Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1888-01-05
Farmers, Institute.

which will continue two days. There
are many who will probably think that
these meetings are of but very little, if
any value to the farming COM
munities, and who will, for this reason,
fail to be present. Now thinking about
something which we know little or
nothing about, must be largely guided
by imagination, and any one whose
opinions are reached through his inn
agination must sooner or later be forced
to the conclusion that an ounce of real
knowledge is much better in this busy,
acknowledgement, world and day,
than whole ton of imagination. Now
what we want is that you shall fairly
and candidly consider the matter of
Farmers Institutes, and if you have
any doubt concerning their value, give
the Institute the benefit Of the doubt,
and so arrange your work that you
can be present at some one of them.
Give the Institute chance to speak for
Itself and to convince you OF its great
value or to confirm you in your own
opinions concerning the work. All the
Institute asks of the people, farmers
and all, of any community is simply
your presence, attention and fair play.
| The men who come to take the lead in
the work are all farmers whose con-
tinued and marked success in farming,
coupled with Il large stock of practical
common sense and ability 70 place their
experience and ideas clearly before the
people who may assemble to listen, and
to take part in. the discussions. AL
other things being equal The man eoho
klsoacs most about his business a0ill succeed
best and soonest. This fact should
strongly impress the young men who
are just commencing the steady earnest
work of life, no matter in what calling
or profession, and more especially to the
youag farmer. If 4 young man
can start in life with the experience and
knowledge of man who has achieved
success through years devoted to labor
and experiment, does he not have an
immense advantage over the one in the
same business, who starts in life without
these helps, and who has to discover for
himself, by experiment or by chance,
that which the first already knows? If
the inside track is of so much moment
in SO insignificant thing as a horse
race is it not of great Importance in so
momentous race as that which lies be-
fore every young man just beginning
the active duties of lifeP (Read this
over again carefully at this point and do
little honest, earnest thinking before
you go on.) The value of the expert
ence of Others is most clearly apprcci-
aztec by all who would fit themselves
for doctors, for lawyers, for engineers,
and for teachers. If this were not so
why do there exist so many and such
noted medical schools, law schools, and
normal schools? Why does q young
man serve three years on limited pay
and unlimited work, in a printers Office,
a blacksmith's shop a wagon shop,
paint shopper tin shop. in order that
he may be thought entitled to a position
among tradesmen and share of the
public patronage? The answer in quite
plain, frame it to suit yorself, but don't
for a moment think that farming is an
exception to the rule that applies above,
for it isn't The more you know about
farming, stock raising. bee keeping,
poultry raising, is fact any thing per-
tanning to your work, the better and
more confidently and easily will you do
your work. and the sooner you viii be
able to retire from active life, and enjoy
at your leisure the earnings of your
hands and brain.
Now what we have tried to impress
upon our readers is the fact that much
may be learned at Farmers Institute,
that shall be Of benefit, not only to the
farmer who is present, but to the whole
community in which he lives. A single
hint or new practical idea will frequent
ly pay thousand fold in few years
for all the expense incurred in placing
yourself in the position to catch it.
THE SILo.
There are over 500 silos in Wisconsin
and reports from all sides seem strongly
in favor of the sio. One old gentle
man built one at considerable expense
and filed it according to directions
In due time he examined the contents
and was thoroughly Disguised, being
convinced from the condition of the
ensi.age that silos were n failure. He
sent word 10 a man some distance away
who had given him the instructions con-
corning building and filing his silo, to
come and look into the matter, adding
as postscript. . Silos are a - hum
bug The silo man came just at noon
and his friend said, II have just been
pulling lot of that COMPOUNDED stuff
out of my silo and it's the worst mess
you ever saw. Just come into dinner
now and we will go up and look at the
fzzle when we are through. There
won't anything eat that mess not if
they're starved to it." Dinner through,
the two men went up to the silo to look
into The business. Why says the
silo man, Il thought you said that you
pulled a lot of stuff out of this silo Just
before dinner. [ don't see it Where
/ is it?n .'Well,' said the farmer. $50
did; but I'll just bet that those darned
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