The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-03-04
Home-orowu and Purchased Food Sun

Hometown and Purchased Food Sup
plies for Cows.-"Farmer' writes as follows
to the Baltimore american: "a farmer in
Baltimore county has recently demonstrated
the value of recording the daily results of his
farming operations. For several years he has
been conducting practical tests in order to de-
termine the relative value and cost of home
grown and purchased food supplies used in the
care and production OF stock.
I'm 1908 he selected q herd of 81 thoroughbred
and graded Guernsey cows for the basis of his
experiments. For the first year, in addition to
having the run of 102acre pasture of blue
grass and white clover, they were fed dairy
ration of 30 pounds Of corn silage, pounds of
bran, pounds of gluten and pound of cot
tonseed meal. They were also allowed all the
/ mixed timothy and clover hay they could eat.
| At the end of the year his records showed that
| these 81 COWS, fed on the ration indicated, had
| yielded a total of III, 401 pounds of milk, an
average for each cow of 5,722 pounds for the
| year, which, allowing 81 pounds to gallon,
| makes 673 gallons each. The milk was sold at
the farm for 143 cents gallon, so that each
COW earned S97.58. The bran, gluten and cot
tonseed meal cost S68292.
"In 1904 he put the same 81 COWS on daily
homegrown ration of 80 pounds of corn and
| cowpea ensilage and all the alfalfa hay they
| could eat. During the growing season they bad
the run of 102 acres of blue grass pasture, with
| daily allowances of green cut alfalfa. No con.
centrates of gluten or cottonseed meal were fed.
On this ration, composed entirely of food raised
and harvested ON the farm, the cows yielded
| 1851 pounds of milk an average of 1854
pounds, or 700 gallons each, which, at l43 cents
| gallon, made q return of SOL so for each COW.
This shows an increase of 1892 per COW in
favor of the home grown food product. In adj
dition saving of $68292, the cost of CONNER
cial foods, was made.
IA careful record of each cow was kept so
that with an accurate array of facts and figures
to back up the assertion it may be said that
alfalfa has proven itself most valuable crop.
1t not only brings better results to the farmer,
but makes him an independent factor; instead
of buyer he becomes simply the seller.
"Alfalfa is a comparatively new forage plant
mers. 1t has long been one of the most staple
products of the far West, where it yields an
nually three crops and then affords good pas
turage through the winter. It is hardy and
tenacious. and, with very little care, seldom
needs replanting. If Maryland farmers have
fields adapted to its cultivation they would do
well to give 1t trial. 1t is not only splen-
did food for dairy CATTLE but beef stock, horses
and hogs do well on it."
Fixing the Date of misunderstanding 10
the decree of the Council of Nicaca, Easter is to
be celebrated on the first Sunday after the
fourteenth moon of the first month. The first
month here referred to is not January, but the
Jewish first month, or that month in which
the fourteenth, or full moon, occurred either
Oh VI lLumcuidtcly dltcI JuO NCIudl c1ulDOAs
The rule, according to our calendar, places
Easter on the Sunday following the equinoctial
full moon, that is the full moon occurring on
or Immediately after the vernal equinox
March 81. Thus. last year, the equinoctial full
moon, the first after March q, occurred on
Wednesday, March 80, and the Sunday follow
ing was April 3, on which day Easter was to
be kept
In the present year there seems to arise an
astronomical difficulty owing to the fact that
in America the moon is full on March GOTH
11th., 4Sm., P. NJ, washington time,) while in
Europe at the same moment they writes
March 81, 4h, S., Greenwich time)' In Eu-
ropean countries, therefore, Easter ought to be
kept on the Sunday following March 81, j. e.,
March 20, while in our country, for which the
next moon after the equinox occurs on April
10, Easter will be celebrated on the Sunday fol-
lowing that date, l. e., on April %. To obviate
such and similar difficulties the ecclesiastical
calendar refers not to the actual moon in the
sky which is full at definate instant of time,
but to fictitious moon, the times of the phases
of which are 80 arranged as not to differ much
from those of the actual moon.
Thus in 1905 the ecclesiastical calendar moon
is full on March TO- and again or April Is, not
at any particular hour of these days hut on
these days in general, and wheresoever these
dates occur. Now April Is is, by this rule, the
Paschal full moon, and Easter day is the fol-
lowing Sunday, viz: April %.
A Successful Minstrel Entertainment
"A complimentary minstrel entertainment
under the auspices of the Order of the Knights
of the Golden Eagle, was given in Golden
Eagle Hall, Govanstown, on Friday evening,
February oath. to an overlooking house. Moth
ing but strictly Govanstown talent was en-
ployed, except the orchestra. The following
| took part:
Walter Cogswell. Herbert Wheeler, Benjamin
| Nicoll, r. ID. Mosner, George Cogswell and
| Charles Foreman.
Endmen-T Ward Norris. Edwin Hopkins,
| William Heyden, Louis Ritter. Howard Fore
| man, Massimo Pisani, Vernon Hopkins and
| George Heyden.
Soioists-Walter Cogswell, B.Nicoll Howard
| Foreman, R. D. Mosner, G. @. Foreman T.
| Ward Norris and NJ. Pisani.
| Jig dancing by Louis Ritter; buck and clog
dancing by Hopkins brothers and Hayden
brothers.
Dogs the Trouble There Too.-Tbe Mont
| gomery (Md.) Press of last week said "Sheep
| raising may become profitable and agreeable
industry in Montgomery county. Farming
and dairyiIg have long been the leading occu-
pations in Montgomery county, and while they
will likely continue to hold first place, more at
| tention may be given with profit to raising
sheep, and especially lambs, for the early spring
market. But dogs are in the way. A few dogs
| are useful. Most of them are nuisance As
between the sheep and the dogs, let us get rid
! of the dogs by taxing them and making the
| owner liable to damages for depredatons COM
| mitted upon the farmers herds and flocks.'
| Donation Party Visits Pastoral six
| horse sleigh load of members of the Christian
| Endeavor Society of Grace P. e. Church, Chest
| nut Ridge, came to Towson on Friday night of
last week and paid a donation visit to their
pastor, Rev. John L. Straughn. and his family.
| The affair was very enjoyable and it was
late hour when the jolly party started on the
Misses Ethel Gent, Maggie and Emma Sven,
| Florence Lutz, Emma and Florence Gartling
| and Messrs William Tracey, Henry Long,
| John and Edward Horr, George Sven, Harry
| and Walter link, Edwin Griffith and Julian,
Edwin and Allen Gent.
Authorized to Lease the Track for
| Thirty Days.-Mr. G. H. Nicolai, trustee, by
Messrs Findlay 81 Mackenzie, attorneys has
filedaa petition in the case of L. T. Appold and
| others against the Maryland State Agricultural
Association of Pimlico, praying that George
| W. Alt, William r. Hammond and Henry 8.
ZeIl, former secretaries of the association, be
made parties defendant in the suit, and that
they bring into court all books, etc. Judge
| Burke subpnnaed them to answer.
| Mr.. Nic0lai also asked permission to lease the
Pimlico race track for the purpose of holding
| races It was granted for lease of thirty days
for the spring races.
RELIGIOUS SERVICES.
March 9Th: At II A. NJ. 1.-The Unavoidable
Christi" p. NJ, "Three Fires" Rev. B. b..
81. Johns siS P. E. Church. Western Rm.-Rey. R.