The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1889-09-13
A Farmers Meeting.

Friday of last week at Black Barren
Spring, near Pleasant Grove, Pa,
held under the auspices Of the
Grange ard Fulton Farmers Club,
wss a representative farmers meet
ing. This class Of farmers meetings
is destined soon TO supersede the
boss fair, raisnamed agricultural.
NJ. James McSparren, of the Fulton
Grange, was chairman Of the meet
ing, and managed il rs farmers
! meeting should be managed An ex
ceIlent program had been arranged
which was carried out in the most
satisfactory manner. There were 8
number OF choice cattle, sheep and
hogs on the ground, agricultural i'm
| plements and machinery. There was
also fair exhibit of dairy products,
grain, fruit and vegetables on the
tables which had been arranged for
exhibits No premiums were award.
ed or entrance fees charged all being
free TO exhibit what they chose
There was no "grand stand" or ring
and horse trot. But there wero
speakers, able speakers; professors
from the Agricultural College of the
State, Experimental Station and
other Farmers Institute speakers
with charts exhibiting the per cent
sge of constituents which compose
the wheat plant, and interesting lee
lures on this branch of farming; the
merits and dement's of commercial
fertilizers, etc. Mr.. C. C. Caldwell
and Frank Kirk had q tent and q
large exhibit Of Eureka Fertilizers on
the ground.
On the subject of fertilizers Mr..
Hickman made Il most interesting
discourse, as was evinced by the in
torest of many farmers and the ques.
tions asked the lecturers. There
we're also a number of essays read
by farmers. One of the public roads,
on cattle feeding, sheep husbsndry,
dairying, &c. A paper of more than
usual interest was read on the ample
orchard. The ladies, too, we're given
u place On the program and very
pretty young lady, Miss Evans, OF
Lancaster county, read a brilliant
essay, which was gem of rhetoric
Mr., Kaufman, of Lancaster City.
delivered an able lecture on finance.
or Friday afternoon. His lecture
Was prepared with a good deal of
care and research, and in addition to
venti'ating his theory of the duty OF
the government toward farmers, he
showed in very forcible way that
interest is eating up the products OF
labor. While capital is exacting
per cent, labor is earning but little
more than two per cent, Mr.. Kauff-
man was very happy in his illustra
5ion Of this point. He took from the
census report which gave the aggre-
gate wealth, real and personal of the
United States in 1889, which was in
round numbers six hundred millions
Of dollars. Surprising this sum to
have been loaned at six per cent per
annum to the present day, the &C
cumulation would have amounted to
one hundred and twenty five thous-
and million dollars. The census
reports show that the wealth of the
United States in 1880, including all
the vast possessions acquired from
France in the Louisiana purchase,
the annexation of Texas, California
and New Mexico, with the vast ex-
tent Of railroads, the products which
have been multiplied by labor saving
machinery and the wonderful in
ventions; all the accumula.ions from
these and every other development
in mines, fields and forests, all COM
bined fall short of the accommodations
Of interest by eighty thousand mil
lion dollars. Mr.. Kauffman's speech
vas replete with an array of facts
and statistics of finance and other
economic questions, which WAS most
entertaining and instructive. The
attendance on Friday numbered
thousands composed Of the best and
most substantial citizens of Lancas-
ter, Chester, York, Cecil and Hartford
counties.
The W. G. y. U. were on hand as
caterers and furnished the multitude
with a square meal of excellent food
fer rs cents. The white ribbon
ladies are noticeably monopolizing
the dinner stands at large meetings
and it is a happy thought on their
part. There is another strategic
point in this direction which their
enterprise and tireless energy might
capture and fortify which is in the
line of saloon keeping. They will
not call their Cafes saloons but cof-
fee houses, where hot coffee and
teas, "ice cool lenonadc,' and ice
team short all but the alcoholic
drinks should be dispensed.
But the Black Barren Spring farm
ers' picnic was the ideal of farm
ers' gathering and model of the
future Agricultural Fair.
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