The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1893-01-07
CECIL FARMERS CLUB.
The Regular Monthly Meeting
at Mr.. s. IL. CarsOn's.

Farmers Club was hold at Ashland
farm near Port Deposit, the handsom
homestead of Samuel r. Carson, Esq
on Thursday, December 295h. Th
attendance of members was large an
the meeting an unusually ipterestin
one.
Promptly at 1890 a. M, the chairma
Joseph Coudon, Esq, directed the ca
of the roll of mem bers when the follow
ing responded to their names: w. W
Moore, Henry S. Coudon, A. j. MichineI
Geo. w. Sutton, Joseph Coudon (of Jos
A. R. Magraw, Samuel R. Carson, Col
Enoch Noyes, Col. John r. Bond, Joh
P. Wilson, Thomas G. Bond, Z. L
Duyckirck, VIM. E. Gillespie and Henri.
r. ToIbert. The visitors present b.
invitation were DIR. R. E. Cromwell, Mr.
Robert E. McClenahan and DR.. VIM
| Carson.
Reports of experiments being in order
Col. John R. Bond said, that he hac
spent $40 in crimson clover seed bough
in Baltimore. He sowed it at the las
working of his corn in July. 1t rainec
slightly shortly afterwards, but he ha'
not yet seen a trace of it. He did MOI
report the experiment to condemn thil
variety of clover, but believes that the
failure is attributable to the drouth pre-
valent the past season.
Col. Noyes reported the came ezper
fence. He had secured fair stand Of
red clover, but had like Mr.. BOND
thrown his crimson clover seed away.
Mr.. Wilson said he had sown two
bushels of crimson clover in his corn in
July the past season. Where the mois.
ture seemed sufficient it came up, but in
the field generally. it never appeared. He
believed in the case of any kind of red
clover, it being bienniel, a strong vigorous
growth the first season was detrimental
TO it, because the vigorous growth OF
deep roots results in their breaking off,
and hence being thrown out by the
frost.
Mr.. Michiner submitted a newspaper
containing an unfavorable report of a
writer upon the dehorning OF cattle.
Mr.. Wilson rebutted the idea and
opinions expressed by the writer. He
had dehorned sixteen head of cattle, and
was in the favor of the practice. He did
:. believe that with proper treatment
$500 time of dehorniug mich COWS
NV o off their feed
pm r. Bond said be had de-
.usaIv n olstein bull which bled pro
nathod noSS sawed the horns not by the
ho nina, h .mPost approved. He thought
:. 49, aaha-.;,a in no respect been injured
~ tne oenoriiihl on tbs contrary his
neaps of attacking =" 'n0 ms
been removed, he hat0 other her, cattle having 'g
habits. He favored - .n.
the objection " ~ ~,
ground of cruelty being w6ffoo " ~ VIZ
,ideration, but thought it u con
lone when the animal was young.
Mr.. Henry s. Coudon favored the
practice of dehorning, and in the limits
Of his observation, when cattle went
back" they went back to feed, not to
refuse food. He had several head of
cattle recently dehorned by Mr.. John
Dennis at Perryville who had all the
appliances, and who performs
the operation skillfully.
There being no further reports of ex
periments aud the essay being in order
Mr.. S. r. Carson presented the following
paper
The Cecil Farmers Club will be of age
next Sunday, January LIST, '93. During
The twenty one years of its existence, SO
many subjects relating to agriculture
have been discussed that one despairs of
being able to present anything new that
would prove edifying to the members.
LARGE OR SMALL FARMs-sPECIAL OR
MIXED FARMING.
I have not prepared an essay on the
above subjects, but have merely written
a few lines in favor of large farms and
special farming to start the debate of the
day. Everything produced on land can
be grown cheaper in large quantities. 1t
requires less labor, less working steck and
fewer implements to successfully cult
vate one thousand acres under the direc
ton of one owner, than the same number
of acres divided into two or more farms
and as many owners. In this immediate
there are one thousand
acres divided into eight farms, averaging
fifty to two hundred acres. The number
of men employed, of working stock, of
necessary implements, is fifty per cent
greater than would be required to sue
cessfully cultivate this same ono thous
and acres under one management. Build
ipss and fences cost much less on large
farms, and taxes are less. That is, large
bodies of land are not assessed SO highly
as small holdings The present cost of
fencing ior dividing one hundred acre
farm into six fields is $4,000 The cost
OF necessary buildings no less than
$4,000. Men and teams will accomplish
more work in given time On large
farm. Much has been said aud written
in opposition to large and in favor Of
small farms. If man has only sufficient
brains and capital to manage ten acres,
that is enough. To add any more land
to his possession only makes trouble, If
his mental ability and money will justify
the management of one Thousand acres,
he should have no less. AS to the
amount of land man cultivates, it is
simply a matter of brains add capital.
AS regards special farming, we have a
specialist in this club, but he won't
acknowledge it. He has been in that
line for fifty years. This speciality is the
thoroughbred steer, weighing about
twelve hundred pounds in the fall when
put into the stable to fatten, and coming
out in the following spring a sixteen
hundred pound export beef Everything
else done on the farm is auxiliary to this
short hort Cor no horn guess it Is now
Wheat is sown to furnish straw that the
steer may chew his cud comfortably
the grain being secondary considera
ton. Corn and grass intelligently cult
waited to be judiciously dispensed in the
stable, where export beef receives the
finishing touches. In fact every effor
! made on the farm is with an eye tt
insure the success Of the specially. Ont
argument against speciality farming il
that it is unsafo--that if a man lose a