The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-02-23
Farmers Club Meeting are indob,ed

FARMERS Clup M0eJlng-We are indebted
to the american Farmer for the following account
OF the meeting on 9th inst, of the Gunpowder
Agricultural Club, at the farm and residence of
Col. Walter S. franklin
"The Inspection Committee was accompanied
on its tour of examination by all those in attend
ance, many signs of improvement being visible on
the 1arm The stables were full of fattening steers
which showed the best of care, and were in thriv-
ing condition Curried regularly, getting fourteen
quarts OF crushed corn and cob meal daily, with
all the hay they can eat, they made lot of prom
isng beef animals. The barn with fodder cutter
and crusher, and corn and cob mill the tool
mouse ana granary, capacious and in the best of
order pig and poultry houses, were visited
ana snowen methodcal and painstaken care
The day was not favorable for visiting the grain
fields, but 1t was evident even from a distance
that this property was undergoing rapid and
great improvement. New fencing, ditching and
gradings.and lining have all been going forward,
and the place gives promise of becoming one of
most productive in the county.
"The visit to the farm over, the assembled COM
pany repaired to the smaller place of the Colonel
at the Ashland Furnace, where the stables, out
buildings and garden were visited, all showing
neatness and good order.
Assembled within the house the proceedings
were read of the last monthly meeting and of the
last meeting held at the same place. Under the
call for new business, the club passed resolutions
approving the proposed Agricultural Experiment
Station, as demanded for the advancement and
protection of the agricultural interests of the State
and as an institution whose establishment is war
ranted by the success of similar ones elsewhere.
"The club also opposed any further appropria-
ton OF the taxpayers money to the Agricultural
College, that institution rendering no service to
the agriculture of Maryland.
"John d. Matthews introduced the subject of
sewerage of country places.
HEdward AucfoD cold oraot ;ctaros+ ov;,4ol
Massachusetts, in regard to sanitation. 1t had
been found that typhoid fever, diphtheria, and
other zymotic diseases prevailed more than for
merly. The wells and springs are impregnated
with sewage matter. The wash water and slops
thrown out from the house, and the contents of
the privies have soaked so long through the soil
that it hes become in many places saturated with
such noxlous materials. Athis own place spring
long in use had been found to be contaminated
by the drainage from a distant privy. At the
resia-,sNe 81 mamhar nf this club he d;sh
water IAown out close to the well This ought
not to be, since after while the soil will become
infiltrat,d with injurious matters
"Thinaks there ought to be a glazed pipe, well
trapped, leading to pit, and all liquid refuse
from the house poured down it. The pit can be
deodoriDd and disinfected by lime or other
agents.
"Whei he lived in New Jersey he had several
thousand feet of ordinary drain tile laid few
ueuodIu suTldCe, anu Ill llqulu HuIIcrs
were conducted though them and thus taken up
by the sell and disposed of.
"E. II. Matthews referred to trouble with rats
in wells 1t was found they do not go in from
the surface; they live in the stone walls. &C.
mentins the wall several feet below the top and
tightly covering the opening was recommended.
"Aftr the discussion of few other matters,
the club adjourned, to meet at the residence of
Abram c. Scott. March s. Subject, "What is
the best system ofraising and feeding farm stock?"
Body-Snatchers Set Free.-A few days
ago three men-one white and two colored-were
tried for the third time in the Circuit Court here
on the charge of stealing bodies from the bury
ing graund at Bayview Asylum, 18th district,
having twice before been convicted and new trials
having been obtained. The last trial was before
the Court and when the case was submitted Judge
Yelloti said:
"These parties can't be convicted In an act
of this kind must look for the intention of the
legisla.ssze. The act was intended for people
buried by their friends, who look upon the spot
where they lie sacred. But in the case of those
who have no friends, nobody's feelings are har-
rowed, Science requires these bodies in order that,
by better knowledge of anatomy, the art of
healing may be improved. potters field is any
p lace where strangers buried, or paupers, as
we call them. Not guilty L never saw an act
in which the intention of the Legislature was
clearer"