Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1857-12-03

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perhaps, to the production of wines. Much
: attention has been paid, for several years,
: to the manufacturing Of wines, in7some Of
, the Southern and Western States, from ma
tive grapes; and that branch of industry
! has been well rewarded. They undoubt-
! eddy produce a true and sound wine, and
; many connoisseures affect to rank them with
the. best Of Rhennish and French Wines, to
! which they are assimilated i but in my un-t
cultivated taste confess to decided pre-
ference for 'sold Madeira, johannesburg, y
and real champagne" '1a.. .aa ~ - .I.tf
The moral aspect of the question the
growing Of wholesome native wines, is, how
ever, well worthy Of serious consideration.
The extensive production and use Of light
wines is, well calculated to check the fearful
progress of intemperance amongst us /; for
it is well established fact that the natives
of wine producing Provinces are less addicted
to that vice than those of non producing
countries. The evils of intemperance have
been greatly aggravated. by the recent. use of
deadly poisons in the process Of distilling and
manufacturing Fictitious spurious liquors. 1t.
is stated that, owing to this cause, 1deleriuns
tren,e'ss is a much more common, and far
more unmanageable, disease than formerly
and it is said that very pure I.whiskey or
brandy cannot now be obtained If this be so
it will do more for the cause Of temperance
than all the Maine laws that could be enact
ed, or than the moral suasion of all the sstee-
total societies in existence. It was difficult
to persuade a man that there was any great
evil in glass of 'told Monongahela'-n
perhaps was there if used in moderation. -
A, Bishop of the English Church was once
asked IF certain quantity of spirits would
do a man any harm 7" f.No," was the re-
ply; 'it is the uncertain quantity that does
the mischief Butin these daysone should
hesitate before taking even a certain qata'ati-
ty unless he carries with him an antidote for
the istrychnine in the cup Thus, in the
end, good may come out Of evil. -, - =
The, farmer has many difficulties to en-
counter in the prosecution of his profession,
and should the seasons continue for num-
Der of years as unfavorable as the two last
have been the cultivation Of wheat, hereto
fore so profitable in Maryland, will have to
De abanuUHeu anu some tuner crop nc Sup-
stituted in its place. The principal causes
Of injury to our staple productions have re-
suited from severe winters, dry, cold and
backward springs, and the ravages of the fly
and army worm. The causes are, apparent
T ly, beyond human control, but, if the two
last, as believe, are mainly dependent on
climate, then the primary evil may be some
what mitigated by the system of drainage to
which I have adverted. I have long thought
that we are every year alike liable to the
visitation of these destructive insects, and
that the injuries they inflicted were owing
to the peculiarly of the seasons. One thing
is certain the severest winters do not des-
troy the ova Of the Hessian fly; and their:
appearance in the autumn is not always fol-
lowed by serious consequences to the crop.
Should the plant not be thrown out by freez-
ing and thawing, and should the early spring
prove propitious to it's rapid and vigorous
growth, there is but little danger to be APP
pretended from the presence Of fly. as
sumo shat the fly makes its appearance and
deposits its egg euery fall and spring; but
that under: Favorable circumstances the plant,
outgrows its efforts to destroy: and the same
may be said of the army worm. Close,
moist, hot weather, such as we had in the
beginning Of last June, will be sure to de-
velope its myriad hosts. Such at least has
been the result of my experience for many
years past. 1.-THE premises be correct, then
a thorough system of drainage, by which
the Throwing OUT of the wheat is avoided
and it's growth quickened by warmer and
drier SOIL places to some considerable ex-
tent the remedy in our own hands. ,.
But there are other and perhaps greater
evils than those, to which we are subjected.
We are prey to the ravages of more for
midable enemies than the q and the army
worm, who remorselessiy eat up our sub
stance I mean the Bears not my gentle
hearers, the savage animals described by
naturalists under the classification of the
genus Ursus, but the wild beasts who fire.
quent the corn exchanges Of our commercial
cities The greatest curse to the farmer is
the speculator in breadstufs, who sells large
ly on time, perhaps not a bushel Of grain or
barrel of flower for actual delivery, and then
sets to work, by the. moving power Of mo-
ney, the commercial press to lower prices.
The farmer may recognize in rayaged fields
and the blight of teeming harvests, the dis
pensations of an All-wise Proyidence-who
overrules everything for good-perhaps as
punishment for sins committed or duties
unperformed, but it sorely tries his patience
and forbearance to be told, in contradiction
to the evidences of his senses, that he has
made large crops, and that therefore zono
prices must rule-until he has sold the mea-
gre fruits of his toll, and then, presto there
is a marvellous change in the tune, and it is
suddenly discovered that the crops were
short the last season @ A'Ff.