The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1901-11-01
DEER CREEK FARMERS CLUB.

The Deer Creek Farmers Club met at
the residence of Mr.. Henry B. Bruins, in
Bel Air, last Saturday afternoon. The
active members present were: John
Moores, Frank H. Jacobs, S. A. Williams,
]. Lawrence Mccormick, Fred. Lochary,
w. Beatty Harlan, John b. Wysong,
William Silver. William w. Finney, John
d. Worthington, R. Harris Archer; the
invited guests being W. Boyd Bell, c. W.
Proctor, William T. Sawyer, w. S. For
wood, Jr., J. Edwin Webster, Edward II.
Hall, John 6. Rouse, G. Smith Norris and
P. H. Mccormick.
The committee on inspection made the
following report: Mr.. Mccormick said
that MIR. Bruins farm, which is situated
on Bynums' Run on the Churchville road
had undergone a great change in the
past four years. Theimprovemcntsha have
been very marked. Besides enriching the
land and clearing up the meadow the
buildings had all been painted. Mr..
Williams had been familiar with the
property all his life and had noticed it
particularly after Mr.. Bruins became the
owner. He knew of no property which
had improved more, both in it's pro-
ducing qualities and general appearance.
Mr.. Bruins had made itpay while making
these improvements. He had built silo,
barracks. sheds, etc. The meadow is a
large one consisting offifty or sixty acres,
which now has a luxurious growth of
grass where few years ago pin oaks,
briars and bushes grew. Considerable
fencing had also been built. The farm
contains three hundred acres of land on
which there is a beautiful building site
from which the whole property can be
viewed as well as considerable surround
ing country. Its producing capacity is
five times as much as it was five years
ago. MIR. Bell had seen MIR. Bruins cattle
which were bought in Baltimore last
week. He said they were the best he ever
saw. They were high bred, good colors
and weighed about one thousand and
fifty pounds each and cost S4.65. Mr..
Sawyer said they were the best bunch of
cattle he ever saw. Mr.. Bruins intends
to feed the lot for January market for the
export trade Mr.. Moores remarked
that he considered Mr.. Bruins the most
wonderful man he ever knew, as he had
had dealings i'll his business with thous-
ands of people and that he had never
heard any one say that he was cheated
or that any misrepresentation had been
made.
Mr. Bruins introduced the subject,
Cattle feed and silos." He said he liked
cattle feeding and takes great pleasure in
the work. 4 farmer should sell nothing
off of the farm except wheat and then it
would pay to buy some other other kind
of feeding stuff with the money thus
realized. If you do not make anything
out of feeding, the manure will pay. This
is the only way that land can he made
good. He has a silo and only puts corn
in it. The full feed for a steer is fifty
pounds of ensilage and eight pounds of
cornmeal and bran mixed. He would not
be without a silo.
Mr.. Hall has had no experience with n
silo. Cattle should be fattencd aud de-
livered the first of August. There is no
money in full feeding of cattle if sold out
| of the stable.
MIR. Lochary generally feeds about
sixty head altogether, thirty full and
thirty half fed. There is more profit i'll
the latter than the former. He was par
ticularly struck with the advantage of
manure last season. He covered about
one half of his corn field with it. Where
it was put on the yield was fourteen
| barrels to the acre, on the rest OF the field
there were only seven barrels.
Mr.. Williams thought silo was agood
thing. He had heard one of his best
tenants say that if he had to live on n
| farm for five years and if his landlord
would not erect a silo he would put one
up at his own expense, as much more
stock can be carried by having one.
Mr.. Jacobs wanted to know whether it
paid tn buy the hest cattle or not. He
once bought a lot of cattle in the spring
which. were SO weak they could hardly
walk, they did better and put on more
flesh than any he had ever handled. He
thought that cattle did as we'll in
sheltered barnyard as stable. He built
silo last year and thinks that it will
pay him.
Mr.. Bell has no silo. He feeds his
cattle in the stable on meal and fodder
and turns them out to grass and sells
about the middle of the summer, as it
does not pay to feed late in the fall.
Mr. ]. Lawrence Mccormick has not
had much experience in feeding cattle as
he is in the dairy business. He could not
get along without a silo.
Mr.. Silver has had a silo over a year.
1t increases the manure pile and double
the amount of stock can be fed.
Mr.. Wysong has had limited experience,
but if he was in the cattle business he
would have asilo.
Mr.. Webster has had no ex perience with
stock cattle being engaged in the dairy
business, for which he would advise silo
He thinks he will build another for sum-
rncr feeding.
Mr. Harlan advised the one-half feed
ing of stock cattle The past year he
cleared $26.45 per head on cattle fed
that way. He does not think full feeding
from stable to market will pay He has
| q silO and considers ii n good thing