The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-03-02
THE CECIL FARMERS CLUB.
A Successful February Meeting
at "Orkney" Farm, the Beau
tIfuI Home of Enoch McCul-
Tough, Esq.

Tough, Esq.
1t was Mrs. Hemaus the once popula
but now neglected poetess, who in rev
erent verse thanked her Maker for the
strength of The Hills" 1t is thi.
spirit begot of life spent in high alti
among the mighty hills to each familiar
peak.
| ITO hail in each crag friends familiar face
| And clasp the mountain in his minds embrace-'
We can readily appreciate this feeling
of personal attachment tor cosy home
steads among sheltering hooks in the
mountain side. There is a suggestion OF
this spirit to be felt in a winter ramble
over the bright submits of our own Sus-
quehauna hills. 1t comes to every one
who has any sentiment in his nature,
and the man without some touch of SEN
timent, lacks an essential element of the
human character.
But besides this feeling of local attach
ment more marked among the residents
of the Hills than among the jewellers
of the plains, there is an inspiration OF
higher and better thoughts, quickened
impulse of physical life, even to the pass
ing beholder of the grand panoramas
which nature there spreads for his de.
light. We can partly attribute to this
infectious spirit of the Susquehanna
February meeting at Orkney" farm on
Thursday the 21st. What magnificent
view from the ample verandahs of MIR. Nc
Cullough's solid and substantial home
stead browning one of these hills! Away
off in the dim distance, the scarcely visible
outline of the horizon tempts your vision
Standing in Cecil County, Maryland, you
look successfully into Chester, Lancaster,
and York counties north of that historic
boundary Mason & Dixon's line, and
Baltimore and Hartford counties south of
it. You are nearly thousand feet above
tide water, and the landscape of six con-
tiguous counties to delight your eye.
Promptly at 1890 a. M, s. Rowland
Carson, ESQ, ordered the call of the roll
of members of the Club, when the fol-
lowing responded to their names. Henry
s. Coudop, VIM. W. Moore, John r.
Bond, H. H. Duyckinck, George w.
Sutton, Enoch Mccullough, Thomas c..
Bond, Jno. p. Wilson, Adam r. Magraw,
Joseph Coudon, and John W. McCul-
Tough.
The visitors present by invitation were
the Rev. James Conway, Rev. ]. P. Otis,
Mr.. r. Waters, of Somerset County,
Md, Col. r. F. May of Elkton, Geo. W.
Mccullough, Esq, of Wilmington, Del,
and Henry R. Torbert of THE WING.
The minutes of the last meeting having
been read and approved, statements of
experiments being in order, Mr.. Geo. w.
Sutton reported, that about the first of
February he had fine Jersey cow which
took sick and fell in her stall. That after
working with her some time without any
apparent beneficial result, he sent for
Mr.. Abram Bromfield, of Principe Fur
mace, who has local reputation for doc
toring stock successfully in that neigh
borhood. Mr.. Bromfield came, and after
examination pronounced the disease "Hol-
low Horn" He bored holes in her horns
aud taking a straw showed that they were
a1tnnathnr hnllnU He thor, chnDaI Mr.
Sutton that at a point about three inches
above the brush of the tail, the bones of
1t were disconnected. He split the tail,
and inserted table salt and bound it up.
Afterwards he rubbed turpentine back of
her horns. In ten minutes she was Oh
her feet feeding and seemingly well.
Since that she has given her usual guam
tity of milk, yielding now ten pounds of
butter weekly. Mr.. Sutton in reporting
this case said, that he was aware that
some members of the Club, had rather
disease in cows as the Hollow Horn A
Hollow Stomach gave more cattle trouble
than Hollow Horn, and he confessed that
| he himself had heretofore shared this be-
lief, but since his experience just stated,
he fully believed in the existence of such
disease, and that this case was one of it.
Mr.. Duyokinck corroborated Mr.. SUIT
ton in his belief in the existence of this
disease, and as result af his experience
in handling and treating cattle suggested
that benefit would follow, if the holes
with putty to exclude the air.
The reading of the regular essay by
the Host being next in order of business
Mr.. Enoch Mccullough submitted the
following paper.
DOES DAIRYISG PAY? IF so WHICH IS THE
| BEST BREED OF STOCK TO KEEP?
This is a subject that covers broad scope,
| too broad for me to grasp or even span.
| Therefore | will only attempt to give you a
| glance at some of its points. Mr.. Webster,
the photographer, says that he has not
found the word "dairy" in any other Ian
| guage, while another authority states, that
that the old word deg, the milkmaid who
presided over the deyry or dairy, is probably
allied to dug teat, and to the Latin duco to
draw or milk
But whatever the derivation of the word
dairy, we know that mix, the foundation OF
all dairying has been in use since the crea-
ton of man and will continue to be until the
close of time.
Butter, one of the chief products of the
dairy of which will speak more fully than
any other, it seems difficult to determine
the history of. Its manufacture was well
known 80 the Egyptians, but it seems tc
have been used first as an article of food by
the early Jews. Why they so adopted it
cannot state, unless they were short of ra
tions while making bricks for the Pharoahs
1t was largely used by the early Greeks and
Romans, but only as an ointment in theil
baths But while it may be interesting t.
consider butter historically as an article
contributing to the comfort of the human
family, it is of more Importance to US as d
modern product, entering into the pursuit.
and forming an important item in the bust
| ness OF Ine FARMER. Snall conSluer urlellA
the subject under three phases. % TIL
dairy as the place for carrying on the worl
of butter making. (2) The management o
direction of il. CD The stock to be kept L
supply it with the material for butter pro
duction.
! 1t is hardly necessary for me to remark
that there should be for the proper conduc
| of the business of butter making, a house o
| sat anart for that work onl U