Worst read.
The effort of this well known agri-
cultural educator will be published in
tomorrow issue Of The Forum so that
all may have an opportunity to review
it.
Former Speaker Twichell was next
introduced, and spoke for the greater
part of an hour on the general topic
OF the Harm of Boosting Too Much,
the harm Of the imitation OF crop sta
.tistics and the frequent poor results
suffered therefrom by the farmers. .sMr.
TwichelI said he knew such boosting
came from the desire of every loyal
man to praise his own country, state
or, locality to the extreme In the hope
that 1t will bring the best results. But
not infreuuently such advertising is
adverse to the general trend of affairs.
Mr.. Twichelrs talk was direct from
the shoulder and he gave out some fine
ideas to the farmers who appreciated
his subtle witticisms and good hints
about how to run their farms and OPP
crate their holdings at lowest cost and
get the biggest returns. His effort
was enthusiastically applauded.
High School Extension.
4 r.. i. whitney, superintendent Of the
Grafton schools, read paper on High
School Extension I'm Agriculture, which
was well worth the hearing. In part
Superintendent Whitney said:
II wish TO take q very few minutes
to tell in plain way something Of
the work and aspirations OF our
school in the line of agriculture In
imitation of our lawyer friends am
going 10 present a number Of 'ex-
hibits." This herd book for example
we win call exhibit Al. / viii refer
to 1t more In particular a little later.
THE high school had It's beginning,
you know, IN Massachusetts. 1t was
at first an arlstocratic institution in
tended for the children Of the well-to-
do and for them only. ft hal no con-
nection with real life. and ifs purpose
was TO prepare a few of these few for
college life later on. From this, ths
tendency has been toward gradual
enrichment of the course of study, and
of late this has taken tho direction
rf flse industries II Is remarkable
fact that agriculture, the basic indus
try. should be among the last TO re-
ceive attention. Commerce. manu-
featuring, normal work, and cooking.
sewing and home making came first
iii the ordinary secondary school. This
was the order of Introduction a Graf H
ton. AS typical Of high school agri-
culture In the middle west you have
the Putnam school iti Minnesota. say
typical, but aS a matter of fact these
are something more for Minnesota
leads Iii provision for high scfool
agrieuitaire The laws of the mel III a5or-
ing states are not to be compared III
scope and Iiberality approach lie
Putnam law here hi NORTH Dakota.
our LAST legislature ef 1911 enacted
eE,apfer 40 which wsag graeticaily i
repr alietIon pf tlle Putnam law That
this had been Eageris ex pee ted ana
waited for is shown by the faet ti1at