The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-01-21
FARMERS INSTITUTE AT BANGOR.

FARMERS INSTITUTE AT BANGOR.
The Farmers Institute appointed by the
State Board OF Agriculture at Bangor was
held last week, beginning Thursday evening
and continuing through Friday.
The session Thursday evening was opened
with song by Prof. w. F. Werschkeel, OF
Chicago, and prayer by Rev. Baird. After Pres.
Woodmans address Mrs. o. NJ. Skies gave an
excellent paper entitled Thoroughness Neces-
sary for Success" A short discussion followed,
during which DR.. Kedze said, 1--WE cannot all
be Philosophers or Generals, but we could all
do bravely by doing our work WELL"
Prof. Mac Evans lecture on Books and
Reading" discussed the benefits OF reading,
advised what farmers should read, and how to
read and aid the memory in retaining valuable
thoughts.
The points in relation to securing library
and selecting books therefor were especially
practiced.
The stupid prejudice against book farming,
is following close on the heels OF Sitting Bull
and the Poncas." THE value OF agricultural
books and periodicals. is becoming more gener-
ally recognized, says the Professor Among
the books recommended are Aliens Book of
the Farm, Princes Model Farms and their
Methods, jacques, Garden Farm and Barnyard,
Henderson's Gardening for Profit Harris on
the Pig. Among periodicals, the Country Gen.
tIeman, Rural New Yorker, Western Rural
National Live Stock Journal, Michigan Farmer,
and Grange Visitor. He despises gossip as he
does back-biting, whispering, tattling old
granny, whether male or female"
OF the newspapers he said: study them
with dictionary atlas, cycop@dia and gazetteer
if necessary; no literature is worther OF your
| study. But the monthly and quarterly nust
not be neglected. The world furnishes no other
such magazine as the North American Review,
The Atlantic, Harper's, Scribner's and Lippin-
colts monthlies. What an intellectual conven =
ience"
Every man ought to read and master the
books relating directly to his profession or
business. man who has no interest in the
literature Of his own calling must look beyond
human agency for aid" We should seek the
most intimate acquaintance with the historian
especially with the English and American. BIZ
ography should be given a prominent place.
Fiction and poetry should be read for their
influence on the spirit and character of the
reader, such asIAdam Bede and Dinah, David
Copperfeld and Agnes Reuben Butler and
Jennie Deans. You can't read everything
anymore than you can eat everything" Read
only the best Stop when you can't give 1t at
tention and thought. We do not want to re-
member all we read. Certain things we must
remember. As an aid use the pen and paper
to note down the thoughts by catch words.
Interest is the mother OF attention, and at
tention Is the mother Of memory
FRIDAY MORNING.
"The National Sugar Bowl by Prof. Frank
Kedzie, Lansing. Mr.. Kedzie thought our
people not wide awake on this subject, and that
we could easily save to our own people the
large amount of money sent abroad for sugar
| by manufacturing it ourselves. Three kinds,
1st, beet root sugar, Cd, cane sugar, 3D. starch
sugar. The last named is not fit for Ameri-
cas- sugar bowl. A specimen Of beet sugar ex-
hibted is very white and sweet, In Massachu-
setts it's manufacture was attempted 1887. In
France the cultivation OF beets for sugar is a
success, and one Of her most profitable crops.
An analysis Of beets grown on the College
farm was gwen which seems to prove that
beets for sugar manufacture can be proftably
grown here. From 500 to 1000 pounds OF
grown on an acre. BY comparison, it may be
proven that beet sugar may be produced with
very nearly as good profit here as some sugar
in the South. Starch sugar or glucose is-as
at present made-often unhealthy and poison
Gus. and not very promising as an industry.
Practically, corn stalk sugar manufacture has
not yet been developed, and we are unable to
estimateIlts value.
Mr.. Kedzie said that most OF our commercial
syrups are glucose syrups.
David. Woodman, I'd, said he raised his owr
cane and would not use glucose syrups.
Food value of Peaches with Yellows,n by
DIR. Kedzle, was in his terse and happy style
and contained numerous valuable facts. The
Dr's. attention was called to the subject by the
State Pomologcal Society. Pres. Lyon sen
the DR.. box of diseased peaches. The flesl
Of the diseased peach was found not to b,
sweet nor palatable; they decayed sooner anc
gave of offensive odors. The diseased peaches
had greater per cent. OF water than sounc
peaches; they had less albuminoids, less jell,
and sugar, and about ten times as much wood
matter. The diseased peach is unwholesom
> il not posonous-stil a mooted question:
They had made several sick, and some coult
not eat them. They are red arouEd the pit
a very good test OF the presence of disease
We may not be able to prove that yellow
peaches are poisonous, but, like rotten eggs
they must not be eaten after they get too IA
along. Dried peaches, from yellows peaches
are to be condemned, any method of detecting
such peaches is desirable.
In reply to a question, the DR.. thought th
fact Of rapid putrefcation proved them dele
terious.
He was interested in this subject, and wante
5 to know the faets,-if the peach, in getting th
: yellows has outlived its usefulness, let us
away with it.
Secretary Baird, Capt. Hendryx, Breck an
Rice lwere OF the opinion that yellows peache