The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-07-05
JUNE MEETING OF CECIL FARM
Frs CLUB.

COlora-ResOlution Passed
Deploring New Zone
System.
The June meeting of the Cecil
Farmers Club was held at the home
of Elwood Balderston, Colora, on
the 10Th inst. Present, Elwood Bal
derston, Maurice c. Rceder, John S.
Cullen, Joseph Grove, James II. Max
well, Reuben Reynolds, Martin l..
Thompson and C. Candy Balderston.
Also the following visitors, John L.
Balderston, Kennett Square; S. Nor
,ris Jones, West Grove; Osborne
Reynolds, Fair Hill; Thomas B. Bar
low, Cheshire, England, and Levi.
Mark, Richard NJ and Lloyd Balder-
ston, III, Colora.
In the absence of the President
and Vice President, Maurice C.
Reeder was called to the chair.
Minutes of last meeting were read
and approved.
A letter from the Publishers Adj
visory Board was read, calling at
tention to law recently passed by
Congress reviving the Zone System
in the determination of postage rates
on periodical publications. The
Clubs interest in the subject was
shown by the adoption of the follow.
ing resolution:
The Cecil Farmers Club in SEES
sion this 18th day Of June, 1918, at
Colora Farm, the residence of the
Secretary, Colora, Md, in consider
ing law passed by the last session
of Congress, reviving the zone system.
in the Post Office Department, which
vastly increases the rates on news
papers and magazines, thus especial
ly affecting Farm Magazines that
are nationwide in their dis;ribltion,
bringing to farmers every where the
very best talent available,
Therefore, Be it Resolved: That
this Club deplores legislation of this
character; that it at once strikes at
the just cooperative feature of our
Postal System, and in no way we
think, assists in the war program
that will begin to offset the long
and satisfactory mail distribution;
that is at once crippled to the injury
Of all rural citizens who have here
tofore enjoyed the very best the
press of our country has furnished,
Therefore, it is Resolved, That a
copy of these resolutions be sent to
our Senator and Representative,
urging them to use their influence
for a more equitable ruling on Sec
ond postal rates.
The attention of the Club was
called to the new dog tax law, by O.
letter from Prof. Thos. B. Symons,
of the Maryland Agricultural Col
lege.
Experiments being called for,
Reuben Reynolds gave a striking
illustration of the necessity of lime
for clover, and of the beneficial
effect of clover on the following crop.
Elwood Balderston had this spring
drilled oats on wheat ground where
the stand of wheat was very poor
The oats is very fine.
c. Candy Balderston sowed tim
othy seed with the clovers on wheat
in the spring with good result.
John L. Balderston called atten-
ton to the relative cheapness of
glaten meal, as being due to the
large demand for corn flour, leaving
the gluten meal as by-product.
The chair appointed Reuben Reyn-
olds, Martin Thompson and J. Harry
Maxwell to inspect the premises, and
the Club took recess for dinner.
On re-convening at p. M, the
committee on premises reported a
substantial home-raised dinner, even
the meat (veaD having been home
grown. Committee found the place
in good order, with up-to-date ma
chinery, including Titan 1920
Tractor with three Oliver plows,
which had done good service. AS
live stock there are horses, colts,
26 cows, mostly Guernseys, and do
ing we'll; 8 heifers, bulls, 2 brood
sows, SO hens, and % fat steers had
been shipped to Baltimore the pre-
vious day. Growing crops included
2 fields of mixed hay, fine; rs acres
wheat, thin but very we'll headed;
ID acres oats, SO acres corn, one
field of Johnson County white corn
being the finest corn the committee
had seen this season, rs acres of
sugar corn, 6 acres Russell potatoes
Just planted. There are also about
II acres of apple trees. The COM
mittee found 800 bushels of corn,
and several tons of hay; also sup
plies of wood and ice in their re-
spectiye houses.
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