The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-08-11

! to smother it beneath a thick growth OF
clover and timothy. Another member
thought it beneficial to cut the top off be-
| fore it went to seed. After much talk the
whole matter was referred to Milton Con-
ard, who was instructed to report one year
hence, it being understood that he, in the
meantime, was to wage as deadly war
fare as he could with this noxious weed,
and try to discover the best way to exter-
inmate it.
A member of the Club read an essay
upon the best method of renovating ex-
hausted soils. This led to considerable
talk about blowing down green crops. A
stranger from Virginia said he had plowed
down crop of peas upon land SO poor it
would not raise five bushels of oats to the
of 10 and the wheat produced at the rate
Of % bushels to the acre. We inquired
what kind of peas he sowed, and he in
formed us that they were called the Black
or Crow pea, and could be obtained from
any commission merchant in Philadelphia
or New York.
There was much pleasantly about CON-
position, the formula for which was OBJ
tanned from the superintendent of the farm,
and was intended as fertilizer for tobacco,
which member Of the Club had tried upon
| a few acres of tobacco, and it had killed
the crop. One of the members said it was
a very good formula and would certainly
be useful if it killed tobacco, for it ought
to be killed. The man that applied the
compound said it turned the soil red, blue
and white and made it hard, and that he
set and reset the plants till he got tired,
but it was no go, and he gave it up in dis
gust and despair.
Then the Club talked about wheat and
the best and most productive kind and the
proper time to sow it. The Fultz was
thought to be the best and the most pro-
ductive and the middle or last of Septem
Der the best time to SOW it. The Clawson
variety was well spoken of, and the expert
ence of the members seemed to indicate
that it produced superior flour.
A member in Bucks county sent COM
munication to the Club about a blight that
was injuring his apple orchard. He thought
it was caused by microscopic insect, and
he wanted to know how to kill it. The
Club could give him no comfort about his
orchard, and DR.. Michener thought the
blight might be caused by something else
And so the bug or the worm or the fly or
the grub or whatever it is, that causes the
blight, will get leave to live awhile longer
and kill a few more trees.
Then the Club begun to talk about fer
tiliZers. Somebody had sent a draft of a
law to the Club, in which it was proposed
to regulate the manufacture and sale of
these things, and the Club thought the
manufacturers needed some regulating, in
which we think the farmers of Cecil will
agree.
They also had before them the draft of 4
law in reference to the manufacture and
sale of butter, or rather of " oleOmarga-
rine,' which is a spurious imitation of but
ter made from tallow. They seemed to be
wrothy because some people had tried to
deceive butter eaters by selling this nause-
Gus compound for butter, and somebody
had drafted law similar to the law of
New York, making it obligatory upon all
manufacturers of oleomargarine to have
each package of it labeled, and then if
anybody wanted to eat tallow, taken from
the entrails of slaughtered animals, they
could do so, and those who did not, would
not mistake it for butter.
The Club held the matter of the memorial
cation of the Legislature, in behalf of these
matters under consideration, and adjourned
soon afterwards. QUILP.