Morris tribune., 1913-02-21
DEVELOPMENT MEN
PLAN Big CAMPAIGN
ASSOCIATIONS FOR EVERY
COUNTY.
General Secretary to Be Engaged
by West Central Counties
GracevilIe Meeting a Big Sue
cess.

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Central Minnesota Development as
sociation at Graceville last week
worked out plans for a more strenuous
and concerted effort toward develop.
uent than this part of the state ever
has known. The directors of the as.
ISOLATION decided to engage a general
secretary whose duties will be to focus
all activities Of the association in a
way that will bring about the best re-
suits.
Some man will be engaged to fill
the position in few days. Within
an hour after the directors had de.
cided to create this secretaryship.
farmers and business men had pledged
So, 700 for salary and expenses.
It will not be long before each
county in the associations territory
will have county farm bureau.
Plans for these were decided on
Friday. Each county association is tC
be incorporated under the state Law
to take complete charge of develop.
ment work in that particular district.
These associations will be business or
carnations, having for their aim
more and better live stock, the work.
ing out of system of crop rotation
the building of silos. the holding oi
corn and colt shows and the genera
toning up of farming.
EXPERTS TO BE EMPLOYED.
Each county association will consist
OF sixteen or seventeen departments.
in the seven counties which have sup.
erintendents Of agriculture. these
men will be the active leaders in the
movement. If there is man in the
county who is an expert on corr
growing he will be placed in charge
of that department. And so with ar
expert breeder or builder of silos.
The association also decided to hole
corn shows in various towns next fal,
followed by big corn and alfalfa ex
position. Much interest is being
taken in the growing of the latter
product.
The association went on record a:
favoring the bill pending in the legis
lature which would give to county
commissioners the right to vote enough
money for county superintendent o,
agriculture, and which also appropri
ates 81, 600 for each county that re
cieves such an expert. The PR,
seed bill now before the legislatur,
also was indorsed.
IMPORTANCE OF GOOD SECT
EMPHASIZED.
Professors Bull and Wilson of tn
state agricultural college ADDRESSED
the delegates Friday night on 5000
Seed" The former told about tn
work done at the experiment station
in the line Of variety and seed i'm
provemsnt calling attention to tn
fact that we'll selected grains hav
increased the yields an acre anywher
from 5 to 35 per cent. This increas
can he accomplished by the farmers
he said, if they will give the sam
CAREFUL attention to the selection an
maintenance of purity in the Varietie
grown by them.
Farmers should constantly be o
s4be watch. he continued, ''for tn
better varieties and highly improve
strains the same as is done in tn
rearing of livestock. Good breedin
of grains as in live stock implies ais
good care and management. There
fore in order to obtain the maximum
yields and profits, the farmers mus
have not only the good seed but h
must take good care in the prepars
tion of the seed bed, the cultivation {
the soil and put into practice system
of crop rotation. Each and all c
these will add their particular part j
increasing the yields and profits t
the acre.
LEHNERTS. WHEELER AND VIII
SON.
Professor Edward NJ. Lehnerts {
the department of geology of the un
versity spoke on "The Resources {
Minnesota. He likened the state
Great Britain, saying that the cond
tiens which lead to the rise both agr
culturally and commercially. of Ems
land and Minnesota were greatly sim
lar. The strong races that mingle
in the British Isles and in the Goph'
state were of material assistance