Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-10-19
THE INSTITUTE TRIP.
Being Taken BY 7. 3. Terry Of Ohio,
Through Maine.

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Mr.. T. B. Terry Of Ohio, began his
institute trip in Maine at Alfred on
Tuesday, Oct. 12,' where he spoke on
clover growing and tillage to a fair
audience The subject was one par
ticularly adapted to the locality. and
his hearers manifested such interest in
it. AS he outlined his three years
rotation of clover. potatoes and wheat,
and described the processes by which
he was able to obtain free nitrogen
from the soil and the mineral elements
| from the subsoil with clover, the wis
dom of his plan was fully apparent.
! Secretary McKeen spoke on 18th.
Dairy Herd" He outlined briefly the
difference between the dairy tendency
and the beef tendency in animals, and
expressed his belief that each man
must be governed by what he wishes TO
produce in the purchase of animals,
and that in order to compete along any
| line in the markets of today. special
animals are necessary. He noted with
much pleasure the increasing tendency
toward higher prices for beef an,
steers, but hoped no dairyman would
be led away from his dairy bred ami
mails to the general purpose animal, in
the hopes that in the increased product
of beef or steers it may be a help to
him. His idea was that either beef or
dairy products should be the leading
thought of every farmer; that the
dairyman should work his dairy ami
mails as fully as possible for their pro
ducts along dairy lines, taking the beef
that may come incidently as by
product, really; while those who are
raising beef and steers must have the
beef animals, worked for all they are
worth for the production of beef, with
what milk and butter can be obtained
as by-product.
At Newfield on Wednesday. the
morning meeting was held in the hall
as advertised, and the ladies of the
place Luz IiSHSu Oil SACSiiCllt uiIIlGi III
the afternoon it soon became apparent
that there We're more people present
than the hall would hold, and an ad-
journment to the Methodist church
was made. The church was well filed
in the afternoon. and Mr.. Terry was at
his best. The clover and tillage ques
ton was ably presented. and some
present expressed the conviction that
they should certainly depend more upon
them in the future.
The interest of the day was more
than sustained for evening, the church
being filled to overlooking. Besides
the lecture on Farm Economy by
Secretary McKeen. Mr.. Terry gave
his lecture on Comfort and Con-
venience in the Home outlining his
model plan for heating all the living
rooms in his house with one stove, as
we'll as the many little arrangements
for lessening the work in kitchen and
dining room. He emphasized the nee
cssity for sunlight in the house. saying
it was one of Gods elements for main
tanning us in health.
The meeting at Cumberland, Thurs
day, was well attended there being
stifffel( 4l}l@ Il ~ MtoM0 tions Aie0Ql1
ing. The kecture. by SseIatary McKesa
wass some& hat more aloHe dairy lines
than the Subject would Indicate ME-
Brett, of thea. L. & E. F. Goss Com
pany, Lewiston, exhibited a United
States farnt.separators \
The evening lecture by Mr.. Terry |
was listened to with interest by all.
At Union a good audience assembled |
to hear Mr.. Terry tell of his small |
fruit garden. This lecture is fully |
illustrated by charts. and shows how
he makes clover do the same work for
him here that it does in his potato
fields. In the evening he spoke On
Comfort and Convenience in the
Home" and also upon tillage. His
idea expressed here, that every farmer
owns three farms one in the air above.
one in the subsoil beneath, and one in
the surface soil, and that most farmers
failed to cultivate all but the las.
placed his methods of obtaining nitro
gen from the air and mineral matteH|
from the ,subsoil with clover wildly
before his hearers. Secretary McKeeh |
rode to Hope. and spoke on Methods
of Handling Milk" in the evening.
The attendance at the Richmond
meeting, Saturday, was lessened by the
extreme heat. Mr. Terry gave here his
talk on Manure saving" illustrating
it with pictures of barn and shed. He
believes in cement floors for horses ard
cows and explained how they could he
! laid so as to be durable and comfort
able. Plenty of bedding. with all
manure placed so that it will be level
and can be tramped by the animals. is
| his motto, and as he explained what
he had been able to do with a small
| amount of manure it became apparent
| to all that the saving by his method
was very large. Mr.. Terry's work in
Maine will continue through this month
and he will speak in II counties.