Mexico weekly ledger., 1891-11-26
FARMERS INSTITUTE.
], W. Rouse Gives q Good Account OF
It...MexicO Will Have One
Next Year.

]. W. Rouse Gives q Good Account Of
It.-.Mexic0 Will Have One
Next Year.
To the Editor OF the Ledger.
Mexico, Mo-, Nov. 25.-On the
morning of the 10th, inst, the
State Board of Agriculture opened
it's series of meetings for this sea.
con, commencing at Fulton.
On the same evening the Road
Improvement Society of Galloway
county gave a banquet with the
Board and its lecturers as their
guests, which was very enjoyable
and created quite on enthusiasm
for better roads; so much 80 that
the citizens organized Road I'm.
provenen Society and thus has
outstripped Mexico and Audrain
county in starting, but We hope to
!, ct lead in the road improvements.
The Board through its worthy
secretary, Mr.. Chubbuck, had en-
gagged q number Of lecturers from
different parts of the country to
lecture or more properly speak
ing, give their experience and an
swer such questions as were put to
them by the people on the subject
in regard to which the lecturers
we're al least supposed to be ex-
perts.
Mr.. T. B. Terry, of Hudson,
Ohio, who is an expert ON clover
raising, was there to tell US how,
through the raising of clover he
brought the production of poor
piece of land that yielded an aver
age of 8 bushels of wheat per acre
when he FIRST got hold Of it to an
average of 80 bushels per acre and
all done by the use of clover, and
by q rotation of three different
kinds of cereals he has been en-.
abled to clear over 81, 600 per year
of of about 35 acres of land.
J. W. Drury, of Waterloo, ILL.,,
then told how to successfully run
q dairy and how to make profit
of over 500 per COW per year,
which was instructive as he uses
clover mostly on his farm together
with ensilage which he says is the
cheapest and best feed for the COW
and many other animals, too, that
can be produced, as he claims that
there can be 10 tons of corn en-
silage obtained from an acre as
against 2 tons of timothy hay from
one acre.
Mr.. J. w. Waters, of. Center,
Mo-, gave his experience in the
sheep industry; he is an enthusiast
on the sheep question and while
he is pratioing mixed farming he
makes Large profits on the rearing
of sheep and wool. He has rot
al yet entered into the breeding OF
fancy sheep especially, but may dc
so in the early future.
Judge McIlvain, of Lebanon
Mo-, who is an enthusiast on the
building of good roads, was along
to tell something of how to &c
about the work of the improve
ment of roads and get up a gress,
er interest in this very much need
ed work, as perhaps as much de-
pends on good roads as any othel
one thing for the prosperity ans
sociability of q community OF
country--for If communication il
cut off or hindered q good portion
of the year, social intercourse ant
even trade and commerce are great
ly hindered and frequently cut Of
for time, until the roads becom'
passable. 1t would be q great tasl
to undertake to make good road
where needed all at once; but If
portion was built each year th
country would soon be lined will
good roads. Good roads brin
the merchs amt and mechanic close
to the farmer, and also brings tn
farmer closer TO the merchant wit
the products of the farm and ofte
enables him TO obtain much bette
prices for his products, thus mah
ing it much more pleasant an
profitable TO live in such q CON
munity or country. Good road
lare something that ell person