Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-04-11
Williams County Seeks Place
on D III Butter Map Clubs Take
Up Campaign |
1900. ME- Dairy Inspection
Trip Shows Spirit Of The
. Movement
BY W. p. Kerkwood "c0untry Life,"
Writer in Minneapolis Journal.

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Williams county, North Dakota ;
you're heard of it. possibly. If. you
have not. you are rather SUR to be-
fore long. Williams, county is away
out Oh the western border Of NORTH
Dakota, just where you jump off into
Montana, but it is going to loom
larger and larger on the horizon be-
cause it is organizing to do things iu
an agricultural way--in a lare agricul'
tuyal way. So it will pay to watch
Williams county.
The Journals correspondent was
fcornered by three Of it's energetic
business men a short time ago in the
rooms of the Commercial club a,
EGrand Forks. The trio had come al
'Fthe way across the state to attend
he Grand Forks agricultural achieve
meat" banquet. They had beer
achieving ont in Williams county, ant
thought it was up to them to do a bit
Of Celebrating with tAe rest Of the
! state. All of this is but another way
Of saying that Williams county has
llready been doing things, and wish
esp the world to know about it. The
men told the Journal man all
! about it and now what they told us
! is being passed on in order to help
! other counties to see that it pays to
| get together and to pull together for
| the common good. o.- -.
The First Step, Organization.
What Williams county. Ncrth Da'
| kota is doing in an agricultural way
| has been brought to an effective pass
| through the organization of the Will
!iams County Better Farming associa-
! ton. This was created July /, 1913.
less than a year ago by a coed mar
gin. Fl. A. Nelson of Ray is the pres.
dent. The directorate is made up Of
three members from each of the five
county. commissioner districts, AID
IN the board are the five commission
ers. A splendid idea. this, of getting
The county commissioners right into
the game. w., ,s, IS" ...
Every farmer il tho county, who
c%o-operates with the field agent. by
so doing becomes a member OF the
association. Every business man OF
he county and every non.reside nt
who owns land therein. may become a
member BY paying a fee Of 81. AID
most of the business men of the
county are members of the associa-
ton. The field agent is f. W. Hall.
twenty-five County Clubs.
" MI S;pct cton fOHnS, WAC RI 0rpQn-
lza as many neighborhood or COM
munity- clubs. as possible. Co.opera-
ton among farmers, and between far
mers and business men was desired.
The business me1 OF the various
owns already had their organizations.
Corresponding organizations must be.
had among the farmers il order to
secure such effective cooperation as
waseneedcd. The plan worked. The
county now has Is community clubs.
any many of their members have
also Joined the commercial clubs of
he neighboring towns. The commun'
'ty clubs give much attention to the
woman's side of farm life. Altogeth
er, then, the people OF Williams coun-
ty are working u;itedly. -...
: TO have accomplished so much
would have been a. credit. even hat
nothing more been dome in the nine
months since the movement was start.
I'd. But more has been dole.
4. High Aims in Dairying.
In the first place a definite aim as
to the type Of farming best suited tc
Williams county has been set-to
make the county 'the leading dairy
md dive~HA farming community IN
Tho northwest" A high aim to be
sure, but it will not do to say that ii
is impossible Of achievement.
, To make a start, tc give the plan
l real soFd-off, the Better Farming
association planned ald carried out a
Dairy Inspection Trip" Of 1000 miles
through Minnesota and Wisconsin, In
order that so farmers, members OF
he 2j community clubs, might see
dairying at its best, and the efforts
upcn agriculture of livestock on the
farm. The farmers, in other words
were Shown" They knew they could
grow corn and alfalfa. That had
been proved. We'll then, with corn
sad alfalfa, they could do the things
Minnesota and Wisconsin vel doing
in dairying. Moreover, they could de-
velop the pork industry as an adjutct.
Twelve carloads of hogs were shipped
from Tioga, Williams county. alone
year. The farmers went back en-
thusiastic. OF those who made the
trip % Oh returning became members
of the commercial club of Will!ston.
the thriving county seat.
Buying BIoodec Stock. :
Bit there were special effects Of.
another sort as well. The Cotton
wood Lake club bought 8 pure.bred
sires and two cows of the
dual purpos, type. And the bankers
Of the county announced that they
stood ready to assist in the business
Of building up the dairy herds of the
by aiding like importations.
Another effect Of the organizations
work mas been seen in a multiplied
ion of silos on the farms. Tioga and
already have ten Of these
profitable feed storage plants. and not i
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