New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1894-02-21
FARMERS GET ADVICE.
Seven or Eight Hundred of Them Attend
the Institute.

Believing that tho farmers CT Brown
county would be interested ina detailed
report of the Farmers Institute held here
last week, we have given the report
furnished to us on request by Prof. Shaw
of the State Agricultural School.
Supt. Gregg opened the morning session
exactly on time, at 10 o'clock. This was
in keeping with the usual mode Of op5n-
ING meetings, and it is no doubt one of
the elements that has led to their sue
cess. They always open and close
promptly on time. Mr.. Gregg was
pleased that the German element was so
largely represented at this meeting. 1t
was an element that was furnishing ma
nv of the best farmers in the State, he
said.
Theodore Louis was then introduced
and discussed the question of growing
corn. He said three things were essen
tial to successful corn growing. These
were good seed, good cultivation, and
early maturity. He then described his
method of saving seed. He braids the
ears together and hangs them up on wires
strung in the, summer kitchen. where it
oets quite drv before winter. He showed
how freezing and thawing alternately in
iured seed corn, and illustrated the diff
ference in the strength Of root growth
lust after termination. Mr.. Louis has
GREAT faith in the future of the corn in
dustrv in Minnesota. In his judgment it
should be grown to a far greater extent
than it is at present time.
Supt. Gregg then described the points
of a good COW. The farmers of Mime
sofa are a grand lot of men, but the COWS
as class are not worthy of such owners.
Some had built good barns and then put
inferior COWS in them. This he thought
was a great mistake. Good COWS were
not necessarily expensive. They would
come from all the dairy breeds, and the
grades of these, and they would also
come from common herds. MIR. Gregg
then showed in detail the points ola good
dairy COW. He laid the most stress in
having good depth in the hind flank,
good steep pitch in the crops, good de-
velopment of the udder and good devel-
onment of the milk veins with large holes
or milk wells through which the veins
lead into the hcdy. =.
The Hon. G.. T. Powell followed with
an address on the dairy. He was glad
Mr.. Louis had talked ON growing corn
as corn was a most useful food in con-
nection with the dairy. Dairylng was
valuable not only because of the direct
returns which it brought, but also be-
cause of the consumption of foods which
it necessitated. In New York with $780,
900 COWS a vast majority Of them were
not paying their way, because of mat
tentlon to their breeding and selection
1t was possible therefore to lose money
in dairving. hence the Importance Of BE-.
ginning right On the other hand there
were some farmers who made more than
400 pounds of butter from their cows
Where this could be done or anything
like it, there was money in dairying, ,ano
lots of it in careful dairying. Mr.. Pow
ell narrated the great success that had at
tended dairying at Bovina, New York
Some farmers in that small place were
getting an income of more than a hun
dred dollars from some of their COWS pei
year.
w. L. Carlyle then tested some sam
pies of milk. Last summer he had tes
ted over five thousand samples. and hac
often found that the COW which gave the
most milk was really the poorest butter
COW in the herd. The COW that gave the
best milk, and which was the most per
sistent milker was the best COW. It was
exceedingly important therefore that the
farmers knew which were the best but
ter producers. This mi ght easily be as
certained by the use of the Babcock test
The samples tested by this instrument
gave respectively 8, 2, 6, 6, and 8, pei
cent. The amount of butter would be
one-ffth more as there were some Others
substances other than the butter fat ir
the butter.
Prof. Shaw then spoke for few min
utes on the work that was being done al
the farm school at St. Anthony Park
The attendance, including those who tool
a dairy course the present winter, wa
about two hundred, larger number
than any other farm school had in th'
United States. He, like the others, wa