The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-10-15
TELLS OF THEIR TRIP
c. c. Dye, of Woodland Attended the
Farmers National Congress at
Madison, Wisconsin.


Farmers National Congress at
Madison, Wisconsin.
Hon. G. G. Dye, of Woodland town
ship, recently attended the Farmers
National Congress which met at Madi-
son, Wis, and tell us he had splendid
time while there, being accompanied by
mis- wife. Mr.. Dye takes great inter-
est in road work and while in Wiscon-
sin met a number of the good roads men
OF that state who were greatly
taken up with his road work and
arranged to secure number of
views of roads which Mr.. Dye has made
in this county. Having promised to
tell his friends about his trip Mr.. Dye
kindly writes to The Reporter as fol-
| lows:
EDITOR LEON REPORTER:
| will give you little account of the
trip that my wife and | made to Madi-
son, Wisconsin recently. We left Hum
estoD September 23rd for Des Moines
and at $ p. N. boarded the Chicago &
Great Western for Dubuque. A wreck
on the road detained us about four
hours, so we could not get train for
Madison, Wisconsin, and we had to
wait in Dubuque all day.
! Dubuque is quite city; it is clean
and the people are enterprising. | went
to the cemetery and visited the graves
of Henderson and Allison. A small
marble slab and flag is all that marks
the grave of Henderson. Allison lies
beside his two wives and John Allison
suppose his father-and they are
marked by large block of marble. 1t
is beautiful cemetery, situated on
high hill above the Mississippi. l
thought of the greatness of these two
men as | stood by their graves. 1t even
seemed to me that the father of waters
was paying honor to them as it glided
softly by a few hundred feet below.
We reached Madison, Wisconsin,
about 10 p. m. the oath and were taken
to Mrs. fuckers, an old schoolmate of
my wife's, where we were royalty enter
tanned during our stay in Madison.
Madison is a beautiful city of $4,000
or 10000 inhabitants, situated between
two beautiful lakes some three or four
miles across. It's opposite shores are
covered with beautiful trees under
which are many pretty cottages that
are occupied in the summer. We took
a ride across them which we enjoyed
very much. We missed seeing and
hearing Taft speak by being delayed by
the wreck. He was greeted by very
large crowd. But we were there in
time to see and hear Bryan. He was
also greeted by a very large crowd.
The Farmers National Congress was
royalty entertained by the people of
Madison. Prof. Moore, the corn man at
the Agricultural College, made an in
teresting talk on corn and grains.
They are breeding pure seed grains.
He says the barley, by being pure bred,
is worth 70 cents more on the bushel
for mailing purposes and they have
doubled the yield in bushels and quail
ity on corn. They now have 1000
energetic boys raising pure seed corn.
The college keeps in touch with them
and any one wanting pure bred seed
corn the college refers them to these
boys. They have increased the size of
their corn and made it earlier SO it will
ripen in their short seasons.
Miss Charlton, of Ames College, who
teaches domestic science in extension
work in Iowa, made a fine talk on
"The Other Side of Life" Our Farm
ers' Institute would do we'll to get her
to talk to them. Mrs. Laws, of Wiscon-
sin, lady who has been engaged in in
stitute work for years, gave fine talk
on "Our Country schools" The Con-
their talks which will be printed in the
Congress Journal. hope to get them
before our people some time.
DR.. Russell lectured on tuberculosis
, and killed two COWS that had the dis
nd oh hn nd
planned many things about it to us.
The Congress met in the different
buildings of the Agricultural College
there and everywhere are very inter,
esting. Wisconsin being dairy state
the dairy was we'll equipped. They
= gave US lunch there and I never
drank better buttermilk and Pasteur
+ lied milk, and their butter and cheese
was fine.
These colleges are doing a great
. thing for the boys and girls. Nearly
all of them are anxious to get back to
, the farm to put in practice what they
: have learned. They are taught to cool
! in scientific way and everything is
more wholesome. The boys are anxious
: to make dads farm produce larger
! crops.
: met o. E. Hulls brother-in-law. He
is manager of the Democrat, the largest
Z printing establishment in Madison. He
had heard of my being road man anc
he wanted me to meet some of theil
state road men. He took me to theil
offices and we soon were exchanging
: road ideas. l gave them my papers or
road work, and gave them some of the
photos of my dragged roads. They
haven't many nice dragged roads yet
y He wants to talk it and show the
: dragged roads in Iowa. Their state