The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-02-17
an adjournment was taken until $50 P.
AFTERNOON SESSION.

speaker, who gave his experience with
ensilage. He built his silo, and filled it |
with green Yankee corn, cut one even
ing and put into the silo the next day
The temperature rose during the filling
time to about 1900 F. The COWS in
feeding would eat the whole of the mess,
and the wastage was but little. The
milk of ensilage COWS was good, and the
butter was good and brought the best
market prices. If you fill the siIo slow
ly you will have sweet ensilage filled
fast, it will sour. While on this subject,
Mr.. Reuben Miller, of Lake Bluff, ILL.,.
gave his experience with unchopped
clover ensilage, showing complete sue
cess.
D. F. Sayre followed, giving his views
on clover as soil retainer. He said
we should keep the ground always COW
cred with a crop of some kind, and con-
sidered clover the best crop to keep the
plant nutrition from being carried deep
ly into the earth.
Mr.. John Gould, of Ohio. spoke on
the subject of what the dairying business
demanded. He supposed the reason
he had been selected for the subject was,
that for about 40 years he had done
scarcely anything but handle milk. The
kind of dairying demanded by the times
was intelligent dairying. The first
thing is to get dairy cows and not steers;
and then make such butter as the mar
ket demands, and not soap grease but
ter. Those who make fve.cent butter
can never get thirty cents for it. Make
such butter that the market will seek
the butter, and not the butter seek the
market. We make too much white-oak
butter that is snapped at the corner
grocery, pound for pound, for Goldfish.
We should make butter by the acre,
and not per COW.
Mr.. w. D. Hoard was announced,
and was requested to take the pulpit.
and commenced by asking if some
member of this church would pass the
hat! He said five-cent butter was made
on the farm, the milk being set in open
pans in the pantry or cellar, subject to
all the fumes of the house. He said
Kenosha county takes the lead in the
making of good butter and getting good
prices. There was no danger of over
doing the business of good butter MAX
ing. The more good butter made the
more will be eaten-poor butter lasts too
long when on the table; you can't drive
it away, while good butter goes off like
hot cakes. Poor butter lasts like the
mercy of heaven
Mr.. J. w. Robertson, of Canada, was
then announced to tell how to rear
calves. Pick out the best calf from the
best ancestors. Begin. with the best
calf and keep it the best by good care
and feeding. Do not let the calf suck,
but let it learn to drink at the first.
Give the calf its mothers milk at first,
and then any other. Gradually mix
skim milk in increasing quantities, until
it becomes all skinned milk. Now
feed the calf, in addition to the milk,
bran, ground oats, ground peas or corn.
with little linseed, fed dry-never
mixed with the milk. This feed, with
the grass the calf will eat, will lay the
| foundation for good COW.
EVENING SESSION.
Kimball Opera House was filled COM
pletely below, and the gallery nearly so.
There were probably seven hundred peo-
pie present, who sat out the long session
with evident satisfaction.
| The exercises began with music by
three gentlemen HI. M. Baldwin play
ling the ocharina, Fred. Engel, harmoni-
can and guitar and Chas. Burritt, guitar.
The superintendent introduced Mr..
| w. D. Hoard, of Fort Atkinson, whose
theme was: How shalla Farmer be
Educated?" lie started out with the
information that farmers are getting a
large amount of advising, and if they do
not get along it is not for want of adj
visers. A farmers education means the
knowledge that will give him the mas.
terry and control of the principles of his
business. 1t should not all be book
knowledge; there is no fool so big fool
as the fool who is loaded to the guards
with what others know. The tendency
of the farmer is to neglect the mind and
cultivate the muscle. The farmer must
not sneer at the knowledge of others,
and denounce it as theory. but should
read the experiences of others and
search out the truth in such experiences.
Farmers must get over their contempt
for knowledge, for the problems they
have to solve are growing larger every
day, and they must have education to
give them more and better brains. We
have too many little men on the farm,
in the pulpit, in the lawyers and doc
tors Office and in the printing office.
What the world wanted was men with
brains, and thoroughly educated for
their profession. Farmers must not be
penurious; they must be willing to spend
money for knowledge-for books and
papers and anything else from which
they can obtain knowledge.
i Then followed the song" Shall we
Gather at the River" by the Glee Club
and the audience.
i Mr.. F. B. Norton, of Burlington, was
then introduced. His discourse dealt
considerably in figures. Wisconsin has
100000 acres Of land, only about s.
100000 acres of which is improved.
There are 10000 farms, averaging 120
acres, and about 5000 consist of 1000
or more acres. The value of the leading
crops annually amount to 800, 1000, 900;
and the value of manufactures is $780,
100000. The farmers should do more
for the introduction of improved
methods-put tile under the ground and
sheep above: and try. to make perma-
nent pastures. If the farmers will pull
all together they will pull SO much the
stronger. Farmers, for Gods sake, give
the boys and girls chance Educate
them, and Wisconsin will yet become
the New England Of the Northwest. Mr..
Norton deprecated the antagonism which
is sometimes found to exist between the
city and country. Farmers should help
to build up cities, for by SO doing they
added largely to the value of their farm
land. He gave figures showing the
average value per acre of lapd in the
neighborhood of Racine, Milwaukee and
other large manufacturing cities, which
was largely in excess of the value of
land remote from manufacturing towns.
After singing Marching through
Georgia." the Superintendent intro