Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-07-05
AGRICULTURAL.


ty agricultural and horticultural society |
was held in their room in City hall on
Monday. The meeting was unusually
small, only the following named officers
and members being present
Joseph F. Wilmer, president, Paradise
M. ID. Kendig, secretary pro te"'., Gress-
Kurtz, Mount Joy Levi S. Reist, Oregon |
C.. L. Hupsecker, Mannheim township !; |
Israel 4. Lands, Mannheim township !; |
Peter S. Reist, Lititz f. r. Diffenderffer,
city: ]. N. Johnston, city; w. w.
Griest, city w. B. Paxson, Colerain.
Crop Keports.
Reports on the condition of crops being
called for, Henry Kurtz, of Mount Joy, re-
POI ted the wheat crop as being unusually
good. He presented to the society a bunch
of Fultz wheat, the stalks of which meas
ured five feet and eight inches in length,
aud were very finely headed he expects
the wheat to yield about forty bushels to
the acre. The grass crop is pretty good,
aud q good deal of it has already been
cut Hay is selling at s1S@21 per ton.
Some of the tobacco fields look pretty
we'll aud some of them very unprOmising
a good deal of prepared ground is not yet
planted never knew the crop to be 80
backward as it is this year in some SEC
tiOns the cut. worms are very troublesome
and in some others they are not. Oats
looks we'll, and 70 does the corn.
Levi s. Reist, of Oregon, reported the
wheat in his neighbOrhoOd as looking bet
ter than it had looked for years, and the
grass much better than was expected a
month ago. Apples are dropping off, and
the prospect Of good crop is not prOmis-
ing tho York Imperial, the Baldwin and
one or two other varieties are we'll set with
fruit. Pears will be scarce. 1t is a curious
fact that in some places there are plenty
of cherries and in others, not a half
mile away, the trees are empty. Oats
looks we'll. Tobacco is very irregular,
some of the plants being well grown and
others very small. On the whole, the con-
dition of farm crops is encouraging.
C.. L. Hunsecker of Mannheim township,
said the wheat never looked better. The
lay crop is very good one and the oats
excellent. The corn is backward, but
healthy looking, and there is promise of
an immense crop. From appearance the
tobacco crop will not exceed that of last
year. Potatoes are very promising. Of
apples and peaches there arc some and of
pears and cherries plenty.
John II. Lands, of Manor, said the
straw of the wheat was heavy and the
grain as fine as any ever grown here or
elsewhere. Most of the grass has been
cut and there is full crop Of hay. There
was not much oats planted in his neigh
borhood. The popularity about the to-
bacco CROP is that the cut-wOrm appears to
have attacked it in spots three or four
or half a dozen adjoining farms will be
found to be greatly troubled with the
worm, while the next three or four or hall
dozen farms are almost free from the
pest. Apples are falling of and tho crop
will not be plentiful. The peach crop
will be tOlerabIy good--the trees arc not
very full of fruit, but the fruit will be all
the better. There are no cherries in his
neighborhoOd.
w. b. Paxsou, of Culcrain, reported
wheat very promising in the lower town
ships. Where the grass was we'll set ali.
not frozen out there is an abundance o
hay. Corn is small but looks healthy
Oats is not promising, there being a great
deal Of smut in it. There are very few
peaches; farmers in COlerain find it yer!
difficult to get peach trees to grow dom
think there will be five bushels OF pcachc
in the township Apples will be abund
ant cherries arc scarce The early plant
ed tobacco looks we'll and is growing fine
~, but there was great trouble in securing
early plants. The later planted fields are
ravaged by worms.
President Wilmer, of Paradise, said TIN
reports from other township fairly stated
the condition Of crops in his OWE. As to to
bacco great trouble has been experienced il
getting it set in the first place the seasOl
was late and unlavOrable, the plants small
weather much of the time unfit for plant
ing then the cut worm was very bad
compelling many of the farmers to replan
their fields several times. One of hi
neighbors who had set out 12,O00 plant
had 5000 destroyed by the cut worm. III
had noticed a popularity in a number Q
cherry trees that were in full bloom whc
a northeast rain storm set in and laste
for q week on the northeast side Of th
trees there is no fruit at all, while on th
opposite side the trees are well filled.
Shall We Have a Fair:
Henry kurtz wanted to know whcthe
it was the intention Of the society to hol
q county fair next fall. Many OF hi
neighbors had been asking him about
and seemed to be dcsirous of entering thei
stock in competition for premiums. Ii
suggested Mount Joy as good place fo
such an exhibition and offered filtee
acres of the land on his farm rs props
place for holding it.
Mr.. Kurtz's suggestion met with no er
enlargement the president, stating tina
the number present at the meeting va
too small to take action on SO important
matter.
Owing to the absence of the sccretar
aud the essayists appointed at the las
meeting the society found itself withOu
the usual topics for discussion and .
motion, the matters intended to be acte
upon at this meeting were postponed
next meeting.
Immigration.
ssShould immigration be encouraged q?
was question proposed for discussion b.
G.. L. Hunsecker, who after stating til
population of tho principal countries,
the world, and showing the almost bound
less extent of our own, made a sensible a
gument in favor of encouraging tho imm
grafton of industrious artizans and laborer
Nobody else appeared to tackle til
problem Henry Kurtz merely sayin
that he had not intended to say anytfiin
ON the subject "but an idea had jus
struck him this question of immigratio
reminded him of that passage in the Bib
where we read that VIC arc ordered to G
out into the highways and hedges an
bring in the lame and the halt and I'll
blind and present them as an Offering /,
the Lord ~ This luminous and couvin
ing argument raised laugh, during whc
Mr.. Kurtz sat down, and the society S;
down on the further discussion of I'll
subject.
Strawberries and Cherries.
j. II. Lands and G.. L. Iunsecker wei