Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1848-09-14

money. The Colonel is among the Iasl
who need to be told that the native and the
foreigner are growing wheat against him, on
cheap lands in the west, at rate SO cheap
as to require him TO make three to one to
keep way with them. How then must il
be with those who grow wheat in the old
States, subject to fifty and one hundred miles
of land transportation Is it not obvious
that whatever shuts up the coal mine, and
puts out the fire in the furnace, and stops
the loom, and stills the sound of the ham
mer on the anvil, drives those who are dev-
ing in the mines, and working in the foun-
dries, aud throwing the shuttle, aud lifting
the hammer, 10 60 where they can get land
for nothing, and make a bare subsistence
with the least amount of capital and labor,
thus not only ceasing 10 eat the famer's
wheat aud his corn, his bacon and his NUT
ton, but producing all these in superabun-
dance for themselves? Who, then, is his
greatest friend-he who tells him what he
knows already, that is, how to make poor
land rich, or he who endeavors To bring
about such a state Of things as will reward
him for enriching his land, and afford him
a good and steady market of consumers
close at hand?
Take Queen Anne's country, in the same
State, for another instance. There, too, the
population, in 1920, was 1852, and in
1910 it had sunk to 1868. Does any one
believe this retrograde movement is the re-
suit of any want of intelligence , Here too.
we understand, that son of our lamented
friend, Col. Emory, has very greatly in
creased the crops on that part of the pater-
nal estate which has fulIen under his man
agement. Blskeford, the beautiful estate
Of the late Governor Wright, (ano.her true
friend in days long gone by presents ano-
Their example of great value, as it proves tina,
capital will tell, when used with sagaci,y
and fearlessness, in agriculture, as it has
under the same mind in commerce. The crop
of wheat, which, under former owners, per-
haps never reached an average exceeding
fifteen bushels, went this year up to, and
perhaps something above, twenty-five to
the acre, which sold for SLIP per bushel
more than S2S to the acre, or yielding from
that part of the farm the interest on more
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be as large and as much increased in pro-
portion. Hence it is no. by lessons in 2rac-
teal agriculture, let US repeat, that such
neighborhoods need to be informed, so
much as they require to be told how those
who take our money for their manufactures
can be forced to cone and manufacture so
near our ploughs as that it shall be their
interest to take pay in the wheat and the
corn of US, who buy their Stops and haber-
dasheries, and coal and earlhern, and glass,
and hardware, and cutlery, and iron, and
leather, and linen manufactures, and plate,
and salt. and tin, and pewter, and silk, and
woollen, and small wares, all of which
should be made in our own country.
We have referred to farmers and to crops
of which we have heard by accident, and
that occur to us at the moment. We know
enough personally to say, that if we want
ed practical knowledge of agriculture gen.
orally, especially in the production of the
cereal crops, there is no place to which
we should repair with more confidence
than to the very counties whose popu-
iation, with their natural advantages, has
been thus diminishing. There can be no
want of either enterprise or intelligence,
where such men as the Goldsboroughs, the
Martins, the Stevens, the Hamblelons, the
Lloyds, or the Carmichaels, Chambers, and
Emorys reside. Still, there stand the fixed
facts'' staring us in the face-young men
moving away, while young women remain
single, though so charming that no change
could improve them, except-change OF
name.