The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1900-10-19
Cecil Farmers Club.

OOiUIss, OH WCuHCoUby 1dct,. A. y /.
Kitchener presiding. The follow.
ing members and visitors were in
attendance: Prest., A. J. Kitchener;
cor. secy., M. G. Reeder, Jas. FL.
Maxwell, Jos. T. Grove, j. P. Will
SOP, A. r. Brown, g. w. Clifford,
Cecil E. Ewing, II. S. Coudon, Ell
wood Balderston, Lloyd Balderston,
Geo. Balderston, John Balderston,
Robt. Balderston, Morris Jones and
Franklin Jones.
On the call for experiments Mr..
Reeder stated that last year, about
Oct. 1, he picked 8 or 10 bushels of
apples which were hard to detach
from the limb, although seemingly
fully ripened and matured. The
balance of the crop he left on the
trees until late in the season. Those
which had been picked late kept
without rotting until the following
May. He thought cultivating the
orchard caused apples to mature
early.
Mr.. Clifford had used so or so
bushels of oyster shell lime on piece
of sod for corn and had afterward
put ground in wheat. The lime
did not show any beneficial results
until the ground was put in clover
four years later when the contrast
between it and an adjoining piece
which had not been lined was
plainly marked.
i Mr.. Brown reported his corn best
where he had cultivated it late and
the ground was also in first class
condition for wheat.
Mr.. Clifford advocated cultivat
ing corn late, especially after a
hard beating rain which packed
the surface of the ground.
i Elwood Balderston reported ex
cellent present results from a patch
of rroats stubble sown in rye and
afterwards sown in crimson clover,
! and called attention to the abundant
pasturage now afforded by the COM
bined oats, rye and clover.
I Lloyd Balderston by long exper-
fence found that lime did not ben
eft the ground at once, but it was
essential for clover in after years.
John Balderston stated he had
been placing his sickle pears in the
ice house to ripen and found that
cold storage brought them to per-
lection. He also told of using a
spray pump with McGowen nozzle
for embarrassing and found it did
excellent work with a great saving
of labor.
Franklin Jones stated that oyster
shell lime should be burnt with
wood, not coal, to be beneficial
He also advocated ground alum
salt for a good wheat crop, putting
} the salt on after the wheat was up.
Believed clover should be sowed as
early as February for best results.
!. Mr.. Coudon thought late working
of corn hurt it. He believed in
working it early and deep.
I The following committee Of in
spection of premises was appointed
after which the club adjourned to
dinner: J. p. Wilson, Jos. T.
Grove and Jas. H. Maxwell.
| After partaking Of delightful
repast, such as only farmers wives
can prepare, the club reassembled
to hear the hosts essay, which was
as follows:
To the Members Of The Cecil Farmers Club Greeting
1t is with particular pleasure that welcome
you here today. since after the lapse oftwentyfye
years when knew you a boy under the
parental roof with its holiday privileges, I now
greet you as one having membership with you
with degree of the responsibility of entertaining
YOU resting upon my own shoulders. But per
haps am still too prone to permit my aged father
to assume these duties, and trust he will today
fill in any shortcomings in this article, feeling
thankful that he is still able as an honorary
member to take active interest in our proceedings
1t is my province now to dwell briefly upon
dairy farming. By dairy farming mean farming
where every calculation of our crops and income
Is subservient to the dairy Instead of estimating
how many tons of hay we may pack and draw of
of the farm, to be replaced in part by uncertain
commercial fertilizers, we estimate how many
cows this hay will feed for six months, how much
more the manure is worth returned to the sol
laden with excrements from good clover hay
that contains the valuable nitrogen we need SC
much in the future crops. We estimate the in.
crease of protein this clover adds to our com
pete ration and find its results in a twenty pei
cent increase at the pail. We also set aside a
portion of this hay crop as a summer pasture
thus we may estimate the saving of harvesting
and marketing, by its being converted at once
into milk and butter. ard by the manure being
passed at once back to the soil.
l am willing to admit, however, that this
summer pasturing of our lands is not economical
! but it would be the subject of another paper to
take uplthe subject of soiling a subject am
interested in but without much experience
When the corn is planted 1t is not to know only
how many bushels may be shipped to distant
markets, but how much it Is necessary to grow to
feed thish of cows for six months and what is
the best form to cure it to produce most satisfac
tory results. Thus we find ourselves cutting
what would otherwise fill crib with ears and pile
up large stacks of dry fodder-our corn up bodily,
ears, blades and stalks into ensilage while it is
still succulent and tender, but with the grain
thoroughly matured.
This is slowed away neatly, compacty and
quickly as it falls from the elevator, into the
relatively small area OF the silo. Here once
secure il is ready for the Manager at all times
during the long winter months, whether you wish