The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-06-06
THE STATE FARMERS LEAGUE.
meeting at the Agricultural College-In-
speeding the Experiment Station
Election for Of1cers, etc.


mdIyland, held last week at the Agricultural
Coilege, resolutions were passed indorsing State
control and leasing of the barren bottoms of the
chesapeake for oyster planting and using the
proceeds for public roads.
1 me plots of wheat with the placards telling
what and how much fertilizers bad been used
were earnestly studied by the visitors as well
as tne character of the soils. The information
gained was valuable to many farmers. The
same lessons were studied in the meadow plots
81 orchard grass, where the range of results
from the different fertilizers used was greatly
varied
Corn had not made sufficient growth to be-
come an object lesson. Some plots OF hairy
vetch greatly astonished the visitors. The
growth is, indeed, wonderful, something over
iour feet, and would probably yield at least
InIee tons of hay to the acre. The strawberry
patch was invaded and sampled very literally.
besides nearly score of old standard sorts the
slatlon is trying this season % new kinds The
| vegetables are looking remarkably well, the
recent rains having frightened them up.
AT the college barn the cattle were stabbed,
| ana much interest was manifested in the ex-
perlments. Prof. Patterson has been using a
| pure bred bull in crossing on native cows.
Inc results secured are simply astonishing and
snoWthe great value ola pure bred sire. There
are some heifers coming years old, bred by
an Aberdeen polled Angus bull and native
COWS, that so strongly possess the pure-breed
| type that novice would conclude they are
pure-bred animals. The color of the sire, black,
seems to prevail no matter what the color was
| on the maternal side The great size of these
cross-bred animals also show the farmers how
easy and rapid the method is to get a beef type.
| The cows are all in the pink of condition.
Fastened up in front of each animal is its re-
| cord for week, month and year. Some of
these crosses yielded as follows: Jersey cross,
"A pounds butter one month"; 1853 pounds one
| yeai; another Jersey cross 80 pounds one
| week 339 pounds one year; grade cow, one
half Jersey, 81 pounds one week; Holstein
cross, a pounds one week; Guernsey Jersey
cross, 16 pounds one week, 321 pounds one
| year, etc.
AT general meeting of farmers held Friday
| afternoon report was adopted earnestly COM
mending the needs of the college to the Legis-
lature and showing the great advances it has
made and its constantly broadening field of
| usefulness. The report says:
1--WE find the work of the college progress
| ing. The number of students has increased
nearly 30 per cent. over last year. The past
few years have shown marked increase in
| the number taking the mechanical, agricul-
| tural and scientific branches and steady de-
| crease in the number taking the classical
course, now but per cent. of the enroll
ment, showing conclusively that the work of
| this institution is more and more appreciated
by the farmers of our State and should be sup
ported by them in determined effort to Sc
cure additional appropriations from time to
time as they may be needed. And we should
not hesitate to ask for what our interests re-
quire and insist upon receiving it. The APP
pearance of the students, their carriage and
general bearing are credit to their training.
The grounds and land show a continued i'm
provement, and, remembering the original
poverty of the soil, the results are remarkable"
EXHIBITS FOR ST. LOUIS.
Mr. W. W. Crosby, Roads Engineer for Bal
timore county, made some very interesting
remarks showing the great value good roads
were to all classes and communities. Mr..
Frank N: Hoen, one of the commissioners for
exhibits by the State of Maryland at the CON-
ing st. Louis Exposition, spoke warmly of the
Importance of the State being well represented
with agricultural exhibits. He told how
prominent the mineral exhibit of the State
had been at Buffalo and Charleston and con-
cluded the agricultural products of the State
could become Just as famous. Professor Pat
terson showed how the agricultural display
could be made an educational one and of a
permanent character, so that it could be used
also on other occasions. He wants to see
creditable State agricultural association formed
that would hold good agricultural fairs in
which every county in the State would par
ticipate, SO as to give credit to the wonderful
resources of the State.
On motion of Mr.. Samuel NJ. Shoemaker, of
Baltimore county, that the chair appoint a
committee representing each county in the
State to properly present to the next Legisla-
ture the value of creditable agricultural ex
hibit for use at the st. Louis Worlds Fair and
to ask for an appropriation that will provide
for its future" the chairman selected the COM
mttee, naming Mr.. Shoemaker, of Baltimore
county, as chairman.
Before adjournment on Friday night the
following officers were elected for the ensuing
year:
Observation-Disclosures Mccormick, of Balti-
more county.
Vicepresident- E. Shelley, of Balt.
more county.
Executive committee-Dr. r. S. Hill, of
Prince Georges; ]. B. Weybright, of Carroll;
Tarlton B. Stabler, of Montgomery L. b.
Hull, of Hartford
from Baltimore county, not named above,
were Messrs. Charles E. Burton, William ID.
Curry, Benjamin NJ. Brooks, D. S. Pearce,
Granville Matthews, Thomas V. Richardson
N. H. Gill; j. NJ. Crowther, Lewis NJ. Bacon
Charles A. Councilman and Jacob M. Pearce
Some Things Farmer Saw Abroad
At the last meeting of the Junior GunPowder
Agriculture Club Mr.. e. e. Scott, of Western
Run Valley who had just returned from a
three months tour of Europe, gave some facts
about his experiences abroad.
He said Americans should appreciate our
Revolutionary fathers for giving us country
superior to any that he saw in his extended
travels. He also said we are far in advance in
agriculture of any farming community he
visited. He told of having been served with
goats milk while away, and in Naples, Italy,
he saw COWS driven up to customers homes
and the quantity needed delivered fresh from
| thecow This was done so that it could be seen
| there was no adulteration. He was surprised
| to see some fine cows, apparently Guernseys,
in Egypt. In England he saw some Guernseys
and Herefords. At the Windsor stables there
were Shorthorn cattle weighing from l 200 to
| 400 pounds. He saw the Kings horses and
| to enter the stables a charge of shilling was
asked England may produce better wheat
on an average but farming is behind. The
land in Egypt along the Nile is fertilized by
| the overflow, which rises gradually and re-
| cedes the same way. There is much irrigation
done, some of it by hand labor. The dam
| that is being constructed will irrigate four
| miles average width of the valley and go out
| to desert lands. From Alexandria to Cairo
| there is irrigation already. The roads in
| France and England are magnificent. They
do not have the freezing weather like we have.
| There are few fine roads in Italy and the
| Appian Way, running, from sea to sea, is one
of the principal drives. The finest streets are
in Paris, made of wooden blocks, with foun-
dalton of asphalt.
Mr.. Scott said that at one point the train
upon which he was travelling was sidetracked
to give an Armour beef train the right of way
The Appian Way, referred to above by Mr..
Scott, was built by Appius Claudius, 313 B. c.
1t is 125 miles in length and extends from
Rome to Capua
Electric Railway Companies Agree
Upon Terms.-The United Railways and
Electric Company and the Baltimore and Bel
| air Electric Railway company nave mace
terms upon which the Belair Company can
occupy the Baltimore and Hartford turnpike.
The agreement, signed by President John M.
Hood, of the United, and President Stevenson
| A. Williams of the Belair road, was placed on
record at Towson on Monday last, with an
agreement by the Baltimore and Hartford
Turnpike Company Under these agreements
the new railway company pledges to make its
southern terminus at Hamilton avenue and
The Hartford road, which is the northern ter
minus of the United Railways that it will
connect with the lines of the United Railways
exclusively; that it will have no freight or
traffic arrangements with any lines not in
Hartford county, or any competing lines; that
it will manage its line on the same general
policy as the United at present does its line;
that in return for all this the railway and the
turnpike companies grant the right of way to
the Belair road to construct its line on the
turnpike and they agree TO take the passengers
brought by the Hartford county line on the
same terms as other passengers and to pay the
Hartford county line percentage on gross
traffic receipts, beginning at 10 per cent, and
scalingdown per cent. per year for ten years.
The new company agrees to sell to the
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