The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-01-11
LOCAL AFPArRs.


Esq, the Vice President, IN the Chair-
Messrs, George W Matthews, w IL Wander
ford and A. Il. Huber, the committee appoint
ed BY the Directors to examine the accounts
of Richard Manning, Esq, Treasurer, pre-
scented their report, which was adopted.
The Secretary, VIM A. McKellip, Esq,
then announced that the Directors hadaward-
ed the Premiam OF $500 for the best acre of
corn grown in Carroll county, to William. J.
Brown, OK Baltimore comfy.
The election OF officers for The ensuing
year Then took place, as follows President,
Granville 5. Haines; Vice President, Jere-
miah Riuehart Secretary, Col VIM. A. Nc
kellip Treasurer, Richard Manning Direc-
tors, Edward Lynch, David Fowhle, Dr. Jacob
Rneaart, Joseph Shaeiier, Dr. G. Bllineslea,
Noah Shaeiier, Lewis II. Cole, l.. p. Sling
lnn, E. D. Grimes.
The newly elected Directors then decided
that the next Ear should be held on the SJth
Of September, aud LIST, ID and Sd Of October
and also that no species Of gambling or any
thing else BY which the unsuspecting may he
made the victims Of sharpers, be allowed on
the ground. After a vote of thanks to the
officers, who managed the affairs OF the Soc.
ETY. the past year, The meeting adjourned,
We give the report of six acres that were
entered for the prize, and regret that we are
unable to furnish the amount raised by each
OF the contestants: yet it is enough to show
I that If our farmers would crop less land their
/ yields would be larger :-Wm. j. Brown. n
barrels and one-half hushel Of ears John w.
/ Murray, % barrels and bushels; ii. +.
I Moreloek, u barrels and y bushels; +. Lynch,
! ISL barrels and 81 bushels; Nm. A. Mckellip,
1 II barrels, and L. 2. Slingluff, II barrels.
The BoaEd Of Directors in awarding the
I premium for the best acre Of corn were gov
| erned BY the s'Rules and Regulations, here.
tofore published, which required, among 9TH
or things, that the acre selected for COMPETE
ton should be accurately measured BY COM
petent surveyor, and the plat and return
thereof under oath made to the Secretary, on
or before the 21th day of September, 1872.
1t was also required that the owner of the
acre, those who worked the corn, those who
cut it of, as well as those who hnsked and
measured It, should all make return, under
oath, that they had only cut off, husked and
measured the corn actually grown on the acre
so surveyed.
The Directors were embarrassed in making
their award, owing to an error discovered on
last Saturday, in the measurement of M John
i W. Murray acre. The surveyor who laid it
Oft made his return previous to the 10Th Of
September certifying that he had laid off an
acre. When the time arrived to have the
corn husked and measured, Mr. David Fow-
bic OF Westminster, was selected 10 measure
all the corn grown by the various competitors,
and accordingly went to Hampstead and meas.
ured the corn grown on the land Of Messrs.
Murray and Brown.
On Saturday last, the surveyor who located
the acre for Mr.. Murray, discovered that he
had made an error Of 10 perches, in fact, that
he had only given him III perches instead OF
100. The Directors felt sorry that such an
error should have occurred, bat considered
that il was Mr. Murrays misfortune and not
| the Societys fault, as the Society had nothing
whatever to do with the surveying of the land
!, The Directors did not doubt but that if Mr..
! Murray had had his full quantity Of land, he
! would have secured the premium but wishing
TO avoid anything like an estimate or guess
} work at the quantity of corn raised on any of
the competing acres, and requiring that il
should all be measured in a Standard Mary
Ian barrel in the field, they did not think il
would be just to the others to estimate how
much corn would have grown on the lgperch.
es, notincluded in Mr.. kowble' measurement: :
although oil the testimony shows that the corn
outside OF the acre was fully as good as that
included in il. The Directors, therefore, un.
der the Rules and Regulations, awarded the
premium OF slU0 to Nm. j. Brown, ard in
doing so saw that Mr.. Murray's III perches
OF land raised more corn in proportion, than
any Of the others; and that making an estimate
Of what probably and no doubt did grow on
the IL perches, If his acre had been correctly
surveyed in the first place. he would. withou,
doubt, have had over 70 barrels.
We give the mode Of cultivation as reported
by Mr. Brown, and also that by Mr.. Murray:
Itro-dnd-d-hatf miles South Of Hampstead, I
January 4, 1873. !
WV. A. McKE1lP, ESQ.,, Sec'v. Of the Car.
roll County Agricultural Society,
Dear Sr:-I send you report of the way
IN which the ground was prepared for the
premium acre Of corn. The acre was selected
from that portion Of my fathers farm that lies
IN Carroll county, which he cleared in 1915
: Of its timber, and has been cropping il eve,
, since, with the exception of the last three
years, and then it was seeded down to timo.
thy; moved the first and second wears and
pastured, and the third year it was in grain.
Last spring il was literally MANFRED with
horse manure, one-half plowed down and the
{ other half narrowed in and rolled with bone
and other fertilizers sown broadcast; il wa.
: then narrowed again and rows marked ont 81
feet apart. Then q compost that had beer
made OF hog and hen manure, ashes. two
bushels Of salt and barrel Of plaster, wa.
scattered along in the fnrrow and the corn
dropped about six inches apart and covered
about two inches thick with fork. The corr
was planted on the 10th day of Nav. and
, owing 70 the ground being plowed too wei
and not narrowed until the sun had baked 4
INTO elods, It could not be made into that fine
i tilth SO desirable for quick growth, and in
consequence OF the drought il came up badl,
and was replanted this also failed to come
up, and then concluded to run a furrow be.
tween the others. In the burrows sack d
guano was scattered and the corn planted a,
IN the hrst instance. 1t also came up badly
replanted until June, and then there were
many places in the rows without stalk Of
corn for distance Of several feet. The corr
, was narrowed over every few DAYS with Thorn,
as smoothing harrow, until about foot hieb
then plowed over twice with a single shove
! pillow, at an interval Of about one week. and
as 1t was very clean il remained in that condi.
ton until matured. After the corn got fairly
started the drought had little or no effect npon
IT. ihe corn was not thinned, it was yer,
thick, and many remarked that it would fire.
But owing to the deep blowing, deem sub.
soIling, 1.-THE subsoil clay bottom. annle
manure and fertilizers the corn did NOT Gre.
but yielded, by very careful measurement botl'
OF ground and corn, twenty-four barrels and
one half bushel, and Of fodder, part weighed
IN December when quite dry and the bundles
counted and averaged, there was $3.50 pounds.
There was applied to acres Of land 500 ibs.
OF bone dust and about 1900 lbs. of bonphl
fertilizers, from this part of the field the aero
was selected. The corn is Of the largo yellow
variety, very thick ear, deep grain, length 81
ears from six to twelve inches, and with the
exception Of about Il barrels of the shortest
that was fed to fattening hogs, can be seen at
any tune in my fathers corn crib. Il h 4
good lot Of corn, filed ont to the very end Of
the cob. Along side of this acre, which
was surveyed by John NJ. Wheeler, Is ano,her
acre that was carefully measured, both Iond
and corn, and yielded, without fertilizers XXI
cept coating Of horse manure plowed under.
IL barrels and 8 bushels. This acre wass
planted 80 by Q feet, and two stalks IN nm.
Your 0bd't Servant,
WM. j. BROWN.
Hampstead, January :, 1878.
VIZ. a. McKMIIP, ESQ.,, Secretary The
lot had in cultivation for the prize acre Of
corn, was timothy sod Of Is years standing.
Il was plowed on the 18th of April, narrowed