The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-01-20
ray headed-just as you did 50 years

gray headed-just as you did 80 years
ago.
II heard the speaker that preceded
me say something about the power of
public sentiment, the power of an
understanding on the part OF the peo-
pie. He said if the people OF the state
of North Dakota, or any other state,
We're organized and knew what they
wanted, they had a good chance to
get it. Now let's see how 1t will work
out here. Suppose the state of North
Dakota had q -four mill, and a termin-
al elevator somewhere in the state and
that this flour mill and elevator. own
ed by the state, so that all the people
had an interest in ii, was grinding
couple of hundred barrels of flour a
day and was proving conclusively that
they could take feed d wheat and
grind out of 1t about two dollars worth
OF all products. A state institution was
actually doing that, and the people of
North Dakota and South Dakota and
Montana and other states knew about
1t. They read about 1t. They could load
up some in a boz car and send it
down there and have 1t ground and
sent back to them, the same as YOU
did at this little mill in Minnesota. Do
you suppose the Minneapolis millers
could continue WY long then, to pay
you 75 cents for wheat that is worth
$1.75?
Mr. Town1ey then went into the pro-
gram in this state in which he dealt
with the proposed terminal elevator.
He said that it was not the plan to lay
one penny of tax upon the people of the
state for the building of the terminal,
but that It is the plan to bond the state
for the terminals and Touring mills
that It is proposed to construct and
operate.
He also went into the subject of the
ofo 70 hind nj Tf NJ
tertiary in which he said that bonds
had been issued for the establishment
of this industry. He said that at that
time there was nothing said about the
constitutionality of the movement-but
that it was done anyway. This plant
has been operating about fifteen years"
said the speaker, "and anyone will
agree that It has been selling twine at
twines."
The speaker closed by calling atten-
tion to the work being done by the leg
t the fact A That i the iegislators cannot
do everything, that they must have the
sent them to the statehouse.
The Barberry Resolution.
Probably one of the most far reach
ing resolutions adopted by the conven-
ton was that in which the Legislatures
of the. states of North and South Da-
kota and Minnesota have been asked
to pass legislation for the eradication
OF the barberry, which science has
found to be one of the worst spreaders
of rust.
The resolution adopted by the con-
vention is in full as follows:
Whereas, II has been the common ex-
perience of farmers for hundreds of
years that wheat and other cereals are
apt to be more seriously injured by rust
and hedges; and whereas, at has been
demonstrated by the most accurate
scientific work that the black stem rust
of wheat, other cereals, and grasses de-
spring, producing countless numbers of
minute spores which may be carried
long distances by the wind to wheat,
other cereals, and grasses. therefore,
be 1t resolved by the Tri-State Grain
and Stock Growers association that we
request the Legislative assembly of each
of the three states particularly repre-
scented by this organization, namely
Dakota, Immediately to enact such a
law as will a. effectively prevent fur
Their planting of all species of the bar
berry and related bushes which support
the back stem rust, and CD make such
further provision as will completely
eradicate all such bushes as are now
growing. a. ~
proceeding on the part of all cereal and
forage producing states and adjacent
Canadian provinces where barberrtes
are found to bear the spring (AectaD
stage of the black stem rust; and we
request that the United States depart
ment of'agriculture take all such steps
as may be necessary to make G)
thorough investigation of the life-his-
tory of the black stem rust in all its
phases, and (2) a complete survey OF
the distribution of the various species
of barberry and Of other plants in their
relation to the development and spread
of this disease Of cereal grains ana
grasses.
Be it further resolved that q copy of
these resolutions be spread upon the
minutes of this association, and th1.t
the secretary of the association be in
structed to send copies to the speaker
of the house of representatives and the
president of the senate of each of these
three states and to the secretary OF ag-
Most Successful Convention.
without a doubt the convention
which closed yesterday was the most
successful in the eighteen years that
the association has met. The attend
ance was excellent, probably q greater
percentage of farmers being present
than ever before.
there were few instances where sched-
uled speakers could not be present.
This necessitated little change in the
program. There was a diversity of
discussion, all on live topics, the sub
ject of marketing and farm economies
taking leading place on the program.
Pres. c. B. Waldron has received
many compliments for the excellence of
the program and the manner in which
he and Sec. w. c. Palmer carried off
the convention was a matter that
pleased everyone present.
The 1917 Tri-State Grain Growers