The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1875-04-23
Deer Creek Farmers Club.

The meeting Of the Deer Creek Farmers Club
on Saturday last, at the residence of MrJames
H. Ball Thomas Run, was one OF thelaIIges'
were present, the President, MIR. Moores, Inc
Secretary, Mr.. Hays, and Messrs. Ball, Glasgow
Parker, Jas. Lee, Silver, Gorrell, VIM. Lee, s.
NJ. Lee, Lochary, Ridout, John Barnes, Hosea
Barnes, Rogers, Archer Willis, Baycss, Allen
Reeve and Wilson.
The question previously selected for discus
sion was: AT what time and upon what crops
| should manure be applied?
| Mr.. Ball being called upon by the President
said that he had been brought up in the old
| school and taught to keep manure under shelter
| and free from evaporation; but he had aban,
doned that theory. lie allowed his manure to
accumulate in the barn yard and hauled it out
| after harvest, upon grass, when the latter is In
full active growth, and ready to take up the
manure. After harvest there is more time, also,
to haul it out. lie thought this the best way
| also, TO use bone and other fertilizers. 1t is a
great waste TO haul manure on frozen ground or
snow. 1t lost nothing by letting it lie until af.
| ter harvest, but rather improved, and could be
hauled out cheaper in July than in winter, be-
cause it was then more free from moisture.
Mr. Silvcr's experience was similar TO that OF
Mr.. Ball.
Mr. Gorrcll The best plan to apply manure
is upon grass, the year preceding the time YOU
want to pillow ii. In this manner less is vast.
cd. Get on all the manure and all the grass
you GILL. 1uc HCAJ DCsI pan is 10 use IL a
top dressing for wheat. Do not pillow any un.
derneath; plants feed near the surface or the
ground. Half of it is wasted by hauling it out
upon frozen ground
Mr.. Reeve applies barn yard manure to his
corn crop. For immediate results he thought
the best way it can be applied is on the surface
and narrowed in, after sowing wheat in the fall.
1t should be well rottcd before it is used When
applied to corn lie plows it in shallow. Had
applied it i'll the fall and had u good crop of
corn. The wheat following it this year does
not look so well.
1t was suggested by some ofthc members that
the past winter was an exceptionally severe
one, and the untayorable appearance of the
wheat might be due to that cause.
Mr.. Lcchary said that the first thing TO be at.
tended to in the spring when the ground settles,
is TO haul out all the manure, short and long
He did not believe in blowing it under directly
after spreading it, and thought there was a bcpc.
fit from shading The ground
Mr.. Ridout agreed with Mr.. Lochary. He
would haul it out carly in the spring, on the
porest land, and preferred to let it remain on
Top Would put it on the poorest land for
corn, even if lie had TO pillow it under. He
thought II would he well TO spread it on wheat
in the fall, ifhe had the manure, but would not
save it especially for that purpose.
Mr.. John Barnes had put out manure in diff
ferent ways. Had plowed it under in August
aud September, and had larger crop of corn
than when he applied in the spring, but thought
it gave way sooner, when the land was after
wards seeded in grass He hauled it out when
ever it was in the way; generally in winter,
when lie had time. Was opposed, however, to
spreading it upon frozen ground in that case
would put it in heaps, and spread it when the
ground WAS not frozen. 1t is mistaken idca To
let it lie in the barn yard all summer
Mr. Hosea Barnes agreed with Mr.. Ridout in
his views. He thought the great fault is, we do
not get enough on the land. 1t does the most
good on grass.
Mr.. Rogers views conceded with those of Mr..
Barnes.
Mr. Bayless had had but little experience. but
had followed the practice of his father, which
was to put it in piles in the barn yard. Hauled
it out in August, and spread il when he had
time on grass sod-thc finest on his moving
field.
Mr.. Archer thought that as there was more
profit IN 1attening cattle than in anything else
upon the farm, the manure ought to be put on
the grass. If plowed under for corn, it is at
least three years until you get the field back in
grass, by which time the effects of the manure
would be gone. He thought it wrong to spread
1t on frozen ground. Put it out us soon as The
ground is settled in the spring, then none of it
is lost. 1t does no good in the barn yard, where.
as when put on the ground it can not fail to be
beneficial.
Mr.. Hays experience was similar to that of
Mr.. Barnes.
Mr.. Glasgow hauls his manure out as fast as
it is made and spreads II upon grass, upon the
land he will plant in corn next spring.
MIR. Wilson hauls out in the spring from his
barn yard, and top dresses his grass with it,
For corn he prefers to put it on one spring for
the next.
Mr.. Parker hauls out in the spring and spreads
it, putting the land in corn. Thinks it would
be well to allow it to lie on the ground.
Mr.. Allen said he had nothing connected with
his farm that any one ought TO follow. Did not