The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-06-09
(From Hoard,s Dairyman.l

Il N&ANIA A@OGAN AAAA hANAAsy
We understand that you are try
Ing to get a county agent for Jeffer-
SON county, and we want to warn you
to be mighty careful what you do. We
have been through 1t here and car
speak from experience, for the Bloom
ington Chamber Of Commerce conduc-
ted a similar campaign in 1915"
These were the opening sentences
of a letter received by w. D. James
president of the Jefferson county
Wis, Farmers and Business Mems as
ISOLATION, from G. G. Creighton, sec
rotary OF the Bloomington, Ind, Cham
Der Of Commerce.
How would such statement hit you
II you were trying to put the thing
across in your county and wanted the
right kind of publicity?
None-the-less the letter is excellent,
and it is a pleasure to pass it on to
the big family of Hoards Dairyman
readers with the hope that 1t may
prove as enjoyable reading to them as
1t was to the editors when given to
them by Mr.. James. Mr.. Creighton
continues as follows:
I'VE had to walt until September,
1916, before we could find a man to
take the job and then they sent us a
man who was raised right down here
in the next county, who had been a
farmer all his life except for the little
time he spent over at Purdue univer-
sity trying to learn how to farm out
of books. He is only a young chap
anyhow, and lots of Monroe county
men have been farming longer than he
has.
HE has been here now all of eight
months and not a single farmer that
has listened to him is working any
harder than he did before. He has even
got one Of our yuonger farmers to
spend lot Of money to buy farm
tractor and plow his land with that in
stead of in the good old fashioned way
with team. That farmer has been
playing around with his new blowing
machine until he has his own farm all
plowed and is running around all over
his neighborhood blowing for his
friends and neighbors.
"The county agent has even been
getting some Of our farmers to quit
feeding their hogs two or three times
a day and has induced some of them
to build wooden contraption he calls
a self feeder and pile into it enough
feed to last three or four days and
then to let the pigs feed themselves
That is no way to work on farm.
What is the farmer going to do IL the
hogs are made to wait on themselves?
that the pigs will put on more weight
at less cost than by the old plan.
HE persuaded one farmer to plant
about 20 acres in corn and soy beans
and to spend some good money in hay
ing the seeds inoculated (whatever
that lisp. When the crop was ready to
gather (and 1t did happen to be good
one) he persuaded that poor man to
let it stay right there in the field and
turn a drove of hogs in on 1t. They
just literally ate it up. What's the use
OF planting crop If you are going to
let the hogs eat it without gathering
it at all? The farmer and the county
agent both claim to have figures to
prove that the crop brought more
money that way than it would have
brought If IL had been properly har-
vested. They have got a lot Of other
farmers, who watched the demonstra-
ton, to believing the same thing and
they have just about carried off the
whole field to use it in inoculating
their own ground. We saw one dealer