The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1911-12-08
,U7HE Cecil Farmers Club met
q . with Mr.. Alfred B McVey,
= on Saturday. Nov. 25th.

absent, the Vice Pres, j. s.. Scar
borough acted as Pres. Also Secy.
Cecil E. Ewing was absent and q.
X Biles acted as Secy.
The members present were: A.,
b. Mcvey, ]. s. Scarborough, J.
n Maxwell. Harry Maxwell, El-
wood Balderston, Palmer Nc
Fadden, A. q. Mendenhall, M L.
Thompson, M. q. Reader, j. T..
Grove and c. r. Biles
The visitors were Rev. Brinke
ma. Harold Gaskill, Niagra CO.,
N. Y, Prof. Lansing. w. O..
Smith, Arthur Harry, Henry Nc
Culiough, VIM. Grove, M. G..
Carhart, E. d. Carhart, Neven
McVey, Wilmer McVey, g. o.
Gerry, James Boss, and Earl Keen.
On cali for experiments, j. III.
Maxwell, said he had been feeding
oats, that he harvested green, to
his COWS with good results.
Mr.. Reeder said he tried feeding
nubbins without grinding, they did
not give near as good results as
when they were ground,
Mr.. Mccullough asked when was
4 the right time to SOW Alfalfa
Mr.. Balderston said that he
thought the best time is in the
month of August, after the ground
had been inoculated.
Mr., Boss said his McCormc
potatoes did very well, had about
400 bu from three acres, all good
size, did not need sorting, they
were planted on the 10Th of July
The call for the essay was re
sponded to by the host, with a
well prepared paper, Oh Agricnl
ture from the time OF Adam to the
present day, which was ably COM
mented on by Messrs. Balderston,
Boss, Brinkema, E d. Carhart,
M. 9. Carhart, Mccullough, Garry,
Gaskill, and Lawsing.
lecturer at one time in stating to his audi
ence the advanced age various birds and ami
mails lived was interrupted by Pat, who said,
.sthe ouldest haste on arth is the terrapin and
Of can pruve ut. picked one up this marnin
and cut on his shell as plain as you phase was
Adam, year one.- I have great respect for a
terrapin for he was my earliest playmate and
companion. Well do remember how used
to gather them and build pens first of wood
and then of stone, so large that had to roll
them on my little wagon, only to find the next
incoming hole in the wall made by them, as
thought all gone, and not one bit of the food
SO generously provided eaten. have received
many helps from the innocent terrapin and
could use all the time allotted me talking about
him. beginning, of course, with THE Tortoise
and the Hare" but had in my mind to talk
about Pro ,ress and Agriculture branded with
the year one for horticulture, branch OF
agriculture, started on its journey when Adam
was placed in the Garden to care for it. Now
don't be alarmed for you will not hear all the
history of agriculture and the part it has
played in the progress of the world. This
room would not contain the books thereof
When get started, if ever do, | will make.
strides equal to those made by the famous
Seven League Boots, and you will be surprised
as much as the hare when he awoke and found
!. the tortoise had won the race, to see how
bon reach the end of my talk and how little,
$ou have learned.
s'He who makes two blades of grass grow
: where only one grew before is universally
Hooked on as benefactor to mankind. No
one disputes his title to our gratitude; but the
claims of him who can make one grow where
none existed before are even greater" By
the means of science, improved machinery to
till the soil, the experience of generations adj
ded to his own all judiciously applied, has en-
abled the agriculturist to accomplish this.
Now where is the man who will invent some
machine to harvest these extra blades of grass
or tons of grain with the same or less manual
labor? He, it is, who will deserve tenfold
more gratitude than either of the above or
both combined viii this ever be? Judging
the future by the past we may answer yes.
We remember the saying Necessity is the
mother of invention" Years ago the sickle
was all the machine that was needed to har-
vest the grass and the grain. Then came the
scythe the mower or the cradle, the reaper
and the binder, followed by the header and
thresher combined. The grass was handled
by crude wooden forks. More grass, then
handrakes came. AS agriculture progressed
we had the old revolving horserake of our boy
hood days, followed by the wheel rake, then
the side delivery and hay loader. Grain was
tramped out ON the threshing floors, then the
fall and afterward the thresher that did not
separate even the straw and the grain, follow
ed by the shaker, thresher and cleaner on up
to the combined cutter and thresher, bagging
the grain ready for market Which came
first. the machine or the need for it? Agri-
culture has been in the lead and has created
the need that has led to the invention directly
or indirectly, to more than any, yes, more
than all other industries combined. Thus it
is, that, as soon as the people of our country
turn their attention to agriculture, it win
make progress in every other industry and not
bntil then. have only named few of the
machines that necessity demands as agrieul-
sture progresses. 1t would be hard to mention
l.branch of industry that has not grown
the demands of agriculture as from
ore material is raised to feed more
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