Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-06
COUNTY TOURED
BY FARMERS IN
BIG AUTO PARTY
Dissemination of Useful IN
formation Is Attained in
Days Outing

Two hundred and fifty farmers
and their friends in thirty-five
automobiles left Market Square
this morning to take part in
the farmers auto tour of southern
Dauphin county, arranged by the
Dauphin County Farm Bureau. Or
chards, dairy farms and other points
of interest from agricultural stand
points are being visited by the farm
ers that they may become better ac-
quainted with many up-to-date
methods of doing things on the
farm.
Hog farms, dairy farms, peach or
chards. agricultural experiment sta
tions, etc, were visited this morning
and are being visited this afternoon
throughout the southern end. A tour
of the northern end of the county,
Agent H. G. Niesley says will be held
during late summer or early fall.
Inspect Big Farms
Leaving Harrisburg at $50 o'clock
this morning the party made its first
stip at the Bonnymead farms half
hour later, where a half hour stop
was made. The model Bonnym cad
dairy barn with its high grade cat
tie was inspected. One hundred and
four Holsten and twenty-five
Guernsey cattle are kept at this barn.
Later on the same farm a 250-acre
alfalfa field was examined. Alfalfa
culture was explained by Hiram Bill
lett, the farm manager. He declared
that alfalfa is the best and cheap
est feed for cattle"
The next stop was made at the f.
b. Snavely farm, where a mixed hay
field was inspected. Growing in this
field was alfalfa, alsike and red
clover M
ton was noted. At the A. B. Shenk
farm, fertilizer experiments on four
plots of ground were observed. OF
these plots, all planted to wheat, one
was fertilized with ammonia and ten
per cent. phosphoric acid, on the
second nothing was used, on the
third fourteen per cent. acid phos-
phate and on the fourth a solution
of three per cent. ammonia and eight
per cent. phosphoric acid. Expert
menters said that the fourteen per
cent. acid phosphate fertilizer was
the best and at the same time the
cheapest for wheat fertilizer.
On the Shenk farm a Delco light
ing plant was examined. This plant,
costing approximately $500. fur
nishes sufficient power to light the
house end all farm buildings in adj
dition to furnishing all needed
power on the farm. The plant is run
on kerosene and primed with gaso-
line.
Lunch at Hershey
The next stop was made at the
Hershey farm where a corn variety
test was observed. An experiment
with seven varieties of pure bred
and five local orn was observed. A
$4,000 bull weighing 2.133,
Percheon stallion and 500 full bred
hogs were seen. An examination of
the breeding pens was made.
The $50 farmers after these OBJ
servations went to the Hershey Park
where they took their luncheon
which they had carried with them.
G. L. Bulkey, dairy husbandry eX-
pert of the extension department of
Pennsylvania State College, deliver
ed short address. to the farmers.
This afternoon modern calf
born on the Hershey farm was ex-
amined. On the S. T. Whitmer farm
the recently remodeled and up-to-
date dairy barn with their many
Holsteins was inspected. A potato
spraying demonstration was given
on the Beaufort farm later in the
afternoon and the poultry plant of
the same farm was examined.
The party expected to reach Har-
risburg shortly after 6 o'clock.