The midland journal., 1916-03-03
FHE CECIL FARnrERs' CLUB.
February Meeting Held At The
Home OF VIM. r.. Cameron
Corn Growing Discussed.

Corn Growing Discussed.
The Cecil Farmers Club met at
the home of County Commissioners
VIM. r. Cameron on. Wednesday,
Feb. 23, with the following mem
bers and visitors present: ]. H..
Kimble, w. r. Cameron, Reuben
Reynolds, M. G. Reeder, Jos. T..
Grove, r. T. Cameron, c. R.. Biles,
Jno. Cullen, j. H. Maxwell. G. c.
Balderston, Martin L. Thompson,
]. Harry Maxwell, T. B. Miller, I.
Wayne Reynolds. Visitors Rev.
+. III. Huffman, G. f. Marsh, Prof.
Nicholas Schmitz, David 7. Reed,
Paul Cameron and VIM. Cameron.
The minutes of the last meeting,
with few corrections, were read
and approved.
The Port Deposit Farmers Day
Committee reported they had hearo
from two organizations, that were
favorable to holding the meeting.
Committee on County Agent re-
ported that the County Commission
ers had offered G. F. Marsh, $500
for the year.-County to pay one
half.
Experiments being called for, few
reported on account of the time OF
year.
G. G. Balderston reported a yield
of 40 bushels of sweet potatoes from
1000 plants.
M. G. Reeder reported apples
keeping well, under the barn bridge
way, and was selling them at 75
cents q bushel.
Reuben Reynolds reported that
apples sprayed three times were
superior in quality and keeping
much better than those sprayed only
once. He advises keeping them in
cool dry place.
Dinner being announced the
following Committee on inspection
was appointed-Jos. T. Grove, c. r.
,Biles and Jno. s. Cullen.
After partaking of splendid
dinner prepared by Mrs. Cameron
and her daughter, some of the Clup
members felt that If Commissioner
Cameron top-dressed the roads next
summer, equal to the way Mrs.
Cameron top-dresseo her table, it
would be highly appreciated,
On re-assembling after dinner the
Committee on inspection reported:
Farm in good shape, some plowing
done near the house. and some OF
the members wanted to know
whether our host was just planting,
or taking up his Mccormick pota-
toes; 140 fine Plymouth Rock chick
ems; 3 turkeys; shoats, 2 brood
sows; 2 head of horses and colts;
6 cows, 2 heifers and one bull; rs
to 80 tons Of hay, 200 bu. of wheat,
100 bu. of oats, between 800 and
400 blu. of corn, and about dozen
crates of apples in the barn cellar;
IA acres sown to wheat ION home
place, 23 acres on adjoining farm;
four acres of alfalfa sown last fall,
"a ine new automobile and a good
pile of fire wood.
The host being called on for an
essay introduced Prof. Schmitz who
talked on corn growing.
Prof. Schmitz said in part:
Corn will be found low in germi-
nation this spring on account of
large amount of moisture in 1t when
harvested, unless artificially dried
before freezing weather set in.
Farmers should test their seed, and
II the tests show 10 per cent of
germs dead, test every ear that is
planted.
IT you have good varieties, hold
to your own seed. If you want to
try new varieties, get Boone Coun-
ty or Johnson for white corn, and
Reeds Yellow Dent for yellow.
Corn returns less for money spent
In commercial fertilizers, than other
farm crops. Manure from the barn
yard, mixing rock,-acid if you can
get it, il not raw rock,-with the
manure before spreading. Spread
manure in the fall rather than in
the spring. Better yet, spread
year ahead, and gather an addition
al crop Of hay from your timothy
sod; that is three crops of hay, in
stead Of two from the clover and
timothy sown in your wheat. Your
timothy sod so treated, will be in
better condition for corn. on account
Of the year old application of
manure.
Scarcity OF potash the coming
season will, of course, result in the
use Of less, but this IS not so serious
as the loss of Phosphoric Acid
would be. Most soils contain pot
ash, though much of it is not avail.
able, being of insoluble form, or
deep down in the ground. Deep
plowing brings available potash to
the 20