The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-02-23
BIG FARMERS INSTITUTE
MAKING ARRANGEMENTS At STILL
WATER FOR LARGE CROWD
OF PEOPLE
NoTABLEs WHO ARE COMING
Il. ID. Terry, of Ohio; Henry Van
Dresser, of New York; Forest HEM
ry and A. w. Trow, Minne-
sofa, Among the Number.

SALTWATER, Mimi, Feb. 22.-oSpe-
claL)-Arrangements are being perfected
IoH the monster farmers Institute
March ~ and 20. The opera house and
d large store room on the ground floor
IN the same block have been secured for
the TWO days and evenings The store
room Will be used as rest room for tho
farmers. The members of the legisla-
ture from Washington county will invite
the members of the senate and house
TO come over, the electric cars running
every thirty minutes will not cause
them TO lose much time State Superin-
tehdent q. c. Gregg will preside. and
many prominent people will be present.
Hon. T. B. Terry. of Ohio, the best
known institute speaker in America has
maze himself and his farm famous by
ms methods of thorough tillage. surface
cultivation and rotation of crens with
cloVer, Is coming. Within ten years
aIter moving onto his present farm,
then worn out and asserted piece of
rough land, he was: awarded the prize
oHered by the state of Ohio for the
best worked and most productive farm in
Ehe state. Mr.. Terry's talks are of great
value to the farmers of the Northwest.
Henry Van Dresser, of New York, Is
an institute man of long Experience and
enc of the best known iaages of dairy
speciality of high grade poultry, keeping
as many as 5000 laying hens upon his
nome farm, where by expert manage
nient and care he has developed a flock
famous for vigorous health and great
egg production. Mr. Van Dressers sub
jects are: The Dairy Cow" and 1.-The
Possibilities of Poultry
Forest Henry, Of Minnesota, a most
successful grower of corn and hogs. at
inc faa-
to grain raising. He found that he was
losing money until he turned his at
tention to hogs. The result of this
change in farming was that a debt Of
over $1,000 was paid up in seven years,
and he is now the proud owner of three
well conducted farms. s Mr. Henry keeps
from 100 to 200 hogs, but has never lost
one from disease, although hog cholera
has rayaged the. neighboring farms at
various times Mr.. Henry talks on
corn and hogs
A w Trow, the well known cream
cry and dairy man, comes from Free
born county, the banner butter, county
of Minnesota. Mr.. Trow was born on
farm near thesene he now owns and so
successfully operates and, as secretary
of the oldest cooperative creamery in the
state, has paid out nearly a million
dollars to his neighbors. Mr. Trow is
IIIu D6D6NGI WILL Il hat lie
who by the plow would thrive, himself
must either hold or drive. and when at
home generally does both
Hon. NJ. F. Greeley, of South Dakota,
who, In the absence of Supt. Gregg, has
charge of t'R work, has for twenty-one
years been successfully enga gedfih grow
ing mutton sheep and poultry. There is
no warmer friend Of the farm and the
farm home on earth than Mr. Greeley,
and one of his principal talks is devoted
to this subject. His urgent plea to the
young men to get land" bids fair to
equal in fame Horace Greedy S. advice to-
the same class to go West
Bertha Dahl Laws is a widely known
speaker and writer upon subjects relating
to home life. Her experience in hospital
work and her training in the best cook
ing schools in America, added to long ex-
perience as "a teacher and demonstration
along these lines, are qualifications for
this work rarely confined in single
speaker Those competentto judge agree
that Mrs Laws is not surpassed, If
eduaIed by amy speaker upon these sub
iects in the United States
MI. George Fl. Hazard, of st. Paul, at
the request of @Supt. Gregg, will remain
here on the ground about a week cooper
ating with the Commercial club and bust
ness men in arranging details, advising
farmers in this section of the state, and
MANY visitors are looked for from Wis
consin on the opposite side of Lake St.
CroiX.