The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1922-02-10
THE CECIL FARMERS CLUB.
Proceedings OF January Meeting
Officers Elected.


The January meeting of the Cecil 1
Farmers Club was held at the home
OF Thomas B. Miller, on the 25th Of |
the month. The following members
were present: John s. Cullen, Pres
ident; Frank B. Evans, Reuben
Reynolds, Thomas B. Miller, Joseph
+. Grove, "A. H. Mendenhall, Robt. h
Il. Cameron, Martin L. Thompson, c. \
Candy Balderston, John H. Kimble, I
James H. Maxwell, W. Palmer Nc
Fadden, and Carroll E. Tyson. Also
County Agent Radebaugh, DR..
Wright and Arthur Harvey
Minutes of last meeting read and
approved.
On the question of joining the
Council of the Agricultural Society,
John H. Kimble from our represent
alton to the Council, reported a
suggestion that the members of this
Club may, if inclined, join the
Council, but they do not recommend
that the Club join as an organiza
ton. This suggestion was adopted
An assessment of one dollar each
was levied on the members of the
Club, to reimburse the Treasurer o!
the Farmers Day meeting in Elktor
last summer for deficit of about
eleven dollars, which he met at the
time.
Carroll E. Tyson, A. H. Menden-
hall and Martin L. Thompson were
appointed to examine the premises
and report to the afternoon session.
and a recess was taken until p. m
At the afternoon session the above
committee reported an excellent din
ner in the CHEEKY dining room, after
which they went out to inspect a
130-acre farm, well kept, with "a
splendid view over surrounding
neighborhood. Five acres of alfalfa
seeded last August, looks very good
Seven hundred bushels of corn In
crib, the yield was about rs bushels
per acre. There are $50 bushels Of
oats, 20 tons of hay, NOW half full
Of cut fodder. A nice garage ant
fine car. Four large work horses
besides one old fellow. Eight mill
cows, two of which are registered
Q heifers, small bulls, herd bull
sired by F. B.. Evans champion
Miriam" very fine animal. Cow.
all Guernseys but two. One hun,
dred R. I. Red puf1ets. Twenty
acres of wheat in the ground looks
well. There are IL acres of Grim
son Glover to be turned under fol
oats and soy beans. Sixty younl
fruit trees. Supply OF cut wood
Full supply of farm implements, all
well housed.
In answer to call for experiments
F. 3. sEvans gave statistics Of pro-
portion of heifer to bull calves from
certain sires, showing that some
bulls in given herd of cows, get O
very large proportion of heifer calv-
es, others not so. In one case the
get of a certain bull was heifers
to l bull, in another case running
two years or more, there were
bulls from the same COW, the re-
mainder fortyssome were heifers.
The host introduced as essayisr
Dr. Wright, of the State staff on
the detection and checking of hog
cholera. The State has been work
ing systematically, with veterinar.
ians stationed in different sections
They ask the cooperation of all
farmers, at least in reporting al
once sick hogs either on their owl
places or on others The purpose
OF this is to quarantine infected
premises, as the disease infection is
carried from place by many means
Although the disease may break Out
at any time, there seems to be d
four-year cycle in bad epidemics, the
last two having been in 1917 and
1921. The disease was introduced
into Ohio from England in 1888
The subject of precaution or contro.
of the cholera was, brought before
Congress in 1878, but no preventive
medicine nor cure has been found.
Hog cholera may be introduced to
a place by garbage gathered in cities
and fed to hogs, particularly if the
garbage contains pork refuse. A
precaution against spreading the
disease by pork garbage consists III
very thorough and long continued
cooking. Acute cases of hog cholera
are fatal in ~ to IA days; chronic
may last 3 weeks to months. The
s speaker gave many statistics on the
ravages of hog cholera in recent
years, showing that the subject is
one for all raisers of pork to be
alive to.
An election for officers resulted in
the choice of the following -Presi-
dent, Frank B. Evans, Elkton; Vice
President, w. Palmer McFadden,
Leslie; Recording Secretary, c.
Candy Balderston, Colora; Cores
ponding Secretary, Maurice C. Reed