The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1903-04-17
WILMA i:ARMERY CLUB.

The Wilma Farmers Club met at "Hcvcr
lev the residence Of Mr. isaac :. Sanncr az
Wednesday of last week. TniS was formerly
| the home OF "IlTSO"" PcniIuiu Richardson
| who WAS one of the founders OF the Metho
dist Protestun Church. The following mem
bcrs were present: Mcssrs George w. Nc
Comas. Joseph W. Archer, John y. Porter
| u. Trainor Archer, George Archer, Il. Frank
| Cronn, Thomas HollinEsworth, u. p. Hol
liugsworth and y. Scott Robinson.
The committee on inspection, consisting OF
Mcssrs. Thomas Iollingsw"rth, b. Frank
Cronin and John y. Porter inspected the
| premises and made the following report:
| They called, attention to a new ice house T.
by IL with Il carriage house overhead. III
the barn, was found several wagons and the
farming machinery in good shape. Mr..
Sanncr has five horses a:d -four mules all i'll
fine condition. His cows and hcifcrS also
looked well. In the hog house were fifteen
pigs, about three months old, of Bcrk shire
stock They were in thriving condition. An
orchard of three hundred apple trees and
three hundred peach trees had recently been
planted out. The thirty-fivc acres of wheat
were in fair condition. The committee con-
graduated Mr.. Sanner upon the many I'M
provcmcnts that he had made since he
purchased the property.
The subject selected for discussion was
What is the best paying crop"
Mr.. Sanner the host, said that ifyou plant
tomatoes and the crop fails. there is nothing
to show for it but the bare ground. If a
crop of wh@nt is sown and the yield he not
profitable the following grass and hay crops
are to he looked forward to. He preferred a
wheat crop to be followed by grass.
Mr. Thomas Hollingsworth said that if
corn is planted and the yield is good the
farmer knows that he has good paying
crop Of both the cereal and fodder to feed the
stock, and a good nome market for the
plus. There is more money in Strawberries
than either potatoes or tomatoes.
MIR. Cronins experience had been that
since the tomato is so uncertain. he advised
the routine with a dairy the most profit
able method to pursue.
Mr. Porter thought the question a hard
one TO solve and that it needed careful con-
sidcra;ion. AS tomatoes are uncertain the
farmer is always sure of something i'll corn
crop. Wheat does not pay. Keep as much
stock on the farm as can be properly cared
for
MIR. George Archer would not raise wheat
except to get good set of grass. His OK
pericnce had been that there was very little
money in the routine way charming and the
tomato crop is too uncertain. If accessible
to the market trucking would he the best
paying crop.
Mir. u. Traino: Archer believed that al
most any crop can he made to yield a good
profit. More depended on the farmer than
the crop. Every farmer should arrange his
work 50 that he can furnish steady employ
ment the wear around for all his help.
Mr.. l.. Z. Hollngsworth'S observation has
been that those who continue with a routine |
way OF farming were successful.
Mr.. Nice omas thought that there was
more money in hay than in any other crop |
and chat it paid to prepare the ground cX-
pressly for grass. He did not think that corn |
could he raised at profit for 81 30 per barrel
Mr.. !. W. Archer believed that there was |
more money i'll growing wheat than any |
other crop. With the improved machinery a
large Weld can be assured at little expense |
in fact it grew without attention after the |
ground has been prepared and the seed sown
Mr.. Robinson thought that there was |
more money in trucking than i'll any other
crop.
The cluf, adjourned to meet At ''Dunkalc," |
the home oI' Nj. J. w. Archer. on Wednesday,, |
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