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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