Morris tribune., 1920-07-30
ESTIMATE ATTENDANCE
AT NINE THOUSAND
ALI II Counties in West Central Min
nesOta Represented in Morris on
Visitors Day

School of Agriculture on the occa-
sion of their annual Visitors Day
held July 22nd Ideal weather pre-
vailed and all of the features of the
program we're given without any
change from the printed program.
By 1890 when the program of the
day was begun, approximately 5000
people were gathered upon the Farm
School campus and by II o'clock the
attendance was estimated at between
eight and nine thousand people.
Substantial delegations came from
all of the seventeen counties included
in west central Minnesota Todd
County was also represented by the
Long Prairie Concert Band which was
sent over by the business men of
Long Prairie. Superintendent P. E.
Miller states that the success of the
Visitors Day program this year was
due in a large measure to the CO.
operation of the citizens of Morris.
The business men of the city raised
$4,000 to defray the expenses of
the barbecue dinner, the baseball
game and other entertainment fea
lures. Members of Company K acted
as "traffic cops" on the streets Of
Morris, and patrolled the Agricul-
tural School grounds.
The morning was given over to
z the inspection of the buildings, barns
and station, live stock herds, and the
experiment fields. Parties were con-
Quoted thru the experimental plots
where the various experiments Of in
terest were pointed out. The ferti-
lizer rotation experiments attracted
much interest because of the strik-
ing results which have been secured
with phosphate fertilizer. During
the past six years an application of
acid phosphate costing STA has pro-
duced an average increase in the
yield of wheat of "A bu.; of barley,
63 bu. per acre; clover, .53 tons per
acre; alfalfa IL ton per acre; oats
Al bushels per acre; corn 3.2 bu.
per acre. The net profit from the
use of this fertilizer has been very
large The net profit from the use
of this fertilizer has been very large.
These experiments were of much in
terest also, because cooperative ex-
periments on many farms thruout
the district have yielded substanti-
ally the same results. Another ex-
pertinent that was of much interest
was the straw-spreading experiment
where one ton of wheat straw has
been plowed under each fall for the
four years and the land planted to
corn the following year. During this
time the yield of corn has been in
creased CT bu. each year from this
treatment This experiment is prov
ing to be a convincing demonstration
of the value of straw as a fertilizer.
The hundreds of variety plots of all
kinds of small grain and corn were
examined for strength Of straw, rust
resistance and yield possibility. Dur
ing the past several years, certain
varieties have been consistently out
yielding all others, and visitors were
shown these high yielding strains and
increase plots which are being grown
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nursery where 80 varieties of alfalfa
have been grown since 1914 was also
of much interest. Certain strains of
Grimm and Baltic are as fine today
as they we're the first year after seed
ed--six years ago.
While the Experiment Station
Work was being explained, a base
ball game was in progress on the
east field. Hancock and Gracevil1e
played for a purse of 5000, the form
er team winning by 80 score. At
12 o'clock the barbecue dinner was
served on the main campus and by
1870, 5000 had been served consum-
ing 1000 pounds Of roast beef, 100
gallons of baked beans, 400 gallons
of lemonade and 5000 sandwich
buns. At 1890 Ed. McElligott Of
Appleton, arrived and gave a splen-
did aerop1ane exhibition over the
campus during the noon hour. Lat
er in the afternoon many visitors
availed themselves of the opportunity
to take an aeroplane trip. During
tertained by the parade of 40 head
of cattle from the Experiment Sta
tion herd led by the Morris Concert
Band.
Pom-Pom, the health clown, whose
white costume was decorated with
bright pictures of healthful veget-
ables appeared on the campus at
noon, riding on the car Of Miss La
brie, county health nurse. Some of
the youngsters thot he was a mani
kin, and could scarcely be convinced
that he was a real man; most Of
them were only too eager to follow
him about anywhere he went. When
he had collected the children about
him on the platform, he told them