The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1897-11-12
The Farmers Institute.

here on Wednesday and yesterday unde
the auspices of Mr.. William L. Amoss
Director. The attendance was not a:
| large as it should have been and it is as
tonishing that our people do not take more
interest in these meetings. The addresse:
were unusually good--entertaining ant
] full of information.
The first session was on Wednes lay at
ternoon when the lecture was intended
especially for the young.
The children from the public schools OF
the Town attended the interesting and in
structive lecture by Prof. S. B. Hedges, OF
Mature Study for Children or Teaching
the Principles of Agriculture in our Puclic
Schools" The Professor spoke in hap
py vein for an hour or more and greatly
entertained his hearers. He told how
trees may be classified according to the
| popularity in the formation of the buds
| and enlisted the interest of the little ones
| by offering three premiums for collections
of specimens illustrating this principle OF
nature He also told how crops of apples
and peaches may be secured every year
from orchards by cutting off blossoms
He said the proper time to prune was
when the sap was at its full flow, but the
| wounds made upon the tree should be Gov
| cred with a coat of red lead and boiled oil
| The Chinese, as the Professor pointed out,
| understand pruning much better than more
| enlightened people, and by cutting out the
buds at the proper time produce wonder
full shapes and varieties of growth i'll trees
and plants He advocated bud pruning
as the best way to regulate the growth OF
fruit trees.
At the Wednesday evening session Prof
Hedges delive red an able address on Geo.
logical and Chemical characteristics of
Soils" A good audience was present and
his remarks were much appreciated.
THURSDAY.
At the morning session yesterday Direc-
tor Amoss, before introducing the lecturer
called attention to the fact that the mu Oh
valuable information can be secured
through the institutes, this department
| being a member of the national organi-
cation. The progress and discovery in
ag -icnltural science made anywhere in
the country can be thus made useful to
everybody.
Buying and Mixing Fertilizers was the
subject of the first address by Prof. Rice
Among other things he said:
Enriching the farm is the basis of all
agricultural success. There is great dan
of exhausting the available fertility of the
soil. We should first learn to develop
the latent or locked up resources of the
ground before going outside to purchase
elements of fertility.
Certain crops need potash; others phcs
phate. Some soils are deficient in one OF
these elements; and others in another. l,
| is wasteful to put potash where it is not
| needed. Mr.. Rice showed how farmers
can save from SIS to $1S per ton by buy
ing the ammonia phosphoric acid ant
potash separately and mixing them on the
farm instead of buying from fertilizer
| dealers. There has been a wonderful
change in the morality of fertilizer mixers
since the passage of laws upon the sub.
| ject.
The afternoon session was devoted to
an address by Captain Sylvester on the
use of Corn Fodder instead of Hay.
At the opening of his address Capt
Sylvester paid tribute to the excellent
work done during the past year by Direc-
tor Amoss. He also called the attention
of the public to the work and usefulness
of the Maryland Experiment Station.
He advised farmers to use carbonate OF
nitrate never muriate, of potash
The new corn product contains ii
pounds per hundred more digestiblc mat
ter and pounds per hundred more digcs-
tiblc protein than the whole fodder
shredded; as much as corn blades, pounds
per hundred more than timothy hay, al.
most as much as wheat bran. 1t is also as
easily kept as linseed meal, or wheat bran
Animals fed with fattening ration
| with the new corn product as base dc
better than when given the same grain
| mixture with corn blades.
The new corn product, which consists
of the outside of the corn stalk ground, i:
now known to be a valuable feed for al
kinds of stock
Poultry for profit was the subject of al
interesting lecture by Mr. James E. Rice
He said there is always good demant
for good eggs, and in order to get eggs il
the Fall we must raise early chickens
which will begin to lay about that time
Incubators are very good, but cannot b'
operated with success without the exer
else of intelligence. About 60 per cent
is a fair average hatch although often it i
higher.
Onion tops should be mixed with tn
chicken food Wheat is the best grain
for chickens. Rolled oats is one of til
incest things to give young chickens; i
should be fed for several weeks. \ pro
portion of pint of skinned milk and on
egg makes custard that is excellent TO
chickens.
Among those present yesterday were
Judge Chew, DR.. R. S. Hill Messrs. \. {
Darcy, Enos. Ray, John Miller, Benjami
Randall, Tobias Duvall, Eugene Robert
Frederick Binger, Wesley Beall, William
Holmead, R. V. Humphrey, J. II. Traban'
Henry Ward, Richard f. Brandt, l
: McGaw, W. S. Chichester, J. Is. Ager,
M. Hall, Edward Owens, Scott Armstron!
Upton Brooke, Lee Clagett, and Fl. J Ii
ly of Baltimore county.
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