The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1884-12-26


the silo. In the North sugar corn is planted for
ensilage, while here 1t is allowed to go to waste
one acre will feed and put on more flesh than an
acre OF field corn.
VIM. B. Hopkins said that he had raised a fine
crop or corn this year, One acre. chained of
and accurately measured, yielded 20 barrels. He
cut 20 tons of hay, mostly timothy, or about 2
tons to the acre. piece that had been pastured
most of the season yielded one ton to the acre.
The field that was in corn had laid II years in pas
ture IL had been top-dresscd with half ton OF
bone to The acre and last winter was nearly all
covered with stable manure. Another piece OF
corn ground here 800 lbs of bone per acre was
applied yielded IL barrels. tie planted yellow
corn; His cattle increased 400 lbs. each, as
weighed in Philadelphia They were fed for TWO
months, on two gallons of corn and cob meal and
bran day.
s. B. silver. speaking of the advantage of plow-
ing down sod for corn, said that his fat her once
let neighbor take off about 20 yards Of sod from
a field, which was afterwards put in corn. Where
the sod had been removed no corn was raised
VIM. f. Hays raised 28 bushels of wheat TO the
acre on 40 or 40 acres, q or 2S of which sod.
On the sod he had IS bushels per acre His corn
averaged l5A barrels Sugar beets were only hal
crop, the season being too dry for them. Year
before last ne tried tobacco, but the profit was
not enough to induce him to continue it Mr..
Hays breeds Short Horn cattle, but had not been
IN the business long enough to know whether 1t
is profitable or not. MIR Hays was strongly IL,
favor of sugar beets as winter food for CATTLE
He said he would prefer bushel of beets to half
u bushel of corn meal. If asked to make choice.
He stabbed last winter 10 head of cattle. They
were bought November 10Th and sold on the 10Th
of April. They put on 1856 lbs. each, and sold at
an advance of ~ cents Id. He regarded sugar
beets as better than ensage. On seven eighths
of an acre last year he raised Loo bushels of
beets This year his crop was 400 bushels on an
acre. Some were kept in the cellar and the resi
put in long rlcks, covered with straw and fur
row thrown over them with u pillow. He feeds in
the morning and at night peck of roots, with
meal on them. Beets are also excellent for milk
cows, They are planted In rows 28 inches apart
and thnned out to from to 10 inches in the row.
They are cultivated twice and require a little
hoeiDg. When taken up the tops must be wrunR
on cut they ,a are sp s to bleed - ,,o.
or "a acres part of it stalk ground, part tomato
ground and the rest wheat and oat stubble The
tomato ground was the best. His corn yielded 10
planted without fertilizer and The difference cou i'd
be seen throughout even until 1t was husked. He
had raised a few Tomatoes, which at 20 cents q
hushel paid him $50 an acre. 1t COSTS very little
more to raise tomatoes than to raise corn. He
prefers Ful'z wheat to any other.
S. w Barnes said he thought FultZ wheat is
improving every year, and approaching longberry
in quality more and more.
Amos Bailey said his crops this season were not
good as formerly. His stalk ground wheat av-
eraged 20 bushels per acre. This has been, he said,
rather bad year for farmers. The crops are moi
the wheat crop is better than usual. He had re-
allied more out of hay than wheat He sold at
Lapidum for $l5 ton, baled, the baIing having
J. W, Bailey gave an account of the different
nationalities landing at New York and going
West. Nearly all these men prefer TO raise
much talked of, only average about Is bushels to
the acre. They use no manure and when the soil
T n" Longer Pr4SSueew crops without manure
land. Flax is extensively growni Montana and
Wisconsin, for Iinseed oil. The large oil makers
have formed a syndicate and supply poor farmers
with seed, agreeing to take their crops at an es
tahlished price Farms there are large but ther"
is no diversity of crops Wild prairie ha,. is cut
and sold in Minneapolis at from 81 so to Sc ton,
as fuel for mills. II is as nutritious for stock rs
timothy. Land in Minnesota has deteriorat for
wheat, hut will come in again when other crops
are grown. The cattle interest is growing won
derfully In western Montana and Dakota
DR.. II. A. Brooks, OF the Baltimore Sum- did not
tell the club how much wheat and corn he had
raised, but he paid the club number of compli-
ments He said he read the agricultural journals
carefully and from the published statements
could say that the Deer Creek Farmers Club. in
the subjects discussed and the manner in which
they We're handled was equal 10 any in the coun-
try. They have showed that the stat us of farm
ing is better in Hartford than in any other county
IN the State or out of it. No county in the State
has improved in the last fifteen years as Hartford
has. He did not know what Hartford farmers want
with money. after what he had seen here tonight.
A full showing of Hartford to the outside world
would surprise them. and If Hartford farmers are
NOT making money he did not know any others
who are. Hartford is way ahead Of other cuuntit 8
in the production # corn. In Frederick and
Washington counties he had seen wheat fields n
par with those of Hartford but no better. In
Ailegany and Garrett counties the oats is no bet
ter, except in weight. he Rlades of Garrett
county furnish natural growth of grass superb
Quently large numbers of cattle are Rrazpd there.
DIR. Brooks asked if any gentleman present had
tried finely ground South Carolina rock called
Floats" He believed that floats used on grass
lands or S months before blowing would act fine
ly. In dissolved rock he said, you get 900 lbs of
sulphuric acid and !. 100 lbs. of rock. The acid is
positive injury 10 the land.
John Muores said his cattle had been wintered in
the field until the LIST of March. when they were
brought into the barn yard. They were fed fod-
der twice day and hay once, with plenty of
short corn and fodder this fall until they got fat
The average gain on each steer was 502 lbs They
cost $3.50 per 100 lbs and sold at S. 50 The aver
age cost per steer was S3l.lS and they sold for
$65 ~ per head. the profit being $34A per steer.
Mr.. Moores said his corn on stalk Rr und yielded
only 10 barrels, but he had some good corn on
sod The stalk ground corn WAS heavily fortified
and he could not account for the failure. He
raised 30 bushels OF wheat to the acre. mostly on
stalk ground. He uses bone dust general y on
wheat. hut had found that phosphate mixed with
bone dust acts well.
the farm of Mr.. VIM. + Hays, January 24th, 1885