The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-06-05

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Making 5O79 acres in all, including the
wood lots, which are not contiguous to the
farms. OF the above land, distributed in
fair proportion between the farms, there
are about seventy-6ve acres of heavy tim
Der, the rest arabic and all in high state
of cultivation These farms we will take
up in the order in which they are mentioned
above, commencing with the home farm,
Mr.. Covers former residence.
This fine farm is located in Myers dis
trict, Carroll county, in Silver Run Valley,
about ten miles from Westminster, and a
mile and a half from the village Of Silver
Run, which takes its name from the stream.
1t contains 127 acres of prime land. Mr..
Cover came into possession of it in 1855,
by purchase of Isaac Hull, the brother of
his first wife, for the sum of $4,000. 1t is
divided into seven fields, and substantially
enclosed, chiefly by post and rail fence. At
the time of its purchase the farm produced
about fourteen bushels of wheat and about
eight barrels of corn per acre. Its highest
yield while in Mr.. Covers possession was
forty-one bushels of wheat per acre, and
seventeen barrels of corn. Forty-one
bushels of wheat and eighty-fve of corn,
as an average, per acre, is heavy cropping,
and shows the state of fertility to which
the land had been brought. This result
was effected by the use of lime, stable ma
nure, and the turning in of green crops.
In 1877 he commenced the use of CONNER
cial fertilizers. The land, not in cultiva-
ton, is all well set in timothy and clover,
and is kept so all the while, as land not
well covered is bound to deteriorate, and
cannot be kept up to the highest state of
fertility without it.
The ordinary crops on this farm were
wheat, corn, rye, and clover and timothy.
But the specially at Lemons CHOICE
was the production of grass and grain, as a
preliminary to the feeding and fattening of
young steers for beef. Mr.. Cover some
times fed as many as one hundred head in
one season, and had much of the grain
chopped into feed and thus converted into
beef. Mr.. Covers theory is, that it is
better to feed grain and grass on the farm
than to send it to market, especially when
grain is as low in price as it now is. Beef
pays better than grain, and besides, the
manure from granted cattle enriches the
land to much greater degree. The profit
to the farmer, therefore, of this system, is
two fold, the price of beef is better than
the price of grain, and the land is enriched
by it. Mr.. Covers experience for num-
Der of years as stock feeder has satisfied
him on this point, and he has practiced it
ell. T.. FL L.,
or large part of it, one year, to his fatten-
ing steers, though ordinarily it is sent to
market The highest yield of wheat, per
year, has amounted to as much as 1000
bushels. The highest amount received in
any one year from the sale of beeves was
S8,400. Grain and cattle are ordinarily
sold in Baltimore Mr. Cover also kept
sheep occasionally. In 1872 and in 1873
he fed 200 head, on which he cleared
$1,000 per year, proving conclusively that
sheep husbandry, properly conducted, is
profitable.
As previously stated, this farm was pur-
chased of Mr. Isaac Hull He bought it
/. of his father, Peter Hull, one of the first
County Commissioners of Carroll county.
Peter Hull became possessed of it by in
heritance from his father, Andrew Hull.
Peter came into possession of it about ] 800,
Isaac in 1910, and Samuel Cover in 1855.
He resided thereon for period of twenty
eight years, when he removed to Westmin-
ster, in 1883, having disposed of his entire
landed estate, comprising over 500 acres,
to his Oldest son, Tobias d. Cover, for the
sum of $4,000.
The dwelling house was built in 1860,
by Samuel Cover. 1t is of brick, burnt
upon the farm, the outer course of pressed
brick, also burnt upon the farm, comprising
about $4,000. The house is two story and
an attic, the main building 40 by 26 feet,
the back building 80 by 20, with ceilings
ten and eleven feet high, the whole build
ing containing ten rooms besides the base
ment, very substantially built, and covered
with slate from the celebrated Peach Bot
tom quarries on the Susquehanna river.
The barn was built IN 1871, and is one
of the finest in the county It's 102 feet
long, 80 feet wide, and IS feet to the
square, capable of stabling ten horses and
about fifty head of cattle, and has an ex-
cellent pump of water in the yard, which
affords an ample supply for all the stock.
The stone masonry in the foundation of
this barn is of the very best workmanship,
rejecting much credit upon the skilled me-
chanic who did the work.
LEdMoN's CHOICE is stocked with all
the varieties of fruit to be found in this
region. The outbuiIdings are ample, and