The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1879-03-29
Union Bridge Agricultural Club,


The Club met at the residence Of David
( Rhinehart in Union Bridge, Q mo- 70, 1879.
I Members David Rinehart aud family, Dan
iol Rinehart, wife and daughter Olivia, ).
1 Wood and wife, j. Rakeslraw, wife and dangh.
! ter, u Wolfe and wife, S. Shepherd aud
wife, ], l.. Cox, Miss Kate Fisher, DR.. Man
nakee, and 7, Wood and family. Visiiors;-
/ Isaiah lighmcr, Santee Sioux Indian Agent,
Nebraska, W. S. Riuchart and Mrs, Dudderer.
! The members declined visiting the farm, rs
! the proprietor assured as he had nothing at
special interest to exhibit, and the fields are
still too soft to examine with comfort. The
distribution BY the President Of several copies
Of Senator Paddock's speech in the U. =.
Senate relative to agricultural matters, opened
up the subject of Forestry, which attracted
much attention from the Club during the at
ternoon. In calculating the cost OF invest
ment in wood land, it was claimed by some
that the farmer must clear OF the timber and
plant the ground to more profitable crops to
enable him to meet his yearly interest. Other
members believed that the old timber might
be cut on TO profit, and let the land grow up
again with thrifty sprouts, which being trim
med and protected would soon make forest
Of young trees, as shown by furnace lands
that have been cut over. Or, if it was desira.
Bile to cultivate the virgin soil, plant in good
rich land rows Of locust seed and cultivate
like corn until a grove is thus established to
take the place of the native forest. IL was
decided that il would be better to take mea-
sures to prevent our country from becoming
desert, than to make a few dollars by clear
ing of the timber.
After dinner the minutes of last meeting
were read, and corrected by inserting that
the article read at last meeting, by Il. Rinc.
hart was selected by Maria Rakesiraw; also
that trout have three rows Of spots along each
side, ;nstead of two, as stated in the minutes.
David Rinehart explained in a very salts.
factory manner the advantages Of the Cooley
system OF deep or submerged setting Of milk.
a patent harrow was shown us by gentle.
man from liagcrstowu
Committee L reported as follows: IS. Wood
read a selected article on Alfalfa, stating that
II was identical with the Lucerue OF Switzcr.
land, aud when we'll set in good soil is in.
mensely productive. Sown in early spring,
at the rate Of 10 lbs OF seed per acre it yields
from three to five crops Of hay in one season.
1t is called clover, which is an eNogenous
plant, not strictly grass,
The DeslruCtlonOf Forests an article Sc
lected and read by Emily S, Wood, speaks Of
the waste of moisture TO American soil as
averaging : per cent. for each quarter of a
century Tor the last l2l years. Ii says owe
know By experience that fertile lands have
grown sterile by loss Of trees aud that sterile
lands have IN turn become fertile by sysic'
matte planting
Trees, which, on motion, was requested to
be published,
Further proceedings were suspended, and
our friend Isaiah lightuer invited to talk
to us about the Indians under his charge.
The Santec Sioux Reservation is located on
the south side of Missouri river, in Knox Co,
Nebraska, and is eighteen miles long by twelve
miles wide, There are about eight hundred
Indians, many Of whom are industrious, and
would accumulate property were 1t not for
their very liberal ideas of hospitality, which
is taken advantage Of by their more indolcnt
friends who sponge upon them. That which
dlscouragos them most is having no title in
seveTaliy to the land they improve aud cult.
yaie, while the constant dread of being re-
moved to the Indian Territory where hun.
dreds Of the Pawnees we're killed Oh by the
climate, hangs over them like cloud, check
ing their energies and preventing them from
making the improvement that they otherwise
would. These Indians are distributed over
the whole reservations; live in houses built
principally by themselves, aud have ponies
aud oxen of their own. The government fur.
nishes them with mechanical tools, farming
utensils and seeds. The Agent also issues
weekly to each individual - lbs. -four, 10.
sugar, 10, coffee, ID, beans, lbs. beef
aud ID, pork. Once year a new suit of
clothes, together with hat and shoes, is issued
to each man, while the women are given
goods not made up, but which they soon learn
TO make into comfortable garments. Most Of
them sew quite neatly, after little instuc.
ton. There is q post trader connected with
The agency whose privileges are similar TO
those OF an army suffer. A farmer, black.
smith, carpenter, miller aud doctor are en-.
ployces OF tho government, two Of whom are
Indians. There were raised the last season
10000 bushels Of wheat; $50 acres Of new land
were ploughcd.
This tribe was among those Indians who
participated in the Minnesota massacre, in
1862, aud regret exceedingly that anything Of
this kind ever happened, attributing the start
OF il to the bad effects Of whiskcy.
Isaiah showed US three dark, hard balls,
nearly as large as pint tin cup, the surface
Is glazed as with a coat Of varuish, willis, the
body OF the ball is composed Of wool, hair, or
some hard fbrous substance. They were
found N the first or largest stomach OF some
OF the Texan cattle butchered on the reserya.
ton.
Committee D was directed to report a, next
meeting.
Adjourned, 10 meet at Daniel Wolic's, the
u Of mo- 1879, at 10, Il. m.
5. SHEPHERD, President.
P. woop, Sec'y.