Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-01-31

self. He WAS glad, he said, to have q
SON that he could trust and not be
afraid to 90 hand in hand with in
any court. He said: Farmers. edu.
cate your children, keep them OF the
streets. cultivate their minds, and
can assure you that you can trust
them at any and all times" He also,
in the course of his remarks. spoke
Of the good Of . weekly newspaper to
the farmer, tho value of the Henne-
pin canal to Milan, the representa-
ton OF the farmer in congress. and
ended by thanking the audience for
the attention accorded.
| Prefis IN Dairying.
A. A. Buffum read q paper on
profit in Dairying," and his theory.
which seemed to meet with general
approval. was to have good dairy
cows. feed them we'll, keep them in
good quarters, have plenty of water,
regular milking honrs. plenty of salt,
turn them to pasture about the 10th
of May, use of q separator, churn at
So to 60 degrees in summer and 60 to
GA degrees in winter, and under such
observations cows will be OF more
value to dairymen at present. He
also said that to every 16O acres on
farm man should Keep IL or more
cows. He gave the cost of keeping
a COW for one year at $37.83 the
value of butter produced at $49.3S,
leaving a clear profit of $11.5O from
each COW. His paper was full Of
good points and pleased all very
| much.
As Louis Jahns was not present,
j. H. Coolidge, of Galesburg, led the
discussion Of the subject in a very
able manner. L. b. Strayer, of Rock
Island, was asked for a talk on the
separator question and he responded
in a pleasant manner. He told of
his start in the dairy business and
traced his experiences up to the
present time. He said the advant-
ages of a separator were making but
ter without ice. saving of labor.
cream churned at lower tempera-
ture, more butter secured from the
milk than by any other process, aud
finished by talking on the feeding of
cattle. A discussion by j. H. Cool.
idge on the merits of fodder closed
the morning session.
In the Afternoon.
An adjournment was taken
until 1880 o'clock when the meeting
opened with apaper on "Subsoiling''
by l.. b. Kuhn, and the way he mas
tered the subject delighted the au-
dience. He started by saying that
the pillow was the least improved i'm.
plement in the farming line, al
though it had more Importance than
a great many more improved imple-
ments, and the scant returns of crops
told US that something must,be done
and his idea was to subsoil. He
asked the reason why the arid plains
of Nebraska should produce more
grain to the acre than the fertile
plains of Illinois. He said the
cause was water, although we have q
rainfall of "a inches each year and only
Is inches being necessary for crops.
our crops still fail. Soil which is
plowed from 6 to "a inches deep will
absorb one inch of water an hour for
q length of time. He preferred disc
blowing to the usual method and
held his own. w. S. McCulloch,
William F. Crawford and S. w.
Heath followed in q discussion of the
subject. MIR. Kuhn answered all
questions in a courteous way and
soon had many friends among the
farmers. A talk on "a Money Sys.
tenn for the People" by J. G. Osborne,
followed with discussion by w. f.
Eastman ended the afternoon session.
The Evening Session.
The evening session opened with 9
song by Master Charles Stegmaier
and Miss Sadie Heath, which was
we'll rendered, followed with an ex.
cellent paper by E. b. McKeever on
"Moral and Educational Develop.
ment on the Farm" w. S. McCul.
loch read the report of the Farm.
ers' State institute held at Spring.
held Jan. 8. 9 and 10. which showed
good attendance and excellent pa.
pers read on different topics. Fifty.
eight counties were represented by
delegates. he said. out OF 1O2 in the
state. which makes % congressional
districts. and each district elects one
director. these directors having
elected for president John L. Palmer
and secretary j. H. Mills. The
Tenth congressional district elected
J. d. Coolidge, of Galesburg. as di.
rector.
The institute provided for a com.
mittee on experimenting on sub.
soillng to report at the first meeting
OF the institute next year. The com:
mittee consists of NJ. D. Hauberg, w.
S. Mccullough and John A WiIeor