The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1904-03-25
Oak Grove Farmers Club

aiinost unprecedented blizzard, that
ragged all day. Besides the club mem
bers there were present large number
of invited guests both from city and
country.
After the opening exercises were con-
cluded, we were invited to partake of
most delicious and substantial dinner,
at which all did ample justice. The
dinner hour past the call to order was
heard. The associational topic was first
on the program, Our country schools,
their greatest needs. VIM. Strauch said
he felt that something should be done
inrthe way of consolidation, for the at
tendance was so small that it hardly
paid to run district school. VIM. Cole:
Our country schools should be carried
beyond the eighth grade, instead of
practically expelling the boys just when
they are at an age to take an interest In
the work. Let us have the old fashion
ed district school and keep the boys and
girls in it just as long as they wish to
stay.
A. Wrigley thinks the schools unsat-
isfactory as they are
What farmers wife ought to know.
Mrs. Onyon says she should be good
cook, loving helpmate, a cheerful
home-maker, skilled nurse in time of
illness, a veterinary surgeon, botanist,
a chemist, with such practical ideas as
will enable her to run the farm success
fully if called upon to do so, should be a
good judge of stock, and understand
gardening, dairying and the poultry
business. Should be boy with her
boys and a girl with her daughters, and
during the busiest day be able to plan
for few minutes rest Find time each
day to read and 50 keep up with the
times. Make the most of herself at home
but find time to attend farmers club.
What is the duty of farmer in the
management Of local affairs, in regard
to schools, churches and roads? q
Winnie. We should be workers anG
worshippers Of God, of christianity in
stead of creed. The schools should have
the best thought of the farmers and the
roads are very necessary part of oul
economies, and each member of the
club will do his duty on the road for hi:
own convenience and the public.
E. j. Cook, AS nation we are little
ahead of every other nation and on {
line with God. Our primary schools ar,
what has built us up above other ma
tions and believes a small school can b,
made to advance more rapidly than ;
large one. The country pupils are no
a whit behind the city pupils. Farmer
should be alive to the best interests O
schools and roads.
M. Wilcox, If Mr. Cook lived littl,
nearer Corunna he would not think W.
were on line with God. IF the farm
ers are to keep up the churches, th'
young people must be kept on the farm,
VIM. Cole. Mr.. Chandler, Every MAJ
ought to pay the bills, even though h,
does not go to church. 1t is the duty O
pathmasters to keep the weeds ant
brush cut along the sides of the road.
M. Wilcox, suppose we have all th'
law horse can draw, but donkey car
draw all the justice you can get out oi
it,
o. G. Moore, The highway commits
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the law.
What would be best to give young
man, college education or an eighty
acre farm, paper by Dudley Reynolds
He thought something would depend
upon the taste of the boy, but he in
clined to the idea that college educa
tion would be far ahead of an eight,
acre farm and that the young collegiate
is better fitted to cope with the worlt
than is young man with eighty acre
of land free of debt.
Literature, its uses and abuses,
paper by Mrs. VIM. r. Cole. was yer,
excellent paper and showed how it wa
just as important to choose good read
ing as good companions, and she toll
in her own graphic style how import
ant it is for parents to cultivate in thei
children a taste for pure and elevatinl
literature.
A number of important question
were discussed but this one took tn
lead. Should the cultivation of suga
beetS be encouraged2 j. Eveleth, Yes
a good company has laid out grea
deal of money in building factory AM
the business has brought great deal o
money to the county and last year som
men made a lot of money out of it.
M. Wilcox, under the head of suga
beets, as purely economic question
showed that while the promoters of tn
industry had promised if the farmer
would raise sufficient beets to suppl,
our own nation with sugar, the bust
ness would be second to none in tn
country. Yet government statistic