The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-01-18
FARMERS INSTITUTE
A Complete Success in Every
Particular.
ATTENDANCE VERY LARGE
The Addresses Given by E. A. Croman, Of
Grass Lake. and Joseph Walsh, Of Port
Huron, were Excellent.

County Farmers Institute opened its
session at Central Hall, last Wednes-
day morning. President G. s. King
was in the chair, and Hon. James
Dunn, secretary, was at his post. Miss
Nellie Michaels was called upon and
treated the company with beautiful
instrumental piece on the piano, after
which the Institute was called to order
and requested to stand while the Di-
vine blessing was invoked.
At first the attendance was not up
to the Standard; and there was some
complaint about slight error this
paper made in the advertising. But
all this was forgotten and proved to be
q mistake long ere noon. The people
poured in from every quarter, and at
the afternoon sessions the large hall
was completely filled. All we need say
about this error is, that if it had any
effect at all, the managers ought to be
thankful. Otherwise an extra hall
would have been necessary and over
flow meetings held.
The chairman first called upon e. A.
| Croman, of Grass Lake, who with the
consent of the Institute substituted a
talk on dairying in place of the silo,
as was noted on the program. The
talk was a fine one. The speaker is q
practical farmer, and knew from ex-
perience what he was talking about.
No one could hear him without gain
ing some good points on how to feed
dairy cows. And when he told the
amount of food milch cow ought to
have each day it was surprise to
many farmers. He treated of the care
of dairy cows, the keeping of the
stables, milking and churning. One
thing he made very plain; no one can
make good butter and not keep things
clean. He said no mixer should
smoke while milking as the milk alb
sorbed the odor and the butter was
tainted. AT the close of his address,
a perfect fusilade of questions was
fired at him from all parts of the room
This address was followed by apaper
presented by Miss Nora Foley, of
Emmett, whose subject was Farm or
City Life for the Farmers Daughter"
Miss Foley's paper was unique in that
she stuck entirely to her text, and not
an irrelevant point was embodied in
the entire discussion. We hope to
make room for the paper in its entirety
in a future issue of the Expositor.
AT the close of this paper the Insti-
tute took recess until the afternoon.
At l: 10 p. m. the Institute was again
called to order. Hon. Elmore Putney
failed to respond to the topic assigned
him on the program. Daniel Foley,
of Emmett, in it's stead, introduced the
question now being discussed of the
division of taxes, so that the corpOr-
ations pay the state tax, and the other
property those of the school and
county. 1t was new question, and
f.Nr n is nnf tnh
but few seemed to know its points and
bearings.
e. A. Croman, was here introduced
and gave an address on live stock. He
discussed their selection, breeding,
feeding and marketing; bringing out
many points of interest and profit to
every farmer. The address was listen
ed to with marked attention until its
close. From the number of questions
fired at him there was every evidence
that none wished him to stop, even
when he wanted to do so.
l.. b. Rice, of Port Huron, was grant
ed the privilege of speaking for the
coming Pan-American Exhibit at Buff
alo. He said no appropriation had yet
been made by Michigan for its exhibit
at this fair, and proposed resolution
which was passed as follows:
Resolved that we the farmers of st.
Clair County, request our senator and
members of the state legislature from
this county, to do all they can to have
liberal sum set aside at the earliest
possible moment that our industrial,
mining, and natural wealth may joint
ly be represented at the Pan American
Exposition to open at Buffalo next
May.
Blanche Parkinson was called upon
for a recitation and the way she rem
dered reading about womans in
vention of woven wire burglar
alarm, and how it worked, brought
down the house. 1t was packed with
fun from beginning to end, and elected
hearty applause at its close.
l.. B. Bice gave short talk on "For-
esty and Tree Culture" which was of
interest to all and caused lively dis
cussiOn and many questions.
The Institute was next treated to a
beautiful drill by little girls from the
primary schools, who had been trained
in this exercise by the Misses Hayes
and Roy, teachers in that department
and Miss Michaels, the pianist. The
drill was new in its features and was
finely executed by the little ones. 1t
was enjoyed by every one and did
much to enliven the hour. What pains
1t must have taken both on the part of
the little ones and the teachers to pre-
pare this exercise. 1t was difficult
drill, and il Misses Hayes and Roy had
grown folks to execute it in place of
children, they would have needed
seven years of practice in place of that
many days. This drill was indeed so
pleasing that it was called for again at
the evening session. And the cheers
that went up at its reproduction was
evidence of its character
The chair appointed Judge Tappan,
ID. Foley, and VIM. Mason a committee
to collect the membership fees from
those present.
The closing item of the afternoon