The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1902-01-17

on the necessity of townshipchigh
school, and it is his dream to see such
an institution In operation. He gave
figures showing that the school is per-
fectly feasible. he believes large
covered wagon should be used to trans
port pupils to and from the school.
The subject was we'll discussed.
E. f. Bunting, of Henderson, dis.
cussed the New system of road making;
do we want it? by proxy, as he had
forgotten his spectacles and j. j. Nhel.
an read the article for Mr.. Bunting.
The speaker did not favor ma ,adamiz.
ing country roads as he believed them
too costly. Mr.. Bunting figured out
the amount of state taxes on such roads
and presented enormous totals. Mr..
Bunting discussed the differencies be-
tween the new road law and the old.
He favors the old law. because the path
master under the old has the roads in
terest at heart, while the commission
man on the new has not. He believes
that bicycles and automobiles should be
taxed, as we'll as other vehicles for the
road g support. Those who entered in.
to the good roads discussion were Will.
liam III. White of Venice, Edison Lyman
of Bur ls, Rev. James Mclean of Du.
rand, Hon. Marcus Wilcox of Corunna,
Simeon Anthony, of Venice, o B. Hib-
bard of Durand, A. HI. Owens of Yer.
non, William Cole of Corunna, o. N.
Lamb of Gaines, Nelson West of Yer.
non, o. c. Moore of Corunna, and A.
B. Cook of Maple River.
MIR. Wilcox went after Corunna city
arraigning it for the heavy taxes he has
been forced to pay for cement walks for
his neighbors, etc. w. H. Gilbert, of
Bay City, talked heartily in favor of
stone roads.
Mrs. Katherine Tranchill, of Durand,
gave a recitation next. Miss Irene
Place, of Durand, sang a solo, and was
encored.
w. H. Gilbert, of Bay City, one of the
most successful beet raisers in the state,
gave talk on sugar beets which was a
record breaker for interest. Mr.. Gil
bert says the land should be fitted early
in May. Pant your beets before May
18th; thin and weed when they are two
inches high. Have beet rows eighteen
inches apart, each beet from six to nine
inches apart. Ii land crusts over be-
fore beets come up, break the crust
with peg.tOoth harrow The profits,
when man works himself, should
average s25 to $50 per acre. When he
hires the land he should make $15 to
$50 per acre. Beet pulp for feeding
purposes, is worth $3.50 per ton.
THURSDAY EVENING.
The Thursday evening program was
entirely of literary nature. Mrs. F.
A. Campbell. of Washtenaw county,
gave good talk on What is success?"
After defining it, Mrs Campbell, thot
everything was more favored on the
farm than in the city, including love
and children.
A. b. Cooks paper on Markets and
Marketing" proved that young man to
be, one of the rapidly growing class of
farmers, who farms as much from his
shoulders up as from his shoulders
down. He advises the careful study of
past market reports to govern future
sales of farm products, the selling of
stock, not to home drovers, but to
Chicago jobbers direct, and the pur.
chase of supplies where they could be
purchased cheapest, either of home
merchants or others. He thought farm
products should be marketed as soon
as harvested if they commanded fair
price. He considered IS cents q fair
price for wheat, one dollar good
price for beans, and 40 cents satisfactory
for potatoes.
FRIDAY MORNING.
The following committees were
named, after w. A. Ellis, of Braidwood.
Sanilac county, had given talk
on Dairying and its advantages:
Resolutions-A. b. Cook, Maple
River; Earl Stone, Durand; John Patch.
Eel, Vernon.
Election of Officers and Place of
Meeting-A. l.. Chandler, of Corunna;
Mr.. and Mrs. James Marks, Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Clark, of Vernon.
The officers elect for the ensuing year
are: President, Floyd Owens, Vernon;
Secy., j. J. Whelan, Vernon; president
Women's Section, Miss Ella Potter,