The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-08-25
THE CECIL FARMERS CLUB.
REPORTED FOR THE CECIL WING.

REPORTED FOR THE CECIL WING.
At a meeting of the Cecil Farmers Club.
held at the house of A. T. Lincoln, the 23rd
of 9TH mo-, 1877, present nine members and
several invited guests
The minutes of last meeting were read
and approved.
In stating experiments there were desul
tory remarks by several members about the
termination of corn. All admitted the adj.
vantage of selecting seed corn at husking
time and keeping it so exposed to the air
as to become thoroughly dry. In case this
be done no degree of cold would iniure it,
although if room of moderate tempera
ture could be had it would add to it's secur-
ity The vitality of corn appears to have
been sometimes destroyed by an extreme
degree of cold acting on the grain in an
undried condition.
II. Fl. Duyckinck thought the full blown
apple blossom indicated the proper time for
planting. All agreed that if planted very
early its termination from various causes
was liable to fail.
| One of the members inquired the expert
ence of the Club in regard to the growing
crop OF wheat. A. T. Lincoln had sowed
some first of Sth month and first of 9th
1t was Fultz wheat; Lad suffered some
from fly, the last sown suffered most T.
Fasset sowed Goth of 18th month, Fultz
wheat, l,200 h. bone per acre; the wheat
looked finely. w. w. Moore stated that
what he sowed first was fly eaten, He
would recommend sowing very early or
rather late. His Davis Brown wheat, sown
late, was good.
John H.. Bunting sowed Fultz goth of 9th
month. 1t was good. A. J. Kitchener had
sowed for last years crop Fultz and Davis
Brown varieties. The former went down,
the latter stood and made thirty bushels
per acre. II. II. Duyckinck had sown
Clawson wheat, with 400 lbs. of bone and
Sun guano, applied as manure, per acre.
A part sown first of 9th month was fly
eaten, but now good. A part sown one
month later was not SO good. His Fultz
wheat, sown in the 10th and 18th months,
all looked we'll.
A question about the history of the Hes
sian fly was referred to the Secretary. He
gave, as his opinion, that brood of the
fly was generated in the wheat in the Fall
If this be the case when the wheat is very
| young or otherwise weak in growth it may
be destroyed. If the wheat be more ad-
vanced and in vigorous condition, it will,
to some extent, withstand the injury. The
wheat is liable to be the support of another
brood in the following Spring. In this case
it suffers according to its weakness and the
numbers of the destroyers. Perhaps it
may do little injury beyond causing the
stalks to fall as the heads become heavy
He thought he had noticed that the fly had
disappeared in the country six to one
hundred miles east of us, and hoped that
parasite on the track of the fly would soon
relieve US also from it's ravages.
After dinner and a walk around the pre-
misses the Club again met. A general criti
cism of an approving character was elic-
| tied. Among the things especially noted
as not met with at all farms, one was a red
Durham bull, weighing 1, $50 lbs. He was
spoken of in our minutes last year as
calf. His weight then was 900 lbs. Now
at the age of two years as stated above.
The other was an arrangement for carry
ing out the "dry earth " water closet doc
trine. 1t appeared we'll planned, but there
had not yet been time for operation. 1t
were to be hoped his success in this concern
may stimulate others to like undertake
ing. The amount of manure thus saved
and applied on any one farm may not be
great, but it may be means of abating
nuisances that are great; and it is upon
these smaller points in the farmers econ
omy that our future success or failure de-
ponds.
T. Fasset inquired the best roots to raise
for cattle feeding. A r. Magraw recon-
mended the purple top, sown on potato
patch or among corn; but thought that if
labor be not in the way the Globe Mangle
Wurtzel the best root we could raise for
cattle.
The subject of lightning rods was then
brought up. Members seemed to have lit
tie faith in their efficacy, and one asserted
the belief that more barns are burnt with
rods than without them.
The Secretary then proposed the ques-
ton: What practical advantage can farm
ers derive from Introducing the highly i'm
proved breeds of beef cattle, such as the
Of ha in
with the fact of the growing expectation of
beef to England" There was general
expression upon the question of raising
our own beef cattle of these improved
sorts instead of buying those raised in the
West. 1t was left as an unsettled problem
to be solved by individual experience in the
future. The export of beef was thoughts
favorable indication likely to secure pay
ing price, whether of home raised or pur-
chased stock
After some further routine business, in
Guiding the election of William J. Evans,
Samuel Clifford and William Preston as new
members, the meeting adjourned to meet
at the house of William w. Moore, on the
first day of Sth month next.
L. BALDERsToN, Secretary
P. S.--The delay in the appearance of
these minutes is owing to the fact that there
was no meeting held between 23rd of 9TH
month and LIST of Sth month"; and they had
to be approved by the Club before sub
mtted for publication.
EXPERIMENTS IN WHEAT GROWING.
We give below the result of experiments
made during the past season at the Eastern
Pa Experimental Farm, West Grove,
Chester county, Pa. The report says: The
IIessian fly seriously injured much of the
wheat in this county and the crop on this