The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1902-02-21

smell like June clover fields, and taste
like the nectar of the Gods.
Morris Osborn said he had As cows
and sold nearly all the milk to Mr..
Dudley, and was after all the money
there was in it, Thinks he will realize
more out of dairying than from stock OF
| sheep raising.
Mrs. E. j. Cook took very sensible
and hopeful view of the subject of milk
and butter production. Said she: 1--WE
sell our milk to e. F. Dudley and keel
a Jersey COW for family use. We churr
only few weeks in the year, buying
our butter from neighbors. We send
our family washings to Mr. Corey's
laundry and this plan lightens i'm
mensely the labor of the house wife
With the creamery, laundry, telephone,
free rural delivery, books, etc., farm
ers wife's daily life may be made CHEEKY
and happy"
in said: mo definite rule can be given
as to best means of dairy utilization.
Possibly a few farmers might club to-
gether and start a small cheese factory,
or if near a creamery utilize that
But above all things don't make a
drudge of the housewife.
Mr.. A. B. Cook raised the question,
will the selling of milk products in
time deplete the soil?' to which Mr..
Horton said: No, if there was returned
back to the sold the manure products.
Mr.. A. L. Chandler suggested a
strainer over the top of the milk pail;
also the free use of lime in the stable,
and too be careful that milk is not kept
near stables. sleeping rooms, or where it
can absorb unhealthy exhalations.
Mr.. R. P. Bigelow advocated the use
of cotton seed which can be gotten
through Fairbanks. Chicago, for from
$25 to 500 ton, but be careful in feed
ing it.
Mr.. Chandler gave a simple method
for testing cream. Get blue litmus
paper at the drug store, and if the cream
turns it red, there is acid enough TO
turn the cream quickly into butter"
The association expressed its apprecia-
ton of Mr.. Horizons services by tender
ing him rising vote of thanks, on
motion of A. B. Cook.
The nominating committee reported
as follows:
For president-John Bilhimer, Oak
Grove
Vice president-W Saver Jr North
Owosso.
Secretary Frank Clark Vernon.
Treasurer-G. c. Potter Burton.
A short conference on, How to Push
the Organization of Clubs in the County,
was engaged in by w. H. White, A. B.
Cook, p. B. Reynolds and Mrs. Smith,
of Livingston Co, and the concensus of
opinion was that the best way to do it,
was for all clubs to go right about the
work of local agitation, education and
evangelization- along this line.
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.
The last session opened with the
church packed full of people many of
them of course citizens and business
meli,
Mr. c. w Jennings spoke of the en-
terprise of Z. F. Dudley Of his interest in
+I,o fo,,,,o,. o,J of hi, l;ba,.o1 i+,- -, co,,
tributing to the table needs of the ban
quet committee He then introduced
Harry Cole who by clever trick of
legerdemain showed the farmers how to
increase the egg product of the farm.
This was followed by an instrumental
duet by Harald and Donna Richardson.
Hon. f. M. Shepard then read paper
on THE most Profitable Phase of Live
stock Husbandry on the Farm He
said
With regard to the relative profits
of live stock. husbandry from money
making standpoint as compared with
that OF other things on the farm
think / can safely affirm that for the
last few years at least there has been
no one thing that could at all compare
with the protits,of stock raising when
you come to consider the amount of
work bestowed.
Did the man who raised beans and
had to go through the various forms of
hard labor in planting, cultivating,
pulling, forking out and threshing,
make his money as easily as the one
who kept some good cows and sold the
milk or cream? My farmer friends,
you have heritage-one of the most
noble which God has given to man.
When / look over this beautiful land
and see the fine buildings, the smiling
orchards, the sunny fields, and the
many things that tend to mans CON-
fort and happiness here, 1 often won
der II people realize the Importance Of
the trust committed to their care.
Do they return to the soil an equiv
alent for the bountiful harvests with
which their stately barns are filed,
and for the rich fruits with which
their orchards and gardens are loaded?