The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1900-02-17
THE FARMERS. INSTITUTE.
Large and Representative Gathering
IN the Court House = Entertaining
ana Instructive Addresses Etc

Inc baltimore County Farmers Institute
met IN the Court House at Towson, shortly
aIler ~ O'Clock on Monday morning last
wien or; William L. Amoss, State director,
arose 70 call the meeting to order he faced an
au1ience OF representative farmers, business
anu professional men, that must have been
graliiylng to him, ard especially so as the
WeasneI without was calculated to keep people
Wltnln tnelr own homes rather than to turn
oul ana drlve good many miles to attend any
solt .! q publlc gathering Mr.. Amoss briefly
esAplaineo the work that his department is
GOING ana set forth the advantages that the
farmers would derive from such gatherings
he tnen introduced Mr. James E. Rice, of
New YORK, who talked on THE Home Mixing
OF fertlilzers." There was more, he said, in
gooa farming than the buying of commercial
fertliizers. More could be accomplished in
growing clover, COW peas and such crops,
wnlcn enrich the soil, than in the purchase of
plant 1000. Early planting and the good prep
aratlon OF the soil, so that it would act as
natural reservoir to hold the water that accu-
mulateo curing the winter was very i'm
portant adjunct to successful farming. Farm
eIs should make use of the natural deposit of
plant 1000 Always carrying off and never
putting anything back would destroy any soil.
Every COW in the herd should be worth $50 to
20 year In fertilizing the land if the manure
was properly handled. Mr.. Rice said great
saving could be made by buying chemicals
ana mixing them on the barn floor. The
farmer could mix his own fertilizers just as
we'll as any man in the factory. In buying
iertlilzers 1t was good thing to be able to
figure the analysis. 1t was always cheaper to
buy high grade of fertilizer than low grade
Dr. j. Q. Curryear, of Mankato, Mimi, spoke
opthe selection and breeding of horses. From
the applause that the Doctor got on being in
trpduced by Mr.. Amoss it was evident that the
audience was much in sympathy with the
sab1ect on which he was to speak. The Doctor
1lIllatfAtofi nl0frrpq
ton OF which proved interesting to the audi
ence,
At the afternoon session Mr.. E. O. Harrison,
road expect, of the Department of Agricul-
ture, Washington, d. c., made an interesting
ADDRESS. lac Department of Agriculture, he
said was no going to build the roads in the
county or Site, but was willing to aid the
farmer IN that direction. Good roads, he
argued, materially lessened the cost of getting
farm produce 70 market. The cost of hauling
one ton one mile now, he said, was % cents
mile; IL miles, which was an average haul,
was SO per ton, in addition to the freight on
railroads. No business could stand that Good
roads, he said, was a great factor in hauling
cheaply: Essex county, New Jersey, had 300
miles of good hard roads. Roads are built
there permanently. A permanent road is
road hard and smooth and fit for service at all
seasons of the year.
Mr.. Thomas A. Williams, assistant chief of
the Division of Agrostology, Department of
Agriculture, made an address on grasses and
foliage
The final address of the day was made by
Mr.. James E. Rice on 'The Farmers Poultry"
Amongthe farmers present were Thomas B.
Todd, George H. Merryman, r. Pierce Choate,
T. Alvah Merritt, L. M. Bacon, Thomas V.
Richardson, Frederick Won Kapff, Alexander
Mccormick, Charles B. Rogers, d. NJ. Mat
thews, William B. Cockey, Joshua M. Mat
thews, George E. Shelley, Arthur Chenoweth,
E. Cuttings Merryman, Edward S. Peerce,
Arthur w. Shanklin, Alfred Fowble, E. Scott
Dance, Jesse Hoshall, Isaac Holbrook, Harry
+. Hopkins John H. Fringer, John Sperber,
George B. Coale, S. A. Anderson, H. s. Writ,
Thomas Admission, Charles H. Price, E. G.
Gray, Thomas J. Lea, George E. Lynch, Henry
G. Merryman, A. j. B. Almony, Thomas G.
Stevenson. Jas. b. Ensor, w. jeff Shanklin,
Thos Mann, H. s. Jean, Arthur Stump, Peter
Emge, Joseph Phipps, Van Brant Rittenhouse
and others Mr.. Garrett Als1oss, prominent
Hartford county farmer and father of Director
Amoss, was also in the audience. accompanied
by his daughter, Miss M. L. Amoss. Mrs.
Charles Muller, daughter of Mrs. Henry Hoen,
and her sister, Miss Annie Hoen, were the
other ladies present.
Among the professional and business men
were Judges Fowler and Burke, Richard H.
Woollen, John Crowther, Jr., E. Herman,
Col B. F. Taylor, Sheriff VIM. H. Todd, Clerk
N. Bosley Merryman, Col. D. G. Mcintosh, @.
Bohn, SliDgluff, John S. Ensor Charles E.
Upton s. Brady, B. Howard Scott, Joseph P.
Griffin, A. P ShaEklin, J. Y. Maynadier, Noah
E. Offutt, E. W. Herman, DR.. A. c. McCurdy,
John B. Longnecker, James ]. Lindsay, T. G.
Linzey, James Rodgers, M. ]. O'Hara, w. w.
G. Stewart, d. Shamberger, G. r. Brown, q. G.
Ebaugh, Harrison Rider, James E. Green and
many others.