FARMERS' INSTITUTES. 631 



Miss Louise Miller, Detroit: 



1— Nature in relation to some problems in life. 

 2 — Corn: A talk illustrating nature-study. 



Roland Morrill, Benton Harbor: 



1— Cultivation and pruning: Results illustrated. 



2 — Gathering, packing, and marketing fruit. 



3 — Business methods in farming. 



4 — The successful culture of apples and plums. 



"> — Spraying: Why, how, when?. 



6 — Small fruits for market. 



7 — Peaches and plums. , 



8 — The home fruit garden. 



9 — Benefits of intensive cultivation. 

 10— The apple orchard. 

 11 — Objects and methods of pruning. 

 12 — Value of commercial fertilizers. 

 13 — The horticultural situation. 



A. E. Palmer, Kalkaska: 

 1 — The home dairy. 



2 — Elements of successful farming in Northern Michigan. 

 3 — The education of the farmer. 

 4 — Soil fertility: How formed; how preserved. 

 5 — Value of manures on sandy lands. 

 6 — Silage and silos. 

 7 — Summer feeding of dairy cattle. 



L. J. Post, Lowell: 



1 — Keeping up soil fertility. 



2 — Orcharding for the northern counties. 



3 — Potato diseases and their treatment. 



4 — Commercial fertilizers. 



5 — The value and methods of spraying. 



Mrs. Ella E. Rockwood, Flint: 



1— Making the most of ourselves. 



2 — Fathers and sons: From a mother's standpoint. 



J. N. Stearns, Kalamazoo: 



1 — Pruning, cultivating, fertilizing. 



2 — Making a market for fruit. 



3 — How shall we grade and pack our fruit? 



4 — Spraying and thinning fruit. 



5 — Starting right in fruit growing. 



6 — Successful orcharding in Southern Michigan. 



7 — Small fruits on the farm. 



T. B. Terry, Hudson, Ohio: 



1— Increasing fertility by clover growing. 

 2 — Increasing fertility by tillage. 

 3 — Manure saving. (Illustrated.) 

 4 — The care of implements. 



J. H. Vandervort, Hudson: 



Fruit on the farm. 

 A. M. Welch, Ionia: 



1 — My experience with building and using silos. 



2 — Successful milk production. 



3 — Shall we buy or raise our cows? 



4 — Economical sheep feeding. 



• r > — Winter feeding of cows with and without silage. 



Jason Woodman, Paw Paw: 



1— Cattle feeding: Its prospects and its practice. 



2 — Farmers' organizations: Their value and how to maintain them. 



