A Farmers' Club Meeting

The Southern Washtenaw Farmers' club met at the home of John G. English, of Manchester, Friday, January 4th. This club is the oldest in the county, if not in the state, and is attended with as much interest as it was the first year of its organization. Mr. English has a fine home and entertained the society in his usual pleasant manner. Notwithstanding the cold weather there was a good attendance. After dinner President B. G. English called the meeting to order and announced the topic of the day, "What we have learned by the experiences of the past year." Miss Nettie English read a carefully prepared essay upon the title. This was followed by another from the pen of H. R. Palmer; an "experience meeting" was next in order. Richard Green was the first man called upon; he is a native of England and has made two or three trips in late years to his native land; he strongly favored "free trade," said pork ent up when Germany took our meat, and beef the same, and that England controlled the price of our produce. George Rawson had sown fodder corn, had a large erop but found it was liable to heat in the barn or stack if harvested too early. Others had sown the common small field corn for fodder with good satisfaction. H. R. Palmer had found celery and similar crops profitable if taken good care of. C. M. Fellows had found that if potatoes were drppped on dry hot soil and not soon covered the sun burned the germ of the potato so that it would not grow. He gave a detailed account of his experience with three acres on his Saline farm; he had found it of great advantage to draw cornstalks while green or damp and putting two or three quarts of salt on each load while stacking. John G. English had been clearing more land of stone and thought it paid to improve a farm. C. M. Fellows and others had improved low land. All seemed hopeful of better days and should try to make the best of things as they were. üther business feit the "hard times" as well as farming. The next meeting will be at H. R. Palmer's, in Bridgewater, the first Friday in February.