The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-06-09
County Agent Fooled En- !" Into
Lots Of Things and They Made Good

|, yesterday that told us he had actually
sold over so bushels OF soy beans at
81 bushei to be used in the same
way. II that kind of work keeps up.
what Is going to be left for the farmer
to do except ride around having a
good time on his blowing machine,
watching his crops grow, and then
seeing them eaten up and ruined right
in the field by his hcgs.
Mr.. County Agent is always run
ming around over the county, wearing
out our roads with his Ford, and talk
ing about the high cost Of cattle feed
and balanced rations.' He has persu-
AIDED about 10 to 100 of our very best
farmers to quit buying bran and shorts
that cost 12c to 15c for the protein
content and to use distillers grains
that they can buy for about SC. He has
even got a lot Of farmers wasting two
or three hours Of their time testing
seed corn to see IL 1t viii grow. He has
carried off samples OF soil from more
than a hundred farms and had it
tested and claims that nearly, every
one of them is acid. One farmer has
gotten so worked up over 1t that he is
actually buying a machine to grind
limestone for his fields. A lot of farm
ers have spent money this year for
formaldehyde to treat their seed oats
Tor Smut anu LHSlE SeSu pOIdCOeS LOT
scab and dry rot. He's nervy young
men to plant a few rows, right in the
middle of their field. with untreated
seed and claims that they will be able
to see the difference.
THE crazy Indian does do some of
the most outlandish things. He actual
ly persuaded one Of our younger farm
ers to buy a whole big, solid carload
of drain tile and actually bury it clean
out of sight in the middle of one of
his fields. Just naturally going to spoil
that nice piece Of wet ground and
then the poor farmer will have to work
just that much more land. His latest
stunt was to get whole lot of men
in the county to enter what he calls a
'fve-acre corn contest to see which
can raise the most corn at the least
cost. He has even arranged to give
hundred dollars to the man who wins.
Next thing, I guess, he will be paying
a man to wash his face.
THE young scalawag hasn't been
satisfied to poster the men folks with
all sorts of new ideas but has even
gone after the boys and girls. Last fall
he had over 400 boys out in the fields
gathering seed corn and thinking they
were doing something, because, as he
said, they could then see whether the
corn came from a good. healthy stalk,
whether there was more than one ear
to the stalk. and lot of other such
talk. They actually gathered three
hundred and eighty odd bushels Of the
seed corn. Nothing would do then but
that they must bring 1t to Blooming
ton and clutter up the court house for
three days while an expert judged 1t
so that the boys might carry home
lot Of prizes given by the merchants
of the town. Guess he will soon be
paying them to eat. At the same time,
he had lot of the girls wasting lot
of good flour and such truck baking
loaves of bread so that they might
also win a few prizes.
HE now has 20 boys in the county
who have worried their dads until they
got a young brood SOW given to them
He has promised to send some Of them,
who make the best records, over to
Purdue to waste a week or two taking
a short course in farming. They ought
to know enough about farming as 1t is
for they were all raised right on one.