The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-02-26

m.u ut of Mr.. Mcbride that the Owosso
Su ;ar Co. had treated the farmers fairly
an tried to do the best possible by
them and were just as anxious the
farmer should profit by the crop as the
farmer was himself Mr.. Smith believes
the farmer is not in need of President
Roosevelt's "uplift' commission.
Prof Huston of Chicago showed by
charts and photographs the result of the
using of full fertilizers, fertilizers with
one element omitted and the result
where no fertilizer was used. The re-
suits were plain and his talk will
probably induce many to use fertilizer.
Mr.. Dayis was again called on to tell
about growing the corn crop. He said
five things were necessary for the best
results in corn growing: First, soil
with food in it; second, a water level;
third, seed bed properly prepaid;
fourth, good seed properly distributed;
fifth, proper cultivation. He told only
of the preparation of the ground. With
ground prepared so as to conserve the
moisture, the corn crop will be affected
little even without rain. First, use
disc harrow to the depth of 3 or a
inches; this will pulverize the soil .and
when disced the ground will be one
third easier to pillow. After discing
plow with 10 inch or 14.Inch plow and
turn furrow just as wide as the plow,
never leaving any place untouched by
the plow and if the pillow jumps go back
and over the spot again. Mr.. Davis
advised planting kernels to the hill,
hills feet inches apart.
Horatio s. Earle, State highway COM
missioner, was called on to tell some
thing of the building of roads and why
the county road system should be
adopted. Mr.. Earle, as everybody
knows, is fluent and interesting talker
and intensely interested in any subject
he takes up He said he had talked
roads until it would seem like paradise
to get away from it for little while
even though he should never want to
lose his interest in it. But he hopes
soon to be taking up the subject OF
boys" and putting in his time and
energy in their behalf Mr.. Earle
praised the roads of Indiana, said no
state in the Union had better gravel
pits than Michigan-in fact, the gravel
ha hn md
iron mines; good roads made with it
would make difference Of $35 an acre
in the value of the farms. Mr.. Earle
repeated what he has said to Shiawas-
see county people that every part Of
every street or road belonged to the
people of the United States and all had
the right to use it, none to obstruct or
spoil it, Mr.. Earle demonstrated how
to make culverts without paying the
big prices for material asked in some
communities, how to make road rollers
without being robbed by Chicago
firm, explained that Detroit paid one
half as much as all the rest of the state
for the building of good roads, and
Wayne, Saginaw, Kent and Houghton
counties one-half of all that was paid,
and he could not understand why the
farmers of the State should not be TAX
ing advantage of this. Michigan built
20 miles of good roads in 1905, 40 miles
in 1906, 80 miles in 1907, 100 miles in
1908 and at this rate in 8 years all of
the 1000 miles of roads in Michigan
would be good and at the lowest cost
per mile of any state in the United
States, about $500, while New York has
built at a cost of $500 mile and
other states at nearly as great a cost.
Saginaw County built 81 miles of stone
road last year and will do so againithis
year and the value of the land There
was becoming enormous. Mr.. Earle
showed with stereoptican views in
the evening the benifits of good roads
and proved to the crowd present that it
would be grand thing if all the high
ways were built and maintained as
most of the state reward roads are.
500 Reward, 500