Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1914-01-29

The Gratiot County Farmers lnsti-
tute was opened in the Realty Opera
House, Wednesday morning, Jan 2l at
GAS, by a few Introductory remarks by
A. J. Dickens, President of the Gratiot
County Institute Society. The next on
the program was talk by DR.. G. w.
Dunphey, state veterinarian, on the sub
ject Of, THE Breeding and Care of
Farm Horses" but the speaker was un-
avoidably absent Also j. W. Mcbride
of Burton, who was to speak on Bean
Growing and Marketing" was not
present and his talk was given to Mr..
Cannon of Oakland whose address was
of the best, and was followed by an in
formal discussion by the society in gen
cral, which closed the forenoon session.
In the afternoon a question box was
conducted by Newton Burns, and all,
who desired were invited to write ques-
tion on slip of paper and they were
collected in hat and discussed by the
society at large, for the benefit OF the
writer and the entire society, as only
questions OF interest to the spirit of
the institute were asked.
The next in order came a Practical
Sermon but not by Preacher When
the speaker was introduced he turn
ed out to be our old friend Mr. Jotham
Allen, Of the Sugar Industry. He de-
livered his sermon and never once men
toned the word sugar. His talk was
very interesting and forceful. His main
trend was the high cost of living, and
his text, by the way, was, Unto him
that hath shall be given, but from him
that hath not, shall be taken even that
which he hath" found in the twelfth
chapter, thirteenth verse of st. Matthew.
Mr.. Allen very strongly remarked that
in a very many cases. ii was not the lack
of work, but the lack OF mixing a little
brains with the work, that made a farm
er poor, and this is very true. He sad
that the high cost Of living is not too
high, but that il is just getting where the
farmers want it, and that in reality it
is not high enough, and not only that, but
il is going to be higher, and that the
farmer should take advantage OF the
high prices and raise more crops from
the same amount Of land by doing a little
scientific farming, or, in other words
using a little common sense and not
continue kicking. During the discussion
that followed, Mr. William Hanley took
prominent part but most of his argu-
ments were over-balanced by Mr. Allen
Prof. T. II. Eaton, of the Central Nor
NAL School, gave an interesting talk on
Building up of the Dairy Herd" Af-
ter the discussion of that topic, some ex-
cellent music was furnished by the High
School Glee Club.
The evening lecture was delivered by
c. H. Bramble of Tecumseh. True
Cooperation, the Safeguard of the Pro-
ducer and the Consumer" Mr.. Bram-
bic took leading part in the entire in
stitute
His ideas were many and instructive
Chemistry and its Relation to Farm
Operations" was the last but not the
least of the evenings program. Prof
West performed some valuable expert
ments, which were of practical use to
the scientific farmer as we'll as answer
ing some questions which were asked
him by some of his listeners.
Mr.. Cannon spoke on, The Silo and
Silage," to begin the second day of
the institute He said that silos were
practical whether made from wood, con-
crete, steel or some other material, SO