The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1916-10-03
Farm Demonstrations Inspected

The Burlington County Farm Bureau
conducted a successful tour, on Satur-
day, to inspect demonstrations that
had been made by farmers in co-Opera
ton with the bureau, and also to in
spect up-to-date poultry and swine
plants. All who participated in the
tour were much pleased with the trip,
and were better satisfied than ever that
the bureau is of great educational value
to farmers
At Frank Hunters farm in CHINA
minson township there was seen an ex-
pertinent on soaking seed sweet pota-
toes in a corrosive Sublimate solution
to prevent stem rot. Three baskets of
seed had been thus treated. These had
not been replanted and showed only
two misses To the row. The balance of
The seed used had not been treated,
and although replanted twice, showed
ten TO fifteen misses to the row.
AT James Murphy's farm there was
seen demonstration of horse radish
that had been root pruned on the side,
compared to some that had not been
pruned. The pruned plants showed
much better results, the roots being
single and strong, with no branching.
AT K. K. Clark's farm was seen the
results of corn variety test, and at
the Braekhead stock farm the visitors
saw how swine are being kept accord
ing to up to-date methods. Here also was
seen field of good alfalfa that had been |
grown according to the recommended I
tions of Demonstration George t. Reid. !
AT John Bishops farm, near Column !
bus, was seen fields of alfalfa compris-
ing nearly one hundred acres. Mr..
Bishop has been very successful in
growing alfalfa. l. G. Haines' farm
was visited next. Mr.. Haines sowed
sweet clover in his rye, last spring, and
thirty days after harvesting the rye,
cut IL tons of the clover hay per
acre, which has feeding value nearly
equal to alfalfa. Sweet clover is
biennial. Next year he expects to get
still better results-about double.
On Benjamin Frazier s farm, between
and Pointville, there
was seen demonstrations of thinning
,orn, where different numbers of stalks !
1ad been allowed to remain in the hill.
The results were as follows: 122 bushels {
Of ears to the acre with 8 spears of
stalks to the hill; ia bushels with 2
spears, and 10S bushels where I'M
hinned. These figures represent as q
IOrted corn, after the nubbins had
been removed.
At Reuben Stephenson's farm, near \
oointville, there had been carried on a C
est with five different strains of corn. t
That furnished by Edward Rogers, d
lear Medford, was the best and most
'rolific variety. l
On the farm of Thomas c. Shreve,
lear Pemberton, a newly seeded field \
f alfalfa was inspected, where the ?
'ureau's instructions had been followed |
EXPLICITLY. Good results had been OBJ s
aimed, when the extremely dry wealth T
r. is considered, which retarded the I
rowth of the crop. At many of the Il
arms visited the result of the drought a
1as plainly evident. Here was also
hown some demonstrations from the X
arm of Samuel Johnson-corn for sill b
ge, Sudan grass and sooy beans. b
udan grass is new to this county. 1t Ii
rows politically on poor land, pro- n
uces better than timothy and has v
quail or better food value.
The poultry plant of j. g. Hippen- fl
tiel, near Birmingham, gave the WISH v
ors an idea OF modern methods of
aising poultry. This is a fine, we'll n
ept place, with good healthy chickens. b
lr. Hlppenstiel also showed field of
Italia seeding that is quite satisfac- n
Dry. iU
At d. Budd Jones' farm, near Vim
there was seen demOnstra- Of
ons of different kinds of cover crops. a.
ow peas and wheat mixed, sown ST
.ugust 9Th, had grown about half N
nee high. Alfalfa and wheat, sown N
bout same date, was shoot top high. N
we .and vetch, seeded three weeks p
go, covered the ground with growth. B
rimson clover and wheat showed N
nat the drought had killed the clover N
hese experiments had been made on ii
Otato land, and next year potatoes K
i'll again be planted on this ground Al
nd care will be taken to see which B
,ver crop produces the best results. E
Mr.. Jones, by the way, was quite d
Iccessful this season with potatoes. B
lis Al acres of Giants produced 1865 N
askets, which was very fine crop. n