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|!| he] 11 IjIIDLAM) I gjoUBNAL. E. E. Ewing & Sons, Publishers. VOL. VIII. April Meeting of Cecil Parmer’s Club. Club met on Wednesday 23rd inst at the residence of Tlios. C* Bond, President H. H. Duyckinck in the chair, E. E- Ewing was elected tem porary chairman. Members present, H. H. Duyckinck, E. Noyes, S. R. Carson, W. \V. Moore, Enoch Mc- Cullough, A. R. Magraw, S- C. Ma graw. Jacob Tome. Honorary memb ers, Dr. R. E. Bromwell. Visitors J. W. Reynol s, E. E. Ewing. Minutes of last meeting read by the Secretary and approved. Unfinished business c died for; none reported. Experiments called for; none had been m.de. Mr. 11. H Duyckinck was called on to make a report as a delegate from the Club to the Fanners Association of Mary land which met in Baltimore in Feb ruary last. Mr. Duyckinck made a verbal statement to the Club,remark ing that the members were all famil iar with the preceedings of that con vention through the reports given at the time by the papers. Their dele gate had a very enjoyable experience at the convention, where the Agricul tural College, and proposed Experi mental Station had occupied a prom inent part in the proceedings. This led to a desultory conversation among the members of the Club. The ex pense incurred in attending the con vention amounted to 85,02 which, on motion of Mr. T. C. Bond, the Treas urer, W. W. Moore, was ordered to pay. Members had no experiments to report, and the President suggested that the present would be a proper time to select subjects on which to make future experiments. A. R. Magraw proposed to make some experiments with broom corn the present season. E. McCullough asked for'inform ition, or the best plan for raising a crop of potatoes. S. R. Carson recommended spreading stable manure on the ground and plowing in; E.Noyes described the Connecticut system, as pursued when he was a boy, which was to plow and prepare the ground, mark out rows, and plant in hills, first putting a shovel full of well rotted manure in each hill, the hills being 2 feet apart in the rows, plant 2 pieces of potatoes to each hill and place a shovel tuil of ma nure on each hill. lie had seen the finest crops of potatoe raised <>y this system of culture. Mr. Bond had followed manuring in the row formerly and made about 75 bushels to the acre, but latterly bad practiced broad casting the manure on the ground and plowing it in, which method produced much the finer crops. Mr. .McCullough relat ed the practice of R. C. Bell who planted the potatoes and spread the manure on top which produced very satisfactory results. Mr. Noyes had applied ashes to his potatoes last season with good results, lie thought light sandy bain the best soil for po tatoes. Mr. Tome’s method of raising this esculent when he was a farmer boy was, alter having the ground well prepared by plowing and harrowing, to furrow oui the rows, fill them with manure, drjp the potatoes on the manure and cotcr. Dr. Bromwoll’s experience, he believed was not val uable; he had succeeded in raiairg RISING SUN. CECIL COUNTY, MD.. FRIDAY. APRIL 23. IBB<>. but 50 to 100 bushels per acre. Mr Duyckiuck thought that more de pended upon the ground receiving the benefit of a thorough, good rain exactly at the proper time after the seed was planted, than on the text ure of the soil, to insure a paying crop. The host Mr. Bond was called on for an essay, and stated he had followed the prevalent, but question able practice of presenting an ex cuse, in lieu of the essay, but that he had selected an article published in the Form Journal which he read for the edification of the Club. This recounted the experience of a ‘‘gent leman farmer,” entitled “High farmer at Elmwood” who farmed more for pleasure than profit, which practice did not strike the members as the most desirable to imitate. Mr. Tome lias several farms which he manages through croppers, but could not make them pay more than 3 per cent on the investment. Mr. Bond has his farm worked on the same system and could make more from it than by working it himself. Mr. Moore thought that Messrs. Tome and Bond w.-re very painstaking men and kept accurate accounts, and could tell more about the profits of the business than men who are sup posed to have received a practical training to the business of farming, with no other branch of industry to occupy their thoughts. Mr. McCul lough hadn’t made much money by farming Mr. A. R. Magraw, dis cussed and pointed out the difference between practical and fancy farming. Mr. Tome thought that now aduys. 2 per cent was as much as farming would pay. His contracts with crop pers were half the produce of the farm—except poultry —he finding § of fhe fertilizers and | the seed The tenant performing all the labor and delivering lbs share of produce at depot, or shipping station. He finds all the money to furnish stock cattle, if the tenant lias not his part of the capital in hand, charging inter est on the loaned half, principal and interest to 1 e pa’d hack fry tenant out of sales of the stock. A. R. Magraw thought the cropper should pay half the lax on the farm. S. C. Magraw believed lie was out of pocket when lie undertook to do his own farming, and that having the land cropped was most profitable for him lie pays for all fertilizers put on the land. Mr. Noyes found the tenant system very unsatisfactory— gave his experience in Dakota and here. Thought farmers better paid by doing their own farming. Mr. Noyes pays considerable attention to dairy and truck farming and makes more mony from these branches of his business than from what is term ed general farming. Mr. Duyckinck did not belieye that grain farming would pay a cent, but that hay, dairy ing and poultry, brought all the profit. He receives 30 cents a pound for his butter. A recess was here taken, and stock and larm buildings examined Mr. Bond does not carry much farm stock but his cows weie in fine condition. His barn is arranged in the most con venient manner, the mangers being all of the box order, and not racks. A pair of Chester White hogs, fat enough lor the butcher, elicited en comiums from the visitors. He has a field of excellent wheat, which, bow. [Entered at the Post Office in Rising Sun, Md., as Second-Class Matter.] ever, is the rule this spiing, but the part dressed with stable manure showed its superiority in dark green blades and rank growth over that part of the field that had been treated with S. Rock. After partaking of a sumptuous dinner, the President rapped the club to order, when criticisms on the farm etc. was pronounced in order. Mr. A. R. Magraw moved that the custom ary criticisms be dispensed with, which was objected to by Mr. Bond who wished to hear and profit by any suggestions that members might feel called upon to make. Members who had known the place for many years all agreed in the opinion that it had undergone very marked improvement under Mr. Bond’s methodical man agement. Mr. Tome had been ac quainted with the farm for 53 years, and the present proprietor since his boyhood, and that both the farm and its proprietor had steadily improved as the years rolled by. W. W. Moore whose acquaintance extended over many of those early days, endorsed all that Mr. Tome said. Dr. Brun well remaiked facetiously that he objected to Mr. Bonu’s mode of dis posing of trees that were to be got out of the way. which was cutting them off and leaving high stumps, but Mr. Bond said that the stumps referred to had bten left by his pred deessors and lie had lifted a number of them out with dyniinite, which cost 10 to 20 cents a stump. M. Bond inquired “what is the best wav to fertilize for corn?” Mr. Duyckink, advised to put the manure on the surface and turn under witli a shadow furrow —about 4 inches. The practice is general at present among advanced farmers to plow under all chemical manures for the corn crop. The filling out of the crop is promoted by this practice, the manures applied and the decomposing sod being in the best position and condition to feed the roots of the corn at the per iod of its maturing..—He preferred Lister Bone. If the corn ground has been plowed before app'ying the fer tiiizer, drill it in. By Mr. Tome, “Does lime benefit land?” Mr. Duyckink bad found that where land had been previously limed that South Carolina llock produced a very ben eficial effect. Lime on wheat stubble had always given him good results; about 33 bushels to the acre is as much as it was profitable to apply at one time. He experimented . y lim ing one acre, and watching the result. If it acted well he limed the field, if no benefit is observed he did not apply. Bainbridge lime was preferred, it showing less core and giving a larger hulk of slacked lime than any other Mr. Bond said Marion Rawlings had latterly practiced putting his barn yard manure out on sod in the fall, and Mr. Rowland had also adopted this practice with results re markably favorable. Mr. Moore uses his stable manure on his wheat— spreads it on the oats stubble and plows it under in the old time honor ed way. It is then out of the way of the drill. Dr. Bromwell related an experiment he had made by putting half of a stock field in oats and allow ed the balance to remain uncultivat ed, and after the oats were taken off the whole field was put in wheat and seeded down to grass. Where the oats had been the grass took much better than on the stock ground. The next meeting was appointed to beheld at Mr. Adam R. Magraw’s on Wednesday. May 19th, and members urged to endeavor to attend. Club adjourned. Money Raised by a High License. Will belli support the poorhouses, where there are widows and orphans sent there by the dissipations ol husbands and fathers. Don’t you see? This high tax will help support the prisons in which men are incarcerat ed for committing crimes while drunk. Don’t you see? This high tax will help support the court of oy er and terminer, whose judges and attorneys, and constables, and juries, and police stations, aud court rooms find their chief employment in the arraingment, trial and condemnation of those who offend the law while in a state of insobriety. Don’t you see? How any man or woman in favor ol the great temperance reform can be so hoodwinked as not to understand that this high license movement is a surrender of all the temperance refor mation for which good men and woman have been struggling lor the last sixty years, is to me an amaze ment that eclipses everything My subject is, “High License, the Monopoly ol Abomination.” Do you realize, as by mathematical demon stration, that the ON B RESULT of this high license movement, and the one result of the closing of small establishments —if that were the re suit —and the opening of a few large establishments, will be to make rum-selling and rum-drinking highly respectable? These drinkeries in Brooklyn and New York are so dis ousting that, a man will not risk tiis reputation by' going in them, and it a young man should be found com ing out from one of those low es tablishments he would lose his place in the store. Now, suppose all these small establishments are closed up and that then you open the places of inebriation down on the avenues. It is not the rookeries of aleholism that do the worst work; they are on ly the last stopping-places on the road to death. Where did that bloated, ulcerous, wheezing wretch that staggers out of a rum hole get his habits started? At glittering restaurant or bar-room or first-class hwtel, where it was fashionable to go. Ah! my friends, it seems to me the disposition is to stop these small es lablishments, which are only the rash on the skin of the body politic, and then gather all the poison and the pus and the matteration into a few great carbuncles which mean death. I &ay, give us the rash rath er than the carbuncles. Here you will have A SPLENDID LIQUOR ESTABLISHMENT- Masterpiece of painting on the wall. Cut srlass on silver platter. Upholstery like a Turkish harem. Uuiformed servants to open the door, uniformed servants to take your hat and cane. Adjoining room with luxuriant divan on which you can re* cliue when taken mysteriously ill after too much champagne, cognac, or old Otsrd. All the phantasmagoria and bewitchment of art thrown around this Herod of massacre, this Moloch of con sumed worshippers, this Juggernaut of crushed millions. One Dollar per Annum in Advance. Do you aot see that this high license movement strikes at the heart of the best homes in America? that it propoa es the fattest lambs for its sacrifice? that it is at war with the most beauti ful domestic circles in America? Tell it to all the philanthropists who are trying to make the world better, and let journalists tell it by pen an 1 type that this day in the presence of my Maker and my Judge 1 stamp on this high-license movement as the monop oly of abomination. It preposes to pave wiht honor, to pillar with splend or, and guard with monopolists advant age a business which has made the ground hollow under England, Scotland and America with catacombs of slaught ered drunkards.— Talmaije- John P. Vennamon and Win. Heald of Post Deposit are about to open a commission house in Balti more With the flowers of spring the Sunday Schools in c< untry places are again opening, while tie Lyceum# are closing The latter seem to be a cold weather institution. Value of a Mellow Soil. One of the members of the Elmir* Farmers’ Club stated, at a recent meeting of the Club, that the best crop of potatoes he ever had was oa land which he cultivated and plowed eight times. Thorough and deep pul verization is especially valuable as a preparation for planting potatoes. We liaye found that a .'ingle subsoil witlia light two-horse subs >il plow, in addition to the ordinary plowing, in creased the crop of tubers from 25 to 30 per cent. If tbe seas >n happened to be dry, it prevented the eflects of drouth; if it was wet, it received and held the surplus water till wanted. An old farmer, in past years, was asked the secret of his uniformly lux urant crops. He replied :‘ I tell my men to harrow the ground till they think it is harrowed twice as much as it ought to be, and I then tell them it is not harrowed half enough.” Every thing el.-e was of course preformed in the same thorough manner- Paying for a Dead Horse. Complaint was laid before ’Squire Abrahams Saturday evening by Mrs. Salih* B >yd. an aged widow lady liv ing near Battle Swamp, that her horse had been wantonly' shot and killed by a young man of the neigh borhood named Eden Jackson. Jack son and a friend named Smith were passing along the road in a convivial condition, shouting and firing pistols. The hor.-e, which was frightened by the noise, broke from its fastenings, and as it passed down the road Jackson put a bullet from his revolver through its body killing it almost instantly. A warrant was placed in the hands of Constable J. I>. White, and he, ac companied by Officer J. M. Creswell, went to Craigtown, where Jackson* lives, and attempted to arrest him but failed. On Monday morning Jackson voluntarily appeared before ’Squire Abrahams, where he was met by Mrs. Boyd, and the case was com promised by' the payment of SBO, the value of the horse, by Jackson to Mrs. Boyd. r . ♦ la WILL YOU SUFFER with Dys pepsia and Liver Comp) jU t? Shiloh’# Vitaliner is guaranteed to cure you. So id by Dr. L. K. Kirk. * NO. 28.