The Billings gazette., 1903-11-13

| SLmPo maIIST OI COOkluS potatoes
was also gone into. In the opinion OF
Miss Harkins potatoes are never so
healthful and nutritious as when cook
ed or baked with the skins on. Not
only are they more wholesome, she
said. but they have a better flavor
than those cooked in any other way.
Milk and products of the dairy she
held to be among the best and cheap
est of animal foods.
Fruit Culture.
w. B. Harlan of Como had a lengthy
paper On fruit culture. He described
the kinds of soil and natural condi-
tions best adapted to the culture of
the different varieties of apple trees
and also named many OF the trees
particularly suitable for the different
areas in the state where the growing
OF fruit is possible and profitable. The
matter of the care and cultivation OF
trees was gone over thoro (ghiy and
also the subject of pruning.
Because of the exhaustive manner
ject and the detail into which he en-
tered it is impossible to give even a
summary of his talk.
At it's conclusion many of those pres
ent asked the speaker questions and
related past failures that had attended
their efforts to grow trees and requested
his advice on various matters apper-
tanning to the subject of his lecture.
Among those who took advantage OF
the opportunity to acquire knowledge
was 1. D. O'Donnell, who told OF sew
eral very bad endings of efforts made
by him to grow trees.
Sheep Feeding.
Professor Linfield closed the meet
experiments that have been made at
the experiment station. The principal
idea he sought to convey was that good
profits could be made by home feed
ing and that the sheep finished in
Montana we're the equal Of any pro-
duced anywhere in the United States.
While some might think it poor in
vestment, he said that hay and grain
fed to sheep in rational quantities
in no other way. He gave the amounts
of each that have been found produc-
tive of the best results and closed
by calling attention to bulletin No. AZ,
issued by the experiment station,
which gives the results in detail of a
band of sheep fed there for market.
He said that copies of the bulletin
could be secured upon application and
recommended all interested in the sub
ject to send for some, as it contained
facts and information valuable to
sheepmen all over the state.
OF those present not few expressed
regret that no night session was held,
as. they said they would like to attena
again, having been very agreeably dis
appointed in that of the afternoon.
Matter Of Education.
Professor Linfield said last night
that while he had hoped for larger
attendance of farmers, he was not
discouraged. The experience OF a
dozen years had taught him that time
and patience were required to educate
the farmer to a realization OF the
benefits to be gained by attendance
upon and active participation in insti-
tutes. By keeping them up each year
interest in them was aroused and when
once the aims, objects and accomplish
ments of the institutes were under
stood farmers would flock to them
and each succeeding year would be
more eager for their occurrence. He
cited instances in other fields where
ne had labored and said that with the
same beginning as in Montana and
with the same apparent Indifference
Institutes had been built up and made
permanent institutions of farming
communities that would now protest
most earnestly were it to be limited
that they would be discontinued. Far
mers were conservative and very slow
to drop old methods for the new, hesi-
tating to try that of which they knew
but little at the expense of that with
which they were familiar.
The Best Remedy for Group.
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