Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1897-01-07
Farmers Institute.
PRINCE GEORGES.


ture was held December 10. 1895, al
Upper Marlboro. The session opened
at 10 o'clock with the following program
Grazing and Feeding Cattle" Mr.
George Z. Silver, of Hartford county
Tobacco; Grading and Packing" Mr.
+. Snowden Hill.
Afternoon Session at 1:30: The Dai.
ry for Prince Georges county Prof H
]. Patterson, of the Agricultural Exper.
iment Station; Our Country Hcme,'
1Frz- "a. Rohinson~ ~of Ralflpore: -
ricultural Education, Prof Il. W Silves-
ter, of the Agricultural College.
A large crowd of farmers from the
county were present. A large box was
placed on the table near the director
into which was dropped queries by the
listeners.
Mr.. Silver spent most of the morning
session in explaining the feeding of cat
tie. He urged the farmers to buy their
grazing cattle from the short-h horn grades
coming from Virginia when about two
or three years old. He does not like the
Western or Canadian stock. He also
urged upon them to sell to dealers di-
rect, and not to send them to the cities.
He urged the use of cora and cobmeal
and cottonseed meal for feed.
HOW 70 HANDLE TOBACCO.
Mr.. Hill in his paper on Growing and
Marketing Tobacco urged upon far
mers the necessity of using their best
judgment and energies, so as to over
come the conditions imposed by soil and
climate, and thereby produce the better
grades of tobacco, for which remunera-
tive prices can be obtained. The lower
grades come in competition with the to-
baccos produced in foreign countries,
and the demand therefor is constantly
decreasing, but Maryland tobacco pos
sesses certain monopoly, in that the
best grades cannot be produced else
where. The great advantages of Mary
md tobacco are its free burning quality
and mild taste. The market for Mary
land tobacco has been injured by bad
methods of stripping and packing that
article. The trade demands uniformity
of quality in hogshead, and great
many contain variety of grades.
II tobacco be stripped and packed
uniformly, in proper condition, neither
the planter nor the buyer need have any
fear of the sample, for the inspection
goes of itself. But in all mixed hogs.
heads there is every probability that the
sample does not correctly represent it
1t may be oyersampled to the loss of the
buyer or undersampled to the loss of the
planter, for the bundles drawn must de-
pend upon the accidental location oi
the breaks, and they cannot furnish &C
curate information concerning the pro
portion of each grade in the cask. The
prudent buyer, therefore, discounts the
possibility of loss in purchasing, and
the packer is justly the loser. Their,
are certain brands of manufactured to
bacco known to the trade and gratifying
to the established taste of consumption
Uniformity in the quality of these brands
is necessary, and any variation must b,
for better and not for worse. Hence
mixed tobaccos are not desired, and i
used at all the worst must be equal {,
type. while the better grade is a gift te
the consumer to the extent of its supe
riority over that type.
Prof. Patterson's paper was an inter
esting dissertation on the dairy.
CALVERT.
The party that left Baltimore on tn
steamer Westmoreland, Sunday night
December 14th, for the Calvert Institute
consisted of the following seven gentle
men: Director Miller, of the Expert
ment Station, Director W. b. Amoss
Profs. johnson, Robinson and Patter
son, and Messrs. Martin and Lautz, wh
had been invited by the local committee
of Calvert county to attend their Insti
tute. At Leach's wharf, the party wa
met by Mr.. VIM. A. Parran, jr., and tw
other members of the county committed
who, i'm comfortable carriages, conveye
them to Prince Frederick, where break
fast had been provided for them at tn
hotel. The Court Hall had been engae
ed and heated, but the audience did nc
gather until 1890 when the meeting wa
called to order, and from this hour unit
$40 the attendance averaged over on
hundred representative farmers, some &
whom had come over twenty miles.
The attention given 10 each speaks
and the questions put to each in tur
evidenced that their labors were not
vain. Prof. Patterson spoke nearly q
hour on the uses and Abuses of Con
mercial Fertilizers" Many question
were put to the Professor and he SCENE
to give satisfactory reply to all as the
came
Mr.. Lewis Nick. Griffith, the Calves
county representative, appointed by q
local committee, read an essay on Ora.
ing and Packing Tobacco which was
report of the result of an inyestigasio
made through the Department of Farm
ers' Institutes, of the Maryland tobacs
industry.
Messrs. Martin and Lautz and Pro
Robinson spoke on the same subject su
stantiating the report.
Immediately after the call Of the q
ternoon session the questions in Il
question box wefs taken mp and Al
swered in turn by those TO whom Ia,