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mentioned. Mr. Wildey believes that
Higgins and Houghton Lakes in this
district will one day be great summer
resorts.
Prof. Bogue would reforest by plant
ing one or all of dozen hardy trees,
oak, bass wood, Norway pine, etc.
Wednesday Afternoon.
EARN Forestry" was DISGUISE by
George B. Horton, OF Fruit Ridge,
Master of the State Grange. Mr..
Horton followed the ideas, to great
extent, OF papers gone before, and con-
tanned little of specific value that was
new. One strong statement wa" IF
the farmers Of the state OF Michigan
are ever forced to use the peat bed ana
the fagot OF brush for fuel, 1t will be
directly chargeable to the reckless
waste Of the Michigan forests.
Hon. A. M. Brown, OF the State
Board of Agriculture, was In the chair.
After a violin solo by Miss Mabel
Ferry, OF Owosso, "The Care of Poul-
try on the Farm" was discussed by
DR.. Q. A. Waldron, of Tecumseh. Be-
fore DR.. Waldron was called, former
Mayor Morris Osburn extended an in
vitation, on behalf Of the factories Of
the city. to visit any Of the industrial
institutions, informing them that
guides will be furnished by all places
visited.
Miss Ferry gave another violin solo
after whichlDr. Waldron talked, as he
quantity said, ON the "poor old hen. +"
DR.. Waldron urged his hearers to
avoid keeping more than thirty or
forty hens If they did not like poultry
raising, otherwise keep two hundred
or more. Keep hens In the house all
winter long. The space for each hen
In a house should be three or four
square feet and this will be a guide in
building hen houses. Get fiat board
as roost, not curving surface, for a
curved surface means crooked feet and
crooked breastbones. Use slack lime
and sitted coal ashes as germicides
Keep thoroughbred hens only and hens
that will lay white eggs, as the New
Yorkers.Iwill pay three to five cents
more per dozen for white eggs than
brown. Sell to New York rather than
the home market as it pays better
After solo by Miss Faxon, Prof. j.
A. Jeffrey, Of the M. A. G, spoke on
"The Pudding Of the Soil" Pud-
ding, as all farmers know, means the
baking, packing together or breaking.
One cause is the standing Of water. 1t
is also caused by blowing too late. 1t
may be produced by growing crops
year after year without resting the
soil. Good soil is light to the touch.
The grains are so open that the air can
work through although held together
by the moisture of the acids ia the
soil. A deal of good soil Is ike a
sponge.
Prof. Jeffrey's theory as to pudding:
The standing water dissolves the ce.
ment which holds the spongy mass and
che soil falls together and packs. Pud-
ding causes good deal OF trouble be-
cause there is a lack of ventilation and
lack OF means for circulating mois-
ture-both very necessary to the
growth Of plants.
To avoid pudding, do not let your
cattle run loose February and March;
keep the soil well drained, and do not
pillow too late for that too, often causes
pudding. AS far as possible initiate
nature.
Prof. Smith, Of the M. A. O.. . VIZ s
not present to read his paper on New
Folders and Forage Crops" and the
balance of the afternoon was given up
to the discussion of three topics more
or less related: Diseases OF the Dairy
Cow" DR.. G.. w. Dunphy, Quincy
"Diseases OF the Horse" DIR. III. f.
Palmer, Detroit; and parasitic Dis.
eases OF Sheep" DR.. g. A. Waterman,
OF the NJ. A. G.
Woman's Congress.
After a solo by Miss Kanagy, and
devotional exercises lead by Mrs.
Moore, Miss Jennie Buell., OF Ann
Arbor, spoke on "What Do We Work
For" Miss Buell. gave interesting ex-
ampies TO prove that many people
work because they must-they evince
antagonism towards work. President
Ro sevelt has said "Your heart must
be In your work." A good motto is II
will try to do my work better than
well enough" Too many are slipshod
and careless In their methods, but
there are many to whom duty is not
drudgery, but JOY. Such one feels
that only by honest labor can he repa.
re great debt he owes to his creator.
We should be willing to do service for
the sake OF others-not for selfish end
1t Is not hard to toll and endure for
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