The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-12-28
THE December meeting Of the
Cecil farmers Club was

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inst, with the following members
and visitors present: Pres, r. t.
Cameron, Cor. Sec., M. G. Reeder,
Rec. Sec., Cecil E. Ewing, Treas,
J. FL. Maxwell. Elwood Balderson,
G. R. Biles, Wayne Reynolds, j.
Harry Maxwell, M. L. Thompson,
j. P. Wilson, A. B. McVey, Alfred
Kirk, A. J. Kitchener, J. T. Grove,
F. r. Cherry, R. X. Rawlings.
Visitors-Rev. Saml Polk, Prof.
Sampson. E. Il. Duyckinck, G. S.
Abrahams, Cameron Brown, Frank
Bittner, Roscoe and Leslie Rawl-
ings.
Minutes of previous meeting read
and approved.
Elwood Balderston was asked to
state his views regarding the rev.
enue derived from his herd by
taking the milk to the condensery
and said he was very we'll satisfied
with the present conditions. Last
month his herd consisted of 40
cows, none of which were fresh,
and they had yielded IL 900 lbs. of
milk, for which he had received a
check for $3.50. He said the con-
densery could use all the milk this
section could produce during the
entire year and that good prices
prevailed.
Mr.. Rawlings produced series
of letters, being the correspondence
between Saml. 7. Freeman and the
State officials appointed to exter'
inmate the San Jose scale, wherein
Mr.. Freeman suggested that as the
cost and labor required to properly
spray the trees was too great to be
borne by the average farmer
having but a small number OF
trees, the state either arrange to
spray the orchards, or appoint
some one in each locality, at min
mum cost to the orchardist to do
the spraying for that section.
On motion the suggestion as
outlined by Mr.. Freeman's cor.
respondence was adopted and a
committee was appointed to draft
letter to bring the matter before
the officials, as expressing the de-
sire of the Club.
The committee appointed for the
purpose was Geo. Balderston, r.
K. Rawlings and M. G. Reeder.
On motion vote of thanks was
extended to Mr.. Freeman for his
instructive suggestions in the
matter.
Wayne Reynolds expressed the
opinion that our county was away
behind on the road question and
hoped the Club would take some
concerted action for better roads.
Considerable discussion resulted,
Mr.. Wilson stating that the present
law required the abutting land
owners TO pay ten per cent of the
cost, the county forty per cent and
the state fifty per cent of the cost
of matchmaking. So far he had
not heard of the abutting land
owners being assessed for any i'm
provements made. He advocated
bonding the county for an amount
necessary for the work of improv-
ing the roads.
Elwood Balderston thought the
county and land owners could not
stand the expense of macadam
roads and advocated gravel roads.
Thought the county should possess
gravel beds and that good gravel
roads, well drained, with 10 to II
inches of gravel, could be built for
$1,000 per mile.
Messrs. McVey and Kitchener
advocated gravel roads and said
they had never been given a fair
test in this county.
On motion a committee of five
was appointed to represent the club
and confer with the County Com
missioners at their next meeting
and also suggest to them that they
appoint the road members in Feb
ruary or March, instead of later as
heretofore. The committee ap
pointed consisted of Wayne Reyn-
olds, A. B. McVey, j. P. Wilson,
Elwood Balderston and @. Ross
Biles.
A communication was read an
nouncing the meeting of the State
Farmers League in Baltimore OF
Dec. 20, and several expressed their
desire to attend.
The following committee of in
spection of premises was appointed,
and an adjournment then taken for
dinner: Messrs. Cherry, Grove and
Thompson.
The dinner was Christmas feast
with no detail omitted to make it
complete, the only thing lacking