Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1914-08-13
ANNUAL VISIT
OF TRUSTEES
TRUSTEES OF THE N. D "A. C..
AND EXPERIMENT STATION
VISITED HERE TUESDAY

College Board Of Trustees arrived in
Williston on No. l, the morning OF
August 18th, 1914, to inspect the
= Williston Experiment Station. The
Committee, accompanied by Director
Thomas Cooper Of the Experiment
Station, consisted of Mr.. Kelly Of
Devils Lake; Mr.. Elliott of Fargo;
Mr.. Jenson of Westhope and Mr..
Weigle of Hebron. After Breakfast
ing at the Experiment Station the
party spent the morning in inspecting
the work of the Station and looking
over its needs. The Board of Trustees
are very favorable to Director Coop
er's and Superintendent Ruxicka's de.
sire to make live stock leading part
Of the work on this Station. 1t is pos
sible that a carload Of sheep will be
fed on the Station this fall. At twelve
o'clock the party had lunch and lett
the Station at 1:15 for tour OF part
of the County. Mr.. Rawson, Mr..
Westergaard and Mr.. FAIRIES took the
party in their machines: The first
stop was at Albert Hefelfnger's
farm. The points of interest on this
farm are the silo and the large field
Of corn to fill it, alfalfa in rows and
grading up Of the common cows by
one Of q pure bred Holstein Bull. The
alfalfa in rows has been cut twice and
four loads has been taken off Of the
acre. From Mr.. Heffelfnger's farm
the party went through Springbrook
and directly east to Mr.. A. H.
Sandry's farm, south of Wheelock. Mr..
Sandry has very fine litter Of high
grade Poland China Hogs, which he
is pasturing on alfalfa in rows This
alfalfa has pastured the hogs all sum-
mer and been cut once for hay. He
is growing some flint corn to hog of
as soon as it is ripe. Mr.. and Mrs.
Sandry have one of the finest gar
dens in the county. This garden IS
good even in dry years. From this
point the party went North to Whee-
lock and from Wheelock to Angie and
west from Angie to the Old Manger
Postofice. Here stop was made at
the farms of J. NJ. Greenlund and
Hagen Krabseth. Mr.. Greenlund has
"a very nice piece of green alfalfa in
rows and he is making a good success
of raising small grains. Mr.. Krab-
seth's son has in an acre of Minnesota
% corn, entered in the State Contest.
If the weather holds good until Sep
i, tember, this should make heavy
yield of corn. The Powers Fife Wheat
and SIBERIAN White Oats on this
farm have made good showing this
wear and Mr.. Krabseth will have some
pure seed for sale. The party went
from here down on to The Muddy to
the Chris Arnt farm. Mr.. and Mrs.
Arnt have very fine garden and the
rotation of corn with the small grains
has been very effectual in raising big
ger crop. Mr.. Arnt also has hog
pasture of alfalfa which is taking care
of large number of hogs during this
summer.
~ The party arrived in Williston at
about six-thirty and were entertain
ed at Buhler's Cafe by the CONNER
cial Club for supper. After supper
Mr.. Bruegger acted as toast-master
and called on Director Cooper and Mr..
Kelly of the visiting party for few
remarks. The Directors of the Farm
!. er's Creamery were also present at
supper and Mr.. ,Keltner told the party
a little bit about the plans Of the
creamery and asked for more co OPP
Grafton among the town and country
people: Mr.. Kelly !,,! in his talk was as
enthusiastic over " "IlIduIo OOul1|S
and said that he did not dream that
we had as good land or crops as he
had seen on this trip. He said that
alfalfa, corn and hogs were the first
things for our people to tie to, while
the cattle and horses increased as fast
as our people were able. He is a firm
believer in the Yorkshire Bacon Hog,
(which he raises on his large farm near
Devils Lake. Mr.. Kelly's talk was
very encouraging and made all the
party feel more proud than ever of
Williams County and Williston. The
party left for Dickinson via Sidney
and Glendive at 7:3O the next morn
ing. They are making the rounds Of
ali the sub-experiment Stations in the
), State and came here from the Lang
don Sub-experiment Station. They
all made the statement that our crops
looked better here than in any other
part of the state in which they had
been. .
$4,000, 900 DAILY COST
New York, Aug. lit was esti-
mated today by army and navy ex-
merits that the daily cost of the great
European war, exclusive Of the loss Of
property and lives. will run to $780,