Grand Forks daily herald., 1914-11-05
CA lD'Ay EDITOR WRITES OF TRIP
: RECENTLY MADE THROUGH THIS STATE
s. R. Tarr of Canadian Finance Gives Interesting Ac-
count of Better Farming Work as He Viewed it
Tells of Bacon's Farm.

| increasing corn acreage and lessenlnS
fallows as stock increases. In some
cases q three-year rotation is being
tried: sweet clover (once a despised
weed) and flint corn Ito be hogged
DOWN, followed by grain. Boys corn
growing contests and boys camps (for
shOrt-course inStruction--are prom
inent features; of the work-as also
are the dozens of farmers clubs or
gani@ed. a Minot banker by the name
Of NJ. r. Porter. last year put up money
to buy sows to be cared for by corn
growing boys throughout the county.
One ur them has made $1O0 on the
litter raised. and the idea is sprea ding
like wild fire. E..
Prizes are also put up by the bank
ers and others to encourage the boys.
Through their boys. scores OF farmers
are being reached who themselves
We're Indifferent to the Better Farming
associations work.
CHIEF Office in Motor Car.
From fifty to one hundred miles
travel day is Mr.. Peck's usual rou-
tine. one Saturday month he plans
to stay in each town, meeting farmers
on the street or in the town hall. His
| own chief Office is under his hat" in
his ubiquitous little Ford. While print
ed monthly bulletins and mimeOgraph
circulars are sent out. their use is to
supplement, not take the place of per-
sonal contact. The Club News is a
medium for keeping units in touch
and will probably become an organ
ultimately for Il federation of clubs.
At the comfortable farm home Of
a. II. Thomas nf Deering. N. D., the
visitors had n made on the farm re-
past that will he a pleasant memory
for all time. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
alike bore testimony to the helpful
ness of the field agents work and to
the broadening benefits derived from
their farmers club. This is the third
year Of increased cooperating on this
farm, and the owner is emphatic as to
being money in pocket. Where ten
! to thirteen bushels of wheat were got
from adjacent fields this year, his
yield despite rust conditions) brought
seventeen bushels on corn land and
! twenty-five bushels on summer fall
| low. Had the season turned out nor
| NAL the Yield would have been thirty
five he is sure. AS the difference in
cost between ordinary cultivation and
| the cultivation advanced by the asso-
citation averages only about $1.60 per
acre, it will be seen that the effort is
| we'll worth while.
Farmers Led to Work Out Own
Salvation.
Major Perchon. banker and sue
| ceSSi vi udlIH ldTHleT, mas Deen d
source Of strength to the movement
around Minot. He admitted that the
associations work was at first regard
ed with suspicion by many farmers,
| but had noted marked growth in
confidence. Farmers are ready to
copy-even if they sometimes are not
ready to give credit to the source of
their inspiration. One silo begets an
other Both Major Perchon and his
fellow banker. NJ. r. Porter. had found
it advisable for business men not to
seem to prominent in the work Of the
movement After getting the first i'm.
petus it is we'll for the farmer to work
out his own salvation as much as pos.
sible.
Williston was the third stop for the
Winnipeg investigators. 1t is in the
newsstand driest-part of the state
Irrigation is being gradually extended
and a state experimental sub-statior
is doing good work in demonstrating
both dry farming and irrigation meth.
DDS. But this work had very limited
results among the farmers until E. w
Hall, the Better Farming associations
field agent, took information right tt
the farmer on his farm. In little
over a year he has won the confidence
of all and the active cooperation o.
scores of farmers. In c. Fl. Ruzicka
superintendent of the sub-station, hi
has capable and enthusiastic ally.
THE association is good thing te
punch us up" pithily said H. ]. Poe
a. pioneer of the district. After years
OF wheat growing solely, Mr.. Poe sow.
ed alfalfa this spring. He is also
growing corn and acquiring live stock
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