The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-04-29
N. p. RY. TO PROTECT
LIVESTOCK INDUSTRY

A campaign for more and better live
stock in the northwest will be con
Quoted this summer by the Northern
Pacific railway company in the states
in which this company operates. Thu
general plans for this campaign wer'
announced this week by Professor D
E. Willard, development agent of tn
company, who will have charge of thu
work. #t@. u..
The demand for better live stock
both dairy animals and meat animals
Is very great. It has been decided tt
put on a campaign looking toward i'm
provement in the quality of the live
stock kept on the farms and in the
methods of caring for and handling
these animals.
The plan to be pursued this summer
differs materially from any campaign
that has before been followed in the
northwest. A business car will be at
tached to the regular trains operating
over the main lines and branches, and
stops of an entire day will be made al
important farming centers. Meetings
will be held in towns and at school
houses and other points in country dis
tricts. The speakers who will accom-
pany this special car will be men OF
national reputation, specialists in
dairying and livestock husbandry.
On agricultural trains that have been
operated by this company heretofore
livestock and other demonstration ma
terial have been carried on the train
Livestock actually in use on the farms
will be made use of for demonstration
purposes in lieu of carrying livestock
from the experiment station farms on
the trains as heretofore. The good
qualities and defects where these ex.
list in the farmers own livestock will
thereby be able to be pointed out, and
suggestions made as to lines of i'm
provement.
An effort will be made to carry the
gospel of better livestock to the far
mers in their own communities. While
operating this special car, on which
will BE furnished living accommoda-
tons for the staff of speakers, efforts
will be made to study conditions on
the farms in the various communities,
and the speakers will direct their ef-
forts toward solving the problems as
they exist in the different localities
visited. Stops will be made in many
cases at small stations where there
are inadequate or no hotel accommo-
1ations, by this means reaching many
communities that have not before
been reached by farmers Institutes,
or other agencies for advancing the
cause of better agriculture.
The campaign will extend over a
period of nearly three months, and the
general schedule will include portions
Of the territory served by this company
IN Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dako-
Ia, Montana, Idaho and Washington.
Farmers who are interested in secur-
ing better grade of stock for their
farms will be given assistance in To-
eating breeding stock which they can
purchase.
Questions of the care and feeding
Of livestock will be given special at
tention. Meetings with the business
men in the towns will be held as op.
portunity offers, and a wider interest
in promoting and encouraging the
keeping of good livestock on the farm
will be sought to be awakened.
The campaign will open on May 3,
with a weeks schedule on the Duluth
short line and branches. A week will
also be spent on the company's lines
in northern Wisconsin. Points in
Minnesota which have not been re-
Gently reached by agricultural special
trains will be reached in this campaign.
Two weeks will be spent on lines in
North Dakota. Continuing westward,
the campaign will be continued for
three weeks on the company's lines in
Montana, and two weeks in Idaho.
Experience has demonstrated that
the general agricultural train dealing
with all manner of farm topics is less
satisfactory than the campaign which
is devoted to special subjects. This
campaign will therefore be devoted ex
clusively to the development and pro
motion of the livestock industry, par
ticular emphasis being placed on the
subject of dairying.
Fuller announcements of the details
of the campaign and the schedule Of
meetings to be held on the differen
lines will be given later.
NORTH DAKOTAN WINS