The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-01-20

The club adjourned at 7.3O o'clock, which was
unusually early as some of the members desired
to catch railroad train.
Mr.. Frame has a farm near Phoenix, which
shows decided improvement over the first year
he owned it. He is much interested in agricul-
ture and is ever ready to hear discussions on it.
| He is the most regular attendant at the club
| meetings, and often represents it at the Junior
Club.
Mrs. Frame provided an elegant supper, and
was assisted by her daughters, and Misses Cathe
rine Kelley and Polly Polk.
Fallston Farmers Club Meets at Mt.
| Soma.-Mt. Soma Farm is the name of the
handsome home of Mr.. William L. Amoss,
| head of the Department of Farmers Institutes
| of Maryland, near Benson, Hartford county,
and it was there that the December meeting of
the Fallston Farmers Club was held.
Mt. Soma farm is one of the old Hartford
honiesteads says the Belair Agis. Herein the
family burying-ground is the grave of William
Amos, dated 1850. Tradition has it that he
came to America from England to escape the
wrath of his stepmother and was the first
Amos that came to this country. The name of
the farm was found by the present occupant
by spelling backwards the family name and
leaving off the double s. which came into the
family by choice of the representative of the
fourth generation. Two hundred acres are
under cultivation and in pasture; the balance
(sixty acres) is in wood.
Only within recent years has the farm failed
to be large hay producer. Mr.. Amoss ex-
planned that his grandfather was among the
first to use lime in the county. In his time
kiln was built and stone hauled from Balti-
more county. In his day large herds of cattle
were halted here when going and coming from
Baltimore on their way to Lancaster county
and intermediate farms, and what the farm
produced and much more was thrown on the
fields for the cattle. The railroads were built
and the herds of cattle came no more. His
father had kept city horses, all the stable would
accommodate, and had used bone at the rate OF
1000 pounds to the acre, which after the war
was cheap and plentiful. During this period
the old barn, built in 1918, it was said at the
time would never be filled, was doubled IN
capacity, two hay houses built doubling the
capacity of the barn and stacking was neces-
sary to care for the hay crops; Inc Iailure 9.
grass in latter years, Mr.. Amoss thinks, IS
due to the need of lime, which has not been
applied either from the kiln or from slaughter
house bone.
Following the Farmers Institute work of
Mr.. Joseph E. Wing, spring Of 1901. Mr.. Amoss
had seeded five acres to alfalfa, la Wing.
From three acres this season he cut four crops
the first and second cuttings stood from fifteen
inches to three feet tall and heavy, giving
enough excellent hay for his 30 ewes through
the Landing season. OF this plot he plowed
an acre; to do this it required three horses,
sharp piow and good man. The other two
acres, which had not taken when first seeded,
was half in potatoes and half in rye. After
harvest the rye stubble was plowed. Ad-
joining were four acres of good timothy, which
after harvest was also plowed. The whole was
manured over and lined at the rate of 500 and
1000 pounds lime to the acre. Before seeding
400 pounds bone was applied on the rye stub
BILE and half the timothy stubbe; 800 pounds
of soil from the old alfalfa plot was applied to
inoculate the land with alfalfa bacteria. The
1o~ Hnd
pounds of seed sown. Some of this was inocu-
lated seed. An excellent set was apparent on
the rye and timothy stubble, but on the alfalfa
stubble and potato plot there is little or no
showing. There is no apparent difference IN
the plot of inoculated seed and others, either
that not inoculated or to which was applied
the SOIL The alfalfa stubble may have been
plowed too deep and the potato plot was prob
ably seeded too late The two plots have now
had rye drilled on the surface without break
ing the seed bed. The balance is very fine.
The soil is red clay loan and the field is on
hill top.
Mr.. Amoss has flock of thirty ewes, Dor
SETS Delaines and Rambouillets, headed by
full blood Dorset buck, which are kept to pro-
duce lighthouse lambs" The flock is comm.
ed in comfortable barn, well ventilated, but
free from draughts With them are twenty
four lambs weighing from II to 45 pounds.
Last week he shipped four dressed lambs TO
New York and showed a card which said they
mad SOLO OIL cdCQ. w 06u uTSSSSu Will
hide on they weighed 80 to 40 pounds. They
receive the best care and personal attention.
The ewes are fed alfalfa hay, bran, corn and
turnips the object being to make them milk.
The lambs get, besides all the milk their
mothers have, alfalfa hay, cracked corn and
a little bran and faxseed meal.
Mr.. Amoss says lambs should not be allow
ed to run and Jump. That exercise makes the
meat coarse and red, while the fat lamb when
kept confined will have the finest grained meat
grown, and white like that of the chicken.
The dollhouse lamb production rightly belongs
to New Jersey, Maryland and Virginia, and
the Western states. which are now supplying
this ultra fancy Market cannot meet us when
once we awaken to the fact of the advantage
that our nearness to the great centers OF popu-
lation gives us.
The concensus of opinion was that a system
of diversity in farm practice was most profta-
ble That the kind of live stock depended on
the farm acreage, its location and soil, and the
preference of its owner and his ability to sup
ply the labor necessary to save the wastes Incl
dent to the production of crops were important
factors in solving the problem. All agreed
that the wastes of the average farm would be
handsome profit, could they be removed from
the list of losses.
New Church Dedicated.-The new Meth
odist Episcopal Church at ellis school house,
4th district, was dedicated last Sunday and
despite the fact that the weather was very in
clement a large congregation was present. Kew:
DIR. G. Herbert Richardson, presiding elder OF
Baltimore district, under whose supervision
the church was erected, conducted the dedica-
tory ceremonies in the absence of Bishop
Luther B. Wilson, who was detained at home
by Illness At $3.50 P. M. Rev. w. w. Costin
preached.
gables and roof tower, and cost about 70, 700.
Rev. J. Fl. Brunges is the pastor and Rev. J. ID.
Marsh and Rev. o. Fl. Draper are assistants.
Among the contributors toward the building
were Messrs. Joseph Frieden valid, Summer
field Baldwin, James 3. Ingram, Sr., David
Carroll and William Gsriel Mr.. Summer
field Baldwin made brief address in which
he thanked those who had so generously re-
sponded when called upon to assist in the
work. Mr.. Ingram also spoke briefly. Music
was furnished by the Pikesville Quartet, under
the leadership of Mr.. William Beam.
A bell weighing 400 pounds was donated by
Mr.. Edwin Bennett 1t will be placed in the
tower.
Damage Suit Compromised.-Thec case Of
Mr.. George s. Mann, son of County Commits,
sioner Mann, against the United Railways and
Electric Company and the Philadelphia, Balti-
more and Washington Railroad Company, in
which suit was brought for $4,000 damages
for injuries in collision at Highlandtown last
June has been entered agreed and settled, the
defendants to pay COSTS" The order to make
the entry in the case is signed by Mr.: Mann,
MIR. Bernard Carter, as counsel for the COM
panies, and by Mr.. Osborne /. Yellott, as coun-
sci for Mr.. Mann. The accident occurred on
Eastern avenue, the car in which he was
passenger being run into by freight train as
it was crossing the tracks. The amount paid
Mr. Mann in settlement of his suit is currently
reported to have been $40 900.
Contest Over a Wheat Crop.-On Satur-
day last argument was concluded in the Cir
cult Court here in the case of John W. Bowen
against Charles G. Carmine. The plaintiff
claimed the right to have harvested crop of
wheat on q farm which he rented from the de-
PENDANT. although his tenancy had expired be-
fore its maturity, claiming that this is in &C.
cordance with a custom which prevails among
farmers that tenant has the right to harvest
a crop which he sowed even after the expira-
ton of his tenancy, provided that there was no
growing crops on the farm at the time he
rented It. Judge Burke reserved his decision.
Mr.. Ernest G. Hatch appeared for Mr.. Bowen
and Col. d. G. Mcintosh and Major John 1.
Yelott for Mr.. Carmine.
Aid Society Holds Annual Meeting
The Ladies' Aid Society of Jessop NJ. E.
Church, in the 9Th district, held its annual
meeting on the evening of the 18th inst, at
the home of Mrs. B. r. Benson. Miss Beulah