The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1900-01-12

1 ment The invention or binders alone mas
worked miracles. Then take the railroads,
the wonderful improvements made by them
have been made for the people and they
deserve much credit for the great comfort.
In our own state our railroads are equal to
| 1-l9 of the railroads OF the country. We
want more of them; let's encourage them;
let's not put black eye on them. Then
take the matter of printing, thro this chan
mel alone the farmers are wonderfully
blessed by the valuable information brought
into their very homes. l believe in organ
izaton, in farmers clubs, in churches, and
in schools. It's necessary everywhere.
Cooperation cannot be dispensed with In
anything that's good. believe in town.
ship, county, state, and national organize
tions, and at the present time think we
have national organization that looks well
after the welfare of the farmers and realizes
that unless the farmers are well off no one
Is very we'll off. Farmers are sometimes
afraid to cooperate for fear they will offend
some one. They do not need to be afraid
of offending business men; they will take
care of themselves. We used to work
harder to accomplish the same amount or
work than Is necessary today. The many
inventions have enabled us to use them to
save ourselves. So now let us dare 10 do
business in the same way. Let us use
organization as we use our binders, to save
unnecessary work and expense. Let US
buy the Irvine for Shiawassee all at one
time and direct from manufacturers. Then,
we should use more bran on our farms
Let us buy In car load lots from the western
mills. BY so doing we can save quarter
OF cent pound on every pound laid down
In the county.
In discussing Mr.. Potters address Mr.. r.
M. Whelan took occasion to differ with him
on some points, and made some humorous
charges against that gentleman which were
all thoroughly enjoyed by the club mem
bers present. Mr.. w. HI. White, with the
story of the English co operation societies
in mind, thot a much greater success than
these even could be attained by Shiawassee
farmers If they would only organize.
Mr.. Gibbs, however, believes In the towns
and cities, as he put it. He said we are all
working and building for posterity.' II we
can keep few merchants busy by little
extra cost 1t would be benefit to us In the
end. There are two sides to the question
as to every other. Everything is moving
along now in nice quiet sort of a way just
as they are, and he guessed that we are just
as we'll of as If we turned everything upside
down.
The question question box was in the
hands Of Mr.. Thos. Cooling, of the North
Vernon Club, and was well handled. Some
of the most interesting questions had been
assigned to different speakers and no time
was lost when 1t came to responding to
them. After the first four questions were
answered, however, rather than let this
feature take up too much time the next
part of the program was taken up. W. h.
White answered the question, "Do you
find that it pays to subsoil for the ordinary
CROP" by saying that it depended altogether
on the soil. Mr.. Potter answering the ques-
ton, (which is more beneficial to the clubs,
reports of the club meeting In the local
newspapers or in the club department of
fetal to have them in both, and assured bis
listners that he read them not only in the
Michigan Farmer but in the local papers,
mentioning the journal and THE Owosso
TIMES among the list, then at the mention
of the latter paper, in his characteristic
style promptly apolOgized for letting his
politics become known. Il. ID. Wiltse in
response to his question said he regarded
the relation of the county organization of
farmers club to the local organizations as a
parental relation, while the relation of all
to the state organization was somewhat like
that of the parts of half built house 20 a
completed structure. AS to whether or not
farmers should go before the state legislature
and ask fer grain inspectors John Patched
thOt that they should, and yet was afraid
they would have to pay as much in the end
tor the inspectors, as they lost at the pres
ent time by incorrect grading.
''The objects of the club movement and
How Best Accomplish them," was the sub
ject Of broad minded paper written by
Mrs. Floyd Owen. After calling attention
to the now widely spreading movement for
the organization of farmers clubs, the fact
that the majority Of the population Of the
country is embraced In the farming class and
that on them more than any other one class
depends the prosperity of the rest of the
country. she made the assertion that the
farmers were the last to DO benefited by
any legislation and presented as the cause OF
this state of affairs the fact that the farmers
OF the county are unorgsnized. Other In
terests are we'll organized and demand Iegis-
lation In their favor. The farmers inter
ests should also be we'll organized to secure
favorable legislation. Thro united effort
for instance, free rural mail delivery could
be secured for all instead of for limited
few. But there Is also another object which
the farmers clubs should teek after, and
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