The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1911-06-22
PROF. wRIGHTs LECTURE
ON SILos AND DAIRYING
lReroiTed by Mr.. l. Il, Chandler.

livered in the Court House last Sat
urday afternoon, was very SHINY
attended, no doubt Oh account of
the farmers being so busy in their
wheat harvest.
His lecture, as we caught IL, was
on general farming instead OF dairy
ing. He started out by saying that
all good problems are first worked
out on paper in the minutest details
and then put into practice, and so
is the so-called book farming. All
successful farmers read and study
farm books and farm papers, and II
il only the ones who don't read at
all that are tagging behind and let
ting their farms run down. Scien-
tiflc and practical farming 20 hand
in hand and are never separated,
When one farmer fails continually
and another right by him succeeds,
there is reason il you will only
look II up.
Our farm lands have doubled in
value In the last ten years, but the
fertility in the soil has decreaced
more than half. Then he asked,
how will our land be found at that
rate when We die and they pass in
to the hands of our children or to
someone else? Who will inherit
this impoverished land and how can
they make II living on il? He said
that Switzerland Is the most noted
dairy country in the world, and yet
1t is only as large as Is OF the ia
counties OF Missouri, aud everybody
knows that Switzerland is half
mountains.
He called attention to the fact
that 30 per cent of all the different
parts of corn, wheat, oats and clover
plants are gotten from the air, and
the other 10 per cent comes from
the soil. He then told a neat anec-
dots about the camel and the all
round man that was very applicable.
He showed how we have been ed
educating the boy from the farm for
the past generations, instead of
teaching him the elements of agri-
culture and thus inducing him to
stay at home. He showed how IA
farmer that has never studied the
elements of agriculture In the
schools has to go on during the
whole of his life learning a little by
experience this year and little by
experience next year, and so on,
year after year all his life, and even
then he IL always behind. He urged
the young sons OF farmers to get
starting knowledge by studying ag-
riculture wnen young.
He then told us very emphatically
that fully three-fourths of all our
contagious diseases are caused by
what we eat and drink and breathe,
and most all this ignorance couldb he
ubliterated and corrected by simply
teaching our young people the laws
of health while they are young and
in school. Then he urged that our
daughters be taught how to keep
house and cook, and do home work
in IA healthful way instead of as It
is usually done. Just here he called
attention to the fact that 81 per cent
Of our farm boys and girls never
get any more education or training
than they get in the country schools,
and it is mostly of the kind that
does not pertain To the management
OF the farm and stock.
He condemned the practice of
moving from the farm to town, and
said that oue-seventh of all the peo-
pie in the United States live In five
IL our great cities New York, Chi
cage, Philadelphia, Boston and st.
Lunis. As his time was getting
short and he was obliged to take
the ear in few minutes, he turned
his subject around suddenly and
could only say few words in a hur-
ry about cows and the silo. Above
all he urged kind treatment to the
cows and other animals or all our
work with them would be failure.
He told the prospective dairyman
plainly that no kind or amount of
food would increase the butter fat
butter YIELD in any COW, and the
only way to get COW to make more
butter or cream was to make her
give more milk; then, of course,
four gallons of milk of the same
richness will produce more butter
fat (pure cream than three gallons.
See!
He said We were not after more
fairness, but after more intelligent
farmers farmers who will set the
proper example before the rising
generation of farmers children.
He then stopped suddenly by say
ing that Silo II feet in dihmeter
aud - feet high would hold 100 tons
of ensilage; and If your ensi!nge
showed rot IL was Il sure sign that il
was getting air, and If il became
mOuldy IL was "A sure sign that it
was too dry ttoO ripe when put in.
to the silo. The ration for the COW
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