The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-05-12
BRAINS And MUSCLE.
Belfast Township is Coming Rapidly to
The Front in Improved Methods in
Agriculture, and Getting Results
ATTENTION To FRUIT GROWING.

mating the progress that is stead
lily gong on in every other town.
ship IN this county, it is with
personal qualification that the
Editor notes the general advance.
ment along all lines of industry
in Belfast. He has a very dis.
tlnct recollection Of conditions as
they existed in that township,
more than half century ago. 1t
was in that township that he first
opened his eyes to the worlG. and
it was IN that township that he
spent his first dozen years on a
farm of 800 or more acres, that
did not yield enough from year
to year to bread the family and
feed the stock. At that time, a
farmer that had wheat to sell was
regarded as a magnate. Most
families lived In houses furnished
with the barest necessities of
life. How different now. Instead
of hills covered with white top or
summer grass, there is rich
clover or timothy sod. The old
one-story log house with chimney
on the outside has been replaced
with a modern frame building,
tastefully painted, and furnished
In way that at once suggests
comfort and plenty. The old
crib barns have gwen way to
modern bank barns, and when
you open the ponderous doors,
you find the mows filed to over.
flowing with grain and hay, or,
If after threshlng time, big con-
ioal straw stack IN the yard, and
well fillen granaries within. The
old razor back, self sharperer
hos has disappeared and the
Chester White, the Poland China,
or Berkshires have taken his
place. And so may we go on with
the horses, cattle. and other kinds
of stock.
Why this great change? Are
the sons not fal ming, IN many
instances, the same fields that
their fathers farmed? Yes; but
the boys have found out thing
or two. They have found out
that there are some tricks in the
business that their fathers did
not know. They have found out
that 1t is not in the nun Der of
acres farmed, but in the way
those acres are handled.
There was a time when folks
sneered at shook farming" as
they called it. They did not think
1t strange that they should go to
books to learn how to cure a sick
horse, or a sick baby; not wrong
to read paper to find out wheth'
er to vote for Fremont or Bu-
chanan, but to get into a book to
md out how plants grow, or
read a paper to find out that o
cornstalk must be ted as well as
a calf, was farthest from their
dreams.
This line of thought was awak
ened by an intelligent Belfast
farmer who dropped into the
NEWS Office recently for little
'Howdy do" and told us of the
interest that farmers IN that towr
ship have taken in Inning during
the past few years. He named
more than fifty farmers in tina
township who have hauled lime
stone-mostly from Pigeon Cove
have burnt kilns, and have placeC
the lime on their land.
When it is considered that thil
stone Is hauled, in many in
stances, a distance of ten miles
some idea OF the difficulty In get
Ting this form of fertilizer ma,
oe learned. But those who frs
tried 1T were rewarded with sucl
gratifying results that other
We're led to follow the example
and SO, one after another, unit
now, nearly the whole township
mas been transformed into a mos
desirable agricultural com munit,
Fifty bushels of lime to tn
ere bring very gratifying re
uits, showing on corn the frs
easop, and furnishing . founda
on for a strong grass sod. The