Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-11-05
WooDLAWN FARMERS CLUB.

The October meeting of the Wood
lawn Farmers Club was held at the
residence of Mr.. and Mrs. c. Lukeus Oh
the 80 ult., and was called to order
by President j. W. Roberts.
There having been no organized
meeting since June 4th the minutes
of thai meeting were read and ap-
proved.
The election of officers being the first
business iu order, carried over from the
annual meeting in August, E E. Mason
was elected President and Chas. Pid
geon secretary for the ensuing year.
The secretary read two communica-
tious-oue from the Office of board Of
irquiry asking for delegates to the na
tional road parliament, held in the au.
ditorium on the grounds of the Trans
Nissi ,sippi Exposition on October s.,
1898 and the other from the division OF
statistics, asking for information con-
cerning CO operation among farmers.
The former being out of date, no &C.
non was taken thereon and the secrt-
rary was directed to reply to the latter.
An inquiry 10 regard TO the prospeo-
i've milk trust in the District Of
Columbia brought out a general
discussion on the subj jet and O E. Hine
poke OF the system cf serving milk in
Syracuse, n. Y, as being the most sat
is(sctory he knew Of. Instead Of hav.
ing several wagons serving milk on the
sane block or street, each wagon has
its own district set apart and serves all
the families in that district.
1t seemed to be the general opinion
that a milk trust ia the District of Co
umb may put up the price of milk
'or a while until they get complete
control, and then they will fix the
prices to suit themselves and which
probably he detrimental to the farm
Some seemed to thiuk that the
Board Of Health's coUtrol of the milk
IN Washington does not produce t5e
desired result, and that they show un-
due partially 10 their discrimination
aud incidents were cited to that e1sct.
E E. Mason desired to know il
there is any prospect of further ad
vance in the price of wheat, cad IRON
the general discussion that followed
this query IT, following was CLEANED :
| Generally. after the wheat crop has
largely gone into the elevators, the
price goes up. As result of the Lett
er experiment last year more western
flrmsrs than usual have been able to
paw off their mortgages. There is s.
growing tendency with farmers to hol'
on to their wheat.
The United S ates wheat crop this
year is about 10 bushels per capita and
the average consumption is less than
bushels per capita, so that no amount
of domestic prosperity will enable US to
consume all our wheat and we must
depend upon the foreign market for
IN outlet for our surplus, and supply
and demand will fix the prices.
! The recent war scare in Europe
seemed TO cause large shipments OF
wheat from Portsmouth and New York
and in consequence slight rise in
prices resulted.
Mr.. Hine said q man from Dakota
had described to him bis method OF
harvesting wheat with header. One
machine cutting IA feet wide will har.
vest about so acres per day, and be
could raise wheat in Dakota and place
it in the elevator for thirty cents per
bushel. 1t was thought that in this
section wheat cannot be raised for
l. 50 than 60 cents to 70 cents bushel.
That ground wheat is not satisfactory
fnod for milk COWS has been the general
exrience of the members Of the club, but
it is an excellent food for hogs.
Corn bran is now extensively used ny
dsirymep, and the demand for wheat
bran keeps up the price in spite of the
low price OF wheat.
A few yeats ago dairyman didn'
Iced to know about protine, carbohy-
drates, etc, but now to be successful he
must know all about the chemistry O
foods.
The COW keeps ahead of the chemis
and though some scientists hold thai
the character of the food cannot changt
the relative constituents of the milk, i
is the universal experience of ddrymen
that it does.
The club then adjourned to meet a
"Bay View" the residence of Mr.. ant
Mrs. A. F. r berts. Nov. 26.
CHAs. NJ. PIDGEoN, Secy.