Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1851-03-12

Is the object for which the Society was organized
tof sufficient Importance to demand the general
Isupport of our citizens Will they be rewarded
for their labor and money? What is the promis-
led reward? 1t is not the premium offered
This of itself would be wholly unworthy of
the contest of an intelligent COmmunIty-it is not
the small prize, by any means, that each one re
ceiyes for having exceled his nc ghbor in husband
ry or agriculture =: but it is nothing less than re-
storing to our WORKOUT lands their wonted fertili
.ty. The only question to be determined IS. VIII
the Society do what it promises: Experience here
is the only safe teacher. We are told by those IN
other parts of the country where Agricultural So
cieties have existed for 20 or 30 years, that they
have more than doubled the value Of lands.-
1t is well known that we depend wholly and en-
trey upon the products OF our farmers for our sup
port-we have other resources to fall back up
on III Charles county-eyery other occupation but
that of tilling the soil is a vampire upon the pro-
ducts of the labor Of the planter and farmer
Others are useful in society, yea, absolutely ne
cessary, but they are only consumers. The earth
is the kind and generous mother that supplies our
every want, and shall we refuse our liberal benc-
factor a liberal return, If we do, it needs not
prophetic spirit to forec the result penUry and
want must be the Inheritance of our children.
Many fields that were rich and fertile are now
abandoned as sterile and worthless. The proofs
of bad hllsbandry, fellow citizens, everywhere
observable, and if such things to be seen in the
''green tree, what must they be in the dry; - or,
if you groan under your present wants and dlill
cutles, arising from the unproductlvencss OF your
lands, while you enjoy almost an exclusive market,
what will be your condition when the energies Of
the young giant that is growing up In the great
valley of the West shall have attained sufficient
strength to rend the rocks and level the mountains
that have environed and protected you and shall
bring the products of that valley through the magic
of steam, and heap them in your markets, at
cost Of transportation low your own This
is question of vast Importance to you. This
change must come, and how viii you meet it =
VIII you forsake the land of your fathers and the
home of your childhood, or will you prepare for
the crisis, you may, By waking up to the spirit
of the age and bringing your land to that state of
fertility it once possessed.
Friends of the Society, having already pro-
tracted this communication beyond what was in
tended, the Treasurer viii say few more words
upon the moral bearing which it is believed
this Society is calculated to have upon the com
munity. He believes there is a higher and no
bier object to be promoted by the influence of this
Society than even that of increasing the value Of
your lands beautifying your homes. He be-
lieves that it calculated to excite spirit of laud
able emulation throUghou the community that will
draw men away from those great thoroughtares
to ruin, where the idle and disspated love to meet
and throw away the golden hours of life in the
employment of cheating each other out
Of their money, ifthey have any-ofstupifying their
senses-hardeni thei: hearts, and dcbasine them
selves below the swine in the gutter. ldleness
is the prolific mother that nurses every crime that
disgraces nature. A single day Of sober and
useful industry, with self-approving conscience,
yield more real joy than lifetime OF dissipating
pleasures Remember :sthere is way that seem
eth right unto a man, the end thereof is death"
The Treasurer will close with invitation to
all the friends Of agriculture and industry to join
this Society, and may plenty crown your labors
and contentment sweeten them to good old age.
Feb. 1851. L. w. DAY. Treasurer.