Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-06-18
INSTITUTE Was
A BIG SUCCESS
Speakers Gave Talks and Demon.
strated the Fact That Farmers
Should Cooperate.

was a good sized audience and the
conductors said that it vas a meeting
of unusual interest. There was deep
interest and the various subjects
were handled with rapidity, the farm.
ers present kept right up with the
speakers all the time.
Work Of the Day Outlined.
The first speaker, Prof. Waldron,
Of the Agricultural College of Fargo,
outlined the work of the session so
far, as it then was formulated. Prof,
d, Waldron said among other things that
the lawyer or doctor had systems that
their demands and ere exclusive,
but the problems of agriculture were
broad and not yet properly fOrmulat'
ed. But he claimed that great head
way was being made and that farm
ers are now taking hold of these
problems as never before and predict
ed great Roadway in the near future;
that we were approaching a clearly
defined system and scientific methods
were, being used as eve before.
Il Cooperation of the Farmers Union
j., K. Doran was then called upon to
y. explain the work of upbuilding of the
armers' Educational and Cooperative
Union and what interest it had in this
meeting.
In a few words .Ar. Doran explained
how the union had taken up the idea
of the institute and through it's eff.
forts the institute was nd here and
the ideas of the union of the Farmers
Institutes and Experiment Stations
were TO better the condition of 1.-THE
farmer and that while it was duty of
the Institutes to show the farmer
how to grow two bushels of grain
where one is now grown it was the
duty of the Union to erect w%arehous-
es and mills and try and get a better
market for the grain and to reduce
the cost of milling and marketing SO
that more profit would be derived.
That the object OF all were the same
in the last analysis and that close CO.
operation was essential.
The European System Of Agriculture.
DR.. A. G. McBeede was called upon
and explained much of the system of
agriculture of the old country and
how Germany had increased it's yields
by scientific methods and spoke of
the great work of Napoleon in his
Introduction of sugar beet culture
and how the ideas of the Farmers In
stitutes we're correct in principle of
increased yields and showed how the
panic of 1907 was crushed in six days
by the efforts of the holders of wheat
in Duluth and Liverpool.
Relation of Laboratory and Farm.
1T has been said that the place to
learn farming is the farm" Prof.
Waldron said that that statement was
only part true. That the place where
secrets were learned were in the lab
oratory and that the place for the
demonstration was the farm, that it
was the duty of the experiment sta
tons to further develop the ideas and
facts gotten in the schools and labor
atory. That the laws governing plant
food, smuts, willis and many other
things were not learned on the farms
but by research men in the labora-
tories. Eut that this knowledge must
be applied on the farms and that the
state experiment stations and others
were proving out these theories and
that all were gamers thereby.
W. Are Now Systematizing.
Prof. Porter was then introduced
and explained the system of work on
the experiment stations and showed
wherein if a farmer grew a small
crop on the acre he lost money and
where with only slight increase of
cost for threshing, Irvine and hauling
to the elevator he doubled his yield
he far more than doubled his profits.
Rotation and Live Stock Necessary.
Then the question Of rotation, and
live stock on the farm was handled
and the claim was made that a single
crop plan was a final failure while a
proper rotation and live stock was a
success.
Much stress was placed upon corn,
alfalfa and hogs on the farm. Prof.
Porter advises the growing into the
; live stock business and Mr.. Porter
claimed that prevention of hog chol-
era was a necessity and then gave
rules for, prevention and for treat
ment, if the disease was contracted.
Many other subjects were touched
upon briefly and then the ladies had
their inning.
MAKE the Homes Comfortable.
= Miss Veitch of the Institute force
was called upon to talk on the wo-
mans side of farm life. And she
never said a word ABOUT suffrage, but
she did say that. women suffered
many unnecessary inconvenience on
the farm that might be removed cas-
lily and that the Inconvenience had
no right to exist. She then spoke of
the way labor could be lightened and
spoke of n farm she visited and
saw the way the water system was
used in the barn and how every ami
NAL could be watered right where it
stood and yet the wife had to carry
every dropaof water used at the house
from this same system in the barn.
Those who have been attending in
stitutes for years had a revelation at
this meeting -in-the way the women
were interested In years past the
women were either absent or ~listless
members of the audience. But such
was not the case in this institute.
Why this change is so great may have
several reasons but it, also, may be
that the active work of t. ladies in
the local farmes' union may have
aroused them much and gotten them
Interested. Ee that as it may they
are now interested.
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