The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1886-09-17

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NJ The price Of fultz wheat in Baltimore is 81 cts
leaving clear profit of S7.15 per acre.
Hargraves Spalding thought there might be
profit in wheat at 30 bushels to the acre but he
had never raised that much.
Is. f, Hanways experience is that his wheat
crop always brings him in debt. Occasionally he
had raised 30 bushels and over. 1t takes about all
he gets for his wheat to pay for his fertilizers
He does not plant it for profit but to get the land
In grass; He did not think farmers should
b s. M. Lee said IL farmers, when he commenced
farming, could raise wheat at 81 bushe, they
ought to be able to raise it now proitably at so
can make two bushels with less expense than
they could make one then. He thought MIR. John
Moores estimate of profit based on 30 bushels per
acre was too high but he was satisfied that an
average crop of rs bushels can be raised. The
purchasing power of 50 cents too, is very, large
not think the latter too high except in comparison
with the products of labor. He would cutdown
MIR; Moores fertilizer bill. BY another rotation
fully one-half the fertilizer could be saved and
he would not put in two wheat crops in success
SION He Illustrated this point by the case of two
bfothers in baltimore county. One uses COM
mercial fertilizers while the other depends upon
turning down green crops to preserve the ferti-
ty of his soil; This year their crops of wheat
were about the same, but one had to take nearly
all his crop TO- pay for fertilizers and the other
of farming with green crops He did not ignore
the value of commercial fertilizers, but thought
FARMERS cOulu 10 without them. He had seen 40
and AZ bushels of wheat raised without any ferti-
ger but little land plaster.
John i, Wysong remarked that there is a
small profit in wheat II 25 bushels per acre can
be raised from an application of 400 or 500 lbs of
commercial fertilizer The straw Is worth SO per
acre; Not more than one-third or one-haf The
fertilizer is taken up by the wheat, the remain
der going to produce two good crops of hay. If
the two crops of hay will pay for the fertilizer
the only expense OF raising the wheat would be
for cultivation. The latter he thought less than
stated by some members: He uses bone and
phosphate on wheat, three-fourths bone to one
fourth phosphate. Farmers can't do without
wheat and it is the best crop to sell. being easily
hauled. The greater number of acres put in the
greater profit per acre per bushe
Bennett II. Barnes did not think there is any
profit In wheat at so cents q bushel il only %
bushels per acre are raised. This year on a rent
ed place his expenses for raising wheat includ-
ing fertilizer, were $50 per acre and he got rs
bushels per acre.
wheat crop; There is a little profit in it. He
raised about 800 bushels on so acres He uses
one-fourth phosphate with bone, drilling in 400
II. Harris Archer said that If strict account
were kept OF any crop the farmer would con-
make anything out Of his farm he must wsI so w
wheat even If as low as so cents bushel A
bushel OF wheat will buy more calico, muslin or
sugar now than 1t would when wheat was Sic a
bushei. Besides, there may be foreign war and
and next year wheat may bring 81,
K; John Rogers agreed with other members
that wheat raising Is a necessity. There is litter
profit, at present prices, after the farmer is paid
a living price for his work. Sowing wheat APP
pears to be the only sure mode of getting set
OF grass. A farmer must raise 25 bushels per
acre to get profit, but no man ought to seed a
bushel without preparing his ground SO that he
may expect 70 bushels to the acre. In the effort
to get 70 he may get 30 or more. The fertilizer
that has given him the most satisfaction for
wheat is bone and dissolved South Carolina rock
half and half, with 300 lbs. of kainit to each ton
he buys these early, empties them in bulk and
t mixes them together The, acid in the roc,
thoroughiy decomposes the bone and makes II
soluble The mixture costs about $2l tome
He uses 800 lbs. to the acre, drilled in with the
wheat. 1t acts promptly. 1t is important to get
the best rock and kafnit.
The club adjourned to meet at the residence OF
9th. 'O