The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1914-02-04
GRAND FORKS CONVENTION SIGN OF
new ORDER IN THINGS AGRICULTURAL
Minneapolis Journal Special Writer Shows Advantages
Offered by North Dakota Corn and Clover Week.
Red River Valley T aking on New Ideas.

According to W. p. Kirkwood,
Country Life editor of the Minneapo-
lis Journal, the North Dakota Corn
and lover convention inc mid-winter
fair presages a new method in farm
development. Mr.. kirkwood has spent
the greater part of the past month in
touring the northwest, and consider
able of that time has been to North
Dakota. Last week, he attended the
Farmers institute at Grafton and
spent some little time in Grand Forks.
Writing of the Corn and Clover con-
vention in yesterdays edition Of the
Journal, he says:
In its North Dakota corn and clover
convention and mid-winter fair, which
opened here Monday, Grand Forks
believes 1t has reduced the short
course" for the farmer to.ra science.
IN other words. those who are pro:
Grand Forks district Of the North
Dakota Better Farming association,
and the Grand Forks Commercial
club-believe that in their convention
and fair they get 9 maximum of edu-
cational value and q minimum of
educational waste.
Grand Forks Believes in 1t,
You can get no other opinion from
any n in Grand Forks. Fred l..
Goodman, president. and d. v. Moore,
secretary Of the Grand Forks County
Agricultural society. both tell the
same story-,"we have the best con.
Q. .. Center, field agent for the Grand
Forks district of the North Dakota
Better Farming association. nov a
section Of the rural service depart
ment of the North Dakota college of
agriculture, and u man who does
things. seconds the opinion of Mr..
Goodman and Mr.. Moore. And NJ. G.
staff. afterward secretary Of the
Grand Forks County Agricultural So
ciety, and now an officer in one of
Grand Forks leading financial insti-
t%utions. is jubilant yer the growth
and the increasing success. of this
mid-winter institution. 1t was he
who gave the convention the~strong
Of those who are now fostering 1t.
Much Glass Room Work.
The emphasis In the Grand Forks
convention is on instruction OF the
class room kind. It is not a hurrah-
boys affair at all. There are no rhe-
torical py%rotechnics connected with 1t.
The aim Of it-educationally-is to
get at sound agricultural principles,
to quiz the farmers In attendance
in order to find outflow far and with
what success they are following such
principles, to point out to them the
errors OF their ways. In short, in the
class room work Of this convention
instructors and students get right
down to cold hard facts. and such
facts are forced home in plain,
straightforward talk.
Tie Farmers Like II.
Strange to say, the farmers Of the
region like this kind of thing. They
like the meeting Of farmer with farm
err, and farmer with expert, in tits as
to what is best in the theory and
practice Of farming and country life.
Last year those in attendance. came
from seventeen counties in North Da-
kota, from several, other states, and
even from Canada. What is more.
when they got to Grand Forks. they
were willing to pay q registration foe
IN order to secure admission to the
classes. for this Is M free show at
all. The fee is 81 for the week.. or
Is cents for single admissions.
Why So Much About Corn.
Much emphasis 10 being put on corn
not only because Of Its feeding value
to the farmers Of North Dakota, but
because it means 90 much in crop 70.
tation and soil sanitation. The farm
ers who have been growing corn In
Grand Forks county, for instance, will
tell you that last, season their Yields