The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1913-09-26
Ask For Only One
Bushel Of Wheat
Boys Will Build q Dofmitory at
the Agricultural College With
Donations

| oPcdh1uS VI Iue P1OPoSACiou
started by the students of the A.
G. to get each farmer of the
state to donate one bushel Of
wheat toward building a boys
dormitory at the A. e., The Bis
marck Tribune says:
The boys at the North Dakota
Agricultural college have orga-
nized a unique propaganda for
the purpose Of building boys
dormitory, by inviting the farm
ers of the state each to contri-
butte one bushel Of wheat to de-
fray the expenses Of the building.
This action on their part indicate
considerable initiative, and the
proposition should appeal strong
ly to the farmers of the state.
One bushel of wheat is a small
contribution, in view of the
splendid results that would like
ly follow. 5
The average farmer, while haul
ing wheat, frequently spills a
bushel or more when the hind
wheel of his wagon encounters a
rut, and he thinks nothing of it.
Morever, minute or two Of
time at a setting would recover
a bushel of wheat, otherwise
wasted.
There are about $4,000 farmers
in the state, and if farmers would
contribute on an average one
| bushel each, no one would feel
the sacrifice and the boys at
the agricultural college would
1 have a safe and comfortable plac
/, to live while attending school.
The boys certainly are entitled
to a dormitory. The farmers
should have demanded! it years
ago. Their children while away
attending school at the agricu1-
tural college, should. be properly
housed.
The boys feel the need of q
! dormitory and have effected an
organization to secure one in
! this way, having faith in the
generosity and good will of the
farmers generally.
Y It may be argued that the fund
should be appropriated by the
legislative assembly, which lis
true; but even then the money
would come out of taxes to which
farmers contribute the much larg-
er portion. Every farmer contribu
ing, thereto .e, will be aiding u
generous cause.
The agricultural college Is dis
tinctively an institution operated
primarily in the interests of agri-
culture, the mechanic arts and
their associated sciences. Farm
ers and others desiring to give
their children an education calcu-
dated to meet the demands of
country life and home making,
: fird in this institution special ia
cilities for that purpose. The agri
cultural college can be made the
finest of its kind of any in the
northwest if each farmer will
give it a little personal atten-
ton and make the small personal
sacrifice suggested by the A. c..
boys. Moreover, if the farmers
of the state would agree to con-
tribute, each one bushel of wheat
annually for ten years, while
they would scarcely feel the
sacrifice, it would enable the
agricultural college authorities
Ito build up an institution that
would be in keeping with the
greatest of all Industries, and
which would have q material
bearing upon the future pros
perity Of our state. The best
thing that can be said Of this
plan is that it would not conflict
with the interests Of any other
educational institution.
Many of the great educational
institutions Of the country have
been built up and are largely sus-
tanned by private donations.
/ Farmers, however, have never yet
acquired the habit. Of making do
nations for permanent improve
ments having q direct bearing
upon their own great industry,
but such great things can be ac-;
complishedl BY each one contribut
ing = trifle just the price Of
one bushel Of wheat annually
that 4 = = idea should bear fruit
without question. The agricul-
stnral college boys have organized
.a movement entirely credifabae
ingiil lself and one that should apss
peal to every farmer in the
stat En- luba aIlce it means
that ths dornii4 tory The boys ask