The Holt County sentinel., 1896-12-04

the improvements must he local, and
must be looked after by the local au-
thOiities.
A farm on q good road is worth more
than one on a bad one. II, he contended,
one horse can draw load of l.0OD
pounds. and on poor road it requires
two horses to draw same load. it is evi-
dent that the farm that is 10 miles from
market on a good road is as near the
market rs the farm that is only five miles
away on bad road. In other words,
that the products of farm that is on a
good road can be hauled to market for
one half the cost of that of farm the
same distance from market on bad
road, and of course worth more money.
As a general rule when the farmer was
busy putting in his crops the roads were
in good condition, and whea the season
came for marketing his products. the
roads were bad. He believed that with
improved highways would come an in
crease of 81 per acre to every farm along
those hig avs.
He took for an example AS to what the
farmer lost by having bad roadsa l20
acre farm. divided into 10 acres each, of
wheat. corn and hay. and showed that
he lost 80 cents per acre on his wheat.
"a cents per acre on his corn and u
cents ON his hay, or a total loss Of s'o on
his 12O acres. or 8 per cent loss on a
81 per acre basis.
He was also opposed to continuing the
narrow tire in use. and with charts and
maps showed the great superiority Of the
broad over the narrow tire. that they
were from IS to 30 per cent lighter, and
hence required less horse power.
He Was in favor of convict labor being
used to make the roads. and thought all
Jail birds should be compelled to work
tn. roads, by breaking macadam, etc.
He was also in favor of state highway
commissioner to look after and make
plans for uniform system of road making
as it is now you have as many different
plans for making roads as you have
Overseers in your county. and when the
fact is known that there are 600 over
secrs in our state. who annually eXpend
S6.COO.OOO in the same time in working
our roads, he thought it about time.
that Missouri was doing something to
ward getting some substantial benefits
from such large expenditure of the tax
payers money.
THE MINISTRY OF FLOWERS
was the opening subject for the evening
program, and goOdly sized audience
was present. to great those who would
take part. The above subject was pre-
sented ty Miss Ella O'FallOn. and open
ed her subject by asking. Did you ever
pause aid think what this world would
be without flowers? How much they
added to the JOY of life and what a dark.
dreary world it would be without them:
she reminded her readers of Him who
said. consider the lilies" Each season
had its peculiar beauty, and spoke Of
the first, with the coming of the Easter
lilies. that seemed to say Il am the re
surrection and the life: the viOlets and
the fragrant spring flowers. the ferns.
Summer cones with her wealth OF roses,
and the sweet peas throw out their fra
GRANGE, and rear their gay heads like an
army with banners
Then comes July. sweet heart of the
year" with her red. red lilies, the pop
pies. With autumn comes the hedge
rows bright with golden rod and as;ers.
the cardinal flowers. and with Noyem-
ber comes the lovely chrysanthemum.
native of a strange country and strange
customs. To how many charitable en-
terprises have they lent their gracious
beauty: she called to mind the beautiful
show of this flower recently made in our
city: she spoke of how flowers through
window culture frightened the home
when Mother Earth was mantled in
snow. She spoke beautifully and touch
ingly Of Memorial day. and the elevat-
ing and refining custom of hOnOring the
memory of the nations dead with flow
ers. 1t was beautiful fact she said
that many of the battle fields around
Richmond. that had been red with blood,
have been whitened with daisies since
the bloody strife: the seed it is thought
were carried there in the hay, fed to the
army horses.
1t is said that the thistle which is gen
orally considered such nuisance, once
saved the whole Scotch nation,by bare
footed soldier stepping on one, gave
loud CRY of pain. which alarmed the
camp of sleeping soldiers. and the enemy
Ory, adopted the flower as their national
emblem.
Flower mission work had become a reg
uiarly organized branch of work in
many philanthropic societies. and cited
a case where flower missioner in one of
our great cities had said that when she
could get miserable tenement family
to tend and care for scarlet geranium.
dirt and squalor vanished. and as long as
she could see the scarlet blaze in the
window she knew all was well within.
In closing her excellent paper, she
said give the children flowers, even il
they were mere tOddlers who would pull
them to pieces the next minute: do not
let them look with wistful eyes and
hearts unsatisfied. The love of flowers
was Unborn i'm every child: encourage it.
let them grow up surrounded by flowers
and the love Of the beautiful cultivated.
DAIRY BUSINESS.
Uncle" John Patterson, of kirksville,
the great butter maker, was then intro
duced. He has been in the dairy busi
ness for many years and knows more
about cows and how to make them give
the greatest quantity of milk for butter
purposes than he was able to tell in the
time assigned him. In the first place
cows should be treated kindly. Though
we'll fed and afterwards roughly treated,
they would not give satisfaction IN eth
n milk or butter.
We do not supply near all the butter
in this state that we consume. yet We
have the best grass and corn land and
The best climate in the world. He
thought the dairy business paid better
han raising cattle for beef. The feed
hat will make pound of beef will make
, pound OF butter. Beef will bring YOU
,nlv :,hnut = cents and first class dairy |