The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1908-02-07
North owosso Farmers Club


ering at the pleasant home OF Mr.. ano
Mrs. F.. Galloway near the Goss
school on Friday last, the occasion
being the meeting of the north Owos-
so Farmers Club. Although 1T turn
ed out to be stormy day, the fam
lilies were all represented but two
besides several visitors. After an
hour or so spent in visiting the LAP
boards were passed and the hostess
served a fine dinner. Then the pres
ident called the meeting to order
and the club sang "Longings for
Home" Messrs. Clapp and Miller
were reported on the sick list, also
one of our honorary members, Mr..
Robertson.
! Mr.. Place read communication
from Mr.. Earle, State Highway Com
missioner, on the subject of using
| the inmates of our state institutions
| to prepare stone for building roads.
The first question on the program
was What is the farmers most val
liable asset? and why?" Mr.. Hender-
son says in his opinion health is the
most valuable, but with it you must
have brains, use judgment about
sowing and harvesting, and selling
your crop to realize the most out of
it.
Does the pure food law protect
the farmer in his sale of his vine
gar? and the public against adulter-
ated acid vinegar?" Mr.. Saver said
he hadn't looked up the law, but
thinks it does, and it should If it
doesn't.
Leland Willoughby recited Faith
er's got the grip"
Your way of washing and oiling
harness." Mr.. Yale says the COM
mon way is to soak the harness in a
tub of soapy water then rub it over
with oil. The oil keeps the water in
and rots the leather, which makes 1T
profitable for the dealer, but Ger
man harness maker who had been
brought up in the leather business,
tells him the proper way is to scrape
the dirt loose and brush with a
coarse brush, then soak it full of
neatsfoot oil, which preserves the
leather.
Does winter feeding of live stock
pay?" Mr.. Smith hadn't gone into it
on an extensive scale, but thought
he had done we'll enough. Mr.. Gal
loway thinks at present high prices of
feed. there isn't much to be made
by feeding especially if you count
time. Only the land is the gamer in
the shape of fertilizer. Mr.. Will
oughby says the men who buy west
ern lambs and ship them here and
feed them claim they double their
money. They are in such a poor
condition that with proper care and
feed they put on flesh rapidly. Mr..
Carson thinks if man went into it
extensively it might pay, a small
gain TO the head, several head would
count up.
Mrs. Clapp gave a select reading
entitled THE Secret Of Boys Leav
ing the Farm" The idea of the piece
was that the city offers more pleas
ures, bigger wages, shorter hours.
The discussion which followed show
ed that while the city worker receiv-
ed more wages he doesn't save as
much as the young man that works
on the farm, and where is the city
man when the factory closes, as as
present?
insecticides for house plants"
Mrs. Smith says to dust them occas-
ionally with insect powder or tobacco
smoke blown among them is helpful,
if you can stand the smoke in the
house. Mrs. Evans says a good show
er bath of strong soap suds is good
or dust with white helebore. Mr..
Place says professional florists dust
their plants with hirethrum.
How does Chinese sewing differ
from ours?' Mrs. Stiles says they
use the needle with the point from
them instead of toward them.
"Is the farmer the backbone of
Mr.. Yale said the re-
cent money panic showed that Wall
Street was the backbone. When they
their money from circula-
ton business was at a standstill.
The farmer ought to be and could be
more of power If they would stand
together.