New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1905-12-27
ST. GEORGE HAS INSTITUTE
Corps of Farm Experts Talk on
Practical Farming.
DIR. Stricken of This City One of
the Speakers.
Farmers in Vicinity of St. George
Appreciative.

A one-day session Of the farmers
institute was held at ST. George Satur-
day and was well attended, by those
living in that vicinity. W. P. Nc
Connell of Mankato, and number of
the other noted farm workers were
present. DR.. Stricken of this city was
present also and talked of the farm
school and the advantages it offers to
the boys and girls of the farm.
l.. A. Sweetef Fairmont, whose word
in relation to the COW and the dairy
interests of the state is beyond all
doubt the best OF any man in the state,
was there to talk to the farmers along
that line. He made good and de-
hvered an interesting address, reply
ing to questions and doing all he could
to make the meeting Of interest to those
who were there.
A. Elliot of Gault, Ontario, who is
sent out by the state to talk to the
farmers On general farming and par
ticularly upon stock raising, is one of
the most practical men the state has
had on the board of speakers. What
he has to say he says as though he
were talking to men on his own farm
and he shows to all that he knows from
experience that what he suggests is
all practical. He interested the
audience very much.
r. A. Schultz was on the program
to talk on shrubs and small fruit.
This is one Of the things that most of
the farmers are very low to take up.
1t is the one of the so called luxuries
of the farm, but if his advise is fol-
lowed there is no reason why the farm
table should not be as attractive from
the variety of fruits and preserves
that are on it as the best table in the
city. He showed that 1t was mostly
the fault of the farmer that he was not
surrounded with these things as they
grow we'll in the state and are easy to
care for and take up but little room
on the farm.
Mr.. Schultz takes the place that was
for SO long filled by Mr.. Somerville,
father of G, W. Somerville, and evil
IDENTIFY has made a thorough study of
the matter he has to deal with.
The corps came to this city from
Sleepy Eye where they held a session
of one day. There were some five
hundred people present at the meeting
in Sleepy Eye, and reports from it are
to the effect that it was very we'll con-
Quoted and of great interest.
1t has been some time since there
was a meeting of the kind in this city,
and the last one was SO poorly attend
that there were people in other districts
that wanted Institutes bad enough to
come out to attend them, and it would
not waste time here.
There is no doubt but that these in
stitutes are good things not only for
the place in which they are held but for
the farmers. There are some farmers
like people in all other branches of
business that cannot be taught, and
then there are others who are anxious
to find out all there is to know, and the
results of this experimental station,
the excellent results of all of these in
structors, who are each specialists
along some particular line, afford an
opportunity for those who care to
learn to get new ideas Or to improve
upon those they have, and they are
glad of the opportunity. ~