New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1910-01-12
FARMERS INSTITUTE.
Two Days Session Largely Atten-
ded. Lively Interest Mani.
tested by Farmers.
Instructive Subjects.

mers Institute held in this city on Fri
day and Saturday, January It'll and
9Th was decided success both as to
attendance as we'll as to the interest
exhibited at the meetings. The corn
contest held on the last day of the meet
ings aroused exceptional interest
amongst our numerous wide-awake
farmers.
The first session on Friday morning
commenced at ten o'clock and was pre-
sided over by the conductor, VIM. Nc
Connel of Mankato. Fl. ri. Aspden of
Excelsior gave a fine talk. This
young farmer has made success in
dairying and gave the listeners few
Important points in the management
OF dairy farm. he particularly EN-.
phasized the fact that he managed it
so that the calves would come in about
September and October. In this way
he always had his COWS fresh during
the winter and by feeding some grain
during winter the COWS came out bright
and fresh in spring. The value of
having the most milk in winter lies in
fact that at that season the prices of
dairy products are the highest and
consequently this is the most profit
able time to market the dairy products.
Then followed an exhaustive and in
structive address by Mr.. VIM. Suter
of Welcome, on ''The Value of Glover
for Feeding" Mr.. Suter highly re-
commended clover as a valuable fod-
der plant. He gave his method of
growing and curing it and also ad-
vised the three-year rotation as fol-
lows: LIST year, oats and clover, using
the oats as a nurse crop; End year, clo-
yer, cutting two crops from it; 3rd
year pillow under the clover sod and
plant to corn. One advantage in this
rotation is that only one blowing is
necessary. The corn field is not
| ploWed but only disced and on this
the oats and clover are again sown.
The value of the clover is two-fold, it
adds humus to the soil and also gath
ers nitrogen from the air which is al
ways present in the soil, and converts
it into such form that the roots OF
plants can utilize it.
Conductor Mcconnell then called
upon his friend, Hon. J. r. Merely OF
Owatonna, who happened to be present
and asked him to talk on Co-opera-
ton, which he did in a very instruc-
tive manner. Hon. Morley is presi-
dent of the Minnesota Cooperative
Dairy Association.
Following this, Mr.. Earl L. F;nney
OF the Minnesota Experiment Station
gave very interesting talk on the Sc
lection OF seed corn for early maturity
and for big yields. Any farmer can
select his seed corn for early maturity.
| When the ears are commencing to
| ripen, say the middle of September,
then you should go thru the corn field
and open every ear and feel of it. If
sound and hard, and every farmer
knows how an ear of corn feels when it
is mature, then take all these ears and
keep them tor seed. We know that
| ''L:ke Produces Like and therefore
| we can expect that our corn next year
will be all as early as the ears that we
selected. If this selection is kept up
for number of years, the result will
be an entirely new corn, one that is
from one to two weeks earlier than the
variety that we started out with.
The session in the afternoon was
even more nstructive than the one in
the morning, and the attendance was
greater than expected. The session
opened with a question hour and here
was the chance for every one to ask
questions. These proved especially
interesting and were all answered by
the institute workers in the most prac-
tical way. During the course of the
afternoon there were good talks on
corn, live stock and fruit-growing.
At the end of the session the institute
annual was given to every one present
and this certainly is one of the best
ANIMALS ever issued. It was very
pleasing to note the interest taken by
the younger generation in this meeting
and in fact in all the sessions, the boys
and girls OF the public schools were
well represented.
On Saturday morning the meeting
was again opened at ten o 'clock with 3
fair attendance. Mr.. Aspden gave q
talk on the "Growing aud Curing OF
Fodder Corn" He placed special
stress on the two important factors
that are to be considered in the grow
ing Of fodder corn, which are, 1st, to