Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-02-19
OF THE FARM
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The Rock Island County Fermers'
institute held another i~ntstesting
session in the town hall at Milan
yesterday. The morning session
Opened with . selection By . male
Quartet followed BY prayer BY Rev.
j. B. Rutler. An address Of well
come to the visitors was given by
Rev. d T. Robertson, followed with
q response by ex-senator W. F. Craw-
ford. A. A. Bufum gave Q paper on
..DairyiDg." holding the idea that .
good dairy GOV should weigh from
1900 to 1900 pounds, and give milk
10 months ont Of IL. Milking should
be done at regular hours, and when
the COW has outlived her usefulness %
q milk producer she should be sold to
the butcher. The paper was dis
cussed by G. W. McCsskrin. W. F.
Hamilton, 8. w. Heath and L. =.
Strayer. This ended the morning
session.
After dinner B. F. Fountain read .
paper on Farm Implemente." Mr..
Fountain explained the correct use
of all farm machines, and also
ious work on Q farm, beginning with
the use of fertilizer, seeders and
seeding corn crop, plows, harrows.
binders, and closed the paper By say
ing that brains were essential to sue
cessful farming, and that the farm
ers had waited for confidence and
it had come and gone. leaving mem.
cries behind in great chunks. A
discussion followed in which z.
Kyle. S. W. Heath. and DR.. Lyford.
of Port Byron, took part. DR.. Ly-
ford as chairman of the delegates to
the institute at Galesburg read . re-
port OF the work accomplished, and
it was received and placed or file.
At $50 O'Clock W. +. Hamilton, Of
Galesburg. presented . paper on the
Depression in the Price Of Farm
Products. the Cause and Remedy"
He said that during the past 10 years
Brazil. Africa. Australia, India. Ar
gentine Republic, British America
and Mexico had added 14,600,0 600
acres Of fa, m lard to their former
acreage, and this increase 10 farm
products together with their cheap
labor was the reason America and
her well paid labor could not COM
pete with them in their prices. He
held that the families in Russia and
India had made o demand for wheat.
Another cause was that Of under
consump tion and SO many men out
OF labor. He said the main blunder
was the repeal Of the reciprocal
treaty. B. +. Fountain, W. p. Ham,
iltoa and Uncle Lewis Wilson dis.
cussed the question from various
standpoints. The afternoon session
, closed with a paper BY Rev. ID. r.
, Robertson IN Literary Privileges
The paper was quite lengthy and o
short discussion followed, and the
meeting adjourned until Z o'clock.
In the evening Q committee on res.
olutions was named by Chairman
Crawford, composed OF s. w. Heath.
W. S. MOCulloch and B. r. Fountain.
The program opened with q song by
the male quartet, folio wed by q pa.
per by Miss Henrietta Sherrard, OF
Reynolds, IN '.Woman's Ability to
Conduct the Farm"
Womsn On the Farm.
The paper recited was the exper-
fence Of q woman on the farm, per.
forming the same labor IS o man,
and looking after everything. The
paper was open for discussion, but
no one seemed to differ with the au.
thor. The male quartet sang another
selection and responded to an encore.
after which G. w. McCaskrin gave q
talk on why so Many Farmers
Fail" He told in q general way how
to be successful, and said farming
was o q failure. A discussion fol.
lowed by w. s. McCulloch, L. B.
Strayer, j. l.. Vanderslice and Eli
Corbin. w. F. Hamilton then made
a talk on "Clover." He advised
farmers to plant clover on their
farms when they thought that they
were wore out. He explained in .
very clear way why the clover gave
life to the ground. practical
Every Day Education" was the paper
handled by H. W. Buckle. The com.
mittee on resolutions then submitted
its report as follows:
!, Whereas. A bill has been in tro-
duced in the state legislature au-
thoriziDg the establishment Of Q bu.
reau Of farmers institutes, to be q
permanent institution, located Ut
Urbana and controlled by the state
board of agriculture, and SUBJECT to
|, the direction Of said board; and
Whereas, This tends to take the
control Of the institution from ne;
, ther efore be it
Resolved. That We are emphatic
ally opposed to any such legislation.
and that u representative Of
springfield be instructed to oppose
all such Legislation BY every honor
able means in their power.
Il The Y~eaOlution Wsa adontAd uuao.