The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1915-01-20

The Fargo auditorium is going to
be taxed to the utmost OF its great
capacity before the week is ended to
hold the crowds that are flockins to
the State convention meetings.
At the morning session today the
main floor of the auditorium was I'LL
ed to capacity and there was many
| in the gallery. II was undoubtedly the
largest crowd that has ever attended
forenoon session of the Tri- State
| convention.
Some of the afternoon and evening
sessions will prove the need of this
big building 10 adequately house the
assemhIaae.
During the night and this morning
a number of farmers arrived from
western Minnesota and various parts
North Dakota, greatly augumentinG
/ tho attendance. The greaterr number
| OF the farmers here by far are going
to remain for the entire program,
They are finding the program this
year one of the most interesting and
beneficial that has ever been present
| ed during the seventeen years that
this great convention has been held.
| When Pres. John II. Worst called
| the meeting to order this morning the
| big auditorium was well hlled. The
| first speaker introduced was Charles
J. Brand. chief Of the office OF mar
kets and rural organizations OF the de-
partment Of agriculture at Washing
| ton. d. &.
Mr.. Brand spoke upon the subject
of Marketing and Rural Credit pro
blems of the American farmer. his
| address was highly interesting and
| in it he outlined what the department
| of agriculture is doing to assist the
farmers of the country in handling
this most important OF subjects.
In his talk Mr.. Brand called atten-
ton to some of the clumsy methods
by which the farm products get to the
consumer; of the improvement that is
being made in marketing conditions
by farmers cooperative organizations;
of the great increase in the number
of farmers cooperative organizations
and the increasing amount OF market
ing that they are doing and of the
value of the parcels post IN the mar
keting problem.
Among other things Mr.. Brand re-
commended the establishment OF
slaughter houses in communities,
either privately or municipality owned.
He said that this is being done more
and more over the country and instead
of shipping the cattle to the large
packing houses the animals for mar
1 ket were being slaughtered in these
local houses.
Mr.. Brands address in full will be
published in a later issue OF The
Forum.
President Perisho Speaks.
There were only two addresses
scheduled for this morning the second
speaker being Pres. Ellwood G. Pertsho
| of the South Dakota state college who
spoke to the farmers of the convention
on the subject of Practical ConserVa-
ton for the Farmer
In opening his address President
Perisho said that he brought to the
farmers in the convention the greet
| ings of every farmer of South Dakota
and the greetings Of the faculty and
students OF the South Dakota agrl-
cultural college. His address through
out was of especial interest and ap-
pears in full under separate head IN
this issue of The Forum.
The Program This Afternoon.
The program this afternoon was ad-
hered to as had been advertised. The
first speaker being President Fred w.
Smith of the state school OF forestry
at Bottineau, n. ID.
In part President Smiths address,
which will be published in full in The
Forum at later date, was as follows:
when the pioneers came from the
eastern timbered country to the open
prairies of the west they planted
groves and wind breaks for the pur-
pose of protecting themselves from
the wintry blasts and many sections
of our western states are so provided
now. ..r.. r.
In Europe. however, more attention
is paid to planting wind breaks than
is paid to the matter in this country.
The interior steppes of Russia, under
conditions very similar to those of
our prairies, are extensively planted
with windbresks and shelter belts to
protect the. crops from drifting sand.
THE action of windbreaks depend
upon many factors. Among these are
sunlight, soil moisture, mechanical
| force of the wind and a number of
other things, all of which have to be
taken into consideration in dealing
with this question"
The speaker dealt with sunlight and
the necessity of sunlight to growing
crops He showed what percentage
the crops were cut by being shaded
| by these windbreaks and showed how
| this could be reduced by planting GER
tain crops, which required less light,
along the shaded portion of the field
! In going about the state have