The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-08-07
NYHE Cecil Farmers Club met
= = with J. Harry Maxwell,

day, July 30. Those present at
roll call were r. X. Rawlings,
prest.; R. T. Cameron, ]. P. Will
son, Jas. 81. Maxwell, j. Harry
Maxwell, f. r. Cherry, M. i.
Thompson, EIwood Balderston, A.
B. McVey, Wayne Reynolds, A. r.
Brown, jos. I. Grove, Rev. Saml.
Polk, Cecil 3. Ewing. Present
after roll CALM. G. Reeder.
Visitors present-Jos. SINNERS,
G. II, Cameron, Clifton Miller,
Roscoe Rawlings, Walter Reeder,
Lloyd Balderston, of West Chester.
The minutes of the previous
meeting were read and approved.
The matter of building macadanl
roads was brought up and Mr..
McVey was authorized to request
the County Commissioners to mac
adamize the road from Carlton
Kimble's to the Port Deposit road
at Gathers Corner instead of start
ing at Rising Sun town limits and
stopping at Cullen's corner.
Elwood Balderston moved that
Mr.. McVey also inform the Com
missioners that the iron bridges
were badly in need of coat of
paint to preserve them from rust.
Motion carried.
Frank Cherry said he had horse
which was continually nipping and
biting itself and wished to know
the cause and cure. He was told
to write to Hoard's Dairyman or
some other authority for infor
nation.
Elwood Balderston reported that
he was not pleased with the present
prospects from his potatoes, al
though those from Northern Sud
were much the best. All of them
were badly infested with bugs.
Mr.. Polk said he had four acres
in potatoes, that the rows were
full of weeds and the bugs were
there in force. He had used paris
green and bordeaux mixture, but it
had done no good. A neighbor
had told him to quit spraying and
cut off the vines. The members all
advised against, the latter course
saying it would surely stop the
growth of the tubers to cut the
vine before it died.
Mr.. Brown said he had tried al
ternating his potato rows with
potato fertilizer and rock and pot
ash but could see no difference in
the crop.
Mr.. McVey said he had sowed
millet with his COWS peas, five
or six quarts to the acre, and it was
doing nicely and the millet kept
down the weeds.
Mr.. Wilson said he had planted
an acre Of potatoes with potato
fertilizer and two acres with rock
and 5 per cent potash, then broad
casted with hen manure. He was
not yet ready to report on results.
Lloyd Balderston gave an inter.
esting account of grating wild and
cultivated strawberries. lie said
in the neighborhood of West Ches-
ter there grew in profusion q wild
India strawberry which had a
yellow blossom and small fruit with
no flavor whatever. He noticed
: that this species bore fruit from
early spring until early winter and
if this characteristic could be i'm
parted to a highly favored cult
waited variety it would be well
worth the trial of grating. His
efforts to produce seed from com
bination of the two varieties had
proven successful but the Seeding
plants were too young to bear yet.
He promised to report results next
year.
Mr.. Miller spoke of his fine catch
of alfalfa and said his shoats were
living on it alone without any
other feed.
Wayne Reynolds asked what was
best fertilizer to SOW on grass after
manuring and was told raw bone.
The host when called upon foran
essay said Walter Reeder, a recent
graduate of the Maryland Agri-
cultural College and lately appoint
ed principal of the Calvert Agri'
cultural High School, was present
and had consented to furnish an
ASSAY Mr. Rnodnr altar a brio,
address, read the following:
THE USE OF FooD-sTUFFs PRODUCED OF
THE FARM.
Several years ago, when small boy heard
prosperous farmer say, "that farming would be
come profitable business when the farmer pre-
duced all his fertilizers ana, feeds on the farm