The midland journal., 1916-10-13
CECIL FARMERS CLUB.
Proceedings Of Meeting Held At Home Of T. B. Miller
Cherry Hill---Interesting Trip Through
Western Maryland Apple Belt

ing and packing of apples, was ex-
| planned.
The morning of the 3Oth was de-
voted to an Automobile trip through
the apple and peach orchards. There
were said to be SIS machines in tho
procession, and they ran about s
miles through practically solid apple
orchards to the west of Hancock, and
through about 2 miles of peach or
chards to the East The apples were
mainly Stayman, York and Grimes
Golden. Trees four and five years
old were well covered with fruit
while there is nothing older than
twelve years to give the locality its
enviable reputation, and of course
many of the orchards are much
younger. Nothing is too steep or
too stony for the apple trees. and
Where red apples predominated, the
hill sides were colored red by the
IOdu6u trees.
AT the Scott peach orchard, east
OF Hancock, large force of workers
were packing peaches in half peck
baskets Grated. The varieties being
then handled were Elberta and Belle
OF Georgia. Elberta seems to have
the call on account of it's good ship
ping qualities.
The return trip was by Gettysburg,
where the noted Tyson apple or
chards were visited. The varieties
were mainly the same as those found
at Hancock, though many varieties
in small blocks, were being tried.
The Oldest trees here were about IL
years old. The apples were being
thlnned, and the green apples picked
from the York Imperial trees, were
being sold at $500 per barrel, for
export to London.
Dinner being announced John
Cullen, G. R. Biles and M. L. Thomp-
son were appointed a committee on
premises.
On the call of the President at
the afternoon session, the committee
made the following report:
The dinner provided by Mrs.
Miller and daughters was fully en-
joyed by every one as was evident
by their satisfied expressions, the
premises were tidy and neat,an addi-
tion in course of erection enlarging
the barn and stabling. Garage
concreted and containing a fine new
touring car. Twenty tons hay In
barn, wheat unthreshed of Leaps
Prolific but good quality, 80 bu.
potatoes, ten cows, one heifer Regis
tered Guernsey, Registered Guernsey
bull, three horses three shoats (sev-
eral fat hogs just sold) chickens,
nine acres corn, tomato crop a
failure, M. L. Thompson noticed a
nice orchard of apples and peaches
just coming in bearing.
T. B. Miller was appointed to look
into the propriety of better road faci-
lities to connect with Delaware.
Experiments called, A. H. Menden-
hall emphasized the necessity OF
early cultivation of corn after plant
ing. as evidenced by two fields under
his notice. One that was narrowed
thoroughly before the corn was up
being far superior to the other, that
had every other advantage.
Reuben Reynolds planted portion
of his potatoes with planter, and
plowed in a portion, and reports q
much better yield from those put in
with planter.
Robert Cameron used twenty tons
oyster shell lime on one field of corn
with splendid results, expects to husk
a hundred bushel crop.
\ c. C. Balderston asked why the
Tyson" corn supposed to be an early
maturing variety should have taken
1875 days to mature for him. Several
members confirmed the statement
that ''stalk ground" corn this year
was much longer maturing than
sod" ground owing to the drought
effecting the sod field quicker.
G. F. Marsh reports a number of
experiments with soybeans, wheat.
alfalfa, etc., the latter he stated he
has found profitable to sow timothy
with it, as this in no way impairs the
alfalfa crop, and will make a crop
in case of failure of the latter.
Frank Evans top dressed his Leaps
Prolific wheat with 100lb. nitrate
soda and 2OOlb. phosphate in the
spring and has cut and threshed q
forty bushel crop. One acre of Leaps
Prolific sown under special condition
made So bushel per acre. One acre
Curls Prolific sowed under similar
conditions produced 33 bushel per
acre. The latter inclined more to
tall straw.
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