Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-03-25

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that is made in speaking of classes
thought was only the traders;n c;t;a
and villages, or those who bonct
and sold property who were @
ness men" while the farmer in co@
mon estimation was not SO ratea
spoken of. He held that fbe su
cessful farmer of to-day was forco]
to be, in fact, business man an5
so deserved the appellation.
THE STATE FARM COMMITTEE
John Gould was detailed for 90
speech, but the arrival of the farm
committee of the regents Of rba
university, consisting of Mai. c IT
Williams, of Baraboo, Hiram Smi,b
of Sheboygan Falls, and II. d H.,
of Oaktield, changed the program,
and the gentlemen We're an calIo1I
out and made brief and perlinen1
remarks touching the new farmers
school, so auspiciously inaugurated
under their general control. Tbor
were confident of its success from
the start, and every weeks practical
working showed a more hearty 70
spouse on the part of the farmer ana
business man than the most san.
guine had dared to hope.
Mr.. Smith said we were eyiden,I,
living in the midst of reyoIutio1
in the thought and practice Of the !
agrlculturists of the state. There i
a growing demand for better meth.
DDS, as evinced by the way the peo.
pie are striving to get more iqht
That was the only road to success
to get more intelligence incorporated
into the business. TIE fact Of NOV.
ing forward at all augured improve
ment, and eventually success. The
age of mere muscle was departing
and more than half the labor is be.
ing done with tireless aud cbean
machinery. The farmer must NEE,
the new order of things that cheap-
ened all production, by using all the
new forces to double his productions
on the same acres, and with less and
more agreeable manual labor. The
hard old methods incapacitated men
for thought. They sought sleepI
rather than the cultivation thatl
would enable the hand to be morel
deity applied 10 achieving more and
better results. 1t was a great thing
to double the products Of the soil
with less than half the hard toll OIL
the old way; but it was a still better
and grander thing to substitute the
men to achieve and enjoy such re-
suits for the overworked drudges oil
fast-departing age.
Maj. Williams INDUCED in little
reminiscenoe Of the past. Fortytwo|
years ago he trayersed Iowa county
and had not returned TO it since.
Then the business was largely inI
mining lead, now it is dotted with
cities, villages and good farms, and
prosperous and intelligent people.
Mr. Hit said it happened to be
his first visit to that portion of the
state, and he was pleased to see the
evidences that it was a section of
which the whole state might well be
proud. Oue Of the drawbacks in
the life of the farmer was It's isola-
ton, and the fact that they did not
associate enough lie hailed every
| iudicious method that would lead to
more unity of thought AID purpose.
He had been present at several in
stitutes and could not fail to note
how potent an instrumentahty they
were in bringing the farmers and
their wives and children into closer
relationship, aud stimulate them all
to reach out for the intelligence that
would make them prouder of their
vocation and far more conteuted and
prosperous IN it,
LAND PLAsTER-CoRN cRoPs-BEEs.
The forenoon of the second day
was largely devoted to airing the
merits Of the several breeds Of cat
/ tie as mOney-earnerS Tor the farmers
The value Of plaster was also dis
cussed, and it was shown that on all
! except the dark prairie soils it was
nearly indispensable to Iowa county
farmers. 1t appeared to be the gen
eral belief that if more than fifty
| pounds per acre was sowu, only
about that amount was utilized the
first year, but that eventually all It's
virtues would be apparent Il was
merely a question of advancing cap
ital to SOW more than necessary at
any one time.
John Gould described his method
of raising great corn crops, and had
not designed to say much on the
silo when he was piled with qoes-
lions on the subject He then not
/ only told how to get the great crops
but how to get the maximum OF
feeding yalGc ont Of them. He
showed from indisputabIe facts that
all the forage and nearly all lhe
grain COW needs in two years, dur