The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1918-07-18
SPLENDID MEETING
0FLIVEST0CK MEN

The Barnes County Pure Bred Live
Stock Association held it's annual
meeting and bankuet Wednesday eve
| ming, at the Kindred Hotel. Forty
| five members of this association, all
boosters for more and better live
stock in the county, met for the pur-
pose of becoming better acquainted
and for the purpose of stimulating
good fellowship among the members
Of the association and also for the
purpose of stimulating greater in.
, terest in live stock production, which
they believe is necessary for produc.
tive and continuous farming.
An excellent three course dinner
was served at 7:30. While the mem
bers of the association enjoyed their
after dinned smoke they listened tc
an excellent program furnished by the
mmbers and by outside talent. T. x
Calnan, who acted as POSTMASTER
first called on Mayor Moe, of Valley
City, who welcomed the live stock
breeders to the city and assured them
that the city would cooperate with
the live stock breeders of the county
in any way possible to encourage and
promote the live stock business in
the county. Mr. Moe told of new en-
terprises that would be developed in
Valley City to keep abreast with the
development of the country. He en-
phasized the Importance of the larger
cities in the state and county develop
ing their enterprises to meet the
growing conditions of the rural dis
tricts. Mayor Moe said that prob
ably within the next year the park
area of Valley City would be increas-
ed in size and equipped SO that it
would furnish excellent meeting plac-
es for county enterprises. To meet the
demands of the country he suggested
that there would probably be midget
flour mill established at Valley City
and also a concrete factory and flax
fiber mill.
]. C. Hoke, who was formerly en-
ployed on institute work in North
Dakota but who is now manager OF
several large stock farms at Ellen
dale, North Dakota, was the next
speaker called on. Mr.. Hoke empha-
sized the Importance of pure bred
live stocy, and showed the relation
ship that existed between the number
Of live stock on the farm and the
profits from that farm. He. showed
how the live stock had developed IN
a comparatively short time by men,
tioning a few of the famous breed
ers who had in mind mental pictures
of good live stock and how they made
every effort to develop a class OF live
stock that would meet the qualifica-
lions set forth in this picture. In
his talk Mr.. Hoke said that the breed
ers or growers of live stock are not
as progressive as they should be and
gave instances where farmers of to-
day do not own as good sires as their
grandfathers owned years back. His
talk was a great inspiration for the
live stock men who heard it.
Vernon Grant who is a breeder of
red polled cattle gave short talk on
what this organization should ac-
>complish and how it should be a fac
tor in building up the live stock in
dustry in the county. He told of
what the cattle had meant to them on
the farm and how they got their
start not many years ago by select,
ing a good grade red polled cow that:
was being taken to the butcher for
slaughter.
Doctor Van Hcuten, who is devel-
oping, an excellent herd of Holsteins
on his farm near Valley City, told of
the profits that could be expected from
the dairy COW. He told of the super
iority of the Holstein calves for veal
and the older stuff, he said, made fair
beef. Doctor Van Houten recently
purchased pure bred sire from the
Schroeder farm at Moorhead, MINI.
This sire has back of him cows with
25 to 80 pound records and with such
breeding as this he will no doubt have
one of the best Holstein herds in the
northwest within the next few years.
G.. w. Randlett, director of the
North Dakota Extension Department
told Of the experiences Of his father
and CHER grain farmers in northern
Iowa. He told of how the wheat crop
had been failure for several years
in succession due to draught, the
chinch bug and other ceuses. He
said that the people of this section of
Iowa in the early eighties became al
most poverty stricken because of the
failure of the grain crop to pay the
| expenses, and interest on the farm.
Then he showed how the introduction
of cattle affected the profits Of the
farm and how the pig and the cow
helped to lift the mortgage on their
little farm and in general make the
community prosperous. He con-
graduated the live stock men of this
county on their organization but sug-
gested that they be better equipped
to supply the food demands of the
war by still further organization of
all farmers. This other organization
he said should be that of Farm Bu-
reau in the county.
Howard Wilson, of Leal, gave a
short talk on the development Of the
draft horse. He showed how the de-
mands for good draft horses would
be greatly increased in the future and
told of how people from other coun-
tries would come to this country to
buy breeding stuff after the war and
reverse the system that has been for
merly practiced by the people of this
country to import from foreign coun-
tries. He said that the farm tractor
would never take the place of good
draft horses on the farm.
l. A. Harris told of how the farm
paper is and could be Of greater ben.
eft to the live stock men of the
county.
Fred Getchell discussed the subject
of hogs and showed how the farmers