The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1896-01-31
Deer Creek Farmers, Club.

Tb, door Craal- Forrnars- Climb met LAST Sat
,,rdo,. afternoon s+ rho residence of Mr. Harry
SiI1,a,. near GIanville The following active
p,ap,tars ,,,ore r,asapt Nfaasrs r Harris
,roh,,. ,ynIiar, n unrlips Robert + Ham,
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W. bedtty harlah' Iholuas L"chat9' """i
Moores, Edward +. Moores, John ). WEBSTER,
lanes F. Kcnly John b. Wysong and G.. Louis
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Inc VISITORS were Messrs. A /. oINei' "e"tee
b. Silver $ \. Silver. H. T. Silver, c. II. Silver,
n II S;I,rar william, SiI,.ar of Iohn GrorTn
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i. Cook, w. +. Reasin, John silver hughes
Harry A Hughes Dr. John Sappington, Rev.
NJ Fit, Simmons J,oI w SiIynr and Geor0c
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r. Silver
Messrs. William b. HOPKINS Thomas Lochary
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ana hooerI r. mama were scieo''" comm
tee to inspect the premises. The committee
found everything in excellent order; the stock
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was III hie 'o''i'io''' a "' my
attracted great deal OF admiration. me
nrranuement for fastening cattle was also
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laNOrdolS ooiiiti'u'od "Po. " " ~
has on his farm Il blacksmith shop, where ne
docs his own Shorinp If is also very conVen-
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ieh' II "HS P.''' =" VIZ "
repairing. The subject selected Tor dlscussloh
was 'sThe Use of Lime"
A., CHI, ,h, host said 81 s..,..otad This
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subject, not because hhu any lhlorlhatlol 10
give the club in regard to il, but because
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ence andl obserNalloh. Inc greatest troup-e
| have farming is getting grass to grow and
having fertilizer hills think pay too large
III - ~. rcSt,It / net and so have roncIIId
ni a 10 ~ t,. s%n lime Snnnn that WONT M We
- -, 90 ,nuch Fertilizer | have never had
10 pu9 81 II - ~, at Stand nr grass hnt II docs
az" az StoH Ion,r enough rycept orchard grass
md / don't think il amounts to much for pas
Tnra or hay The first wear after the wheat
cninas OF the grass does fairly well generally,
but runs out the second and third years. My
neiy hbors cOmDluiu of the same state of affairs
I' ~ Ind gsperaiIy succeed in getting the
fieid / nIow for corn covered over with barn
rard manure -, wear or two ahead before
blow if. Then raise a crop of corn and iced to
,.nrn ground wheat and follow the next wear
with wheat and grass, putting On 300 to 400
nonnds of bone the first year and from 800 TO
E00 the second in III near about oue-half ton
fo tha acre nv the time the field is set in grass
',r,,in ThaG Ne I said before Tet about one
Fen If grass and the following wear the pus-
turt, gone by August | have top-dressed
wheat Dr0unc, with fine manure when seeded
W,ifh Grass and always got "A first class stand
and have covered it again the second year with
manure. but the grass was poor. Now why is
NJ / don't think ground that will produce II
10 10 barrels corn and % bushels of wheat to
thp acre is poor land | think there is enough
pIant food in the soil 10 produce good crops
md plenty of them and am going to see il
lime wont put il to work. 1 know that lime of
itself is not a fertilizer but its chemical action
on the soil brings out what is there. thought
TOO it might help Kill sOrrcl, by making grass
grow the faster and smother IL out | talked
20 !, farmer and u good one, ana he said lime.
would kill sorrel talked to another and he
said when he was Il boy the farmers said lime
would make sOrrel grow. | don't know which
w,,S right Mr.. M0ores saws il is only poor
farmers that have sorrel. If that is so, the
number of moor farmers has increased greatly
in the last few Years Because | can't get
much grass to grow and the sOrrel will grow,
nnG he,.ans,. / can't out 500 mounds on n steer
- Mr. NonrHs wnIIId say don't understand
nv busiuess / am going 10 spread some lime
on the ground"
| No nrocticai ey1erience with lime, In recent
interyIev with Prof Wiley of the Agricul-
tnraI t,oIIege he was told that the chemists had
80, to re ,1cInsion thar lime heIned m nro-
fiuca nIant food He also mentioned the subject
| to prof Robinson a few DAYS ago and il was
| thot ,ranfInm,nis eYneriance that vns. house
II Vas the cheanest and hest MS il could be
| 0htninnd for about six cents ppr bushcl He
aid i'm conclIsion that he WAS going TO use a
| few loads nf oyssr shell lime as nm EXPERIMENT
| th.t the Shells could he secured for about two
| cents ner huSheI and the fueI would be a very
small item. ms any kind could be used.
Mr. George Il Silver had no experience with
lime hut had noticed where lime had been used
| there was no sorrel growing
| MIR. Albert Silver said that his experience in
| raUiI,I RI lime had been limited His father
uSsd ab0ut one hundred bushels of lime on
| corn ground which was an injury and the fol-
| lowing cropS were no better Where the lime
had hoe Al
decided II 10 he a Disadvantage
Mr. Ganrya p Cook said that he hud come tn
g.in inf0rmation Had heen fold that lime
| US 4. rnod thing tn usp ON wet land rs il an
SweraG IN the nIoce of ditching AS il had n ten
| dencv tn dry the soil
Mr Iohn : Webster was in favor of irving
| lin. aS an aynariment an "a small scale
| M Mr. " n H0nkins did not Know very much
| obout the effects of lime Whether it would act
| hetter on some soils than Others was the uues-
| tinn H. W. willing to make the g xnpriment
| Wr " n Kensin had had no experienc,
| wbatavar in regard Ia the Isr of lime bur his
| faIber had usesI il on wheat but il would MOI
! rinnn
| Mr John Noorcs said that about sixty wears
900 limo was ronsidered the principal fertilizer
s at that time there was no manufactured fer,
| tiIizer Land has been brought up to WELD
| from ouc-half n barrel of corn to the acre to
| ten barrels nv the use of lime and from his
| ohsarVation he had NOT seen any had effects
| from its usr He considered oyster shell lime
| Tho host He would apply thirty or forty
| h,IshoIS 70 no aero
! Mr. n Harris Archer said that he had No
| rraIti,.ai eYn.rienca wifh lime The W0olsey
-, ~ ,.,,,,Serel ono of tha host md tn his
,rarsarni ,nnyvInd,ra limo haf never brrn usn1
| On IN II inc Ind leon uSed al the EynerimenI
Station With t,nod results
| Sai1 ppS Spi1S lt