1S82.] 



THE LANCASTER FARMER. 



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Mr. Biosius tlioughl that there were two things to 

 cousider : The expeuBO of feucinij and the value of 

 liind. He favored tlie eoiliiii; system and arfjued tliat 

 all farm land could he enriohcd more hy cultivalliiif 

 than by |>asturiiis. 



Mr. I'axson inquired wlielhfr it would he advisable 

 lo cut and haul grass from meadow land rallicr than 

 past u IX'. 



Mr. Brosius replied that he had referred lo up- 

 land, lo agricultural land. 



I'etcr S. Heist found there was a great deal of dif- 

 ference between the theory and practice on the fence 

 ipieslion. It was very nice to talk about, but some 

 fi'nces were an absolute necessity to Ihe I'armer. He 

 had seen many try to abolish them, and he had seen 

 them rebuild their fences. He, however, denounced 

 the barbed wire I'cnce and sold that some day a law 

 would be enacted forbidding its use. In tine, he 

 Ihought that no farm should be divided into fewer 

 than four lields. 



Hay as a Fertilizer. 



\V. B. Paxson answered tlie quesliou : " CJau the 

 farmer sell his hay and maintain the fertility of the 

 soil?" He said that the most prominent question 

 with every tiller of the soil is, how can the farmer 

 preserve and increase the fertility of his land, or 

 how can he restore exhausted soil, and if possible 

 increase its productive power? This is a question of 

 vast importance. Experience has demonstrated the 

 fact that barnyard manure does return to the soil all 

 tlie fertility that the crop takes from it. If the 

 farmer sells his hay then he will have less barnyard 

 manure than otherwise, and in order to restore the 

 exhausted soil he must apply artilicial fertilizers, 

 which, in my opinion, should not be used as a sub- 

 stitute for, but to supplement barnyard niaimre. 

 Therefore I answer the question in the negative. 

 Going to the York Fair. 



The following were appointed a committee to at- 

 tend the York fair : \Vm. II. Brosius, M. D. Kcndig, 

 C. L. Huusecker. 



The Next Meeting. 



At the next meeting Wm. H. Brosius will speak 

 on agriculture. 



Fruit Report. 



There was a tine display of grapes on hand, and 

 the following committee, L. S. Keist, Robert Patter- 

 son and S. P. Eby, reported as follows concerning all 

 the fruit exhibited : 



Goithe Kodgers, No. 1, very nice ; Devon Rodgers, 

 No. la, very fine ; Wilder Kodgers, No. 4, large and 

 fine ; .Massasoit Kodgers, No. '.i, very good ; Lindley 

 Rodgers, No. 9, sweet; .Salem Rodgers, No. .53, very 

 good : Rodgci's No. .'53, large ; Eineline I'odgei'S, 

 small and very line ; Clinton, a good grape ; .Martha, 

 sweet and very good ; Concord, « fine grape ; Pax- 

 ton, a good grape; Isabella, veiy line; Croton, 

 small but good; Telegraph, very fine; Maxatawney, 

 white and good ; Franklin, small andtartish ; Har- 

 ford, over ripe ; Ives' Seedling, small and luscious; 

 loua, beautiful and sweet. 



Mr. Smeych exhibited the following : Four plates 

 seedling [leaehcs, very fine. Grapes: One plate 

 Pdaek Hamburg, large and fine ; one plate Bordeaux, 

 line ; one plate Diana, very sweet ; one plate Kodgers 

 No. 1, good ; one plate Kodgers No. 2S, fine; one 

 plate, no name, good ; one plate, good and sweet. 

 Two .Springer plums, very fine and sweet. 



Mr. Levi S. Reist exhibited some very line York 

 Imperial apples. 



POULTRY ASSOCIATION. 



The meeting of the Poultry Association met on 

 Monday morning, October 2d, Is.S'J, and wasattended 

 by the following persons : President, (i. A. Geycr, 

 Secretary, .J. P. Liehty, city ; Charles Lippold, eity ; 

 John E. Sebum, city; Dr. E. H. \Vitmer,Neflsvine ; 

 Harry Stein, eity; W. W. Grieat, city; Dr. H. D. 

 Longaker, city; I. Brooks, West Willow; Joseph 

 Tritslcr, city ; J. M. Johnston, city ; Wash.Hersliey, 

 Chickies. 



Mr. Liehty, as chairman of the Executive Com- 

 mittee, reported that the premium list had been ar- 

 ranged in part as follows : 



For poultry -Si for first, ?1 to second, highly com- 

 mended to third ; for pigeons,- ?1 to first, fifty cents 

 to second, highly commended to third ; entrance 



fee, seventy-five cents for single bird for poultry and 

 thirty-five cents per pair for pigeons. Of the cash 

 specials otl'ered by the assochition the society will 

 charge ten per cent. The premium lor breeding 

 pens is S.'i.OO each, and entrance fee J2.0(). 



A breeder's stake will be made up, and every bird 

 is charged one dollar; the purse will be divided 

 thus : Sixty per cent, to first, oO to second, and 10 

 to third ; the birds must be raised by the breeder. 



The oiler of T. B. Dorsey, of Delaware, of a $^5 

 cup for the best bantam on exhibition — he to con- 

 tribute §1.5 and the society glO of the required 92ij — 

 was accepted. The entrance fee $'.'. A Polish cup 

 with same conditions was also accepted. 



.Mr. W. A. Jetlrey, of A.shland, (Jhio, editor of the 

 Xatlunal I'oiiltnj Journal, olfered a Iwcnty-Uve dol- 

 lar silver eup for the best collection of white crested 

 black Pcjlish by any one exhibitor, and his oiler was 

 accepted with thanks. 



The above report of the Executive Committee was 

 unanimously adopted. 



Charles E. Long, by reason of his iinibility to at- 

 tend to the duties of a member of the Executive 

 Committee, tendered his resignation, which was ae 

 cepted. Charles Lippold was nominated lo fill the 

 vacancy, and he will, under the rules, come up for 

 election at the next meeting. 



Dr. Longaker said he was enlarging his hatching 

 house, and Mr. J. M. Johnston, of the InteUiijciiccr, 

 precipitated an adjournment by telling how, " when 

 I was down in Georgia," a spring chicken no laiger 

 thau his fist swallowed a snake as big as his hat ! 



FULTON FARMERS' CLUB 



The regular monthly meeting of the club was held 

 at the residence of Day Wood, on Saturday, October 

 7th, 1882. 



The following members were present : Day Wood, 

 Josiah Brown, J. R. Blackburn, Lindley King, Mon- 

 tillion Brown, S. L. Gregg, Wm. King, John Cauff- 

 man, Joel King and E. H. Haines. 



Visitors : Dr. S. T. Roman, J J. Carter, Harvey 

 Howet, Neal Hamilton, Isaac Bradley and CliflTord 

 Cook, all of whom were accompanied by por- 

 tions of their families, making a company that filled 

 to overflowing the capacious and elegant parlor of 

 the host. 



The members all having exhibited specimen3 of 

 their farm products at their last meetin;j made the 

 exhibit lo day quite small, a single apple, brought 

 by E. H. Haines to be named, was the sum total, 

 and il was decided to be a Kiugof Tompkins county. 

 Questions and Answers. 



Day Wood — I have heard it said that it pays best 

 to feed cattle when corn is high in price, is this the 

 case? This was a question that most of those pres 

 eut seemed to have thought but little about, but all 

 seemed to agree that as corn is the material out of 

 which winter beef is made, a scarcity, and conse- 

 quently high price of the former must of a neeessi'.y 

 be followed by a searcily and high price of the lat- 

 ter. If corn can be fed to steers or hogs with a cer- 

 tain per cent, of profit on its market value, whether 

 the price be low or high, then the production of beef 

 or pork is much more profitable to the farmer in 

 times of high prices thau in times of low prices, just 

 upon the same principle that a miller who tolls the 

 grain he grinds gets twice as much for grinding a 

 bushel of wheat when it is worth two dollar* per 

 bushel as when it is worlh only one dollar per 

 bushel. 



.Josiah Brown — In this neighborhood does it pay 

 belter to put in wheat after corn than tc put the 

 stalk ground in oats? Several were in favor of sow 

 ing the wheat provided the land was rich, but on 

 thin land past experience did not recommend the 

 plan much. Some objected lo putting in wheat after 

 corn on account of the labor retiuired to remove the 

 corn, while others did not consider this any great 

 obstacle if the right plan was pursued, which is to 

 eut two rows of corn where you wish the shocks lo 

 stand and lay one on each side, then cultivate and 

 drill in these two rows, after which cut and shock 

 the corn on the ground thus planted. In this way 



the corn need nut be carried more than the usual dis- 

 tance, and the shocks will not kill the wheat if not. 

 sutfered to stand long. 



Monlilliou Brown — lias any one present a variety 

 of grape that docs better for him than the Concord ? 

 Some of the members were cultivating as many us 

 eight or ten varieties, but no one had found any of 

 them lo do better than the Concord. 



William King— Is it better to put apples in the 

 cellar Immediately after pickiug or barrel tlicm and 

 leave them out until cold weather ? J. J. Carter was 

 in favor of leaving them out of doors in a dry, cool 

 place. Day Wood preferred to put them in the cel- 

 lar. Dr. Roman said to get barrels that were per- 

 fectly light or make them so by pasting muslin over 

 the joints, put the apples in these, head them up 

 and leave the barrels under the trees, but on some- 

 thing to keep them olf the ground, until freezing 

 weather. 



Josiah Brown said if you leave the apples out un- 

 til the cold weather, they should be put in barrels, 

 but if put in the cellar, they should be put on 

 shelves. 



Martha Browu — When is the best time for storing 

 away cabbage for winter ? Answered — Just before 

 Hallow-Een. 



Josiah Brown cuts the stalks ofT his cabbage and 

 packs the heads in a barrel planted in the ground ; 

 they keep well and are easily got when wanted. 



After dinner the, usual Inspection of the farm 

 and stock was made. The condition of the farm, 

 the crops and stock were all considered good. 



The host made the following report of his farming 



operations for IS81 : 



Crops. 



2(1 acres of wheat produced ^t^M bushels 



IT'i " corn " 1,0.50 



10 " oats " 26.51^ " 



5 " tobacco " 6,241 pounds 



30 '• hay produced 30 4-hor8e loads 



Hungarian hay 5 " " 



18 acres clover seed 6 bushels 



I2 acre potatoes 52 " 



Receipts between Jan. 1, 1S81 and Jan. 1, 1883. 



For 41.., acres of tobacco (S,052 lbs) ! 877 21 



" ij cows and heifers, 20100 



" 2i; lambsfti. 4.(i0 134 20 



•' i;il) pounds wool ff< 20c 27 80 



" 28 head old sheep $4.00 112 00 



" l,7'.lb pounds butter .572 80 



" grain sold (wheat and clover seed) 514 26 



" 4il4 dozen eggs 82 30 



" poultry, calves, pork and lard 198 '£i 



Total sales .$2,719 SO 



Literary Exerc ses. 



Monlilliou Browu read from Tin-; Lancaster 

 Fakmek au article on "The Practical and Scientific 

 in Agriculture," of which the following is an ex- 

 tract: ."The foundation of all knowledge of agri- 

 culture is the accumulati>>n of fixed facts, suggested 

 by accidents discovered perhaps by science; but, 

 howeverobtained, proved or confirmed by the practi 

 cal farmer on the land. A theory which bears this 

 test may become a law at once for the farming com- 

 munity, and until it has borne the test, it is theory 

 still, no matter what its origin may have been, 

 whether college or farmyard. While, therefore, an 

 agricultural school may be devoted to scicncce as a 

 guide lo agriculture, and may be engaged in culti- 

 vating a single farm according to the best known 

 principle, il must depend upon a widespread com- 

 munity of farmers for the last grand process of 

 proving and dill'using its theories. And when we re- 

 member tliat agriculture is not an exact science and 

 cannot be until Ihe skies and seasons are subdued by 

 man, and that the facts discovered in the field are 

 often of more practical value than those laid down 

 by the student in his closet, we shall not be sur- 

 prised at the success which associated farmers have 

 met with in the work of advancing agricultural 

 education." 



Sadie Brown read from the Lancaster Examiner 

 an editorial on " Farmers' Societies and Festivals." 



Rebecca D. King read a temperance story, " A 

 Strong Temptation." 



Neal Hamilton delivered an amusing stump speech 

 he had learned when a boy. 



