The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1883-04-27
The Deer Greek Farmers Club.
What Farm Products can u Farmer Buy
Cheaper than he can Raise?

A largely attended meeting of the Deer Creek
Farmers Club was held at Allandale, the resi-
dencc of Mr.. r. Harris Archer, Saturday April
2lst. Seventeen active members were present.
Among the honorary members and guests present
]. II. c. Hopkins o. $. Lee, John Barnes w. p. c..
Whitaker, George j. Finney, DR.. w. s. Archer,
Pr. Jas. M. Magraw, DIR. 7. II. Roberts, Harry
and James NJ. Jacobs.
X. Harris Archer said if the question was ar
gued to fine point the conclusion would be that
raise it. 1t has been said that farmer can buy
cover-seed cheaper than he can raise it. He can
duces enough to SOW, he will save from $50 to $50.
Sometimes it turns out a moned crop. Some
farmers, say 1t does not pay to raise hogs, but
when farmer has a lot of small hogs and fattens
them, he has all the pork he needs and some to
sell and does not feel the cost of fattening them
Many farmers do not have a strawberry bed or
other fruits, for instance, and when they buy
them they are that much money out. 1t does not
pay to raise colts for profit, but money can be
Some farmers buy butter, but no member of the
club would contend that 1t pays better to buy
than produce It on the farm;
by grazing cattle, but IL small farmer would
put his whole place in grass and try pasturng and
grazing he would starve to death. Some farmers
then winter stock and make manure, which, with
some other fertilizer, would keep their land up.
raise timothy and clover seed. If those crops are
good it would pay to save them, but he would not
make business of saving them every year.
Geo. J. Finney.-It depends on circumstances
whether farmer should raise or buy. Year be-
fore last 1t would have paid him better to buy all
his breadstuffs than raise crop of wheat. A
he needs Some of them might fail, but of others
he would have portion to sell. AS rule a
farmer will find 1t cheaper to raise what he needs
than to buy it. His experience with raising colts
was not happy one, and the same with oxen. 1t
is better to raise the latter than to buy Them if
you have sufficient work to break them.
VIM. Webster.-If forced to vote on the CUES
ton he would vote that it is cheaper to raise than
to buy. At the same time there are certain things
which a farmer can buy cheaper than he can
raise, from horse to asparagus for his table. If
farmer makesa speciality of a certain crop and it
loses roots wheat, hay and corn all the same sea-
| son. farmer is sometimes compelled to buy
clover and timothy seed. or seed oats. He knew
of two farmers who raise horses and have sold
81 900 worth of colts 1t is little expense to plant
an orchard and fruit trees, but the cost would be
great to buy as much fruit as we might raise.
John Barnes said 1t Is improbable to a small
farmer to raise colts. He is likely to soon be-
come overstocked. and sometimes out of or Z
work right. On large farms, where colt-raising is
made a business, it will pay handsomely. 1t is
better, he thought to raise cattle and buy horses
He had frequently raised calves which, when ris-
ing three years old, were sold at $50 head
X. John Rogers custom Is to raise everything
he needs-cloyer, timothy and other seeds and
crops, and he finds it pays. 1t requires no add-
tional force to save cloverseed There is not q
great deal of difference In the profit of raising any
one kind to another, 1t is better to have some of
each. He was not much in favor of raising
horses, and would rather raise four cattle than
one colt.
Johns H. Janney thought it best for farmer to
raise everything he needs. 1t may not pay to
raise some things to SELL For instance 1t may
not pay to raise colts to SELL but it pays to raise
for your own use. He had raised seven colts in
as many years, and never had bad one. BY
raising what you need you do not have to put
your hand into your pocket and take out what is
hard for farmers to get. AT the South cotton
not prosperous. Now Southern farmers raise a
little grain, have some to sell and are getting
rich.
John Moores thought the definition of the sub
ject was whether we should follow mixed hus-
bandry or farm for some particular crop. He
favored mixed husbandry for this region, which
is adapted to. raising almost everything, and in
some of which we can raise as large crops as any
where in the United States. We should raise
everything we need at home. We can find sale
for all. In an average of ten years all crops pay
alike.
used, yet he only knew of one young mule.
Mr.. Moores believed 1t would pay farmers to do
their farm work with mares and raise mules
There is more money in that than in canning. To
raise colts farmer should be provided with a
shed and an acre or two of land, to prevent them
from interfering with other stock.
Geo. l.. VanBibber said that he hesitated to air
his ill-digested opinions before 30 many we'll
known experts. His farming was in q small way.
III they wanted to know how to save satisfy seed
or grow raspberries he might throw some light on
the subject. He did not think 1t would pay to
raise mules except from well-bred mares. One
member had remarked that he always bought his
horses from neighbors. He had had some expert
ence In that direction and the only satisfaction he
had ever had was when he bought from a jockey
in Baltimore. He finds it economical to raise hfs
own garden seeds. 1t takes very little time and
trouble and the seeds are better and more reliable
than any you can buy.