Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1850-02-27
For the Port Tobacco Times.

For the Port Tobacco Times.
Mr.. EDITOR: My attention has recently
been called to notice, by the "fiagerstowu
News" Of certain resolutions relative 10 the
sale and measurement Of Wheat in the "mar-
kets of this State," adopted by the Charles
County Agricultural Society at it's las, An
nual Meeting That paper is pleased to
sheer al the s'strange move," as j, terms il,
and chuckle over its invidious comparison
between the Wheat grown in the upper and
lower counties Of Mary land and to COM
plain tina, no 'reason" is given in the reso-
Iutions for the repeal of The existing law.
1t is certainly neacs to the farmers of Charles,
that they ever contemplated enhancing the
value of their Wheat, or other products, BY
depreciating that of their sister counties, or
any other, but it is not news to them tina, a
large portion of the public press Of the
Country, with a very few honorable excep-
lions, are always ready TO pander to the
powerful and blealed mercantile interest,
including Of course, the large and wealthy
wheat and -four merchants, at the expense
Of the farming and planting interest.
am not aware, Mr.. Editor, that it is
usual, or expected, that resolutions should
be extended to heightened arguments, but
rather, that they are considered as texts, or
bases for argument and action. If The Ed-
tor Of the ''News" will wait for the report
Of the Committee to which the resolutions
were referred, he doubtless will find Urea
sons" both weighty and suf1icien, for The
"s,range move" of the Charles County Ag-
ricultural Society. In advance, however, Of
the report of the Committeeman ! beg
pardon for henching upon their privileges
- will say that the principal reason is to
guard and protect themselves against the
gross frauds practlced upon them in the
weighing of their Wheat by the wheat mer-
chants of Baltimore, who have the whole
game in their own hands, and suffered with
impunity and without murmur by the Far
mers' Commission Merchants. We propose
and prefer the struck measure, because the
skipper who freights our Wheat to market,
has an interest from his responsibility to the
Farmer, to see it fairly measured when de-
ivered to the purchaser. The people Of
Charles have no merchant mills, either large
or small, within their limits, and therefore
do not possess the advantage and conve-
nience of personally experimenting the sale
and delivering Of their Wheat as is so easily
and generally done by the Farmers of the
upper counties Of the State, but are COM
PEELED to ship to dis.an, markets, and almost
exclusively to Baltimore, and take the
chances of being most egregiousIy cheated
in the weight.
freely admit, Mr.. Editor, What has al
ways been conceded, tina, The Wheat grown,
in upper Maryland, owing To- soil and eli
mate, may, and possibly does outweigh
that of lower Maryland, but by no means
admit i. 10 the extent that the Editor of the
News" seems to imply, provided ours be
fairly dealt by !; though the existing state Of
things fully jus.ifes his comparison, for the
reason that the people of Washington are
cons an,ly in the habi. Of weighing or see
ing theirs weighed when sold, and the peo-
pie of Charles never, except at their own
barns when about to send it to market, and
are invariably disappointed when they re-
ceive account Of sales. Yet, hazard no
hing in asserting that the Wheat of lower
Maryland, and southern Wheat generally,
weight for weight, will yield more aud
better -four than any grown north of US.
In conclusion, Mr.. Editor, | will venture
the hint, tina, there is more Sin the wind'
Than the IIagersown News, and wheat mer-
chants and commission merchants are a.
ware Of. RUFFIN.
February 20, 1850.