The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1890-02-15

who was programmed to respond, but
was unable To attend on account OF
illness, Mr.. Il. Rowland responded
He said:
1--WE meet in this beautiful temple
to-day for instruction. We meet with
your cordial welcome. We are ont
people. There is no dividing line
The lines are drawn only in imagina'
ton between the city and the country
There is no man who has made sue
cess In life without assiduOus toll
The time was, in the past, when mus
Gle ruled the world, but now brain
must be combined with muscle. The
farmer can no longer afford to be ma
chine. When farmers are starving In
Dakota, there must be a reciprocity Of
trade. We need our cities and you
need the country. We are one Il
labor in the upbuilding of man. W.
are not separate. Whatever is for The
tcounty Is for the man. When the
country prospers the towns are pros
porous. Hoping that the meeting
will be a bond to bind the cities
and the country in closer tie, We
thank you and hope we shalf appre-
ciate the many favOrS we are are u
receive at your hands
Chairman Lewis stated that the In
stitute was under the auspices OF The
State Board of Agriculture, and that
each Institute was allowed 300 FOL
expenses.
THE HORSE.
Mr.. G.. A. Wilmarth, of Seneca, read
a paper upon "The Horse to Raise to
Make the Most Money" Among other
things, he said: "If there is anything
that a farmer needs to know it Is what
to raise to make the most money. In
my opinion, the best horse for a farm
er to raise is good draft horse. | care
not what standard breed it may be, it
should be a horse best adapted to the
requirements of the farmer. The first
requirement is good breeding. AS long
as the farmers persist in using small
and vicious brood mares, they must
reap miserable failure. The best
mares to be used for breeding pur-
poses should be selected with great
care. There is no place for the scrub.
| think, as IA general rule, you may
| lay it down that man who is breed
ing for certain purpose has the Key
| to success. The average farmer can
best rear and develop the draft horse.
In raising these, the farmer need not
hunt after the market, for the market
will hunt for him. In breeding, we
should breed for the market, and not
| breed to our own tastes. Where ten
or twelve years ago |, 100 pound horses
were required, now 1900 and 1000
pound horses are demanded. The mar
ket is always brisk, the prices always
good. and the care Of raising is less
than that given to the carriage or
road horses. | believe 1T costs no more
! to raise these then it does TO raise the
road horse"
| POULTRY RAISING. 4.
Mrs. ID. A. Aldrich, of MillngtOn,
read very entertaining paper upon
Poultry and Poultry Raising" The
substance of the paper is as follows:
1.-The hen has lately come to the
front. Cotton, corn, and cereals have
their belts. So the cultivation of all
these is sectional. Poultry raising is,
however, not sectional. Does anyone
know of farm in La Sale county
that has not a flock of poultry, and
they are the most miserable OF birds.
Probably this is because it has been
thought small business, only tit for
women and children. When you talk
o'clock In 0ctahar- $40 WHY wy
Considering the profit, III would De
well to learn what the demand is.
About ten years ago the business re-
ceived a wonderful impetus. The
amount of eggs and dressed poultry
handled in New York last year was
$l6 ,OOO. 900, of which $4,000. 900 worth
were used in New York city and
BROOKLYN. Beside this, about $1,000
600 worth of eggs were imported from
Germany, and about the same from
Belgium. There is no duty on poultry
and eggs, excepting on the yelks of
eggs, which are imported in cans and
are used for manufacturing purposes.
Gentlemen of the convention, don't
you think the American hen needs
some protection? Statistics tend to
prove that the poultry product OF this
country amounts to as much as any
other branch of the agricultural bust
ness. In the early spring, when the
spring chicken weighs from two to
two and half pounds, it finds a
ready sale at from 16 to % cents a
pound"
Mrs. Aldrch then spoke of the fool
ish farmers who keep their chickens
until Christmas, instead of selling
them in the spring at higher price,
beside losing the feeding. She gave a
description of a clean, healthy and
convenient hennery, II feet wide and
80 feet in length, with Il shed roof,
which could be built at an expense of
$50. The hens should be given tight,
warm place to live in, and plenty of
light.
She paid her respects to the incu-
bator. She had purchased an incuba
tor, after considerable correspondence,
and after destroying 500 dozens of
eggs, succeeded in Matching two
chicks. Next year she got higher
priced machine, and at the third set
ting got 10 chicks. She then concluded
that man or woman had but small
chance of competing with nature, for
less than twenty hens had Matched
more chicks before spring than had
the incubator. She did not wish to he
understood as antagonizing the incu-
bator, but she would insist that anna
tours and farmers would find more