The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1915-07-22
FARM EXPERTS OF union
MEET in NORTH DAKOTA

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citation and the Great Plains section OF
the American Society of Agronomy
held their tenth annual meeting
at Mandan last week. This associa-
! ton includes the state and the u. s.
department of agriculture investiga-
tors of the area from North Dakota
and Montana to Texas and New MeUi-
| co. Thomas Cooper, director of the
North Dakota experiment station, is
president of the association and is
presiding at the meetings. w. A. Pet
erson, superintendent of the Great
Plains station at Mandan, is vice pres
ident, and DR.. E. C. Chilcott, of the U.
S. department of agriculture, is secre-
tary.
At the opening of the first session
Mr.. Peterson called attention to the
need of more fruits and trees on the
farms of the northwest, that comfort
on the farm is as important as the
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fort was made at the station to de-
velop fruits and trees that will meet
conditions the best The native fruits
are being grown and selections will be
made of the varieties that prove the
best. The domesticated varieties will
be crossed onto the naive kinds in an
effort to combine the hardness of the
native with the quality of the domesti-
Gated varieties.
w. R. Porter, superintendent of the
North Dakota state demonstration
farms, gave talk on the North Da-
kota system of developing and distrib-
uting the seed of improved strains of
cereals and other crops. The North
Dakota system of inspecting the crops
and selling them in sealed bags has
proved very effective. Before this sys-
tenn was worked out most of the pedi-
gree seed was lost track of and much
of the advantage of these improved
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ing mixed with other strains.
J. A. Clark, formerly with the Dick
inson substation, but now with the U.
S. department of agriculture, gave the
results of an investigation that he had
carried on with Ghirka wheat in North
and South Dakota and Montana. This
is one of the principal wheats grown
in Russia.
DR.. Saunders, cerealist of the do
minion experiment farm of Canada,
gave very interesting talk on the de-
velopment of the Marquis wheat,
; which is now being introduced quite
extensively into North Dakota. The
Marquis wheat is cross between a
Calcutta wheat from India and the red
fife commonly grown in Canada. The
advantages of this wheat is that it
natures about a week earlier that the
fife, does not shell easily, makes a
very good -four and escapes some of
the attacks of rust through being ear
ly. This wheat was developed in 1907
and first distributed to farmers in
1909 and now. it comprises about a.
third of the wheat grown in Canada.
1t yields better than the other wheat.
1t is estimated that it has increased
the wheat yield of western Canada by
five or six million bushels a year.
Dr.. Saunders also originated the
Prelude wheat which ripens three
weeks earlier than the fife. This
wheat is for the northern part of Can
ada, where the other Wheats could not
be ripened.
The meetings are proving very val
table, as the best information avail
able up to date on the cropping and
soil management of the western plains
area are being discussed.
1t means a good deal to North Dako-
ia to have this meeting in the state.
It makes it possible for the county
agents and others to secure the bene-
fits of the latest Investigations.
Texas Gets Next Meeting
At the closing of the great Plains
Cooperative Experience association,
held Friday afternoon, Amarillo, Tex
as, was chosen as the next place of
meeting.
The officers elected were as follows:
President, w. S. Carlyle, Saltwater,
Oklahoma; vice president, Supt. John.
Ross, of U. S. Federal experimental
station, Amarillo; secretary, Prof. K.
C. Chilcott, Washington, chief of the
bureau of plant industry department
of agriculture. The directors includ-
ed the above and T.. A. Burr, Denver;
G.. S. Warburton, Washington and l..
E. Call, Manhattan, Kansas.