Grand Forks daily herald., 1914-11-05

from attempting sudden revolution
While he has shipped in two car loads
or stock and distributed them at cost,
he advises the farmers to grow into
the business gradually-and not to
rush into pure breeds. .
The Notable Increase in Farmers
Clubs.
Perhaps the most interesting ex-
per1ence-bar none-of the Winnipeg
visitors was their participation in a
semi-monthly meeting Of one of the
scores OF farmers clubs which have
been organized as a result Of the work
OF the Better Farm association. Incl
dentally, the participation included a
fried chicken dinner OF Lucullian de-
liciousness and Brobdingnagian plen-
ty.
B. c. Keihl Of Williston, presid ent
OF this club, Interestingly outlined the
work being done. Anywhere from
fifteen to twenty-five families unite
In their local clubs-meeting for a
half day once or twice a month, ac-
cording to seasonal business. Pro-
grams are OF a practical sort, cover
ing matters of production. marketing
or general community welfare. Co.
operative shipping and buying meth
DDS are being gradually worked out.
There are now about forty local mar
keting organizations in connection
Vail IHe many ScOIeS Ol IdTIIlcES CLUBS
in the state. With regard to purchas-
ing, the eminently good rule is almost
invariably followed Of giving every
opportunity to local storekeeperS to
fill the joint orders. The store keep.
ers are realizing that they can afford
to fill big cash order at materially
lower price than host of smaller
charge Orders-and are successfully
competing with the mail order houses.
fpi f0t
countryside are conformity tackling
these problems Of farming and Of
business. The old antagonisms are
lessening-to the economic betterment
Of all concerned.
The Commercial club of Williston
entertained the party to dinner after
their days motoring tour. the chair
cutting attorney for the county. Him
self farmer he had at first been
skeptical of the new movement, but
he had found it was helping the COM
munity--as a dividend-payer to farm
ers and business men. and as a home
building and citizen making influence.
Demonstration Work of Railway
Companies.
Returning to Grand Forks, the
partys final motor tour was made in
that vicinity. The work of the demon
stration farm Of the International
Harvester company was observed in
some detail. Just outside the city
there is 480-acre tract in charge Of
j. G. Haney, who is superintendent
for the northwestern division of the
company's extension department. Sit
ton work done with alfalfa and crop
rotation Is in plain view. In the win
ter time Mr.. Haney addresses scores
Of farmers institutes on the results
obtained by improved methods
Throughout almost the entire tri;
through North Dakota, the party was
privileged in having with it. in addi-
ton to Thos. Cooper of the Better
Farming association. Prof F. r.
Crane, agricultural extension agent Of
the Great Northern. and R. f. Murray,
agricultural extension agent of the
Northern Pacific railway. All along
the former company's lines, in various
states. demonstration work is being
conducted on tive-acre plots. These
are chosen on the lands Of good rep
resentative farmers who are paid to
Cranes men-and are also given the
proceeds of the crop. A certain
amount Of educative field work is
also done-particularly in such coun-
ties as have not vet been organized
under the Better Farming association,
illustrating Necessity Of Plant
Feeding.
On the farm of j. D. Bacon, the
Winnipeg visitors had good oppor-
tunity of seeing some Of the practical
results of experiments carried out by
L. l.. Oldham, the local agricultural
agent of the Great Northern. Par.
ticularly interesting were highly sue
cessful results from specially cult.
waiting a bit of alkali land, which
hitherto had been practically worth
less. Scientific soil diagnosis with ex.
act prescription of plant food (togeth.
er with improved cultivation) is the
inodus operandi followed by Prof
| Crane--and some remarkable in.
creases in yield from application OF
commercial fertilizers were instanced
However, the use of such fertilizers
by farmers generally is not recon.
mended at this stage: rather. they are
told how to get equivalent plant food
together with necessary humus. from
the growing of legumes and the appli-
cation Of farm manures.