The midland journal., 1909-09-24

Of fertilizers were not drillable and
had to be reduced on that account.
Mr.. Duyckinck suggested mixing
it with the manure in the barn
yard, instead of adulterating it to q
lower grade for the drill.
Mr.. Rawlings showed a specimen
of German speltz, for chicken or
COW feed. Some farmers stated
they would not care to have 1t on
their farms.
He also showed a mammoth ear
of corn 15 inches in length. Said
that in preparing his corn ground
the manure spreader broke and on
a portion of the ground the appli-
cation was thin. At the present
time the field showed the difference,
where the manure had been ap-
piled heavy the corn was still
green and the other portion was
dead.
The host then produced his essay
which was read as follows:
Friends and Members Of ae Cecil Fdvmers Club
1t gives me much pleasure to welcome you
again at my homs today. You are already
aware am not an essayist and it is difficult
matter to write something that will instruct
you, but will try to bring to your memory
some few things of the past.
Just as / was preparing this paper heard of
the af1iction of one of our oldest and the
brightest member of our Club, Mr.. John p.
Wilson, who has never before missed meet
ing at this home and hope for his speedy
recovery.
I think there is time in every ones life
when there is an opportunity offered him, to
make a success and if this passes and he does
not avail himself of the opportunity it often
times means failure He is always looking for
success, but it seldom comes, then comes the
saying we hear SO often: NIf had only started
at that time my success would have been
greater.''
There must be time to start and time to
stop. For instance, there was time when we
could not farm successfully without the OK,
but now he is thing Of the past and the horse
has taken his place.
Then take the threshing machine. can re-
member whenI was boy wheat was threshed
out with a fail or tread out with horses on the
barn floor, then came the sweat-power with
the open thresher and the shaker which we
had to fan and separate the wheat from chaH
This was a slow, tiresome job. But the time.
came for this to stop, and the two-horse tread
power and thresher came in use, which thresh-
ed one hundred bushels per day, and separated
the chaff from the grains. Wethought at that
time we wanted nothing better, but in a few
years we found we had not the time to threshe
with such slow power, we had to go faster,
and the old two-horse power was stopped.
Some of the members of this Club have chill
dren that never will see a tread power at
work. But now steam and motor powers are
used and we can thresh several hundred
bushels per day and still hardly have the time
to thresh
Times are progressing so rapidly that we
cannot follow after our forefathers. but we
are to drop the old and take up the new.
Now horses are going, they are getting
scarce and high. Gasoline, coal-oil and electric
ity are taking their place. Telephone and
automobiles ARE taking it on the road, and
think it won't be long before motor power Will
be doing the work on the farm just as the
horseis doing the work the OK did.
can remember when all the trains between
New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and
Washington were taken across the Susque-
hanna on boat, but in the year 1855 the new
bridge at Perryville was completed with one
track, now it takes two bridges, two tracks
each, which haul more freight in one day
than the old boat did in year. We can see
by this just how fast we are going. 1t is the
production of our lands and the increase OF
that is causing this rush. Thei
quicker and cheaper we can handle our crops
the more profitable our farms will be. Our
lands are not producing what they would II
we had the time to properly prepare the
ground and cultivate our crops.
The time has come for the farmer to stop
feeding cattle and start to devote his time the
COW. which has proven to be more profitable.
She is a producer, a fertilizer and an improve |
ment to the farm. Is there anything more
admirable than herd of cows wandering in,
in the evening with their full udders? Give
the cows the attention we should and their
profits will be more today than the farmer re-
ceiyed from his entire farm fifty years ago ana
the production of the cow now is only IN It's
She is becoming more popular daily.