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Volume XVH-fle. 160.
LANCASTER, PA TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 1881
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THAT ARE BARGAINS,
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TUESDAY EVENING, MAECH 8, 1881.
AGRICULTURE.
MEETING OF THE AGRICULT URAL AND
HCRT1CULTUKAL SOCIErV.
Discussion et the State Agricultural
lege Crep Reports Ensilege Cul
tivation of Cern, &c, &c.
cei-
A stated meeting of the Lancaster Ag
ricultural and Horticultural society was
held in -their room in City hall, yesterday
aiternoen.
The following named members and visi
tors were present :
Jeseph F. Witmer, Paradise ; Jehnsen
Miller, "Warwick ; Casper Killer, Cones Cenes
toga ; Henry M. Eugle, Marietta ; F. R.
Diifenderffcr, city ; Jehn C. Linville, Sal
isbury ; Jehn H. Landis, Millcrsville ;
Calvin Cooper, Bird-in-IIand ; Henry
Kurtz, Mount Jey ; Levi S. Reist, Ore
gon ; J. M. Johnsten, city : Peter S. Reist,
Lititz ; Dr. C. A. Greene city ; Jehn G.
Resh, J. Frank Lautz, East Lampeter ;
V. it. ilunseckcr, juanlicim: William ii.
Brosius, Drumore ; C. A. Gast, city ;
Jehn Huber, Pcquea , "William McCem-
sey, city.
The secretary being absent, Calvin
Cooper was chosen secretary pre tern.
The reading of the minutes wa dispens
ed with.
Hen. "Wni. Ellmaker, of New Helland,
was proposed for membership and elected.
The State Agricultural College.
President "Witmer at some length de
tailed the proceedings of the meeting of
agriculturists held in Philadelphia last
month te take action relative te withhold
ing the appropriation from the State Agri
cultural college, located at Bellcfcntc, tiic
proceedings of which have been hereto
fore published. Mr. "Witmer expressed
himself as being a geed deal disappointed
at the action taken. He had supposed the
meeting would be under the exclusive di
rection of practical farmers, instead of
which he found it in charge of the Phila
delphia agricultmal society, and among
the leaders weie the president of one col
lege and the provost of another. He half
suspected that their opposition te the State
college receiving the $30,000 appropriation,
as heretofore, was that the money might
be divided among their own institutions.
Nothing of importance was done at the
meeting except the endorsement of the
resolution passed by the Heuse of
Representatives in June, 1879, te the effect
that no further appropriations should be
paid te the college until it falia.ll have com
plied with the law under which it was
.created and keeps in operation the ex
perimental farms ; and a resolution te Iho
effect that the farming interests of the
state require the maintainancc of an ex
perimental farm accessible te Philadel
phia and Ilarrisburg. The president gave
a brief outline of the history of the State
Agricultural college, and closed by saying
that his opinion as te the propriety of
withholding the state appropriation from
the college had been somewhat modified
within the past month.
Jehn II. Landis, member of Assembly,
said that his resolution te withheld the
state appropriation from the college had
passed almost unanimously in 1879. lie
believed the college could give no satis
factory account of the large sums of
money expended by it, and was satisfied
that the institution was badly managed.
Of the thrce classes graduated by it the
agricultural class is the smallest.
Mr. Engle was aware there had been
serious complaint of the mismanagement
of the college, but he could never bring
himself te quite agree with a majority of
this association that the appropriation
should be taken away from it. Before
this is done we should see our way clear
te de something better. Great sums of
money have been expended upon it by the
state ; the valuable building is at Bclle Bclle
fentc, the teachers and pupils arc there,
the school is going en, and though it may
net be managed as well as it ought it
might be unwise te step it. The state
beard of agriculture had been asked
te take sides against the college, but had
declined te interfere with the trouble. He
thought this society should act with due
caution also.
President "Witmer said he felt at the last
meeting of the society that the appropria
tion should be withheld ; he new thinks
it might be unwise te withheld it. "With
a new and efficient beard of trustees
elected te the college the farming interest
might get mere geed out of it than by
having the appropriation divided among
several smaller institutions. There has
been expended en the college some $700,
000 already, the greater part of which
would be lest if it were abandoned.
Mr. Landis said if the state appropria
tion were withheld it would remain in the
state treasury aud net be divided among
ether institutions.
Dr. Greene had no doubt of the man
agement of the college. With mere than
a dozen professors there are only forty
students. Great geed might result from
withholding the . appropriation and ap
pointing a legislative committee te give
the institution a thorough investigation.
The location of the college at Bcllcfentc
had been secured by fraud and it was a
farce te place it there.
Henry Kurtz favored a legislative inves
tigation. Jehnsen Miller thought the best that
could be done would be te have the Lan
dis resolution which had passed the
Heuse become a law.
P. S. Reist had high authority for say
ing the Legislature could aflerd no relief.
The college is anatienal affair ; the United
States had made land grants te the state
conditioned en the maintenance of the
college ; the state sold the land and en
dowed the college, and cannot divest it of
the appropriation without tile sanction of
Congress. The college should net have
been located where it is neither the loca
tion nor the land is lit. Even with geed
management geed crops cannot be raised
there, and some one has said that the cat
tle have te be stabled and fed there thir-
1 teen months in a year. The sooner wc can
get ria el the cellege tue eetttr ; we can
better afford te lese all that is there and
direct our efforts te mero valuable work
than by squandering mere money en the
college ; but te get rid of it we will have
te go te Congress for authority.
Lecturers Invited.
Dr. Greene, from the committee en
speakers, reported that he had- invited
Messrs. Spencer and Levy te address the
society and lie expected one or both of
them te be present te-day. He had also
invited Judge Stitzel, of Reading, who
would probably be present next month.
The president suggested Mr. Kennedy,
and Mr. Engle named Judge Ellmaker as
speaker, who would interest the meeting,
and Dr.Greene said he would send them in
vitations. Crep Repert.
Henry -Kurtz reported that in the vicin
ity of Mount Jey the wheat is still partly
covered with snow and ice ; that which
can be seen don't leek very well ; the te-
l bacce is nearly all stripped and some sales
have been made : Jehn A. Snyder has sold
2 J acres at 19, 6" and 3 ', ethers at 10 and 3;
another has' refused 13 round and Mr.
Lichty sold his crop at 24 and 4.
Jehn C. Linville. of Salisbury, said that
when the snow first passed off the wheat
looked well, but the alternate freezing and
thawing since that time have damaged it
a geed deal. He bad traveled a great
many miles in Chester county and found
the wheat in fine condition ; he attributed
it te the use of phosphates which enabled
it te withstand severc weather. The past
winter has been very destructive te bees.
one Chester county man bavins lest forty
colonies. Ihere wa3 plenty of honey in
the hives, but the weather was tee cold
for the bees te withstand. Seme of the
peach trees are killed, but ethers have
withstood the winter better than could
have been expected. The dreuth of last
summer killed nearly all the young clever
and many farmers re-sewed their fields in
the fall. The clever grew nicely for a
time, but is new apparently all gene, and
the hay and grass crop will probably be
short next summer.
Levi S. Reist said the wheat at present
leeks very much as it did soine years age
that which was sewn early leeks bad
and that which was sewn late leeks well.
The early sewn will probably yield a peer
crop anu tue late-sewn a geed one.
Jehnsen Miller said that some wheat
fields that looked very well when the snow
melted have been much injured by the re
cent storm.
Peter S. Reist endorsed the views of
the above gentlemen as te the wheat and
peach prospect, and called attention te
the fact that the bee keepers would held
a meeting at the Black Herse hotel next
Monday afternoon at 2 o'cleok.
Henry M. Engle said that about Marietta
they had considerably mero snow than
here, and that the wheat leeks well ; the
clever is peer and will probably yield a
peer crop. He advised farmers te provide
substitutes. Hungarian grass, green corn,
eats, peas, etc., cut green and cured, made
geed feed for cattle, se that farmers need
net suffer. The peach buds are pretty
generally killed and some of the weed is
also killed; apples and pears are all right ;
cherries a geed deal damaged ; grapes and
raspberries better than expected ; many
hives of bees killed. The rainfall for
January was 3 9-1G inches, for February
2J inches,
Wm. II. Brosius, of Drumore,
said
wheat and gras3 looked poorly.
Jehn G. Resh, of Pcquea, said the same,
but that the wells and springs were in
geed condition and there was little danger
of a dreuth next summer.
Jehn C. Linville read the following
essay :
A Chester County Sile The Great Dairy of
Eues Bernard.
The subject of cnsilege is new giving
rise te much discussion among the farm
ers of New Yerk and the New England
states. Although it docs net yet amount
te a "boom" among the steady-going
farmers of eastern Pennsylvania, the mat
ter is beginning te excite some inquiry.
With the view of learning something
about this much-praised and much-abused
cnsilcgc, I, en the second instant, in com
pany with my brother, visited the dairy of
Enes Bernard, near Dec Run, Chester
county.
We were hospitably received by the pro
prietor, who took us at once te the silo.
This is neither mero nor less than a large
root cellar. The cultivation of roots has
been abandoned because of the immense
labor of raising and storing them.
We cuter the silo through a deer iu the
back wall of the cow stables. The odor
of the " cow-creut" is perceptible as seen
as wc approach the deer. The deer-sill is
three feet above the bottom of the silo,
and the cnsilege has been removed only te
this level, We walk in en the cnsileire
and perceive at ence that it is quite juicy
when we tread e:i it. Yankee-like, I asked
a great many questions, which were as
promptly answered by our host. He does
net consider the present trial a fair test of
the value of cnsilege. Finding that his
hay crop would be inadequate for his large
dairy 180 cows he breke up eight acres
after harvest and planted it with corn.
Most of it was seeded with the wheat
drill and net cultivated.
Although the corn grew rapidly it had
net attained sufficient maturity when cold
weather come en. He then went te work
with fifteen men aud a large fodder cutter
driven by steam power aud in three days
he put the crop, of ever 100 tens, in the
silo. The machine was set te cut the
pieces ene eighth of an inch in length.
The cnsilege is covered with beards run
ning across the silo aud weighted with
stones. 1,000 pounds pressure per square
yard is applied. The joists ever the cellar
were lifted until the ensilege was settled
enough te allow them te be replaced.
Sixty cows arc in the barn containing
the silo and they are fed 20 bushels of the
" creut " per day at two feeds, and not
withstanding its somewhat sour smell and
taste, they cat it with avidity. The onsi ensi
legc is mixed with cut fodder, oern-and-cob
meal, bran and cottonseed meal. This
is certainly a bill of fare ever which the
most fastidious cow might smile.
As regards the value of cnsilege as a
butter producer, our entertainer could
give no information as he has net tested it
in comparison with ether feeds. He
thinks if the corn was planted earlier in
the season and well cultivated, and better
matured the cnsilege would make richer
feed. He notified his commission mer
chant in Philadelphia that he had begun
feeding ensilege and if objections were
made te the butter, he should report im
mediately. His patrons have been eating
the butter for several weeks, and se far
have net given a single squeak.
Frem the silo we went te the dairy.
This building has been gotten up at great
expense. The walls are constructed with
live compartments with sheathing paper
between and plastered en the inside. The
ceilings are the same and the floors are
laid with artificial stone. The windows
arc made of three or four sashes, fitting as
closely as possible. The object in all this
is te make the building as nearly air-tight
as possible.
Standing out en the hill, perhaps 305
feet from the dairy, is an object resem
bling a gigantic trumpet with a vane at
tached, se that the flaring mouth of the
trumpet is always directed te the wind.
Connecting this apparatus with the dairy
is a subterranean passage or air-duct. This
air-duct is fifteen feet below the surface
of the ground and was tunneled, part of
the way, through rock. It is arched ever
with stene and a man can pas3 through it.
As the temperature of the earth, at a
depth of fifteen feet is about the same,
summer and winter, the dairy can be sup
plied with cool pure air in summer through
this duct. The proprietor considers it a
success.
The milk is set in shallow pans. Steam
rurnisues the motive power. The boiler
supplies water for washing the dairy fix
tures and steam pipes warm the milk
room and wash and drying room. The
engine cuts fodder and ensilege, runs the
three large churns, pumps the milk up
from the cellar, and doc all that a faith
ful steam engine can de te lighten the la
bors of the dairy. On the high ground
in the rear of the buildings stands a. wind
engine which pumps water for the stock.
I It is scarcely necessary te say that the
most rigid cleanliness and order are ob
served in the dairy.
Of course, these costly appliances are
out of the reach of the average farmer ;
but Emersen says we should ' hitch our
wagon te a star." It is well tonete the
work of advanced farmers as waffcss along
and we may find something worthy of im
itation even in a small way.
In the meantime the dinner bell rang.
Our horses were well cared for, and we
were seen resting our legs under our host's
mahogany. All of which gees te show that
hospitality is net an obsolete word in
Chester county.
The essay was discussed at considerable
length by Dr. Greene, Henry M. Engle,
Jes. F. Witmer, Jehn G. Resh, Wm. H.
Brosius and ethers, some ftf the speakers
professing te believe that ensilege would
prove of great value. and ethers fearing
that it would net. The discussion took a
very discursive range.
Insects and Agriculture.
Dr. C. A. Greene read an essay en the
above subject, of which we have only
room for the following abstract :
The gentleman prefaced his remarks by
congratulating the society upon the fact
that a number of the papers read before it
had been widely copied and discussed in
the newspapers. He then referred briefly
te a criticism by Dr. Rathven of his (Dr.
Greene's) paper, recently published in the
Intelligencer, in which he stated that
insect life in all its forms would be largely
killed off by the continuous cold weather
of this winter. Te this Dr. Rathven had
taken exceptions aud gave instances of in
sects being taken out of solid blocks of
frozen earth, which were net dead, and
contended that insects were net always
killed by the cold. These cases, Dr. Greene
centended, were but exceptions te the gen
eral rule aud should furnish no argument
against the truth of his statements. He
was willing te admit that entomologists
were at sea en this subject. The fellow
ing questions have never been satisfac
torily answered : Hew great a degree of
cold will kill insect life ? Hew long must
insects' eggs and larva, etc., be frozen be
fore life is extinct ? What class of insects
are easiest killed Vf freezing ? What va
riety can longest endure freezing? Thcse
questions, he said, should long since have
been answered by the entomologists in
our agricultural college, and in the agri
cultural department at Washington. If
Prof. Riley had turned his attention te
this matter, and also te the one whether
the honey bee does or does net destroy the
grape, he would have been of some service
te the neople.
There is a degree of cold that will kill
any larva, image, cgss, chrysalis or insect
and our aid-for it entomologists like
Prof. Riley, who received ever $3,000 last
year should answer satisfactorily the above
inquiries. The form of insect life that wc
see in the various forms of cocoons will re
sist the actions of the cold longer and of a
greater degree than most net similarly
protected, as the silk covering is a non-con
ducter of heat and hence prevents its in
mate from being easily frozen. The
United States has arrived at the state of
its condition, iu its intellectual scale, as
new te demand many new commissions
and improvements. Wc need new a com
missioner 'general, and several subordi
nates, ene of agriculture, anether of com
merce, another of geology and another of
entomology. Heretofore our progress has
been hindered by net collecting valuable
information.
Te .these wlie have read the entomelogi
cal miscarriage et i'rel. liilcy, in his en
deavers te let the public believe he is the
first man te bring the pyrcthrum before
the people let me here say that in the
United States Agricultural Rcportef 1801,
page 223, you will find it fully described,
and references showing it was known and
used many years before. Thi3 pyrethrum
(called by many druggists in this country
aud Europe Persian insect pewdcr,)is called
technically the Pyrcthrum of Cancasus.
It belongs te the chamomile family, aud it
is a very sure and general insect destroyer
and can be easily raised iu this country.
There are several varieties of the pyre
thrum, soma of which are worthless. Iu
the above volume is a very valuable essay
en insects by Prof. Rathven, of 33 pages
with 97 illustrations, printed as you sce
twenty years age. New it is about time
the government took such men into their
employ; Prof. Rathven has a very large
store of valuable entomological facts which
would be worth thousands of dollars te
the farmers of the United States if the
United States government would employ
his valuable services, and pay. for them.
Fer two score years and mere he has been
laboring almost for nothing. There is plenty
of talent in our country if only properly
brought together. The acquired informa
tion of Hen. Marshall Wilder, of Bosten,
Dr. Jehn Warder, of Cincinnati, and Judge
Geerge D. Stitzel, of Reading, Pa., en
fruits of all kinds should be collected and
saved te the world. The services of Prof.
Herman Steckcr (who has, although a day
laborer a worker en marble collected
together 00,000 butterflies), should be
retained by our government. An im
mense amount of valuable information has
been lest te the world that in the above
manner could have been saved. A farmer
cau write all the experiences of a lifetime
in a small work, aud if the government
would adept the above suggestions,
they would be of incalculable
service te the people. Heretofore
a gem has been here and there seen and
retained, and thousands lest in the above
manner. All inventions, discoveries and
experiences of the mincrelagist, the
farmer and the artisan could be collated
and preserved.
The expense te the government would
only be a trillc as compared with the ulti
mate benefits derived. The less every
year te the farmers of the United States,
from insects only, amounts te millions of
dollars.
Mr. Engle regarded Dr. Greene's essay
as a valuable one, and especially urged
farmers te test the merits of the Pyreth
rum. Casper Hitler read an exhaustive essay
en the cultivation of corn.
The essay was discussed at great length
by P. S. Reist, Dr. Greene, Henry 31.
Engle, J. C. Linville, Wm. H. Brosius,
C. L. Hunsccker and President Witmer.
Verily, corn is a subject that makes folks
loquacious, whether in the hill, the shock,
the crib, the silo, the distillery or the tav
ern !
Reeks Presented.
I. L. Landis presented the society with
two bound volumes of the Religious Farm
er, published in 1823-9.
Mr. Engle presented copies of the re
pert of the State Beard of Agriculture,
report of Pennsylvania Fruit Growers' se-
ciety, and
Agriculture
of Pennsylvania,
1880.
Seeds and 3Tuts Distributed,
Dr S. S. Rathven presented for distri
bution packages of squash seeds.
Levi S. Reist presented abent a pint of
very large chestnuts, grown from a tree
planted by himself.
Exchange or Reports.
On motion Mr. Engle was authorized te
make exchanges of the reports of the
beard of agriculture and ether Pennsyl
vania publications for similar reports pub
lished by ether states.
' Jehn H. Landis stated that be had the
names of the members of the society at
the head of his list of these te whom he
distributed state documents, and he
would endeavor te supply all in his own
district with the agricultural reports,
and, if possible, these residing in the
Northern district.
A Lite Membership.
- Iu consideration of the many valuable
works presented by Jehn H. Landis te the
society, and in acknowledgment of his
untiring zeal in furthering the iuterests of
farmers, 3Ir. Engle moved that Mr. Lan
dis be elected a life member of the so
ciety. The motion was unanimously agreed te,
and 3Ir. Landis briefly ackuewledgad the
compliment.
Adjourned.
Main- sink Inte an early grave by net giving
immediate attention te a slight ceujjh, which
euld have been stepped in time by a 25 cent
bottle et Dr. Bull's Ceujh Syrup.
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at public sale at Philip Wall's Green Tree
hotel. West King street, Lancaster cit7, thn
following described real estatc. te wit :
All that certain let or piece et ground situate
en the south -side of West King street. Lancas
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street. 66 lect 4 inches, mere or less, extending
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feet wide nlley In the rear & feet, mere or lest,
upon which let et ground are erected a double
one story Brick Dwelling Heuse. Ne. 521 West
King street, a Frame Pottery Warehouse, Ne.
528: uNe another smaller Warehouse, Petter'
Kiln, Hydrant, Fruit Trees aud etbxr improve
ments thereon.
Terms cash en Oct. 1, 131, upeu purchaser
giving approved security.
sale te commence at VA o'clock p. in., of said
day, when attendance will be given by
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