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8-18-48 - 984th meeting
Questions:
Stanley Stabler - Our Apple are spotty and our orchard is not big enough for us to own our own sprayer. What should we do? Dig it out, buy a sprayer, or continue with the Farm Bureau spray plan?
Answer:
Several memeber had had a similar situations and had just let them it go. W.W. Moore, and Orchardist, said cut them down because 100 trees were too few to look after.
Stanley said that 1/3 acre of Senaca Chief sweet corn so far has yielded 200 doz. ears and about 100 doz. yet to be pulled. It was planted 2 grains per each 14". Comment - Good season and lots of fertilizer.
Drew- My 10 pigs have eaten 2,960 lbs. of corn at $118.52; 220lbs of meat scrap at $13.20; Veterinarian $1 and costing $150 making a total cost of $282.72. What will they weigh?
Answer Between 145 and 155 lbs. Nice pigs.
Albert Stabler: With cheap quality 400lb. cattle, wouldn't it be better to sell them when grass is gone, and then sell the corn and hay? Answer: Opinion as to whether to sell or rough through the winter was divided. Several suggested 2 lbs of grain daily.
Dr. Bird - he persuaded a farmer to plant a large fild of corn and so the farmer then wanted a $55 corn cutter. Doc. gave him the cash for it. It is the kind that cuts and then dumps it in a pile.
Answer: The Club was not too keen about that type because it was better for short corn than long corn and besides the stalks have to be picked up off the ground.
Maurice Stabler - for a number of years he sowed Crimson clover and turnips in the truck patch. Last year he was unable to sow the clover so barley was planted instead, with good results. What should be done to furnish a sthe same food value to the ground that was furnished by the clover?
Answer: Put on a nitrogen fertilizer and use manure with the barley. His tomatoes were so blighted that only about 1 in 10 was good.
Mr. Todd suggested a metalic copper 7% dust. Other good dusts are also available. Experiments are being made to produce blight-proof varieties.
Lofton Wesley - His garden was worked with a rotatiller but afterwards the ground was too soft and wet to go over again after sowing the seed.
Was any harm done the seed?
Answer: No. The rain cover the seeds.
Brook Moore - What happens after plowing too wet?
Anser: Its own weight makes it pack too tight. It sometimes takes several years to get such land back in shape. Remedy: Sow barley and put on manure to lighten. Plaw in Fall and leave it rough.
George Willson Jr. - Has a few good pigs for sale at this time.
Jack Bentley -Noticed several onion crops that did not go to seed. Was it hail?
Answer: Some years onions will seed more than in other years. No specific reason other than that given.
Francis Thomas - Reported for Walter Wilson that six steers, costing $550 and averaging 500 lbs. per head, weighed 910 lb. each when sold, netting $1770 for the lot.
Unanamous comment, "wish that they had been mine". Francis has a small
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piece of land choked with sweet potato vine. Will 2 - 4 D kill them?
Answer - Yes, but the treatment should be repeated.
P. G. Ligon - Land is ready for lime, expect to put on 1 ton of ground limestone per acre. Should burnt lime also be put on?
Answer: Sow either and work in well.
Lofton Wesley - When should Lespedesia be cut for hay?
Answer: Cut about Sept. 1st. Mineral block can be bought at Whites at Norbec, made by Swift & Co.
S. H. Todd - What is rye worth? Osborn Stabler has some at $2.50 per bushel. How do rye and vetch compare with crimson clover?
Answer: Very well, but must be plowed under before rye has a hollow stem and it is still soft.
Is it advisable to dust fruit?
Answer: Has not been too satisfactory so far but dusts are being improved so that it does not wash off so easily.
Frank Willson - Has a Ford mower and other Ford equipment for sale.
Adjourned to meet with L. S. Wesley.
Albert Stabler Jr. Sec. pro-tem
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September 17, 1948 - 985th Meeting
The Enterprize Club
The club met with L.S. Wesley six days late due to the annual Montgomery County Horse Show on the regular date from meeting.
Many members + guests were loaded into the farm truck for a tour of the farm. Alloway farm has been converted during the last few years to a grassland farm. The secretary was not with the group on the truck making the inspection, but he is well familiar with the luscious pasture over most of the farm. Orchard grass in combination with lespedeza or ladino clover forms a good part of the acreage, and this plant, which is considered a weed by several members of our club, carries more stock for more days and keeps them in better condition than any other part of crop of the farm. Liberal use of lime + fertilizer has contributedto the productive state of the farm.
The secretary and some other straglers caught up with the rest of the group at the farm pond which has been constructed since our last meeting here. This pond which covers about 1 acre was made with bulldozers and is fed by several
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small springs. The overflow emptier threw an 8 inch triple tube. The banks are nicely seeded to grass. It makes an ideal place for swiming + boating as many of the neighbors who have been priveleged to use it have found. It has also been stacked with fish + later should provide much in the way of sport + food.
Other items of interest were the herd of Angus cows + calves, the mares + pony colts, hogs, buildings, etc. The whole farm showed most attractively.
After supper the meeting was called to order by the and the following absentee were noted: Wm Gilpin, M.J. Stabler and Hurry. We were happy to have with us our two senior members Albert Stabler + G.A. Wilson both of whom had been indisposed.There was large number of guests, in fact too many for the secretary to try to list.
The minutes of the the last meeting at Alloway were read and those of the August meeting read + approved.
L.S. Wesley + P.G. Ligon were appointed to prepare a memorial to T. Lamar Jackson who died two days before the meeting.
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The secretary was asked to write Mrs. Patterson expressing the loss felt by Agriculture in the passing of Dr. Patterson who was for many years a Director of the Experiment Station and a regular attendant of many of our farm meetings, particularly the Farmers Convention.
Crop prices were quoted as follows:
Wheat $2.24 Lambs - no quote
Corn { Old $10.00 New 6.00 Calves - 29 - 33
Hay 25.00 Apples - 2.25 - 3.50
Alfalfa 30.00 from field Potatoes - 2.25 - 3.00
Cattle 33 - 34 Eggs - 60 - 65
Baby beef had brot $41.00
Hogs 30.50
In comments on the high prices it was attention was called to the it was pointed out that costs were also exceptionally high. Instances sighted were: Grain drill $500.00, Fertilizer $40.00 T, + labor 1.00 per hour.
Our chairman expressed the thought that labor + other costs should be quoted in our minutes. It was moved that the president appoint a committee to work up a cost report on the production of crops: M J Stabler, G R Canby, + F S Gilpin were named to the committee.