Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-06-08
A0RIOULFURH.
MEETING OF THE LOCAL SOCIETY.

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The June meeting of the Lancaster |
county Agricultural and Horticultural So
ciety was held in their room in the city |
hall yesterday afternoon.
were present:
Joseph F. Wilmer, president, Paradise
NJ. D. Kendig, secretary, Cresswell; Dr.
c. A. Greene, city H. NJ. Engle, Mari
eta; J. G. Rush, West Willow Daniel
Smeych, city s. P. Eby, city F. r. Diff
fendertfer, city j. NJ. Johnston, city; c.
A. Cast, city w. w. Griest, city; c. L.
Hunsecker, Mannheim township; j. C. Lin
vile, Salisbury Levi S. Reist, Oregon
DIR. VIM. Compton, city; Prof. S. S. Rath-
Won, city A. F. HOstetter, esq.,, city; H.
G. Rush. Willow street Peter S. Reist,
Lititz VIM. McComsey, city John H.
Lands, Manor.
The reading of the minutes was dis
pensed with.
The Coming Fair.
President Wilmer reported that the
premium list of the coming fair of the
society had been prepared and is now in
the hands of the printer, and will be ready
for distribution early next week.
The board of managers having changed
the time of holding the fair to the Goth
and 3Oth of September and the 1st of Oc-
tober. The society confirmed the change.
Crop Reports.
Mr.. Engle, of Marietta, said the grass
crop, which promised so well a month ago,
has been made short by the drouth, and
will be lighter than last year, but is of
good quality as far as it goes there is
fair prospect of good crop of wheat :;
though some that lay on rocky hillsides
is inclined to ripen too early; corn looks
about as well as usual, though little late !;
oats was kept back by drouth, but the late
rain has helped them materially; fruit has
dropped off greatly during the drouth, but
there is enough left to make good crop
early vegetables ripened rather too fast ;
the drouth will reduce the strawberry crop
to about one-half a crop; cherries are very
abundant there are still enough apples
on the trees to make full crop. The
rainfall for the month of May was about
one inch.
A member reported that wheat had been
hurt by the rust the Fultz wheat is most
effected ; oats has been hurt from the same
cause corn looks very good, better than
for number of years past; peaches, ap-
pies, and cherries are very promising.
]. c. Linville, of Salisbury, said the
wheat, which was very promising before
the drouth, is now much affected by rust,
and this will materially reduce its quanti-
ty and quality ; the young clover in many
places has been killed by the drouth; the
grass is short fruit dropping off very fast,
and if it don't stop dropping soon there
will not be half a crop; cherries less than
half a crop; of strawberries there is full
crOp-the drouth hurt them. but the rain
has helped them again; clover has done
blooming; timothy is short potato bugs
and rose bugs are troublesome. He re-
garded London purple as more effective
agent for their determination than Paris
green.
President Wilmer reported that the
Mold's red winter wheat, which he had
sown as an experiment, turned out poorly;
he asked how others had succeeded with
it, but he received no response.
NJ. d. Kendig, of Cresswell, said that in
his neishborhood the wheat was rusted,
and will not fill clover is short but good.
fruit looks favorable; there is great
scarcity of tobacco plants he believed GO
or 70 per cent of the crop has been set out;
insects have been making havoc among
the plants: corn is irregular in appearance
some of it being very we'll advanced and
some of it small, while in many places it
failed to come up at all.
DR.. Greene cautioned the farmers against
using London purple or Paris green to kill
the insects the one is the arsenate of lime
and the other arsenate of copper-bOth
deadly poison his experience was that gas
tar and water applied to the plants was
equally effective in destroying the bugs
and not at all dangerous; he hoped the
time was not far distant when both Paris
green and London purple, with their
pretty names but dangerous properties,
would be excluded from the farm.
Essay on Farming.
DR.. Greene read an essay which he
had previously read before Berks county
society. 1t contained many valuable hints |
to farmers relative to the management of
the small matters about a farm, such as
keeping tools and implements in order,
saving all manner of Offal for manure, and
properly composing the same keeping
of matters Of importance the
treatment of stock, especially horses,
which he thought were often permanently !
injured or rendered vicious by the use of
blinds, check-rains and other cruel ap-
pliances.
The essay was discussed and most of its |
matter approved by s. P. Eby, J. c. Lin
vile, J. G. Resh, A. F. Hostetter and |
others.
Cultivating Corn.
"At what stage of the growth of corn
should the stirring Of the soil cease %
This question was answered by NJ. d.
Kendig. He said he had heretofore prac-
Iced an early stirring of the soil for the
purpose of getting large and healthy
stocks. This year his purpose was, not to
rive his corn so much early cultivation,
but to stir the soil we'll later in the season
about the time it begins to tassel. He
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