The Mankato free press., 1923-12-21
SHORT COURSE IS HELD
Big Hall at Butterfield Was Crowd
ed BY Farmers

Butterfield. Minn,. December 19.-
Farmers crowded the Butterfield
Hall here today for the opening of
a two-day l., H. G. Agricultural
Short Course. They listened atten-
tatively to- the discussions.
L. A. Hawkins, Practical farmer
and fruit grower; Miss zella Wegent
woman skilled in demonstrations
J. L. Wenstadt, practical farmer
and manager of dairy herd are the
speakers. Home talent numbers are
used on each program. Free lunches
served at noon each day.
Miss Wigent gave an illustrtive talk
ons Birds" at the morning session.
She told which were the useful ones,
which were the weed seed eaters,
the song birds, the harmful birds,
how to build bird houses and their
placing, and made a plea for the
preserving of game birds. . --...
School children sang a selection,
Solitude" A reel of motion pic.
lures on Milk, Natures Perfect
Food" was shown. q
Mr.. Wenstad talked at the after
noon session on Alfalfa and other
Legumes.' FIe told how to get a
good stand of alfalfa, its value as a
feed, the things necessary for sue
cessful raising which he said were
innoculation, good seed, harvesting
and curing of hay and feeding.
Mr.. Hawkins spoke on Shall
Fruits ond Vegetables" Emphasis
placed on their value as food. He
said if the farmers are to have fruit
they must raise them. He also talked
on training and spraying of small
fc
berries, goOseberrieS, currents and
straw berries.
Miss Wigent's subject was MAX
ing Mothers Work Easier" She
stressed the drugery of the present
farm work for the women because
of the lack of conveniences. The hus
band has modern tools to assist him
with his work She urged that more
home conveniences be supplied the
farm women so there will he less
drugery for mother. A reel on Home
Convensiences was shown.
At the session in the evening a
quartet opened the program. Mr..
Wensad gave a talk on Go -operatie
Marketing" He said that soopera-
tive marketing aims to sandarGizc
the product by uniform grading, uni
form containers, uniform retail SER
vices; to feed the market by proper
storage, improved methods OF fl
nance and pooling, preventing duplI-
cation; to stabilize prices by feeding
the market, going into other pro-
duets; to enlarge the business by
better distribution, grading and COM
modify advertising and maintaining
a sales department.
He said that demand and supply
are facts essential to orderly mar
keting, and that efficient market
ing levels price and prevents large
in price. y.
Pitfalls of the average coopera-
tive organization and which must
be constantly guarded against he
said were: indifference, jealousy
and suspicion, ignorance, laZiness
and fault finding, favorites, pcor
management over enthusiasm be-
fore organizing, disloyality and
short term contracts. duplicating of
service, and undersize or oversize
business. 1.-THE success or failure
depends on how you think" he told
the farmers.
The sessions today began in the
morning. Mr.. hawkins spoke on
PLANT Propagation" He discussed
the origin of the common and took
up plant breeding, and propoga-
ton.
Miss Wigent spoke on Care of
Farm Poultry" She laid stress on
proper housing considering espec-
Tally ventilation and light. She con-
siered proper feeding, water ard
exercise, the care of chicks, preyen-
ton and cure OF lice and mica.