Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-02-06
Farm Daughters.

ease and pleasure, the other life of toi
and tribulation. 1t lies within the DOW e
of every daughter to carry the hopes o
her little world onward and upward, o
to drag all down. to misery and despair.
The fact that farm work is har,
and leaves small time for read
ing and self-culture does no
release farm daughters from the responsi
biity of making an effort at least to maxi
home happy. We must not neglect tht
inner life of our families that the QUITE,
man may be we'll clothed and housed. The
opportunity to neglect this inner life il
perhaps greater on the farm tina else
where. The careful housewife all uncon
| sciously staryes the souls of her household
that tha bodies may be well fed with
pumpkin pies and ginger snaps.
Farm life is just as pure, just as noble
/ as farm daughters choose to make it, and
the horizon of the farm world should not
be limited by the fathers wood yard on the
east and the neighbor's hay barn on the
west
The young lady was the recipient Of
hearty applause.
DIR. Chamberlin's Address
President Parkinson announced that
the evenings program would be closed
with an address from DIR. Chamberlin,
president of the the state university. The
doctor appeared to receive kind and
hearty greetings. Among other things
he said:
The most profound change which any
vocation ever undergoes is its passage
from the rule of thumb to the rule of brain
Each vocation has passed through an evo-
lutionary process. But the progress has
never been uniform. No calling has ever
advanced from its primitive crude stage
to Its highest attainments by perfectly
steady ongoing There are times of halt.
ing and times of pushing onward. The
century plant lays up material for
decades and then suddenly bursts
forth into extraordinary fiorescence
And so it Is, that evolutions
sometimes become revolutions. Such an
evolution, which is to become a reyolu-
ton, believe to be now clearly fore
shadowed III agricul lture. | believe it be-
cause forces are at work which are com
petent to produce it; and because the
actual beginnings of the evolution itself
are appearing. | believe we are on the
eve Of the passage of agriculture from the
reign Of empirical rules to the reign Of
exact knowledge; on the eve of its transit
tion from the rule of thumb to a scientific
art.
The grounds for this belief lie. first. in
the general turning of attention to exact
experimentation. Experimentation is
only systematiz2d experience-experience
put under control, so &s to determine pre-
clsely what the experience is, and to carry
results back to their precise causes.
Now, progressive farmers and ex-
perimental scientists are joining hands
in a common endeavor to bring out into
exact knowledge the foundation facts of
agricultural experience. Never in the
history of agriculture, has there been
such widespread earnestness and well -di-
rected efforts to determine the bottom
truths of the profession. Two score sta
tions, well endowded and devoted exclus-
lively to discovering and demonstrating
the basal truths of the profession, aided
by the voluntary work of thousands of in
teiligent progressive farmers. surely con-
stitute a rational ground of hope for a
rapid and revolutionary development
1t seems to be already shown that there
is /, group of microscopic organisms that
take ID nitrogen from the air Just as COM
m IN plants take in carbonic gas, and ami
mails take in oxygen. These organisms
take in nitrogen and make 1t available for
the plants, Just as the plants take in car
bonic dioxide and make it available for
animals, and they, in turn, take in oxygen
and give forth material available for mi
crobes and plants. Here is new and
feeding upon each of the atmospheric con-
stituents and delivering over its waste
products to the other organisms; a nitro
gen extractor, serving the plants;
which, in turn, are carbon extractors
serving tee animals, which in their turn
are oxygen contractors, serving both.
This may not be the whole secret of fertil-
ity but it is clearly one of the secrets, and
when we have fully uncovered it and
brought it forth we shall find the secrets
that lie below it.
In view of this discovery, will it be at
all strange if we shall soon begin TO culti-
vate microbes and SOW our fields with
bacilli?
Just as fertility lies at the bottom of
agriculture, so feeding lies at the founda-
ton of animal industry. The brilliant
experiments of Professor Henry and CO.
workers have led US far out on the road to
rational system of feeding,
controlled with reference to specific
ends. While these striking results are
only claimed to be preliminary, it is clear
we shall not have long to wait before we
shall know, in higher sense than ever
before. how to feed, what to feed. when
to feed and how long to continue feeding
TO produce the best results in a desired
line. Feeding will surely become scien-
tifc art, controlled and directed by specific
knowledge to specific ends.
Another line of new departure lies in
the higher utilization CT the first products
Of the farm. The development Of coop
erative manufacture especially in dairying,
Is departure IN the direction of a higher
evolution, for 1t permits specialization and
the application of skilled labor and i'm
proved methods that would be impractical
bic on the separate farms. 1t relieves the
household Of heavy burden, and opens
Inc way " d H4kilbI du Ifttf uOuIS Iut.
Progress toward better methods would
be greatly promoted if every producer, in
whatever calling, were required by law
to stamp his name upon his product,
wherever possible, and were made respon-
sible for It,
The coming evolution will be a mora as
well as industrial evolution. The seeking
after real truth, whether it be In the in
dustrial line OF elsewhere, Is In
itself q moral endeayor. The effort to
produce that which Is constantly better
and better is IN Itself a virtue To aid
In the promotion and survival Of the fttest,
and IN the condemnation and elimination
of the unworthy, Is In the line OF ethical,
as well as material progress. The detec-
ton and suppression Of fraud subserves
the common interests Of humanity.
GRESHAM DOES NOT WANT 1T.
He Don't want Senatorial Boom Started
In His Favor.
CHICAGO, FEB. 2.-Ju lge Gresham, of
the United States circuit court. went tc-
Springfield today. He carefully explained
that ma pzru0sa was 10 hold q session OF