Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1913-04-17

Station Correspondence. The sta
ton workers have answered numerous
letters requesting farm building plans,
i i1l 4 ton re arding farm drainage,
plans and specifications for silos and
for septic tanks, plans for farm rota-
tons; information regarding soils
fertilizers, breeding stock, care and
feeding of stock, weed eradication and
sources Of pure. seed, and seed testing.
This corresponds has more than
doubled during the past two years. 81.
Extension Work. The station work
ers have addressed a large number of
short courses, institutes and farmers
clubs and have contributed articles on
topics Of imp ortance. Il. \. 4. Is
| Building and Impr Dur
ing the past two year many improve
ments have been made in the build
/ ings and grounds Of the station. When
the & Station was first established,
there was no thought Of building a
school here It was found necessary
to change the original plans. in order
to make room for a school campus.
Much time and labor have been given
to extra work Of this nature during
the past two weeks; There still re
mains some work to be done. The
present buildings ard grounds plans
are permanent and future improve
ments can be made graduall- as the
needs demand. Iii 8as H III v S fs
Future Needs and Plans. he aim
His to make the Northwest sExpe riment
Station a true experiment and i'm
Ivestigation' station lat which farm
problems may be solved. NWeE11eed the
cooperation of the farmers of North
western Minnesota to make this work
successful. # The station needs, also,
enlarged and greatly improved facili-
T ties for carrying on its work.
operative Work With Farmers.
Work III CO. operation with farmers in
this territory has been started along
1.-TWO lines, First, the student Sum
11ler acticurn, work in which stud
|ents from the N orthwest School Of
Agriculture work out practical prob
lens in agriculture on their parents
farms during their summer va cation
under the guidance of the school
Second, pedigreed seed is. being dis
|stributed to farmers interested in
ESiOW1 Ict1lIoaiS VI ID Hi Jul 50 iVcltSly.
This plan has been adopted not only
to aid the farmer in growing grains
of a high quality but also to supple
ment the variety testing work here at
the station. III this work the station
is seriously handicapped by5t the lack
|of a seed house and corn and grain
drying equipment. "a building for this
purpose should be Of ample size, fire
and vermin proof and model in con.
verience as a grain storage building,
Iii time to come, years Of painstaking
work and invaluabl Sic results in i'm
proved seed will depend for security
on aterials used iii the construction
Of this building, s##
The accotnp department re-
ports cover this work #of# the station
briehy but inclusively We plan to
publish a full report at the close Of the
present year. 5855 ".
II DRAINAGE s5.# " 58s
The Northwest Experiment Station
lies immediately north of the City of
Crookston and cover \ three quarters
of a section Of II fat II e,,ve1 land. The
land lying to the south, east and
north slopes toward tile farm in such
a way that previous sto the constrlc-
ton of#s any rainag u III tenn food
wa ne fnmif1rr ~ Az, NJ; 81 EI, III Ia nj