The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1916-12-08

OF Meeting Held At
Home OF A. H. MendenhaIl,
Blue Ban.


The Cecil Farmers Club was en-
tertained at the handsome and
capacious home of Abram H. Men
denhall on Nov. .22nd, 1916.
The meeting was called to order
by the President near the usual time,
and owing to the unavoidable deten-
ton of the Secy, G. C. Balderston
called the roll and read the minutes
of the previous meeting. Those
responding are as fol1ows:-
President, j. H. Kimble, j. H. Max
we'll, M. l.. Thompson, JOS. T. Grove,
M. c. Reeder, c. r. Biles, j. Harry
Maxwell, H. M. Mccullough, A. H.
Mendenhall, John S. Cullen, G. c..
Balderston, and later, Reuben
Reynolds, Elwood Balderston.
Honorary member Jos. Scar
borough. Visitors, David H., Kauff-
man, Berks County, the newly ap-
pointed County Agent, to succeed
Geo. F Marsh, resigned, Jos. Yerkes,
Howard and Jos Mendenhall.
The minutes were approved.
Elwood Balderston chairman of
the Maryland Week committee read
a report of the Club Booth Exhibit
and those winning premiums, which
was published Dec. /.
Reuben Reynolds reported the new
High School addition to the Fair
Hill School filled TO it's capacity;
twenty-four LIST year children in
attendance.
C. R. Biles in referring to the adj
verse report of the Club in regard to
Hydrated lime, thinks more per acre
should be applied and in no case put
on less than 1000 pounds, which
would only be 12k bus.
H. M. Mccullough bought a barge
of Hydrated lime to put on his wheat
and asked the Club when to apply it.
his wheat now well covering the
ground, was advised not to apply
till February. Prevailing opinion
was to apply at once if the. ground
remained reasonably dry, not less.
than 1000 lbs. per acre.
John Cullen prefers Cedar Hol-
land lump lime and stated he has
spread it with a shovel on wheat
without injuring foliage.
r A. H. Mendenhall spread lump
lime in the fall for corn, which
showed with wonderful results in the
following clover crop.
John S. Cullen disked stalk ground
for wheat and prefers it to cultivator.
c. C. Balderston stated that. Henry
Palmer of Avondale always disks his
ground for wheat after harvest and
always has fine crops. My own
wheat, he said, "sowed after plow-.
ing oats stubble without manure, in
tending to top dress with, manure,
does not now look we'll"
In referring to lime, G. c Balder-,
ston also stated that at meeting in
Baltimore, speaker demonstrated
that large applications of lime
liberates potash in the soil, so he
uses for securing potash, heavy
application of lime; for Nitrogen,
Legume crops; for Phosphoric acid.
acid phosphate, thus getting max
imum results at minimum cost.
D. H. Kaufman the newly APP
pointed County Agent, Ga represent
alive of the U. Government and
Pennsylvania State Colleges recon-
mends a County organization with
representatives from each district to
have supervision of the work of tbs
County Agent.
At the afternoon session Fl. M.
Mccullough was appointed by the
Cecil Farmers Club as its represent
alive to cooperate with represen-
tatives of other organizations in the
County in conjunction with the
County Agent, to further this work.
Jos. Scarborough who was present
with the Club. expressed his
appreciation of the new use of lime
in liberating potash. He also mar
rated an incident of a neighbor SOW
ing 1000 lb. of bone meal on an acre
of wheat, with no better result than
500 lib. on the balance of the field.
His opinion was that the wheat
could only use portion of the bone:
Reuben Reynolds advised that in
the future only one variety of corn
be grown by the Boys Corn Clubs
SO as to give uniformity to the tests.
This was concurred in by other MEM
bers who believed the department
should furnish the seed for all tests
alike.
H. M. Mccullough, M. c. Reeder
and Harry Maxwell were then ap-
pointed committee on premises by
the President and recess taken for
dinner.
On re-convening, H. M. McCul-
Tough on behalf of the Committee
reported: 1.-THE generous hospitality
of our Host and Hostess was demon
strated in the bounteous turkey din
ner to which each member did COM
plete justice.