Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-09-07
A0RIOULTURAL.
MEETING OF raE SOCIETY.

MONTHLY MEETING OF TaE SOCIETY.
Crop Reports-Esseys-Long Debstesros
Sluchee Chln-C -Chin-Fruit Exhib-
its, &c., &C., &c.
The September meeting of the Lancaster
county agricultural and horticultural sOci-
ty was held in their room in City hall yes.
tcrday afternoon.
The following named members and Wis
itors were present:
Joseph F. Wilmer, president, Paradise :;
NJ. D. Kendis, secretary, Cresswell; H.
NJ. Engle, Marietta; Frank II. Offender
fer. city; G. w. Mason, Salisbury; w.
w. Griest, city; Calvin Cooper, Bird-in-
Hand Amos Croft, city; c. A. Cast,
city; DR.: Z. A. Greene city; johnson
Miller. Warwick; J. NJ. Johnston, city !;
John c. Linville, Salisbury; VIM. Nc
Comsey, city VIM. II. Brosius, Drumore );
Daniel Smeych, city; Jacob Bollinger,
Warwick; Peter Hershey, city c. L.
Hunsecker, Mannheim township ; Ephraim
Landis, Mannheim; S. P. Eby, city ; A.
F. Hostetter, city; Jacob &. CARRIER, Co.
lumbia.
Crop Reports.
Reports on the condition of the crops
being called for, the following responses
were made
II. NJ. Engle, of Marietta, reported that
the crops in his neighbOrhOOd did not turn
out as we'll as was hoped month ago
late corn and pasture has suffered On ac-
count of tho drouth, the rainfall for
August being only two inches the peach
crop turned out very we'll the apples arc
fine, but q good deal punctured by the
%horo CO. ,hu kl~n,,
and lower temperature they will not keep
for winter the pears and grapes are fine,
but badly injured by birds and insects :; he
punches of his grapes with bags to keep
the cat birds away in these bags he found
dozens of bees, and in some instances they
had eaten up the grapes entirely.
Calvin Cooper, of Bird-in- Hand, re-
garded the bees as very destructive of
grapes, pears and peaches as to the apple
crop it was short, and we would probably
have to resort to eastern markets for sup
ply.
johnson Miller, Of Warwick, reported
the grapes, peaches and pears had been
hurt by insects; he blamed the wasps
more than the bees ; the grass seed he had
sOwn carly in the season was . failure
the corn and pasture arc good.
j. o. Linville, of Salisbury, said the
bees were never so bad before; they
almost destroyed for him the crop of u
Concord vino trailing over a tree, but did
not much injure the grapes of the vines on
the trestles; the corn is not filled out to
the end of the cob, so the crop will not turn
out SO good rs he expected it would a
month ago; pasture is very short wheat
will average from 16 to 30 bushels per
acre.
VIM. II. BrOsius, DrumOre, said winter
fruit was falling off the trees wheat turn
ed out better than was supposed; corn
very good and grass pretty good.
Jacob BOllinger, Warwick, said the pO-
tatO crop had turned out we'll and the
corn was the best crop ever grown the
grapes were much injured by insects he
had not noticed any destruction of the
the grapes by bees. but the wasps were
bad.
NJ. d. Kendig, Manor, had sOwn clover
seed in the beginning of August, but none
of it has come up; the corn crop is full !;
some of the tobacco is very good, and some
poor; GO per cent. of it has been cut ;
apples and pears look healthy, but don't
keep any length of time :: the rainfall for
August was $40 inches streams arc
very low and rain badly wanted.
Dr.Greene said there appeared to be much
diversity of opinion as to bees injuring
grapes. 1t might be easily demonstrated
whether they do or do not puncture grapes.
DR.. Rathvon says they do not, he thought
the matter might be determined by placing
bees in bag containing punches Of
sound grapes, and preventing any other
kind of insects from getting in. In an
other bag place wasps with the grapes, and
in another, both bees and wasps, and let
the result of the trial determine the ques-
tiOn.
DR.. Greene read a number of recipes for
the destruction of insects of various kinds.
Some of them he had copied from old
papers and did not know whether they
were valuable or not, others he had tested
and found to he valuable.
The thanks of the society were rendered
DR.. Greene for his essay.
Mr.. Engle doubted whether there was
any cure for the yellows in peaches.
Mr.. e. Cooper said his only cure for ycl-
lows for years past was to cut down the
diseased trees. He had, however, recently
tried the plan of buck pruning-that is,
cutting back all tho branches closely and
then digging about the roots OF the tree
ttuu LlIiuS IuO uOIC Will ADOuG as pCCh VI
fine ashes.
MIR. Linvillc had some faith in buck
pruning and wood ashes as cure for ycl-
lows. He said there was Delaware man
who claimed that putting wOOd-ashes
around the trunk Of the tree would pre-
vent the yel!Ows, and prevention was bet
ter than cure.
Referred Questions.
Ought farmers to be exempted from
taxation to the extent of their indebted
ness?
This question was answered by Peter
Hershey to whom it had been referred ut
last meeting. His opinion in brief was
that the farmers should be exempt, and he
illustrated, his views by stating that if Il
farmer bOrrows 81, 600 to buy a farm and
pays interest OH the money TINS borrowed.
and has besides to pay tax on the full
value of the farm he is dOubly taxed. This
placed him on an unequal footing with the
farmer whose farm is not n1Ortgaged. Mr..
Hershey thought the lender of the money
who was drawing interest and not the
farmer who was paying interest is the
proper party to be taxed.
A long and rambling dicussion followed
in which Mr.. Linvillc Hoover, Mr.. Eby
and others cOncurrcd with MIR. Hershey,
and DR.. Greene, MIR. Brosius and Mr.. Mil
Ter and others differed. DR.. Greene's ar