The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1916-03-09
bulletin OF TESTS ISSUED ~
NORTH DAKOTA STATE Ex.
PERTINENT STATION.
ITEMS FROM STATE CAPITOL
slsmarek Letter Giving Important
and Interesting News Of Officials
and Departments Of North
Dakota Government.
Bismarck

The losses to North Dakota in soil
fertility through the %by-products Of
milling which are shipped out of the
state and of which very little finds it,
way back to the state, is shown in q
bulletin Of tests made by DR.. E. F..
Ladd, head of the chemical depart.
ment of the North Dakota experiment
station. The tests have covered q
period from 1907 to 1914, inclusive.
These tests have brought out the facts
that If North Dakota produces for the
market 100, 600, 900 bushels of wheat
q year, there is annually lost to the
estate through loss of the b%y-products
OF screenings, bran and shorts vast
amounts of the important ingredients
OF the soils fertility. Cali this ferti.
LIKING material should be retained in
the state and returned to the land"
Prof. Ladd says.
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Value of Farm Products $327,073, 900.
For some time 1t has been known
that North Dakota led all the other
agricultural states In the matter OF
the five principal grains for the year
1915, but 1t remains for the Nebraska
state board of agriculture to go a step
further and make a recapitulation OF
all the agricultural production includ.
ing live stock.
For instance, the total value of all
products of the farm gives North Da.
kota 1927, 073, 900, while the nearest
competitor, South Dakota rambles q.
long with only $310,691, 900. Nebraska
Is next, and then comes Iowa, Kansas,
Minnesota, Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana,
Missouri and Texas.
In the matter of grain crops, this
report gives 1912 for every man, wo-
mar and child in North Dakota, or
over $1.0O a day for each inhabitant.
The leading crops are valued at
$191,153,Oo0, thus showing that with
less than half of the plowable land
under cultivation the state has much
to be proud of.
The live stock statistics show I'M
exceedingly well, when 1t is taken in.
to consideration that North Dakota
has only been doing extensive farm.
Ing for approximately five years.
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Future Of az" Is Briuht.
Dr.. Ladd, president of the Agricul.
tural college, upon assuming direction
OF the school issued the following
statement: Il still remain as head of
the department of chemistry and food
commission, but for the present shall
devote my energies largely to develop,
Ing the work in the college, leaving
the detail routine work now fully ia
my associates"
DR.. Ladd said there lies before the
officers Of the school a splendid ~.
portunity for constructive work, a big.
ger and better Agricultural college,
and with all forces unlted, there should
be nothing to longer %dishearten the
splendid corps of workers who have
labored so faithfully in the years past
to lay the foundation for a great edu.
cational institution.
II ask all to give me their support at
this time" concluded the appointee.
that we may be successful in our
efforts to build a great college, OF
which all may be proud"
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Dakota ~" Head Removed.
John H. Worst, for the past twenty.
one years president Of the North Da.
kota Agricultural college at Fargo.
has been removed by the state
board of regents, and r. f. Laid.
state pure food commissioner, chosen
to succeed. Worst's retirement is as.
cribed to dissension within the col.
lege faculty.
DR.. Laid will reorganize the college
along the lines desired by President
Worst.
The board also placed the director
Of the experimental station under the
control Of the president which will
give him absolutely full control of the
whole institution. The action taken
by the board is expected to put the
college back on Its former basis and