The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1914-08-18
BERGH STUDIES OLD
WORLD METHOD

Crookston, Mimi, Aug. 18.-Otto I.
Bergh, agronomist of the Northwestern
Experimental station, was one of the
fortunate European tourists who re-
turned before the war broke out. Mr..
Bergh, who has been assigned to the
experimental station at Grand Rapids,
combined his honeymoon trip with
| business and visited over two scores of
experimental stations in European
countries.
He first visited the experimental sta
tion and dairy school at KilmarnoCk,
Ayrshire, the home county of Robert
Burns, where he says, some splendid
work has been done along dairy lines.
This is the home of the famous Ayr
shire breed of cattle, which is popular
in many sections of the northwest. He
next proceeded to Edinburgh, where he
visited the famous Botony East-Barnes
gardens near Dunbar, managed by
Harry Hope, a member of the British
parliament. The experimental work
done there has been of the greatest
benefit not only to that section, but to
the world in general
Potatoes and Pasture.
Mr.. Bergh was impressed with a po-
tatO experiment of which he learned at
that point. The potatoes were raised
on the sandy soils near the Irish sea.
They were sprouted two weeks before
being planted. The farmers are paid
5000 an acre in the field, the buyers
paying for the digging and the farm
ers only being asked to haul the pota-
toes to market. This gives them a
splendid profit.
Next Mr.. Bergh visited Newcastle.
England, where he inspected the Cookie
park experimental farm, where a spe-
ctalty is made of grading and fertilizer
for pastures. He next visited New
Hamburg, where he inspected the bot
anic gardens and exposition, where a
speciality is made of raising economic
crops and fruits in parks for exhibit
purposes. He spent some time at the
experimental station at Lynjley, Dem
Near this place is the famous dairy
farm operated by Gruth Hansen. Mr..
Hansen has a herd of 160 Red Danish
COWS which are noted all over Europe.
Mr.. Bergh next visited Sweden, where
he looked over the plant breeding sta
tion at Svalof. Some of the best Varie-
ties of oats, barley, peas and sugar
beets have been bred there.
He next visited the Aas experimental
station in Norway and from there went
to the exposition at Christiania. He
was especially interested in the exhibit
and results Of experimental work on
marsh and peat lands. The work done
there, he says, has been going on for
liable for application on the peat lands
of northern Minnesota. He went to
Are and Stockholm, and near the latter
visited the central experimental sta
tion of Sweden.
At Home of Kaiser.
From there he went to Berlin, Dres-
| den, Leipsic, Halle, Castle, Frankfort,
| Metz and down the Rhine to Cologne.
where he visited another exposition
| then to Leige and Ostende, at present
! battle SCARED but at that time in the
midst of harvesting. He then crossed
over to England and visited the ex-
perimental station at Harpenden. This
| station was established In 1884 and
has maintained continuous work. From
| there he proceeded to Liverpool, where
| he sailed for America two days before
| war was declared.
He returned on the Arabic, which
| the second day out was passed by the
| Olympic, which was chased by a Ger
man cruiser. The Arabic sailed under
the English colors, but had a German
captain. When news of the declara-
tion of war was received by wireless
he was asked what he would do II
overtaken by German cruiser. What
would 1 do?" he exclaimed. why,
| turn the hose on the whole bunch anC
continue on my way"