The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1902-03-28
Cecil Farmers Club.
NHE March meeting of the
Cecil Farmers Club was


the home of Frank r. Cherry, near
Principle, on the 26th inst. The
following members were in attend
ance: Prest., Alfred Kirk; cor. Sec,
M. G. Reeder; rec. sec., Cecil E.
Ewing; A. j. Kitchener, Joseph It.
Grove, M. l.. Thompson, j. HI.
Maxwell, j. P. Wilson, Robt. t.
Cameron, Jos. S. Scarborough, F.
r. Cherry. Also the following
visitors: II. G. Mcdowell, Thomas
Mcdowell, Rev. d. E. Shaw.
A number of communications
were read, among which was one
from Jos. S. Scarborough accepting
his election to membership into the
club.
A bill pending before the legis-
lature requiring compulsory educa-
tion for children, was discussed and
on motion the secretary was in
structed to write our senator and
delegates requesting their influence
towards the passage of the bill.
Under the head of experiments
Mr.. Cherry reported that his heifer
whose udder he had been treating
to massage, had freshened on the
18th, and that she had fine, we'll
developed udder, greatly enlarged
by the treatment.
Mr.. Reeder said he had tried
sowing clover seed last year when
the ground was dry. Had sowed
some before the harrow and some
after the harrow. All Low looked
fine and he could not see any diff
ference in it.
Mr.. Grove had tried sowing 4
qts., 5 OTIS. and 6 OTIS. to the acre
and OTIS. to the acre looked by far
the best.
Mr.. Scarborough had seeded
wheat last fall on a patch of cats
and wheat stubble. 1t had all been
nicely plowed. He had then haul
ed lime and put in small piles;
shortly afterward there had been a
good soaking rain; had narrowed
the ground and also uled the cul-
tivator; drilled wheat both ways
and used Baugh 'sammoniated bone.
The wheat came up nicely but
afterwards turned yellow in spots.
What was the cause, was the wheat
too deep?
Mr.. Cameron stated he had the
same experience and thought the
reason was that the ground was too
loose and the grain planted too
deep.
Mr. Kitchener said he had tried
sowing some wheat earlier than
usual last fall-Sept. 14-and it
was now looking much finer than
that sowed later.
The host when called upon for
his essay responded with the
following:
Still on the farm? How do you like
it ETC., are the questions often asked me
by my friends in my old home in Philada.
They all seem surprised, not only my city
friends but my country friends as we'll,
how /, a city-born man, can be satisfied
in the country
Rut what would become of the country
if some of the city boys did not come out
and farm, as it seems the height of
country boys ambition is to become
either policeman or q motorman on the
tfolleys, and let the farm go. Where?
Oh, any old place, just so he don't have
to work on it.
Now IT is my turn to be surprised at the
boys. Why do they leave the farm when
it eventually will be theirs in most cases,
and the work not near so hard nor steady
as the position they aim at in town.
Again l think the trouble lies great
deal in the way the parents treat their
boys. Why not give them an interest in
the farm when old enough to understand
the responsibility of the positions We
all know that we are looking for the
financial end of everything, and the boy
does not seem 10 realize how much he IS
getting on the farm for nothing, we might
say. When he sees niue or ten dollars
week in Town, he is anxious to leave home
and the farm, forgetting about the board
bill, car-fare, clothing, ETC., which must
be paid out of the nine dollars, and no
comforts OF home. Where in the major
ity Of city homes you will find the SON
having all interest i'll his fathers business.
not only III mama but in the financial end.
ing OF that business. In comparison the
farmer gives his boy colt or calf to raise
as his own. When they arrive at maturity
It is the fathers horse or COW and the
boy gets another colt or calf to raise. |
myself would leave home
But speaking as a ity-born man. I
think the country has the best opportu-
mites for the boy if the father will give
him the right kind of encouragement. II
would advise all young men who can
arrange. to make specially of farming
and avail themselves of the opportunity
III the course held out by the Agricultural |
College of our State, which it has been
for some time my ambition TO do. There
seems to be a great demand for graduates
in the different branches, having met |
young man who receives $50 per month |
as dairymau and herdsman, being a |
student of his line of business and prac.
liciBg what he studies
The trouble find with a great MANY
farmers is that they will not try to i'm
prove. They, or at least the majority of
them, are still in the ruts Of their an.
cestors. Where can YOU find man in
sny other business who runs his business
in such careless manner as the farmer.
will wager that not one out of ten
knows how he stands at the end of the
year. He has no idea whether he is
making money or losing it, and the prob.
abilities are that he is losing, simply be-
cause be will not look about him for