Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1888-01-19
FOR BETTER FARMING.
The In Stitute at LanCaste
Fru tfuI of Many
New Ideas.
Some Interesting Papers by
Success iful Farmers in
Grant County.
The Farmers itute at Lancaster,
Jan I2&13

nc EATmtTS' a. , ltNit 1T BdHCiSttTs
Jan. 1913
The institute was called to orde,
about 1890 Thursday morning, Supt
Morrison in the chair After a piano
snlo by Miss Laura SchEfiner Mr. Nor
rison, in short introductory address
set forth The
PURPOSES OF THE INSTITUTE
He spoke If the cnmptition which mad,
Il necessary for a farmer 10 give up thu
ID STYLE farming and adopt new and
| improved methods or elsa get left be-
nind. Low prices have come to stay
md H., farmer must learn 10 economic
tad diminish the cost Of production.
Intention must be paid to Keeping up
the soil. Vernon county PERSISTS in
raising waeat. They have exhausted
heir soil, and last season the crop failed
| md left them in bad fix, They art
behind the times in dairying. Shebo-
ran county, with 10000 cows, shows a
net profit per COW of over S54, while
Vernon county with 10000 cows makes
IN average profit of only $3.50 COW.
little figuring will show that Vernon
county thus looses 100000 by being
,ehind the times. The object of the
,armers' Institute is to spread the sort
# knowledge among the farmers that
will enable them to keep pace with the
ines and get all out of their farmes and
took that there is in them.
j. NJ. True. of BAraboo, who was
,uperntendent Of the horse department
/ the state fair, was present and spoke
evcral times during the institute. He
vas always interesting and instructive
lie spoke manly on the breeding of inn
roved stock. The main idea which he
emphasized was: Breed for certain
purpose, make up your mind which
reed you like best and stick TO ii
;reeding of all live stock must, of coure,
,e followed by intelligent feeding
mother important idea which he brought
mt was that communities shouldsact in
oncert in these specialtities to secure
he best results.
Senator Matt Anderson was called
,pon. He said his principal success had
zen in swine bre adng, but he gave a
God off hand talk on general farming.
lie emphasized the the Importance of
,eepng up the fertility of the soil. He
expressed the opinion that it was good
me to hold onto young cattle, espec
Ily grade steers.
Mr.. |. j. Cltpp. of Ken sht. one of
g foremost breeders of Guernsey cattle
i the country gave a talk on cattle.
Warming water for the cows to drink
winter was the chief topic. This, BY
a. way, is being done extensively in
rant county nov There are good
many patent heaters, but.a farmer Of
rdinarY intelligence can improvise one
at will answer all purposes. Water
lould be heated to "a temperature Of
% to 500.
Joe Nathan gave his experience with
head Of 80 yearlings that he bought
It July, He paid 81 4 head to get
hem summered-til NV, 10. Tnry
anne home pretty poor and he wanted
feed them. He had large barn but
would oniv accommodate about 80
4a1. H had hem all dehornel aud
ow has 20 u for nnety head AMI they
ed togeth' + ike sheep and are gain
Y very fast. He stll sticks to the
Inrham breed. The discussion was
,ken up by Messrs GrlffiS, Perry
Walker and others
Without attemp ting to give in detail
ne discussions in their order we will
Drak Of some of the most interes ing
eatures.
We publish tho entire 5paper Of o. j.
mold on Plows aud Flowing.
One of the most instructive lectures
vas that of Theodore Lewis ON Swine
breeding and Pork Making. Some ..
| ! observations rs vel as the manner
building and tifl,ng i Silp a. given
" John Gonid at the Fennimore in
uute vii ch we hal prep ,rei f,r This
sSue Will be given next week
Mr. True's talk on horses was pr &C
cal and to the point.
Thursday evening paper on Ever
:reens was given BY w D. Suite AMI
discussed by Messrs. Robbins. Grifiis
| nd Garfield
The Rights of Farmers Wives, by H.
:. Adams, was an able talk and truth
il one.
The Farmers Duty to his School, BY
has w. Garfield, was followed By
,upt. Chas. L. Harper and made a
pirited close to the evenings program.
The Lancaster Band furnished some
xcellant music during the evening.
The subject of Dehorning cattle oc-
uped good part OF the forenoon
friday. Mr.. John RYAN, who was on
lie program for this subj ct was not
PRESENT, and his place was ably filled by
omar j. Arnold. He gave substantially
the same talk as at Fennimore, which
paper we publish entire.
One of the best hits of the session was
the paper BY VIM. Kinkhamm i on
How / Made my Farm" The story OF
his arrival in this country 800 in debt.
,fter shipwreck and rescue after re-
naming three days in the water, read
like romance. He said it took three
ships TO bring him over. AMI be had u