Club Minutes: Enterprise Farmers Club, 1865-1872

Qeus 1st How much is it worth to plow new ground Ans About double, the ordinary price per acre 2nd my corn feild [sic] is very rough or clod[d]y shall I rub roll or harrow it now or wait untill [sic] the corn comes up. Ans. 5 would wait until the the corn comes up and then Two as soon as the ground is harrow 1 would harrow at oncev 1 would not fit 7 would roll 1 don[']t know Ans 12 would keep the cow 3 would not -- there was considerable expression on this Question, and it was thought well to do all in our power to make our help as comfortable as possible

4 Would you sow dissolved bone on corn land before planting or after. Ans It was thought it would not make any difference in the effect

5^th How many sow plaster on grass Ans -- 13 -- sow 3 do not

6^th Has the land of any member become bone sick. Charles H Brooke has a feild [sic] that has had 36 bu^s of bone per acre and the grass is poor

Ans He was advised to top dress with stable manure & plaster and pasture

7^th How shall I plant corn for fodder Ans In drills about 2 ½ feet apart so it can be cultivated, plant as soon as possible.

8^th Shall I haul my manure (that collects in the horse stables) out during the summer or wiatuntill fall Ans. 11 would haul out as fast as made ^{on grass} 2 would keep all manure and put it on the wheat ground after it is plowed, 1 don't know

We now went into an election for Joseph. T. Moore to fill the place of the six teenth member of this Club as decided by a vote taken 2nd mo[nth] 24th 1872 -- and pos[t]poned from time to time -- which resulted in his being unamiouslyelected.

Adjourned to Granville Farquhar's 6th 15th

Wm. W. Moore

-- 15th of 6th 1872 [June 15, 1872] -- -- The club met at Olney --

At 4 P. M. when the meeting was called to order by Frederick Stabler as foreman there were 7 members present -- F Stabler -- Wm S Brooke R. B. Farquhar R. M. Stabler HOST Granville Farquhar Jos. T. Moore & Wm W. Moore

We ^had as guests Charles Farquhar, we read the minutes of the last meeting held at this place -- by the time we were ready to start on our walk our number was increased several and by the time we got back to the house all our members were present except two and we had two or three more guests.

On our walk we saw the cows all of which looked well and were said to be doing first-rate making over an average of 6 lbs of butter to the cow including the Alderney heifer. The pasture was very good and there was plenty of it even for this dry season

We crossed the corn feild to the mowing feild -- the corn stood well but was rather small -- the grass like most [e]very bodies was thin and not very high, we next came to another pasture field where we saw 3 nice colts

besides several nice hiefers [sic] & a large cow not yet fresh, passing on we went through the wheat which like the grass was rather thin and not very high -- though the head was quite large and well filled.

We stopped to try the merits of some cherri[e]s which were pronounced first-rate -- the pigs in a new and well built house looked well & one very large blind sow was thought to be too fat for this hot weather The truck patch was noticed and thought to look well considering the drought -- It would not do to pass the ventilator in the corn house wi[t]hout noticing there was no corn arou[n]d it.

Qus [sic] 1st My Early Rose potatoes did not come up well shall I replant with corn Ans -- 15 would plant the ground with peach-blow potatoes one would replant with beans 1 with Cabbage

2nd What shall I plant in place of Sugar beets. ans No answer

3rd What style of horse shall we breed from Ans. Most of those present would prefer a Percheron or Canadian

horse to weigh about 1200 lbs two would 187 prefer the horse should weigh between 1400. 1500 lbs

4th How much Buck-wheat and I.X.L. shall I apply to the acre ans 3/4 of one bus of seed and from 100 to 1.50 lbs of I.X.L

5 What part of a hay crop do you expect ans about 1/6

6 How shall we manage our grass cut for Clover or wait for the thimothy ans 10 would cut for Clover 9 " wait for the thimothy 7. Can we not substitute some other grass for thimothy [sic] with Clover Ans Orchard grass was spoken of

8th How much is it worth to cut small wheat ans 5/1.75 5/1.50 5/1.25 1/2.00 1/1.40 1/1.70 per acre an average of 1.53 1/3 per acre

9 How much will Granville Farquhar[']s wheat make per acre ans 6/6 bus 4/5 bus 7/4 bus 1/8 1/4 bus per acr[e]

10 How to break calves from sucking each other ans a spiked muzzle was thought the best preventative

Adjourned to R. B. Farquhar 7th 20th 1872