The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1871-07-08

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apples arrive here, and in this way the
apple of Texas can be compared with the
apple of Maine, and in this way only can
this most valuable knowledge be sown
broadcast over the land. If an army needs
general for it's safeguard and protection,
how much more the agricultural masses
need a source where certain and reliable
knowledge can be obtained. We will sup
pose a young man intends to cultivate the
earth instead of a profession for an honor
able subsistence. We must remember that
we have belt of the earth's surface unlike
any other country on the face of the globe,
taking into account civilization and every
thing else which bears upon this point
The young man chooses to emigrate if he
is wise he will come to Washington and
learn all that is garnered here about the
locality he intends to make his future home.
He will learn about the cereals, fruits, and
textile plants that flourish best in the
chosen retreat. He will see the insect
which destroys in great part the result of
same kind of bird that will henceforth
prove his friend or foe. 1t is true this
branch of the tree of knowledge is still of
infant growth, but Commissioner Capron
and his efficient assistant corps are work
ing hard to make it become just what it
certainly is destined to be in the end. Con-
gress may harass and retard this grand
undertaking by Withholding the proper
appropriations. Congressman may sheer
in their ignorance at the scattering of
garden Seeds" but the time is certain to
come when this branch of the Government
will rank in dignity with the proudest, and
outrank in genuine usefulness every other.
In the extreme northern ATTITUDES of our
country, in the region where the Missis-
sippi river is begun, the American apple
has not tlourished well, owing to the brev-
ity of the fruitage season. Latterly the
Russian apple has been introduced by means
of the Department at Washington, and
very excellent fruit will now reward labor
in these remote and thinly- populated neigh
borhoods. 1t has been found by actual
experiment that fruit trees flourish best,
or get a foothold on the WORKOUT lands,
exhausted by tobacco and cotton, far easier
than any other vegetation. With very
small outlay, comparatively speaking, for
fetilizers, fruits will grow when cereals and
other plants can not be coaxed into sprout-
ing. When the tees advance to certain
size the leaves fall, and this also enriches
the earth. In little while the orchard
itself will begin to pay for the necessities
of its perfection. An orchard in this part
of the world is not an object of slow growth
Before the fruit-grower is hardly aware of
it his infant trees begin to bud and bios
som. Suppose the orchard is far removed
from market. In these days of canned
fruits nothing need be lost. American
canned fruits arc now one of the acknowl-
edged delicacies of the world, and the
demand million times exceeds the supply
Even Plus IN. eats brown bread and cam
ned peaches. And here opens glorious
avenue and reward to women. Only the
strongest of American women can become
farmers, for they have not the strength to
handle the spade and other instruments of
labor. But the weakest woman can plant
a tree, and whilst she is nursing her back
ache and neuralgia the tree will be growing
with very small care and attention. The
misguided women who are demanding the
ballot base one argument upon the fact that
there are SO few avenues open to subsist-
ence to women. The avenues are open,
but it is the women who halt and refuse to
enter. Let three hundred starving needle
women of New York organize and petition
A. T. Stewart, or any other benevolent
millionaire, to colonize them and place
them on some of the lands of the South
that can now be had almost for the asking,
and this most worthy charitable act of the
nineteenth century will be accomplished
Suppose A. #. Stewart rendered each
woman little assistance each year until
the trees began to be remunerative. Isn't
this greater wisdom than building orphan
asylums or homes for the poor? Take
care of the women, and there will be fewer
orphans, and no need of homes for the
poor. Women of small means can make
themselves independent by fruit culture
Oh the indispensable joy and comfort of
sitting under ones own vine and fig tree.
And yet this supreme pleasure can be
enhanced by the employing a pair of strong
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