The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-09-22
WHE September meeting of the
q y Cecil Farmers club was held

at the home of Wayne Reyn-
olds, near Rising Sun, on the 18th
inst, with the following members
and visitors present: Prest. Elwood
Balderston, cor. sec. M. G. Reeder,
rec. sec. Cecil E. Ewing, Alfred
Kirk, J. P. Wilson, A. B. McVey,
Jas. H. Maxwell, J. Harry Max
well, J. T. Grove, M. L. Thompson,
G. Ross Biles, r. X. Rawlings, F.
r. Cherry, R. T. Cameron, DR.. J..
I. France, Wayne Reynolds. Hon
orary member and visitors Lloyd
Balderston, FL. L. Brinton, VIM M.
Pogue, S.. J. Reynolds, VIM. Reyn-
olds, Jonathan Reynolds, Harry G.
Robertson, M. E. Kirk.
Minutes of previous meeting were
read and approved.
The corresponding secretary re-
ported having received from DR..
Jos. I. France a letter of acceptance
of membership to the club wherein
he expressed his qualification at
being placed upon the roll.
j. P. Wilson who had been ap-
pointed to represent the club at
College Park ON Sept 1 and 2, gave
the following report of his visit:
Agricultural College Report.
As your delegate to the Agricultural College
have the following report to make;
Arrived at College at II m. 1t being two hours
early, as the committee was not to meet until p.
M, had the pleasure of having lunch with the
Treasurer and President, Captain Sylvester.
At2p m. the committee was called, and while
two sections were formed-one on the College
proper and the other on Experiment Station-we
visited both in body. I first will speak of the
College proper. We find an up to-date equip
ment of buildings. A new executive building
and dormitory combined. some S0x150 IT, with
wing on west containing chapel with seating
capacity of $50, the basement of which is fitted up
for gymnasium and drill room in bad weather.
This building is heated throughout with steam,
and electric light furnished from central plant
Science hall containing chemical labratory. en-
tomology department, as well as class room on
third floor, machine shop and wood working de-
partment occupying prominent position. These
buildings situated in natural grove are con-
nected by concrete walks. Over two hundred
students attended last year and a larger number
is expected for the present year.
The old college building is connected on two
floors with covered passage way ten feet wide.
The first floor of the building is fitted up with new
steel ceilings, the chapel and adjoining room
thrown together, making dining room 25x1
and while this is perhaps of interest to most of us
that which is of most importance is the Station
and its experiments.
The famous round barn which many of you
have seen is still in evidence, monument OF
folly; SO much room cannot be utilized. The
large silo which occupied the center has been
relocated to-the outside chiefly because of diff
ficulty in filling, The dairy herd is kept here,
which constitutes about thirty cows, but few OF
which are pedigreed stock three bulls represent
ing Polled Angus. Guernsey and Jersey of pure
: blood. OF the beef type the report shows HOO
lbs. at two years and the dressed weight made 63
lbs. to hundred gross. One COW, grade, has a
record of 426 lbs of butter for the year. In the
Department of the Station they are making very
interesting experiments with barn yard manure
as to the value of application and its condition as
well. Eight tons to the acre were used in each
case, time of application carefully noted and OF
some twenty different times; some plowed under
Immediately after spread. or spread on the fresh
turned soil, or spread at intervals dating back
one year before blowing.
There was marked difference in favor of the
longer interval, but the greatest difference was in
the condition of the manure when applied. That
removed from the stable Immediately to the field
had marked results in its favor, and when we
consider our manure pile diminishes 80 per cent
the fact is evident we lose in practice of hauling
once year from 60 to 20 per cent of the value OF
the manure.
Another experiment in which the committee
was much interested is in breeding pedigreed
corn Each ear is carefully labeled, the best
selected of the product to replant the following
year. Any weak or defective or smut stalks are
detasseed, no pollen suffered to fall from any but
perfect stalks. They claim to have increased the
depth of grain as well as breeding type OF corn
containing more protein, and this State is more
interested in dairy products than distillery OIL
glucose manufactures, for which the starch alone
is valuable.
We find the managers of Station are not relax
ing any in their enthusiasm of the wonderful COW
pea. More than thirty different varieties are
there on exhibition. They recommend them in
connection with corn for silos or more properly
ensilage. The ordinary COW pea grown with corn
IOr euslldRt Is sOueNudl ullncult W 6utuSA WIN
the corn, so this year they are experimenting
with u regular corn bean that can be planted with
the corn, which instead of growing bushy
climbs about the corn, even to the extent of ten
to twelve feet, and can not be separated without
great difficulty. This run bean is quite fruitful
in pods and is likely to prove valuable adjunct
in the slo.
Innoculation by distributing the soil from one
field to another is practiced quite successfully
This is used more particularly in raising alfalfa
in some places taking the entire soil of plot tc
the depth of six inches. This is distributed over
fields at the rate of live hundred pounds to the
acre.
The raising of alfalfa in this Sec
ton was discussed and the general
experience had been that it was
very difficult to secure satisfactory
catch.
An instance was related where il