New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1894-02-07
THE FARMERS INSTITUTE,
Which viii be with us on the Is and 18th
Of February. &

According to the st. st. Peter Herald
it was but few years ago that Farmers
Institutes in Minnesota were but an ex-
pertinent but now that they have been
tried and proved successful it is appro-
pirate in this connection, to say a few
words. In some cases farmers are taxed
for Improvements in which they are but
little, if any, benefited, but in the case of
these Institutes an appropriation is made
oct Of the general state funds for carry
ing on this work which, in reality, bene-
fits farmers, and if they are not in at
tendance they lose much of interest and
instruction and fail, pecuniarily to take
advantage of that which they help pay
for. We are aware that some of our
farmers in both Nicollet and Brown
counties have never attended nything of
the kind in question and to these especi-
ally we say that you are ignorant of the
great amount of good that is being done
by these same. Institutes.
On Feb. 18th and 14th you Will hear
practical men talk; those men who have
met and overcome the everyday Difficult
ties of farm life; those men who have
successfully fought against Canada this
ties and raised 80 bushels of. wheat to
the acre; men who become tired of rails
ing scrub stock and went into raisiEo
prize animals which carry off ribbons at
the state fairs; mon who long ago quit
making poor consumptive butter with
its hectic cough and went into making
the golden article which brings a gilt
edge price n any market. Come and
hear men talk-men who started life on
the farm in the sod or log shanty but
who long ago left homes of convenience
and comfort to tell others how to do it
They will tell you how to quit working
to disadvantage and how the farm can
yield much more than man can get out OF
any other vocation. Come to this insti-
tute and see if you cannot get some good
of the painstaklng old farmers, who tried
all their lives to get on top of the farm
instead of having the farm on top OF
them; they will tell you how they did
! 1t.
Every farmer knows that weeds are
detrimental to a grain crop but how
many know how to get rid of weeds?
They will tell you how at this institute
Take the subject of butter making
for instance at this institute you will all
get " fc'''or or pamphlet containing hints
! I will no longer be
necessary to make the slu.>-, :-.,..>>::,,te,1
article miscalled butter, so often held to-
getherby golden threads rsilver threads,
which ever corresponds to the complex
ion OF the maker who evidently believes
in the motto, sin union there IS strength
and which has great muscles of strength
permeating every feature and inamcnt
Tariff or no tariff, democratic or re-
publican, these subjects cut no figure in
| the present hard times. 1t is too much
wheat thai impoverishing our farmers
At his institute, mixed farming and its
beneficial results will be represented.
The spring chicken and the rooster
who has the lungs of an auctioneer and
the tones of foghorn, the weezen-faced
calf and the able-bodied Holstein bull
the frolicsone colt and the sedate and
| matronly brood mare, the sucking pig
and the biggest hog in the trough, the
the lamb, such as the historic Mary had
and the road backed Merino buck, eac:
| and all villa come in for its share of dis.
cussion at this institute.
If you are there the first forenoon OF
the session, you will get an agricultural
book free snd you will find the question
box on hand during the entire session
and If you do not care to ask questions
orally you can write them and put them
in the box and they will be answered
Bring your friends, neighbors, wife and
children and let each get some benefit
out of the Institute.
Remember the ladies are particularly
invited 70 attend these meetings as there
will be many points of interest to them.
HanskA.
A meeting of the stockholders of
Hanska-Linden Creamery was held or
Monday. It developed that the creamery
J had been operated to the satisfaction of
all, and at the present prices the reports
show that the dairy production in the
township amounts to nearly as much as