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From Baliimare Americin Farmer
EFFECTS OF IMPROVING lands


mad intpndsd scnlng You the enclosed copy baf re
scntt 10 tho local paper Il the csups. bot resident
friends requested otherwise. DR. Black vas one OF the
early friends Of the old American Farmer and was. with
al me Of jealous friends Of agriculture. His rodc
ZION has been 50 nearly verified that thopgh tho
and remarks would be acceptable 10 you AMI your read
that account have sent them, the remarks
apply well Ia Maylapd and Mlrylaal farmers as 10
Delaware and Delaware fsflners
NJ EpIroR - \ few WEEKS since ! received Ilr ugh
The posi-ai,e at Md9leiawn, from m unknown friend.
crry ii he tra,Sacoas Of an ancient Agricultural 81
clety nj the cnrniy If New Castle. Tho friend wha
sent will plcase accept thanks.
Tbs valuable relic besrs dae he is=. Monday Of No
VENT. 1919. George Clark. ESD Wee President IN
le char. he meeting appears 10 have been the last
ne held Is the sJc,sy The names Of forty nine mem
apie- On II. pages Of whrh Nc n5or ren only are
a5w living.
The NOS, Interesting par, Of The transactions thai
ray, 70 have been tho reading Of an Essay by
A. Blsek. NJ D, ls,e of Psncad-r Hundred The sub
lrci .,he inirins value OF land >" treated
zhle and satisfactory manner The Doctor gave depo
raole picture II he Agriculture of New Casio county.
Is pursued BIZ the farmers that time. But poor the
lrds OF DoiaNare hen were. and bad tho system uf
culture was he believed that by better course, with a
So u-e OF line, snwiag ciaFer and plaster, and resort
1eeP puehins ,lhe land could he made 10 produce,
asla nay Interest Of five hundred dali1rs per acre.
r~ ha 81 q seed and usse. In pfobf Of the fact.
.e feaiea experiment made by himself on lot 4
grea number If acres when fully snsiaaed his cllcula
ons. the thea prices. which ruled high W b'ng
after the future Of the cops Of 1916, an which
as fJlows Wheat 81 per bushel; Corn Is cents per
bushel; Oats 50 per bushel At tho the Dc
improved his lots lie paid AS rer hurl1ed bushels
10, lime. which was hauled ten miles h m THE kiln The
hand, hut just previous the daie OF his Essay he had
lme offered him at 35 cents per bushe The Doctot
venlureI the prediction that he should live only TWEEN
" years from that date, he would 30 able buy lnic at
iriy Ner cent less
Land, in New Castle county al tina, timt ranged frum
Ave IN twenty dollars per Slace then some Of the
best lands in the State which cannot now be had Cor If
y sold far less than four liars per sore and lime
has been hfaagh rom the Sthayklli aud landed up n
shores. At from twelve 10 thirteen cents per busc
I'e ID ct1r also aloded 10 the morals Of tho country
an tie feet prof able system of agriculture would
hayeupn the people in ihs Respect Several Of his PIE
dicions have long since been realized withn the reco.
ect IN 81 many of us One VI The orderly and thri
wing villages Ia this county ot,he PRESENT day, was ,hr
y Yeas ago. considered dangerous to stop al.
Believing that the entire pamphlet would be very in.
'eresing 10 The tanners of The present day. but know.
ing that its great length would exclude II from
the columns OF newspaper, | lave copied of one
o the last pages, in foil conf ence tina, II will he read
with much ineIes, ny many of our farmers. who had not
the pleasure Of personal acquaintance with DR. Black
and who uniformed 10 the state Of agriculture in
'hs county at that period.
was pleased with your remarks the susceptibility
ri Improve nent of the lands Of Kent and Sussex coun-
'9s. have letter giving information Il Improvements
1a by L. Z McColly In SUSSEX county, where he has
'2.Hn thirty bushels OF wheat from the acte-benr an
,'erage OF the whole yield and this from land - poor
dew years since as 10 he turned out as a common, in
Which STATE thousands of in the county vet remain
Governor iharp informs me that he has taken ninety
SIX bushels OF corn from the the average of field
winch was formerly an nnsghily and unhealthy bog
" have often heard Of the large ops of j. Jenkins
Supple, and fenniwe and others in the vicinity of D.
yer and Ceadsn
Such impTovers Of the soil as have spoken Of may
well be considered as pnbr benrfacters and had one
such man (Cr. Black for nsance) done but tyhe as
much or hrs country the battlefield as he has in the
corn field and morasses Of Delaware testimonials of
nde IN the way of swords and public honois wvuM have
been freely offered, and his portrait perhaps hung 10 in
The halls oi STATE Yet with shame be il said that not
even Daguereoiype likeness of tller of the soil eou
be he'd even though by his exertiuns and exampe he
may have added millions TO the wealth Of the state and
community. No testimonials of gratitude. no Office ol
profit or honor can be given to the plain famer wha,ev
rr services hemay have rendered, or whatever oua6ca
tons he may possess.
But TO to the subject have heard of one Of those
extraordinary, casual crops, semelines produced wher
all circumstances Of soil seed manure and season. agree
which may here be noted This was a case where The
lo had been highly MANFRED upon heavy ploughed IL
swarth Of Andes grass well put in. The produce wa,
seventy bushels to the acre We read Of heavier Yields
in Eagland, but am of th,se who think that a.
large crops may be produced in Kent as can be raised
whete, II all things favorable. The case above ctet
Is an example,
Respectfully, yours,
Extract from the .idcrew Of DR.. S. H. Black deoereo
before the agricultural Society Of .Ne,c Castle coua
fy, November 1919.
And, finally. think myself warranted in the con
clnson First That from the situation Of our land gen
orally, in this county, the present time when cuiva
'ed by The owner according TO the prevailing mode, il