The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1897-01-05

its workings etc, which were close.
ly listened to by his large audience
of intelligent farmers.
Following Mr.. Ellis, MIR. II. w.
Stiers gave Il good talk on actual
experiments as made by himself in
regard to the raising of crops US
ing different ingredients Of fertili-
zer, and the results aCcruing from
the experiments and showing that
he received the best results from
clover as Il fertilizer as against the
so called commercial fertilizer.
The fifth topic on the program
EARLY MATURITY IN oURANIMALs
Its VALUE AND HOW OBTAINED
assigned to S. II. Todd, is a subject
in which every farmer is much in-
terested. Mr.. Todd gave an oX-
haustive tXplauutiOn of his own
experiments on his own farm, and
his experience in this line has been
thorough, and his discourse wos
listened TO with close attention and
we have no doubt his plain farmer
talk on this important subject will
bear good fruit, if our farmers who
had the opportunity of listening 20
Mr.. Todd will only follow, at least,
to small extent, bis suggestions.
Owing to the absence Of Mrs. j.
II. Dye her topic was passed over
and Mrs. Robert Longstreth of
Union Furnace read a paper er-
titled
WHY AM a FARMERS WIFE
which was SO ably written, and eX-
preston so brilliant that we deem
it an honor to be able to give it in
full in our next Issue, Friday Jan
uary Sth, and advise all of our
readers who had not the pleasure Of
listening to Mrs. Longstreth's
brilliant perioralions on "Why !
am u Farmers Wife" ut the Insti-
tute to get a copy of the next issue
{ the Ohio Democrat and read it,
Atthe conclusion Of Mrs. Long
streth'S paper the Institute ad.
jgurnel until 7p. IN.
EVENING SESSION JANUARY Ith.
The evening session was opened
by S. II. Todd who hal the subject
WHICH OF TuETHEEE IS THE MORE
IMPORTANT; FARM CROPS, TIE
BOYS AND GIRLS, OR TIE STOCK
which had been assigned to him.
Mr.. Todd said in substance that the
subject was peculiar one and on
first glance we would all say hat
the Boys aud Girls should not be
cla5sed with stock, tut said Mr..
Todd, 81 will try and show you
that you think more Of your stock
than of the children" he then went
on and gave several Illustrations,
some Of which were quite witty,
sh owing that we dO,uuiutentiDnaily |
Of course, think more Of cur stock |
than we do Of the boys and girls,
one of his illustrations for instance,
he says we send our lojs to school /.
never inquire what kind of Il
teacher he has nor visit the school |
or inquire whether they were learn
ing anything or not, while ut the |
same time We go 10 the barn see |
that the stock is well fed, get well |
beddcd, and in general receive the |
best OF care while the children are !
left to shift for themselves TO grow |
up to manhood and womanhoOd as .
best they can. Another iiiustra.
tian is that Of giving the boys aud
girls something of responsibility 10
do, so that they will feel that they
have something to live for, it will
make better men and women. 1t
would be impossible for US to 60 in
10 detail suffice il to say that Mf.
Todd gave Il practical talk that |
meets the approval all right think +,
Ing fathers and IN" theirs.
The Logan Quariettc then
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