The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-11-07
Fallston Farmers, Cluh.-At the last mad

Fallston Farmers Club.-At the last meet
ing of the Fallston Farmers Club, held at the
home of Mr.. Harry G. Preston, the subject chosen
for the evening was (Which is the most profta-
BILE class of horses for a farmer to raise 2"
@. j. Moore wanted enlightenment. Was un-
decided which was most profitable, class OF
horses known as general utility or those under
heavy draft, but favored the latter.
James Robinson thought if farmer intended
to grow horses for sale and not work, the light
draft horse was the BEST but for work and general
use ON a farm heavy horse ought to be grown
VIM. M. Edelin, had decided views in favor of a
heavy draft horse the most profitable and best
for farmers. There is, he said more risk in grow
ing light draft horses than any other class, and
if they do not prove to be of the first grade it is
difficult to get rid to them at any price. On the
contrary, a heavy horse that will weigh fifteen
hundred can always be sold, be he good or
inferior. In comparing the cost OF growing a
Short-Horn calf with that of Percheron colt, he
said, at the age of four years the colt would be
worth and could be readily sold at three hundred
dollars, or about twenty cents per pound, while
the calf at the same age would bring about ninety
dollars, three or four cents per pound, and the
calf would eat more than the colt.
Wilson Moore, VIM. Watson, JOS Hoskins and
VIM. L. Amos agreed with Mr.. Edelin,.
Mr.. Keech thought if he could always raise
horses that could trot in two minutes and three
else, but as he could not, heavy draft horses, he
thought, were more profitable.
VIM. Preston said for his own use light draft
were best, but for sale heavy draft.
Mr.. Gray would advise farmers to grow both
heavy and light draft and general utility; that it
had paid him to grow the latter.
II. G. Preston agreed with Mr.. Gray.
Garrett Amos said it would pay farmer bet
ter to buy his light draft horse than raise him.
He liked large and able horses when they are
old enough there is but little more to be done
than harness them to the wagon. One does not
have to leave home to break or sell them. The
Percheron he thinks is the best horse.
Mr.. Preston has twenty-seven cattle pasturing'
These were bought in January. Their weight then
averaged seven hundred and thirty-seven pounds.
Many of the club estimate their weight now at
twelve hundred.
Interesting Insurance Case.-The Balti-
more Sunday Herald says: "The case of Charles
A. Peters, administrator of George Smallwood, VS..
the Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Baltimore
county, which was tried before his Honor Judge
Brown in the City Court yesterday morning, in
wolves very novel and interesting point in in
surance law, which the counsel for both sides
stated had never been decided before. The plain
tiff's house had heen insured against loss by ire
in the defendants company, and the house was
entirely burned in 1884. After the destruction of
the premises the land was sold under mortgage
and the holder of the mortgage bought it in at the
sale. After the sale the insurance company, not
knowing anything about the mortgage, rebuilt the
the house upon the land then owned entirely by
the mortgage. The former owner of the insured
property, who has since died, did not know that
the company was building on the land from which
he had been sold out and his administrator now
claims that the insurance company should pay him
the amount of his loss in cash, since he is not
benefited by their building upon the land which
he no longer owned. Both the insured and the
company acted all along in good faith, and the
attorneys of the company claimed in court that
since the policy gave them the right either to pay
tie loss in money or rebuild the burned premises
at their option, it did not make any difference
whether the insured were benefited or not by the
replacement of the property. The case was argued
by Mr.. B. Howard Hannah for the plaintiff, and
by Messrs. John P. Poe and Robert Biggs for the
company. Judge Brown took the papers and
holds the case under Amusement"