The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-02-20
POTATO MEN
ENDED MEET
LAST NIGHT
Professor KoehIer Gave an Ex-
ceIlent Report
Yielding Power of Seed Potato
Shown
The Old Directors Are All Re-
elected

4 NC annual AAIISNAAlS Va NHC Via,
County Potato Growers association
held yesterday, was closed last evening
after a very profitable session held a
the state normal school yesterday aft
ernoOn. The closing session was de
voted to listening to the report of Prof
A. r. KOehler of the agricultural col
lege on the cooperative potato worl
done in Clay county in 1912. The repor
covered over fifty typewriter pages IL
which every phase Of the experimental
work done was fully explained in de
tail and the several tests, fertilizers
etc, were explained in carefully pre-
pared tables made up of tabulation'
which gave every fact in bold relief anC
carefully worked out to h most min
ute fraction and every figure proved II
the showing of costs and profits.
The different heads Of the repor'
death with by Professor KOehler IN,
cluded the following: Commercial fer
tilizer tests, cooperative fertilizer
tests explained in several tabulateo
tables, cultivation experiments, effects
of root pruning, effect on yield of po'
tatOes from two extra civilizations
distance apart to plant in the row ano
size of seed piece. dipping for scab. eX-
pertinent with Brown rot of potatoes
results from plainly diseased, slightly
diseased and healthy seed potatoes.
The report was illustrated by the use
of about fifty lantern slides which were
flashed on a large sheet at the will OF
the professor and by the aid Of these
slides he was able to take his hearers
practically to the site Of the expert
ments which we're conducted. The var
iOus kinds and stages of diseased po-
tatOes were also illustrated. The pro-
fessor was accorded the closest atten-
ton and there were many evidences of
expression hat his words were being
sent home and that the members of
the association were a~ppreciatiYe of the
great labor entailed in the preparing
of the report which had been given.
Closing his report Professor Koehler
said:
Il wish to acknowledge the valuable
help received from e. D. Grant, Lew A.
H%untOon and Leslie Welter, who con-
tributed in various ways toward the
success of the work. l also wish to
acknowledge the services of Henry
Schroeder, II, O. Krabhenhoft, Thomas
McCabe. ]. P. Hilgers & Co, and John
Dinsmore, who, with Mr.. Grant, above
mentioned, aided by carrying on coop
crative experiments, and last u not
least think that the potato industry
of the whole Red river, valley owes it's
thanks to the association as a whole,
which made this wor kpossible and
from which the whole industry Of this
section will derive benefit in the fu-
ture."
Following the reading OF the report
the association was called to by
President HuntoOn, and. included IN
the disposition Of several business
matters was the election of a board of
directors for the ensuing year. By &C
clamatiOn the present directors were
reelected to serve for another year
and they are as follows: Lew A. Hun
toOn, Jorgen Jensen, Z. d. Grant, Hen
Schroeder, Lewis Alternbernd, Theo
Fl. o. Krabbenhoft, ThomaS NC
Gable and Leslie Weiter. In due course
and under the bylaws the directors
will meet and organize with the cleo
ton of a president and secretary and
the several committees.
There were nearly 100 present at the
luncheon served to the members of the
association by the commercial club or
Moorhead at the Hotel Comstock at the
close of the morning session, Professor
koehler and one or two visitors being
among the guests.
koehIer's Report.
Following the luncheon given by the
commercial club to the members and
officers of the Clay County Potato
Growers association there was an ad-
tournment to the auditorium of the
state normal school which had been
placed at the disposal of the ~associa-
ton for the delivery by Prof. A. r.
KoehIer, of his report in extensive de-
tail of the cooperative potato work
in Clay county during 1912.
In April, 1912. arrangements were
made with the Clay County Potato
Growers association to carry on some
cooperative experiments with pota-
toes. 1t was rather late to plan for
work of that kind and it was more
or less handicapped on that account,
but according to the results obtained
the work was justified.
Experiments. were carried on by two
different methods, n being on a plot
of ground of about three acres at
Moorhead, which was rented by the
association, and the other, in cooper
alton with growers.
The experiments tried on the Moor
head plot were as follows:
/. Test of the yielding power OF
Early Ohio seed potatoes from differ
ent growers.
2. Experiments with the stem end
rot disease of potatoes.
3. Experiments with seed pieces OF
various sizes planted at different dis
tances apart:
4. An experiment in cultivation.
Yielding Power Of Seed Potatoes.
Professor Koehler further in his re-
port treated very exhaustively with
the yielding power of different lots
of Early Ohio seed potatoes"
One of the lines of work done on
the Moorhead plot thai up to the
present time seems to have been the
most important of all was that Of CO.