Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1872-02-23
The immigration Fever.

The following from the Baltimore Sun, en-
bodies just what we would say to every young
man in Maryland, and We trust il may have
the effect of convincing those who read it that
after all the good things said of the great
West, this section of Maryland offers the best
inducements 10 those who have mind 10
work for living:
THE OLD HOMES.
One of the best things yet published by the
New York Farmers Club is Il communication
from citizen of Iowa, who. after many years
OF residence i'll the most desirable portions of
the great West, gives his Judgment as to the
place 10 live and farm ill., We wish it could
be read by every young man east Of the
mountains. While We are dcvising diligently
the meaEs of bringing within our borders IL
foreign population we lose far too many OF
our own people, who, in the very prime and
vigor Of life, betako themselves to distant
States, under the false impression that there
are quicker and better wa,s there TO fortune,
and 10 what is called success in life. This
writer tells plain tale, and while giving his
own experience, gives also, we do not doubt,
that Of thousands Of others like him.
lie was born in Delaware, and at nineteen
years OF age emigraed to the State of OHIO -
later he went farther west. lie went into
Minnesota and thence into Wisconsin, where
he iarmed dozen years. by this time, he
says, he began to consider what he had made
by these changes. To he sure he had large
crops in Wisconsin, but he learned that "mau
cannot live by bread alone, and he sighed for
the hesh-pois of Egypt. lie began to reflect
how near he had oncel lived TO Philadelphia,
Baltimore and New York, and that to consider
what grain he had to sell thru could go TO
market for five 10 seven cents "A bushel, while
in Wisconsin he must pay tweuty-eight cents
to get it TO Milwaukee aud then about forty TO
New York
But this was not all he had left also the
peaches, apples, pears, cherries, &c, with the
iinny trbes-the much-loved and longed for
oysters, yea, aud all the privileges of the At
lantic coast. From Wisconsin he goes into
middle Iowa, and after three years there hc
says: g This is good country; | think it
much better thnn northern Wisconsin. think
Iowa is as good as any oher.of the Western
States ishave no fault to find with the State
or climate, but ! do not like to work SO hard
as do to build up this railroad and ware
house monopoly. II was where ! WIS once,
lsshould bc clear of them and ] do believe
that that neck Of land lying between the Del
aware and Chesapeake bays is just as good II
country as there is on this American conti-
nent. ! should recommend every industrious
young man that has the privilege Of staving
on the homestead to stay there, or if he can
get hold Of one Of those old worn-out Mary
land or Virginia filrms, to take il in preference
TO any Of these prairie farms ] would rather
build up one of those old Atlantic farms than
make new -one two thousand miles from the
coast Don't be afraid Of the poor land
lime and clover will make it produce just as
much corn and wheat as any land in the Miss
issippi Valley. | sny 50 from experience
We have said the same thing very often
without experience, and we heartily wish our
enterprising young men would learn wthous
that costly teacher that there are better
homes to be found than the Gold homes" OF
Maryland and Virginia.