The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1917-02-23
FARMERS INSTITUTE
NEXT WEEK.
A Two DAY SESSION FOR this CITY
GOOD PROGRAMS-DR. HILL WILL
BE I'm CHARGE.

ruary 26. Director Richard S. Hill
announces the following schedule:
Mt. Airy. Monday, February 26.
Westminster, Tuesday and Wednes-
day, February y and 2S.
Middleburg, also Wednesday, Feb
ruary 2S.
New Windsor, Thursday, March l.
Sykesville, Friday March 2.
There will be two sessions each
day, beginning at 10 a. m, and 1.3O p.
m. and if desired, night meetings can
be arranged for except at Middleburg
and Sykesville. The program will be
as follows:
d. G. Harry, President of Maryland
State Dairymen's Association, Mod
ern Dairying, The Cost of Producing
Milk, and Reasons, for a Dairyman's
Organization"
Frank Blackford, Ohio, Soil Fer
tility, Crop Rotation, and How l Grow
Hogs in Ohio"
Grover Kinzy, County Agent, Hog
Growing for Profit in Carroll County. -
w. Oscar Collier, Sugar Corn
Growing for the Canning Factory;
Yields, Best Varieties, and The Value
of the Fodder for Ensilage"
/ DR.. Richard S. Hill, the Director,
alfalfa and Grass Growing, Manure,
and Commercial Fertilizer"
Director Hill in giving this county
five days and five Institutes is spend
ing more time than he usually gives
to anv one county and is making eff
forts to put on the best Institutes that
the county has ever had and it IS to
be hoped that the people of the county
will show their appreciation by a
large attendance. President Harry is
recognized as one of the most pro-
gressive, practical, and wide-aWake
presidents that the State Association
has ever had. He is in close touch
with the dairying situation in Balti-
more, our principal market, and it
well behOoves the producers of this
county to learn something Of the sit
uatiOn for they face the alternative
of producing only high-grade milk or
being shut out Of the Baltimore mark
ct, and since no one in this county
wants to sell milk that would have an
i'll effect upon anyone, much less
babies. it stands the producers i'll
hand to learn how = produce whole
some mill, and as this Will make the
cost of producing little higher. to
stand together i'll a State organization
and make the customer pay a reason
able price.
Let me here call attention Of all
interested parties to d dairy meeting
at Odd Fellows Temple, in Baltimore.
at 10 Il M, Saturday. February "A, at
which the new milk ordinance, Of Bal
timOre city and the future price OF milk
will be considered. 1T will be an i'm
pOrtant meeting and large attend
ance is desired. Over one thousand
farmers were present at the last
meeting.
Soil fertility is always subject to
be considered in the East. Maintain
ing the fertility Qf the soil is using the
proper rotation with the addition Of
lime and phOsphOrOUs and returning
to the soil what is taken off as near
as possible. A rotation that includes
a legume every other year will in
crease the fertility of our soil In all
except phOsphOrOus. A legume one
year in three will maintain those
soils already in good condition. OHIO
is a rich state and Mr.. BlackfOrd is a
successful farmer. Come out and dis
CuSS with him soil fertility, crop rO-
tation, and hog growing.
S natOr Collier has for years grown
sugar corn for canning purposes.
Probably it is rs easy to grow four
ton of sugar corn as forty bushels Of
field corn. Sugar corn can be con-
tracted at the present time for about
$500. With corn even at 80 cents
this is a difference of $1,000 an acre
in favor of growing sugar corn, and
the crop will be off the ground much
earlier than the field corn and is not
as hard on the land, so it would seem
that more of our farmers could profit
ably grow sugar corn.
hen We stop to remember that,
until just few years ago alfalfa was
practically unknown in the T.. $. eN-
cept in the West and that now it is
grown in practically every state and
every county of the state, we realize
what a wide adaptability to soil and
climate it must have. AS a matter of
history of NerXeS during his wars in
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
1t was introduced into America by the
French and Dutch and into Mexico by
'hiC Opc'LIICtA I'D uNL lIlS3 llICll COIllluESl.
1t will absolutely not grow anywhere,
however, in a sour soil or without in
OculatiOn. DR.. Hill has been growing
alfalfa in this state for years and has
been making notes of the efforts of
others equally long. He should be
able to tell us something about it,
/ Manure and commercial fertilizers
We have with us always and our farm
erS are careful to conserve them
! With manure about the only question
is where to put it to do the most good
but no amount of practical experience
/ is sufficient to guide one in the proper
selection Of commercial fertilizers
when they are bought ready mixed
and in the face of ever changing
market value. A pound of nitrogen
during normal times even costs prac-
tically as much as a pound of beef
steak and while one does not mind
paying high for his own food he
would rather get the plant food free
from the air by the use of legumes.
In buying a fertilizer which contains
potash at the present time one pays
about $4.00 a pound for the actual
potassium in it. DIR. Hill has the
chemical and practical knowledge of
commercial fertilizers and with it a
knowledge Of the market value of
them and what the different grades