The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1917-02-23
INSTITUTE
NEXT WEEK.
4 TWO DAY SESSION FOR THIS CITY
GOOD PROGRAMS DIR. HILL WILL
BE IN CHARGE.

Farmers Institutes for Carr0n
county viii ID held the week Of Feb
ruary rs. Director Richard 81 Hill
announces the following schedule.
Mt. Airy, Monday, February 26.
Westminster, Tuesday and Wednes-
day, February 27 and 2S.
Middleburg, also Wednesday, Feb
lruary 2S-
New Windsor, Thursday, March /.
N Sykesvilie, Friday, March m
There Will be two sessions each
day, beginning at 10 a. IT,, and 1.SO p.
n., and if desired, night meetings can
be arranged for except at Middleburg
and $yhasville- The program will be
as follows:
id. G.. Harry, President of Maryland
State Dairymen'H Association. Mod
ern Dairying, The Cost Of Producing
Milk, and Reasons for a DairymanIs M
v Organization"
Frank Blackford, Ohio, "Soil Fer
Utility, Crop Rotation, and How I Grow
Hogs in Ohio
Grover Kinzy, County Agent, Hog
Growing for Profit In Carroll County" !"
N wv. Oscar Collier, Sugar Corn
Growing fOr the Canning Factory;
1 Yields, Best Varieties, and The Value
lOf TIM Fodder for Ensilage.n
DR.. Richard s. Hill, the Director,
ls'Alfalfa and Grass Growing, Manure
and Commercial Fertilizer"
Director Hill in giving this county
five DAYS and five institutes IL spend
ing more time than he usually gives
to any one county and is making ST.
forts to put on the best institutes that
4 the county has ever had and 1t is to-
be hoped that the people of the county
will show their appreciation by a
large attendance. President Harry Ill
recognized as one OF the most pro-
gressive, practical, and wide-awake
VI presidents that the State Association
has ever had He is in close touch
N with the dairying situation in Balti-
more, our principal market, and It
well behooves the producers of this
county I'D learn something OF the sit
I uation for they face the alternative
Of producing only high-grada milk or
being shut out of the Baltimore mark
Let, and since no one in this county
wants tO sell milk that would have an
ill effect upon anyone, much less
M babies, ~ stands the producers in
hand to learn how t7 produce whole
N some miil-. and aS thia Ni ill make the
cost 0f producing little higher, to
4 stand together in State organization
and make the customer pay reason
able price.
HI Let me here call attention of all
interested parties To dairy meeting
4 at Odd Fellows Temple. in Baltimore,
NJ at 10 m-, Saturday, February 24, at
which the new milk ordinance, of Bal
Etimore. city and the future price of milk
will be considered. III will be an i'm
Iportant meeting and a large attend
ance is desired. Over one thousand
farmers we're present at the last
meeting.
Soil fertility is always a subject to
b. considered i'm the East. Maintain
Ing the fertility of the soil is using the
proper rotation with the addition of
M lime and phOSphOrOuS and returning
to the soil what is taken off as near
n a. possible. a rotation that includes
"a legume every other year will in
crease the fertility of our soil In all
Nj except phosphorous. Ia legume one
year in three will maintain those
soils already in good condition. Ohio
I'LL a rich state and Mr. Blackford IL a
successful farmer. Come out and dis
cuss with him soil fertility, crop ro-
tation, and hog growing.
IN Senator Collier has for years grown
sugar corn for canning purposes.
Probably it is as easy to grow four
ton OF sugar corn al forty bushels of
field corn. Sugar corn can be con-
NJ tracted at the present time for about
$1,000. With corn even at go cents
Il this is a difference of $1,000 an acre
in favor Of growing sugar corn, and
the crop will be off the ground much
M earlier than the field corn and is mot
as hard on the land, so it would seem
that more of our farmers could profit
ably grow sugar corn.
When we stop to remember that,
until just few years ago alfalfa was
practically unknown in the u. S. ex-
cept ia the West and that now 1T fs
grown in practically every state and
every county of the state, we realize
what a wide adaptability tO soil and
climate 1t must have. AS matter Of
history of KerXes during his wars i'm
WI Persia several hundred years B C.
makes mention of the excellent forage
he found growing there which was in
fact alfalfa. 1t is common in Europe
and is known by the name of lucerne.
It was introduced into America by the
French and Dutch and into Mexico by
the SpaniardS during their conquest
It will absolutely not grow anywhere,
i however, in sour soil or without i'm
EoculatiOn. DIR. Hill has been growing
alfalfa in this state for years and has
been making notes of the efforts Or
others equally long He should be
able to tell IT, something about lit.
Manure and commercial fertilizers
We have with us always and our farm
N erS are careful to conserve them
With manure about the only question
Iis where to put III to do the most good
but no amount OF practical experience
/ il sufficient to guide one in the proper
selection Of commercial fertilizers
when they are bought ready mixed
and i'm thee face Of ever changing
market value a pound OF nitrogen
during normal times even costs prac-
tically as much a. a pound of beef
steak and while one does not mind
paying high for hi own food he
would rather get the plant food free
from the air by the use of legumes.
Tin buying fertilizer which contains
potash at the present time one pays
N about $500 pound for the actual
Y potassium in it. DR. Hill has the
chemical and practical knowledge of
commercial fertilizers and with III a
i knowledge of the market value of
them and what the different grades
contain and there never was a more