The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-12-30
Cecil Farmers Club.
Proceeding of the Meeting Held
at "SedgIey Farm, the Home
Of Frank r. Cherry, on
December 18th.
HOSTS INTERESTING ESSAY.
NYHE Cecil Farmers Club met
. . at the home of Frank r.

Dec. Is. The President, Elwood
Balderston, being late, Jos. Scar.
borough was made president and
r. z. Rawlings secretary pro tenn.
At roll call the following respond
ed A. J.. Kitchener, Jos. Grove,
G. Ross Biles, M. L. Thompson,
Wayne Reynolds, Robt. Cameron,
Jas. Il. Maxwell, NJ. G. Reeder, j.
Harry Maxwell, Harry Poist, R. r..
Rawlings, Elwood Balderston. Wis
itors- Fl. G. Mcdowell, Thomas
Mcdowell, e. 81. Worthington,
DR.. G.. s. Dare.
The minutes of the last meeting
were read and approved.
Experiments. Wayne Reynolds
is feeding his cattle in the morning
on whole grain and in the evening
corn cob meal and bran. He says
they are doing well.
Jos. Grove had his feeders de.
horned; they did not appear to
mind it and they ate their feed
with the same relish and looked
none the worse.
M. @. Reeder had his cows de
horned some years ago and thought
it benefited them. They gave 10
lbs. more milk the next day and
continued to do better.
A. J. Kitchener was opposed to
dehorning but he thinks if the
COWS are better producers without
horns than with horns he will
deh0rn.
j. Harry Maxwell asked what
was the proper age to have the
horns taken off. He had some
calves dehorned when about six
months old and it made a very nice
shave head.
Robt. T. Cameron finds that
feeding cattle do better if their
meal is mixed with something, He
generally mixes wheat chaff with
his meal and it keeps his cattle full
and they do much better.
j. Harry Maxwell is feeding en-
silage; has been feeding but a short
time and his cattle are doing we'll.
Elwood Balderston feeds his
ensilage mixed with 200 lbs. corn
meal 100 lbs. gluten, 800 lbs. bran,
and finds it most excellent feed.
Jos. T. Grove is feeding Ajax, a
very light feed, but it runs 80 per
cent in protean and he thinks it a
good feed. 1t costs $26 per ton.
The host then produced the fol-
lowing paper, which met with
much discussion:
"a Question"
Now this subject may seem strange
one to you all and may be more SO before
l have finished. The question want to
talk to you about or ask for your ideas on
is: Does dairying pay ON land that is
high, (by shat mean in fertility and
high in pricel Now let us compare what
100 acres will produce if divided into six
fields of I6 acres, allowing four acres for
buildings, etc., etc. Now we have I6 a.
corn, 80 a. hay, 80 a. wheat, 10 a. oats.
6 a. potatoes.
I6 a. corn, 60 bus. per acre-e6o bus. q
so cts.--$4So.
90 a. hay. ~ tons per acre-4S tons "a
$Io-$48o.
80 a. wheat. rs bus. per acre-Soo bus. "a
rs cts.-$6oo.
10 a. oats. 40 bus. per acre-4oo bus. a.
80 cts -$I2o.
6 a. potatoes, 100 bus. per acre-6oo bus a.
40 cts.-$24o.
which amounts to $T92o for the grain
alone. Now we can count the straw
Oats, ton per acre, $50; wheat. y ton
per acre, $50; fodder 8 cts. per bundle,
$so-a grand total of S2roo.
Now we have sold all we have raised
on the farm and fed nothing except to
our farm teams, and naturally we say our
farm will get poorer by not keeping
stock and making manure. All well AID
good as far as the manure goes, but will
venture to say that not one-teuth of the
manure that is hauled to the fields in this
country is hauled there in the right shape
and condition.
Do not imagine / am no advocate Of
barn yard manure, for am. but do not
believe in making barn manure when by
so doing You make your farm poorer, as
I will endeavor to show you if can. Now
the reason we put on barn manure is to
make the ground rich and mellow and
make humus. All right so far, but I con-
tend that we can make it mellow, just as
rich and full of humus by blowing down
COW pea, ETC., etc. OF course we have
been told this by Experimental Stations,
etc., but what am trying to get at is in
my own case, here on my own farm, as
will try to show you by comparing the
figures in selling all the crops and plow-
ing down green aud dead nitrogen grow
ing crops to enrich your farm.
No,v IN This 100 acre farm xpa will been