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cessive crops of clover and timothy, the last not as good as the first aud second 

 only amounting to ninety tons from the one hundred and twenty acres. All 

 the pine land around Edmore is of this character. With the stumps out it 

 would be very valuable, but how to get them out I do not know. 



S. S Hastings: I stumped three acres for $40, at fifty cents per stump. 



S. Moody: I have seen many pieces of pine land with clay subsoil that were 

 good aud worth stumping. 



The stump fence can be made for $4 per rod. 



Dr. Beal: Cannot the winter season be put in to advantage in stumping? 



Mr. Shaw: In Midland, tbere are many screw stump machines that work 

 whenever the ground is not frozen^ with one horse at the machine and three or 

 four hauling and making fence. 



Mr. K. H. Allen: In York State we had a machine that would cost $300, that 

 woukl draw from forty to fifty stumps a day, according to size. As soon as 

 pulled and cleaned one team will draw the stump to the fence and two to four 

 stumps will make a rod of fence. We used to pull for twenty-five to fifty cents 

 per stump and our board, three horses and three men. It drew by tackle 

 power that lifted the stump right up. It was the Johnson & English machine. 



The exercises of the afternoon closed with a humorous paper on " Pioneer 

 Reminiscences," by T. J. Tann, in which he told how he tried to shoot a 

 squirrel and missed him. 



The St. Louis Leader says of the evening session: "A crowded house greeted 

 Rev. Theo. Nelson, who opened the session with prayer, the St. Louis orchestra 

 furnished some excellent music, and then Prof. McLouth read a most happy 

 and interesting paper on " Our Debts to Inventors and Mechanics." 



After which Presitlent Willets gave a somewhat full account of the Agricul- 

 tural College. 



After sundry complimentary speeches and resolutions the session closed. 



EAST SAGINAW INSTITUTE. 



PKOGRAM. 



First Session — February 11, 7 p. m. 

 1. Music. 

 3. Opening Prayer. 



3. Welcoming Address by the Chairman. 



4. Paper — "Relations of Veterinary Science to Agriculture," by E. A. A. Grange, 



Professor of Veterinary Science, State Agricultural CoUege. Discussion. 



5. Paper — "Legal Advice to Farmers," by Hon. W. S. Tennant. Discussion. 



Second Session — February 12, 9 a. m. 



1. Paper — "Wheat Culture in Saginaw County," by Dennis Bow, of Bridgeport. 



Discussion. 



2. Paper — "How to work Light Soils," by David Geddes, of Swan Creek. Dis- 



cussion. 



3. Paper — " Gumption," by Hon. G. F. Lewis, of Saginaw City. Discussion, 



