CONSTITUTION FOR IMPROVEMENT CLUB. og 
6.—Fifteen minutes for social converse. 
7,—Music—tamiliar song. 
8.—Five minute paper: Subject—My Favorite Tree. 
g.—Recitation. 
Meeting not to be over one and one-half hour in length, giving some 
time for those who have leisure for sociability after the meeting. Begin 
promptly on time. 
- IMPRESSIONS FROM THE FARMERS’ INSTITUTE. 
C. E. OLDER, LUVERNE. 
The first thought is that the time for old-time methods in farming and 
husbandry, as well as in horticulture, has passed, and new, up-to-date meth- 
ods must prevail if we would succeed in our undertakings. Times have 
changed, and change we must if we keep up with the times. 
We must raise more to the acre and use less acres, less help, less ex- 
pense, raise our living on our farms, and farm for a living ,and give up 
raising large acreage of wheat with the object to make money to buy our 
living. 
We should finish off our stock on the farm ready for market, and uti- 
lize all of our coarse feed as well. We should grow clover to make the 
land richer, to raise more corn, to feed more hogs, cattle and sheep, to raise 
more fruit for the family, so they will be more contented and happy on the 
farm, to set out groves and windbreaks, evergreens for shelter and orna- 
ment about the home—and to do the latter you must get your nursery stock 
just as near your home as possible, of your local nursery if possible, in fact 
must use as good common sense about this branch of farming as any other. 
We must have up-to-date machinery, that will do with one man and team 
what five or six men could do without it. 
Mr. Terry, of Ohio, told how he built up an old, worn out farm in Ohio, 
so he could grow as high as fifty bushels of wheat per acre. 
Mr. Bush, on raising fruits and shelter belts, told of the great change 
in conditions in Freeborn county, from what it was before evergreens were 
so extensively planted out, and of the absence of the hot southwest winds 
they used to experience. Great good will come from his talk on this subject. 
Mr. Greeley’s talk was sheep. Well, you can hardly tell what a man 
won’t say who is an enthusiast on sheep. The only wonder is that every 
farmer does not keep some of them. 
Mr. Trow is at the head of butter making, and his methods as explained 
gave good food for thought and effort in that line. 
But, however, it makes no difference how nice butter, meat, vegetables 
or other foods come into the house if it is spoiled in cooking, and Mrs. 
Laws brought this matter out as no other one could do. Her remarks, al- 
though “all too short,’ were good and are remembered by some people 
every time they cook a meal or sit down to the table. 
In some respects we were short of our expectations, especially on the 
horse question, which was not touched upon, owing to the absence of Dr. 
Currier; but on the whole we had a very profitable institute. May they 
come oftener! 
