New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1902-02-26
INSTITUTE WORK.
SUCCESSFUL TWO DAYS WORK OF THE
CORPS or INSTRUCTORS.

lsUccEssFUL TWO DAYS, WORK OF THE
CORPS or INSTRUCTORS.
GOOD ATTENDANCE ON SUNDAY NIGHT.
ADVICE TO FARMERS THAT CANNOT. FAIL
TO DO THEM GOOD.
The present institute force is perhaps
the best that has been sent out by the
state. ALI the men are plain practical
speakers and what they say IS thorough
lsly logical and calculated to be of the
greatest value to all who are interested
in any branch of agriculture. On Sum
day night at the Congregational church
T. B. Terry spoke on .sThe Wife's
Shars" being discourse with the pur.
pose of showing that the women are not
lequal partners with mea in the,rigbt to
spend the money that their CO -labors
accumulate. he didn't say anything
that any woman would be likely to- dis
agree with and made himself thoroughly
popular with the fair sex.
The court room at the court house
was filled Monday morning when the
Institute opened-a splendid compli-
ment to the good sense Of the people
living in the vicinity of this city. The
attendance and attention & was good
throughout the entire session and was
highly appreciated BY all. The first
speaker was B.W. McKeen Of Maine,
who spoke as follows on the
ROTATION OF CROPS.
The matter Of soil and the ability to
produce crops is of the first Importance.
Everything for which the world IS thank
full today comes from the soil. Too
often it has become the custom to con-
tinue the monied crops to the exclusion
of those crops which are necessary to
maintain soil fertility. However rich
the land may be naturally, the persist
ent growing of these monied crops alone
produces a. constant declaration in the
land. Changing the crops by some
good system of rotation will prevent
this undesirable result. Stock should
he kept as we'll as special crops grown
to maintain soil fertility. The natural
soil is composed of finely ground rock,
or mineral matter; and the humus or
decayed vegetable matter. As=all crops
are largely composed of vegetable mat
ter it is important that natural condi-
tions lie maintained. Old cultivated
fields are apt to be deficient in humus,
unless an intelligent system of crop ro-
tation has been kept. AS every crop
will removed portion of this vegetable
matter, so plan the rotation that upon
some part of the farm a crop shall be
growing to increase the productive ca
pacity of the soil. Nature works with
man through this method of rotation,
creating a, sinking fund in the soil of
plant food which can be drawn upon by
the subsequent monied crop. e
We have used very successfully FIVE
year rotation. First of all we spread
the manure more carefully and over
wider areas of land. and. as carefully
| work it into the land. Then we endev-
or to pillow deeper and cultivate more
thoroughly.
Our rotation consists in putting one
fifth of the farm in corn one-fifth into
grain, two if1hs into grasses and the re-
naming fifth into pasture. This system
has not only given us largely increased
crops, but in twelve to fifteen years has
increased the soil fertility seyenty-fve
per cent. He who keeps closest to ma
ture will be most SUCCESSFUL.
SUMMER FEEDING.
A. w. TroW took up the subject Of
summer feeding of cattle to obtain the
best results for the dairy. The questions
of pasture as in former years il almost
eliminated and farmer must now use
other means. He said that his greatest
success came from feeding sweet corn
fodder and Canada peas and pumpkin,
when the grass in the pasture became so
short that it no longer furniahsd the re-
lquired amount Of nutriment. He adj
tvises the feeding Of sweet corn fodder
because it IL better than field corn but
| in the handling Of it it is necessary to
keep it IN small shocks because it easily
spoils. he grows linear the pasture 90
that it may be cut from the field and
thrown over the fence without trouble.
Tn caring for the seed 0f sweet enrnaIt siie