1880. 



THE LANCASTER FARMER. 



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of the Boiliuir syetim, thereby saving a ixrcAt annual 

 cxpenec, ol both labor and money, anil other un- 

 neeeseary outlay, which with the reclaimea ground 

 brought under eultivatiou will move than eompeii- 

 6Hte for the labor of feeding the etoik in the yard. 

 Picture, if you will, the herd enclosed in a Held 

 without shade or water, eagerly seeking eoine spot 

 to shelter them from the nconhing rays of a .July or 

 August sun, and then wonder why the fence is so 

 often broken, and herd doing untold mischief to the 

 corn and other crops in adjacent fields. I am in 

 hopes that the dav is not far distant when we can 

 dispense with all fences, except what are necessary 

 to enclose the stock yard. 



Auother growing Interest is the encouragement 

 of home attract! ink. It is now no unusual thing to 

 see around the farmer's house a well kept lawn, 

 handsomely fitted with a few specimens of selected 

 shrubbery, and the beautifully arranged flower 

 lieds, that would compare favorably with those of 

 greater magnitude and kept up at a heavy expense, 

 while the former in their simplicity and unltiue 

 ilesign cannot but command the admiration of all. 

 The refining influences connected therewith has a 

 teudeucy to bring out the finer feelings of our 

 natures, and kindly associations around the house, 

 that are ever pleasant through our walks of life. 

 Picture, if you will, the tidy mother, having finished 

 the arduous routine of her day's labors, plucking 

 here and there a few choice noisettes and tea roses 

 with an occasional sprig of mignonette and helio- 

 trope, and many others indispensable for her pur- 

 pose. A» stie wanders to and fro about the home of 

 her choice, having inhaled the delicious fragrance of 

 the flowers she so teuderly nursed, she goes to the 

 verandah, and in h r easy chair gracefully arranges 

 her boquet, while the plaintive notes from her lips 

 mingle In harmony with the soft, sweet music of her 

 daughter at the organ or piano in the parlor. All 

 Intermingle with the songs of the feathered tribe, as 

 from the branches of the graceful birch, or willow, 

 they sing their praises of gratitude for the beauties 

 of nature. 



The farmer, too, with the improved machinery of 

 some genius of wit and mechanical skill, finds time 

 in his declining years to seek some shady dell by the 

 brook, where the plaintive notes from his happy 

 home inspires his soul to gratefully acknowledge 

 that his bed has not been cast among thorns. 



In couclusion, I desire to express my sincere 

 thanks to you all for the unilbrm courtesy you have 

 extended me during the four years I have ijad the 

 pleasure to preside as your chairman, and ask a 

 continuance of the same for my successor. 



It now only remains for me to thank you heartily 

 for your kind attention to my remarks, and tliat my 

 warmest wishes are that your brightest anticipations 

 may be realized In your dally avocations, not only In 

 the several departments of Agricultural or horticul- 

 tural life, but in the various other duties, which to a 

 greater or less extent are incumbent on us all. 



President Cooper's address was applauded at the 

 clpse. 



Questions for Discussion. 

 E. S. Hoover discussed the question r "Who is the 

 best farmer — he who makes most manure, or tie who 

 buys most ? " Do we gain most by making or buying 

 manure? That is the question. Can we get full 

 price for the grain we feed our stock ? is a question 

 that enters Into this discussion. If we can, wc save 

 the expense of hauling our grain away. We also 

 save the expense of hauling manure from abroad. 

 Then, too, manure from stall-fed cattle Is superior 

 to all other, telling heavily on the crops later on. 

 More cattle are now fed than formerly. Tobacco 

 land requires much manure, and provision must be 

 made to that end. Tlien, again, manure cannot be 

 had in suflieient quantities. It It pays some one else 

 to make and sell manure, it pays the fanner who 

 needs it to make II also. Good crops of tobacco are 

 grown where rye has been turned down. The farmer 

 can make manure cheaper than he can buy it. 

 Generally, also, he can get full value for his grain by 

 feeding it. He believed the best farmer was he who 

 made the most manure. 



Casper Hlller thought Mr. Hoover's remarks were 

 sound, but he believed after all the opposite course 

 was best. He believed no animal should be kept on 

 a farm but those alisolutely needed. A hundred 

 acre farm can be profitably farmed with no animals 

 but the horses to work it. All the grain and hay can 

 be sold off a farm, and yet its fertility be fully kept 

 up. All cannot do this, but some farmers can, while 

 the work would be much less. Artificial fertilizers 

 will do it, aided by ploughing under green crops. If 

 we think this matter over we must come to this con- 

 clusion. 



,Ioseph F. WItmer believed as Mr. Hlller does, but 

 would be afraid to try his plan. It has been stated 

 there is in most soils enough plant food to last a 

 thousand years, but the dilHculty is to make it avail- 

 able. To keep and feed much stock involves much 

 hard labor, ani to put the manure on the field is 

 equally laborious, .^^rtllicial fertilizers can be put 

 out much more easily. 



E. S. Hoover held manure would produce so much 

 greater crops than artificial f«rtilizers as repaid the 

 trouble of making it. Farms on which the latter Is 



used invariably produce larger crops. Those on 

 which the former are u.sed do not hold out so well. 



W. II. Rrosius said the commercial fertilizer theo- 

 ries are all very well, and produce largely on paper, 

 liut we are constantly deceived in the (lualities of the 

 articles we buy. If It pays the manufacturers to 

 make it, it will alio pay us to make manure. The 

 man who would keep up the fertility of his farm 

 must make his manure. 



M. D. Kendig favored barnyard manure. The best 

 tobacco Is from land which is manured with stable 

 manure. If it Is best for this croii if will also be best 

 for others. Kec|) few cattle In summer, and all you 

 can feed in winter. 



.Tohnson Miller was surprised to hear that we can 

 keep up our farms with commercial fertilizers. He 

 agreed with Mr. Kendig. 



IT. M. Engle thought Mr. ITiller was not so far 

 wrong after all. He didn't care how a farmer got 

 manure, so tliat he had it to put on his land. Can 

 we not put a productive farm in still better order by 

 using aitificial fertilizers along with barnyard ma- 

 nure ? I'lant food is what we need. Huge piles of 

 manure are not enough. We must have wliat the 

 plants need. Make all the manure you can, but 

 don't decry commercial fertilizers before thoroughly 

 testing them. We do not know enough about these 

 manures to condemn them. 



J. C. LInvillc said sometimes manure costs more 

 than it is worth. Money Is often lost in feeding cat- 

 tle. If we can make our manure cheaper than we 

 can buy it, then let us do it. He has lately, how- 

 ever, had good results from artificial fertilizers, and 

 begins to like them better. Farmers are much preju- 

 diced on this point. Still he would not like to rely 

 entirely on commercial fertilizers. 



Does it Pay to Raise Trees for Fencing ? 

 M. D. Kendig did not think it does, unless on sonic 

 farms that have bad places which cannot be proflta- 

 l)ly cultivated. Along the roadsides it will pay us, 

 biit average land Is too valuable to be put to this use. 

 He gave liirures to show what could be realized by 

 jilanting locusts on the farm along the roadside. On 

 hilly land chestnut might be grown profitably. 



.liilin H. Landis said he desired to have the ques- 

 tion whether It was not well to encourage the grow- 

 ing of limber by legislative enactment take» up at 

 some future day. 



S. P. Eby said growing trees has always been oue 

 of his hobbies. Grow trees of all sorts, except the 

 Ailaulhus. On many farms there are places fit only 

 to Slav/ trees. Where there is woodland on a farm, 

 dependence should not be put on that supply alone. 

 Don't depend on the birds ; plant seeds yourself. 

 Sow acorn and chestimts. We want trees for beauty, 

 lor the feul and for protection. 



E. S. Hoover said the question had reference to 

 this county alone. He wanted trees of all kinds 

 planted. 'The tobacco fever is cutting down our 

 forests ; the desire to have new ground on which to 

 plant the weed is becoming a mania, and timber is 

 now cut down which a dozen years ago the owners 

 could not have been Induced to lay low. 



Levi S. Heist thought the timber question inex- 

 haustible. How shalTwe protect our trees after they 

 are plantcil ? One of his finest ornamental trees was 

 cut down for a Cbristmas tree and carried off. 



Tlic further discussion of this question was defer- 

 red until the next meeting. Several other questions 

 set down for discussion at this mectiug were also de- 

 ferred until next meeting. 



Representative to the State Board of Agricul- 

 ture. 

 The Secretary read a letter from Secretary Edge, 

 of the State Board of Agriculture, about electing a 

 new member to the State Board in place of H.M. 

 En^-le, whose term Is about tran6|)irlng. 



11. M. Engle was unanimously re-elected, and ex- 

 pressed his thanks in an appropriate speech. 

 New Businens. 

 Tlic Secretary read a letter from a gentleman In 

 Kansas on the comparative cost of raising and keep- 

 ing cattle in that State and the East. 



A. .M. llostetter suggested tlie appointment of a 

 committee to corrcsixjnd with tobacco dealers and 

 tobacco growers in regard to fertilizers for tobacco 

 lands, and how the impoverishment of the soil from 

 the culture of the weed can best be prevented. 

 Election of Officers. 

 .Joseph F. WItmer was nominated for President : 

 Henry M. Engle and Calvin Cooper were nominated 

 as Vice Presidents; for Recording Secretary M. 0. 

 Kendig was nominated; for Corresponding Secretary, 

 John II. Landis was nominated; for Treasurer, .\I. 

 D. Kendig was nominated; for Managers, E. S. 

 Hoover, J. C. Linvillc, W. H. Brosius, Israel L. Lan- 

 dis and Casper Hiller were nominated, all of whom 

 were elected. 



On motion, the thanks of the Society were extend- 

 ed to tlie retiring president. 



Henry M. Engle said the Fruit Growers' Associa- 

 tiou had its origin in this county, and ought therefore 

 not to be overlooked at Its next meeting at Bethle- 

 hem on the third Wednesday of this month. Excur- 

 sion tickets over the Heading road can be procured. 

 Joseph F. WItmer, the newly elected president, 



then asstimcd the chair and addressed the Society, 

 thanking the mcmt)ers for their partiality in select- 

 ing him as their presiding ofllcer. 



Calvin Cooper sugirested that some salary should 

 lie attached to I he ofllce of Recording Secretary, as 

 his iluties are at times onerous. 



On motion, the matter was left to the Board of 

 Managers, to report at the next nu'cfing. 



A motion was also carried to leave the preparation 

 of questions for discussion to llic Board of Managers. 



The followlnL' question was sulimilled : By what 

 means and in wliat way can the growing of forest 

 trees be most encouraged and the timber lands of 

 the State behest protected? Referred to Levi 8. 

 Heist. 



Does the stock have any influence on the graft f 

 Referred to J. Stautler. 



Why docs the second crop of clover produce more 

 seed tlian the lirst? Referred to Calvin Cooper. 



On motion the Society adjourned. 



POULTRY ASSOCIATION. 



The annual meeting of the Lancaster County 

 Poultry Association was held In City Hall, Monday 

 morning, January .5tli, 18S0. 



The following members were present : Rev. I). C. 

 Tobias, President, Litiz ; J. B. Liclily, Secretary ; 

 city; T. F. Evans, Treasurer, Litiz ; H. H. Tshudy, 

 Litiz : Charles Li|)pold, city; William Schoeiiberger, 

 city ; .John .\. Stolier, Scliocneek ; (leorge A. (icyer, 

 Spring Garden : .loscpli E. WItmer, Paradise ; Chas. 

 E. Long, city ; J. B. Long, city ; Harry G. Hirsh, 

 city; F. K. DIflcndcrtler, city ; C. A. Gast, city; 

 Henry Wissler, ('olunibia ; J. M. .lolmston, city; 

 T. B. .Martin, Litiz ; John F. Evans, Litiz; J. II. 

 Miller, .Marietta ; J. H. Menaugh, Spring Garden ; 

 J. II. Habeckcr, Spring (Jarden ; Ferdinand Schacf- 

 fer, city: L. G. .Martin, Spring (iarden ; Martin 

 Bowman, .Mount Joy ; Addison Kiowors, Mount 

 Joy; -Morris Bacliman, Strasburg ; PMward Brack- 

 bill, Strasburg : Samuel Engle, Marietta; J. W. 

 Bruckhart, Salunga ; II. H. Myers, Spring (;ardcn. 

 Tlie Treasurer and Executive Conimlttcc made 

 verbal reports, showing the condition of the treasury 

 to be In a healthy condition, and that the poultry 

 exhibition had been so lllieially patronized there was 

 no doulit that all the premiums offered would be 

 paid and a handsome lialance left over. 



Mr. J. -A. Stober, from the I'onimlttee appointed 

 for the purpose, reported tlic following ollicers of 

 the society for the ensuini,' year : 



President — Rev. D. C. Tobias, Litiz. 

 Vice Presidents— (ico. A. Geyer, Spring (iardeu, 

 and W. J. Kafroth, West Earl. 

 Corresponding .Secretary — Joliu F. Reed, city. 

 Ueconling Secretary— .1. B. Lichty, city. 

 Treasurer- T. F. Evans, Litiz. 

 Executive Committee— H. H. Tshudy, Litiz ; J. 

 A. Stober, Schoeneck ; Joseph R. Trisslcr, city ; 

 J. B. Long, city ; S. N. Warfel, Strasburg. 



The report of the committee was received, and the 

 olfieers proposed were elected by acclamation. 



A discussion ensued as to the propriety of having 

 a sub-conimlltec of city members appointed to act 

 in conjunctiim with the Executive Committee, and 

 to perform their duties, as alternates during their 

 absence. Wit hmU arriving at final action the mat- 

 ter was postponed. 



The society adjourned to attend the poultry exhi- 

 bition iu Locher's building. 



THE POULTRY EXHIBITION. 



The late sliow of iioultrv and pet .stock in 

 Locher's bniUlini;, Laiiraster city, Pa, was a 

 striking novtlty in tlic donieslic liistci y of tlie 

 county of Lancaster. It was one of the most 

 imposing and meritorious pageantries of the 

 kind ever presented to the gaze of onr people. 

 We do not propose to give the details of this 

 lirst exhibition of the "Lancaster Coiinly 

 Poultry Association," for they were amply 

 ventilated by the daily press during the 

 continuance of the show. 13ut as a standing 

 record for the benelit of ftitiire exhibitions of 

 the kind, and for the .satisfaction of our 

 readers, below will be found the list ofnUries, 

 the awards of the judges and a list ol the 

 premiums paid to those who fairly won them. 

 For the same reason we refrain from tiaming 

 the birds placed on exhibition, nor yet the 

 quality of the stock exhibited, because the 

 examination of the lists aforesaid will lie a 

 suftieieut reference to those who may desire 

 to intike use of them in the future. It is 

 suflieient to say that those whom the as.socia- 

 tion delegated to discharge the various 

 duties a.ssigued them worked with a nill, and 

 seized old time by the forelock and made the 

 occasion a deserved success. We may learn 

 from this that sleepless vigilance and perse- 

 vering eflbrt in the proper direction can 



