Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1881-01-21
Peerless potatoes are liked best for the


years ago. Many thought they had not i'm
proved, al! did not agree with this idea.
Attention was drawn to the increased use
of the portable steam saw mill.
Cumberland coal is good for hogs.
Blue Stone soaked in alcohol is a cure
for sore feet in horses The proceedings of
the Senior Club were closed with trans:
cript of the minutes of the last meeting at
the beautiful home and fertile farm of our
deceased member, Samuel Ellicott, where
every thing was found in the usual admira-
BILE order, and we adjourned after a most
pleasant meeting, little thinking that it was
our last assembling there.
Henry II. Stabler reported the Mont
gomery Club as having progressed during
the past year The average attendance has
been good, and in all ways it has been as
beneficial, both socially and materially as
its friends could desire, This practice of
having an essay read at each meeting by
member appointed for the purpose has
added much interest. His extracts from the
minutes Of the club are as follows;
An average of IL working hours per day
was thought to be right for both employer
and laborer.
Most members think it more satisfactory
to furnish an allowance and let their hands
board themselves
The opinion is gaining ground that it is
as well to sow clover seed in the fail as in
the spring
Berkshire i'ogs weighing from $50 to 300
pounds lose Il pounds in the hundred in
dressing, whic those weighing from 100 to
200 lose 20 pounds in the hundred.
1t is recommended to apply limo to the
surface rather than to plough il under
1t is thought to be most profitable to have
dairy herd fresh in August or September
rather than in the spring.
The wheat crop of The club averaged one
bushel per acre less than last year, but the
acreage was 30 per cent. greater. The yield
of corn was Unprecedented
Hay was only about half a crop.
The deficiency Of hay was made up by
sowing fodder-corn and mllot.
The potato crop was fair.
Fruit was failure, it being unnecessary
to sign temperance pledge as far us cider
was concerned.
Eight members report having cleared
from the original forest within the past year
As acres, nearly Of all of which is now in
cultivation.
One member had put in during the year
about one mile Of blind-ditching, averaging
over feet deep
Average of the leading crops of sixteen
members. Wheat, 22l bushels per acre
corn, 81 barrels per acre; potatoes, 99I bush
els per acre; hay, 7-10 Of a ton per acre
Eleven members reported 43,1O7 pounds Of
ofpork; five members reported II 1853 pounds
OF butter eight members reported $l,7SC
profit on fat cattle; one member reported
1920 profit on chicken eggs; six members
reported 1904 profit on lambs and wool,
Granville Farquhar, Of the Enterprise
Club, read a report stating that the average
attendance during the past year (12 meetings
was 49,.
/ The crop reports show the year pros
/ porous one. There have been no rayaginp
diseases amongst the stock oriniury to crops
We note extensive Improvements at the
houses OF several of our members, among
them being water arrangements in the
| dwelling, and fine new barn.
Several important enterprises are pro
jected, one being Farmers Hotel and
Market, to which those present at "A meet
ing in January agreed to take over 50, 00C
worth of stock
Last winter committee was appointed
TO visit the Commissioners Of the Distrc
and bring before them the bad condition O
the Seventh Street road and asking them tc
improve it. They were politely received
and were assured that il would be ATTENDED
to-
A member asked if he should get self
binding harvester-1G advised it and would
not.
Would the County Fair he more success
full if held 3 days or only "a voted for
days, II for 2 days.
The most frequently recurring question
is, "what plough shall use p The an
swer was, Syracuse 8, Oliver 3, Comnlins 2
Roland 1, Ward 1, Loudoun 1.
Wheat, average per acre, 10 bushels corn
average per acre, 8 barrels; hay, average pc
acre, Sc of a ton; potatoes, average pc
acre. 104 bushels pork, about 10000 pounds
butter, 1900 pounds. With regard to tn
hay crop the members were agreeably sur
prised as at the June meeting half of th
members thought there would only be one
fourth of a crop and the rest from one-thir
to half Il crop. They made threc-fourth
Of crop.
The questions were next taken up an,
much animated discussion ensued. Not
withstanding our having met at 10 O'Clock
the afternoon wore away before the list wa
completed, so much was there TO interest
1st. What is the least size Of the flrr
on which it pays the manager better I
, superintend than 10 laborg
There were numerous amusing spceche
on this question: many indicating a disin
, clination TO labor, yet believing it necessar
for success. Several thought that when farm
J exceeded 25e acres the owner could not al
ford to labor himself while others though
, that one man ought not 10 use more than h
} could assist in cultivating.
= End. The subject Of ensilage or method r
: preserving green provender was next take
, up, and Robert +. Roberts, Of Alexandra
va, gave an interesting account Of hi
method of operating, and showed a sampl
which was examinee ny nearly all presen
He finds his cattle eat It freely and thinks
valuable. IL does not affect the taste Of d
e milk. The fodder is cut by steam CUTE
and Is packed in the trenches by the tram
= ing of horse and covered with little sira'
{ and earth.
! Bird. Would il be 10 the advantage Of N