Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-01-06
AGRICULTURE.
Annual Meeting Of the Agricultural and H0r.
ticultural SOciety-COmmittee Reports
Annual Addfess-The Manure
QuestiOn-Trees for Fencing
Election OF Officers,

&C., SC.
The Lancaster county agricultural and
horticultural society met in their room in
city hall yesterday afternoon. The follow
ing members were present:
Calvin Cooper, president, Bird-in-H Hand !;
Joseph F. Wilmer, recording secretary,
Paradise johnson Miller, corresponding
secretary, Warwick !; Henry NJ. Engle,
Marietta Casper Hitler, Conestoga DR..
5. 5. Rathvon, city John IL. Lands,
Manor; F. R. Diffenderffer, city NJ. d.
kendig, Cresswell; Levi S. Reist, Man.
field VIM. II. Brosius, Drumore Peter
Eph. S. Hoover, East Hempfield ; S. p.
A. F, HOstetter, city Israel L. Lands,
Mannheim A. B. Croft West Earl John
r. Buckwalter, Salisbury Enos B. En-
gle, Marietta.
The reading of the minutes was dis
pensed with.
Edwin B. Rrubaker, of Elizabeth town.
ship; David w. Grabill, of East Hemp
field, and Henry Kurtz, of Safe Harbor,
were proposed and elected members.
NJ. d. Kendig called attention to the
fact that many farmers in Manor township
had lost hogs by the cholera about 40
were lost to his own knowledge; shoats
appear to be most affected by the disease
but some full grown hogs are also at
tackled.
Joshua Miller reported the growing
wheat as looking we'll the tobacco in his
neighborhood nearly all stripped and
much of it sold domestic animals all
doing well.
II. NJ. Engle reported but little change
in the appearance of the crops since last
report. The rainfall for November was
9 14-16 inches and for December 2 11-16
inches.
President Cooper's Address.
President Cooper took the floor and de-
livcred his annual address. He referred
to the unprecedented drouth in the early
part of the season and the anxiety of the
husbandman caused thereby; to the delight
full ruins that followed the almost magical
growth of vegetation and the enormous
crops that filled the garners. The speaker
deplored the tendency apparent among our
farmers to devote so much of their lands
to the cultivation of tobacco, to the exclu-
sion of more useful if not more profitable
crops. He denounced the filthy habits of
smokers. snuiiers and especially chcwers
of tobacco, who annoy all with whom
they come in contact, and who
spend their subsistence in the gratitica-
ton of a selfish and unnatural appetite.
The speaker acknowledged the great value
of the crop of this county, from money
standpoint, but had his forebodings that
we may suffer for too great Il production
of the plant as Virginia and North Caro-
lima have suffered, whose once fertile fields
are now barren wastes. Referring to the
incorporation of the society, the president
reminded members that they had assumed
new duties and occupied a new position in
the business world. He commended the
good work that had been done by some Of
the members by their experiments i'll vari-
Gus seeds, fertilizers, etc, and urged
others to emulate them and carry
Oh the experiments on larger
and more diversified scale, that more cor
rect information may bc acquired relative
to the production of paying crops. He
culogized the local press for the interest it
had taken in the affairs OF the society and
agricultural interests generally, and de-
clared that a juClicious system OF news
paper advertising was worth more to
bring any matter into general notice than
all the speeches that could be made or
meetings that could be held. Referring
to the late exhibition given by the society,
the president stated that while it was not
financially a great success, it had done
some good. Experience has been gained
and faults in its management may now be
corrected should the society determine to
give another exhibition. 1t was true that
some members who had promised to aid
the exhibition have stood alOOf when their
assistance was needed, but on the other
hand there were some who had faithfully
stood to their posts and extended all need
ed aid. Mr.. Cooper predicted that future
exhibitions of the society would be we'll
patrOnizcd, if they are properly managed
and advertised. lie referred to the advan-
tages being gained by the removal of mid
die fences in farms, pictured the attrac-
tiOns and comforts of the model farmers
house, and in conclusion thanked the So
ciety for the uniform courtesy extended
him during the four years he had had the
pleasure of presiding as chairman.
The address was attentively listened to,
and at it's conclusion the speaker was
loudly applauded.
The Manure Question.
Eph. S. Hoover, to whom had been re-
ferrcd for answer the question which is the
the best farmer-he who makes the most,
Or he who buys tho most manure, answered
that in his Judgment the farmer who made
the most stable manure was the best far
mer Commercial fertilizers are often un-
reliable. The best manure is that OBJ
tained from stall-fed cattle, and this, gen
orally, can only be had by the farmer who !
leeds his own cattle. Where sufficient !
quantity of stable manure cannot be had,
nc recommended the plOwing down Of |
clover, rye, and other green manures. He !
nstanced cases in which good crops of |
tobacco had been grown three years in |
succession without any other fertilizer /
han that supplied by plowing
lOwn green clover and rye.
Casper Hitler said that while it is true
hat good stock feeder is almost always
good farmer, it is safe practice to some
lines follow an opposite course. In theory
It least it is safe to say that there need not
,e an animal fed on the farm except few
lorses to do the hauling and plowinS. 1t
'as been shown that i'll some places and
ONE conditions that all the grain and hay
nd straw and cornfodder may be sold and
arried away from the farm, and the farm
'e kept in good condition by the use of