The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1909-06-11
Burton Farmer Club.

Burton Farmers Club.
On the third day OF June the
| Burton Farmer Clubites. who as
sembled at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Adam Auiler could all say with
| Lowell:
"And what is so rare as day in
June?
| Then. If ever, come perfect days
Then Heaven tries the earth IL 1t be
in tune,
And over it gently her warm ear
lays"
Pres. Bush called the meeting TO
order and Irving Auiler gave us a
| selection on his new self-playing
organ.
Chaplain Love read the twenty
third Psalm and offered prayer fol-
lowing which the club Joined in
singing Song of June"
To the question What is Man
to do With Himself While his Wife
Cleans House?" Mr.. A. l.. Sprinkle
read a very amusing poem.
AS to whether fancy needle work
is an Improvement to the home Mrs.
Peterson says, yes and that girls will
learn to sew something pretty when
darning and mending would be dis
tasteful. Besides they acquire all
the stitches for darning and mend
ing in the lace and embroidery work
for home decoration and wearing ap-
parel
Mrs. Haff thinks fancy work turns
the cold hotel-look of a house into
a home look.
The farmers best asset, Mr.. Love
believes live stock is a necessary
as we'll as valuable asset on the
farm and for the farmer as more
money is received from it than from
the raw materials.
Mr.. Hammond likes clover to
keep the soil loose as well as fertile
but thinks clover and live stock
should go together
Mr.. Reynolds says the soil fertil-
ity should be looked after first, last
and all the time and this leads to
educational lines, IS we would know
the wherefore of things.
All are endowed with lively
working brain but in some it lies
dormant. His opinion Is that the
farmers best asset is his brain and
it should be cultivated to think and
do things intelligently.
Mr.. C. G.. Potter was asked
whether lightning rods protect. He
related an incident as proof that
lightning rods are protection
Mr. F.. H. Rush, secretary of the
Shiawassee Mutual Fire Insurance
Company stated that he formerly did
not think that they were any pro-
lection but since he has had some
experience in the adjustment of fire
insurance losses he has changed his
mind.
He had to pay only one small loss
on building which had the rods on
in several years. He also said that
he and Mr.. E. ]. Cook were making
their own rods. The cable of thir-
ty-two copper wires, the points at Il
dollar apiece and the work will
amount to about eight cents pei
foot, perhaps less.
Mrs. G. E. Potter said that the
Scientific American, an authentic
paper and the NJ. A. C. bulletin, pub.
lished that the steel cable and steel
points are as valuable for the rods as
the copper wire and points. She
said her husband rodded a medium
sized barn for about two dollars and
a half.
Mrs. Half: what is Good SAM
tary Covering for the Kitchen Ia
BILE She uses zinc for both her
table and kitchen cabinet.
Home Rule in Townships Mr..
Reynolds thinks ours is the best
government in the world. 1t has "a
higher or United States government,
state, county, town and local rule
or government. This question APP
plies to the road law, he believes,
and that at present it is as near
right as possible.
Mr.. Rush agrees about the home
rule but he doesn't know about the
success of the present road law.
Messrs. Potter, Hammond and
Love believe in the home rule of the
home road district as formerly, for
the nome people of district usual
ly know what is needed in that To-
cality better than an overseer, who
might be six or eight miles away as
in the present town rule or many
more miles away as in the proposed
county rule of the roads.
Who is the Highest Official Au-
thority in the country Mr.. Ham
mond believes the prosecuting at
torney is, while Mr.. Rush said the
sheriff is elected first on thet icket
also that the judge of probate is
the highest official along that line.
Misses Half and Moulton very
sweetly sang that old hymn 81 Love
to Tell the Story"
Mr.. Love most earnestly desires
and believes that Shiawassee coun-