The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1905-09-06
PICNIC
American Society of Equity
a Grand Success.
From Wednesdays Daily.)

American Society of Equity held q
nicric at Kirkland today which was
ron attended and highly enjoyed
Their train started at La Vale al
Q.90 and by the time it reached
Baraboo standing room was at a
nremium. Others poured in on the
raoular trains and in wagons until
4bp spacious gr unds were well
fned The La Vale brass band
furnished excellent music, and
everybody was in good spirits. After
thew had deposited their lunch
baskets-and such lunch baskets
and everybody had shaken hands
with everybody else, they gathered
abo1t the bird mound in front of
tke large dining hall, and the
regular program tor the day was
reeled off.
4 picked choir of an even dozen
good voices sang America, and then
the president of the day, W. Apple,
introduced the principal speaker,
Rev. F. W. Harris of Necedah. He
sad, in part: Il can see no reason
vhv the farmer should say to him
self / have raised this crop of oats,
and now must sell it for what some
other person is willing TO give me.
Why should he not sit down at his
desk, like any other business man
and figure like this: My crop of
o. s has now cost nae so much for
seed, blowing, sowing, harvesting
and threshing. My ground isworth
50 sOmuch, ought to have a certain
Dercentage on the investment, and
then must have a certain profit
over and above this to pay me for
my business risk and for bossing the
= ob. To put me right, must sell
his oat crop for such and such a
PRICE. That is the way manu-
tacturers figure, and that is the
right system. Of course the farmer
sometimes gets more than a reason
ableprofit, and that is wrong. He
ought to have a certain and almost
fixed profit on what he produces. "
He urged his audience to the
necessity of higher education of
themselves and their families, say
ing that there is no reason why a
farmer should not have a college
3 education, as we'll as the profession
dman. His remarks were enlivened
0y many apt stories and amusing
anecdotes, and we're heartily ap-
pauded.
With the close of Mr.. Harris
speech, the crowd was made happy
0F the announcement that it was
dinner time. Then those enormous
lunch baskets were opened, and
Such spread as was made of things
good to eat. Chicken, fried, boiled,
@Eed and pied; pickles cake, pie
aud the greatest lot of miscellan-
eOus delicacies and substantials
mat has gladdened the dYspeptiC
gaze OF city man for many a day.
"nen It come to good things to eat,
will put the housewives of Sauk
county against the whole world and
win the bet.
Alter the dinner hour the crowd
again gathered about the speakers
stand and listened to a speech from
w. CrawIey, on the effects and
purposes of this society of farmers,
'leoocietY of Equity. The princi-
SeS underlying the organization
were fully explained and those
present who were not already
members we're urged to identity
themselves with it.
5Tof. G. W. Snyder, county su-
gsFntendent of schools, spoke on
4 ~e value of more scientific know
FOSe 10 the farmer. He showed
'oaI nearly all the improved meth
vOs now in vogue, came from sys-
"0atic and scientific experimental
,"0' A college educa tion for the
'"ner IS no longer a luxury, it is a
~''5sS,ty. He urged his hearers to
S'a-o 07 the public schools as the
~ pace on earth for the laying
"''Ae foundation tor thorough edu-
IN~on. His remarks were so prac-
Il ~'@ and forceful that they left a