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

pick up the children and carry them
to school and return with them in the
evening. Thus the parents keep their
children ut home and educate them
there. Again, country people, II nee
essary, should have an opera house.
lecture room, etc., to keep them home,
and IL Is not necessary they should be
running to the city, expanding money
foolishly. Farmers are fools because
they don't think.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The afternoon session was called to
order at o'clock, Prof. G. r. Morrow
IOpening the session with a short adj
dress on Grasses and Their Relation
to Agriculture" He believed grasses
to be the best food for stock, together
with corn and oats, according to the
stock to be fed. He advocated the
mixing of grasses and the use of clover
with all small grains sOwn by the
farmers.
Eli HOdgson, of Ottawa, spoke on
the Draft Horse" He followed up
the history of the farm horse from the
early days to the present time, detail
ing the increase in weight OF horses
used on the farm. He considered the
light horse good for buggy use and for
the race track, but the horse 10 bring
the most money both for the breeder
and the user was the draft horse, in
weight up to 1900 pounds. The best
European stock had been steadily i'm
ported during the past ten or fifteen
years, and the breeding of splendid
farm horses was made easy.
| Judge Wilson, of Olney, also spoke
on the draft horse. He had found it
his experience that the draft horse
was the only horse to raise on the
farm. The draft horse could be placed
on the market in four years and
brought good price at all times.
| Miss Addie Jones delivered humor-
Gus recitation entitled "The Farmers
Wife"
In introducing Mrs. George Trmble
(nee Miss Clara Griffith Chairman
Lewis, with smile, said:
| Miss Clara Griffith has been an
nounced on the programme for a solo.
The programme has not been changed.
You know Franklin said:
Behold the maiden innOcently
sweet.
Ellis fair white paper and unsullied
| sheet,
"'On which the happy man whom
| fate OrdainS.
"'May write his name and take her
for his pains
"Well, George Trimble has written
his name on this piece of paper, so |
take pleasure in introducing to you
Mrs. George Trimble."
Mrs. Trimble'S solo, Dancing Feet"
was received with great applause. Her
voice was never in better condition.
| For the encore she sang ""TiS Not
| True" with sweetness that won all
hearts.
A resolution was adopted thanking
the citizens of Ottawa for their hospi-
tally.
CORN INSECTS.
Prof. S. A. Forbes, of the University
of Illinois, delivered an address upon
"Corn Insects" which he illustrated
with views of several insects. After a
preliminary explanation, Prof. Forbes
launched out upon the plant louise,
| the two foot sketch, by which he IL
Illustrated the subject, being somewhat
enlarged, as the insect itself is but
half as large as the head of pin.
This louise infestS the roots of the
leo-n and does not leave tselnn9ii;lnhbhKi
working IS exhausted. They find new
fields for the louise and when the eggs
are laid in the fall they take care OF
them, and when the eggs hatch in the
spring, place them at the root Of the
sweet weed, until the corn Is tit for
their charges to feed upon. The Pro-
fessor stated that experiments were
now being made to find "A remedy for
this pest.
The next pest discussed was the
root web worm, which might be found
at the roots of the corn in its first
stages. The presence of this worm
could be detected by the appearance
of the leaves, upon which it feeds.
The remedy for this worm is the plow
ing of the sod, it Matching on grass
land in the spring, or the delaying of
corn planting until June, as the worm
changes to the pupa stage at the latter
end Of March.
Prof. Forbes next described the corn
root worm, a vicious grub which at
tacks the roots of the corn and syste-
matically borcs them through the CEN
ter 1t later develops into pupa and
then into green beetle. The remedy
for this worm is the changing OF crops
in the infested field, as it will starvt
if it cannot foed upon corn.
DRESSED BEEF.
J. II. Nanarsdalc, of Peoria, spoke
upon the monopoly Of the market hy
the big Four" so that the local
shippers throughout the country were
barred. There had been no competi
ton in the market for more than two
years. No shipper, outside the Big
Four" and their friends, could even
ship TO Europe, because if the shipper
attempts to hire deck room he finds
that it is all engaged for thirty or six
ty days. Beside this monopoly Of the
market. the Live Stock Commission
ers. eager to be seemingly active, bus
les itself il discovering new diseases
which exist only in imagination.
First came the alleged pleuro-pneu-
monia scare. Thousands Of cattle
were killed. but there is not farmer
in Illinois who believes that there has
ever been a case Of pleuro-pneumonia.
Now comes the lumpy jaw scare. If a
steer happens to scratch his jaw on "A
4 l. % Ill ha