The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-01-30
A FARMERS SCHOOL
The Third Visit of the Farmers
Institute Corps Occurred
Last Week.
1T Was Excellently Attended
and the Farmers Received
Many Good Ideas.
1T Was Excellently Attended.

Many Good Ideas.
! This is the third visit Of the Institute
corps Princeton, and that good work
has been done in the past, and also a
treat expected at this visit, was proved
by an attendance of at least three hun
dred and twenty-five people; so that
our court room was pretty we'll taxed.
Supt. Gregg presided, and having been
shouted at across the street several
times, by men who wished to know
whether. Theodore Louis was present,
he concluded that Mr.. Louis would be
acceptable as the first speaker
/ Mr.. Louis said that adaptability to the
business lies at the foundation of sue
cess, in swine culture. 1t was a bless
Ling, he believed, that chinch bugs
came and prices fell, because force Of
circumstances, changed many a man
who would not otherwise make the
movement, into a stock raiser. Sell
ing grain is only selling the farm by
degrees. Fertility is held by animal
husbandry alone. He gave a very
vivid description Of the ordinary shell
ter for swine. AS it takes two and a
half pounds of food a day for hum
dred pound shoat merely to existupon,
no gain can be made upon even three
pounds a day, unless the hog is in
warm quarters. He took up the con
struction, ventilation, cleanliness, ETC.,
of hog houses.
Mrs. Tilson followed upon the sub
ject of poultry. She told about meet
ing a poultry woman at Elk River,
who not only paid dear for experience,
but after having also paid for the food
consumed by her fowls, had nice
money profit left last year. Mrs. Til
son has never yet been in a Minnesota
town where she has not found at least
one person, clearing a dollar year
per hen. What one has done. others
can do. But it will not be accom-
plished with three OF. four hundred
hens poorly taken care Of. This is
like beginning at the top Of the lad
der and falling off and breaking ones
neck. Begin with fifty good hens we'll
cared for, in a house arranged for
warmth, sunshine, exercise and ease Of
cleaning.
Mr.. Carlyle, the accomplished and
well known dairyman, very entertain
ingly began his discourse by telling of
some COWS which knew more than their
owner. The latter was trying, with a
big club, to drive them away from the
barn into the corn field. From those
frozen stalks they could get nothing
but little heat producing food, and
they might better stay in their stables
than go through the process. The
Sweepstakes COW of the Ayrshire Glass
at the Worlds Fair, lived in a stable
costing not over one hundred dollars.
with a straw roof, but It was warm.
clean and sweet. The latter points
MIR. Carlyle elaborated by reference to
charts and models of his home stable
arrangements. He made very telling
comparison on the subject of cleanli-
ness Especially as the institute was ac-
companied by q cooking school,. We
expect the bread maker to wash her
hands before she begins, yet many a
man milks without doing so, and vet
milk is five times more sensitive than
/ bread.
Mr.. Wedge concluded the morning
session with an account of his boyhood
lack of fruit. He never recollected
seeing an orange until he was ten
years old. Now he is growing almost
everything but peaches and apricots.
He took up the subject Of plums, be-
cause they are SO hardy and take up so
little room. He told how to mulch and
manure, how not to trim and how to
plant. Il we have native plum thick
cts near by we can get a good grove
from their sprouts. Dig down a wav
and see if each sprout is connected
Win the main root, as otherwise. one
may simply get an unreliable Seeding.
The first speaker of the afternoon
was Mr.. Carlyle, on feeding COWS. and
when he thought he had answered all
possible questions, he received an en-
I.core, that is he had to come back to
the platform and answer some more.
Aside from feeding topics, there was
some inquiry concerning blackleg, and
those who have cattle suffering from
/ it, were advised to write to DIR. M. H.
Reynolds, State Experiment Station,
st. Anthony Park. At the close. Mr..
Gregg recalled the days when he fed
with a scoop, as it were, too well but
not wisely. = Mr.. Mcconnell enlivened
the afternoon with one of his choice
l'songs, entitled Killarney.n
Mr.. Wedge opened his afternoon re-
marks by mentioning circumstance