The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1874-07-11
Communicated.
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A great country is the United States Travel
West from the Atlantic as far as the length oil
England and Scotland together and there are
families moving "out West and many more
waiting for opportunity to sell their homes and
follow. The villages contribute some every year
and the towns, in addition to the working class
have capitalists leaving old associations to hunt
up new fields for speculation. A banker from a
chief town in what used to be thought the far
West has just gone to California Sin search of a
home and is sending some interesting accounts
Of that extremity of the continent.
Climate is greatly preferable for heat is fifteen
degrees less there than here and the winters very
much more than correspondingly warmer, so that
it may be well for every one influenced by the
general idea of the great things to be done out
West to have some clear knowledge OF what they
are about to achieve by going.
The first consideration after being satisfied the
land is of the best on which operations commence
in inland States, is the price of what can be raised
for if 60 bushels of shelled corn can be easily
grown per acre and sells for 20 cents per bushel
it would be about the same thing to grow only
20 bushels per acre in the East, and it must be
recollected that in few years the yield falls of
under the common and usual custom of cropping
without the slightest attempt to manure and ren-
ovate.
The farmers keep their corn much better cult
VateQ In the west, at least midway west, lot
they have taken out Of the soil all the first rich
plant food, and the virgin soil, as it is so often
called is like a virgin having borne rapid success
sion of fruit, becomes faded and careful cultva-
ton is indispensable, but after awhile expensive
| dressing would have to be resorted to. But
| though in fashionable life husbands spend thous
| ands upon thousands in keeping up their wives
| to the Standard the husDandman despols his irs
love and having exha uSted the strength and fruit
| fulness he remorseesSly forsakes the remnant OF
former loneliness to be despised and trampled on
by the lowest class of clod-hoppers while he seeks
fresh and blooming successor which is served
ia the same unfeeling way by which time the
husbandman's career comes to a close and he
having done naught but evil in robbing the earth
is forced by nature 10 give his worthless body al
the only rec0mpense to the dust he has all his lift
been injuring. Dust to dust-or if cremation be
! comes general it will be ashes to ashes. A very
| small return i0r d Ileume etppioy --t =: :
ing the surface of the earth.
| Out West is not what it is supposed to be-
Women complain in the East and not withou
reason, on farms where help is boarded. But il
is the farmers wife who has the cause to fine
fault with her lot in life, for female help is OF thu
worst kind Here the farmers wives still have
slavish life and have toSmllk exceptingiperhap'
month in harvest when girl is hired for ST.
| per week and she has to work for that from A
| NJ. till to l04 P. NJ without intercessoR milk
| ing the cows and not having any time TO sew fol
| herself and sometimes barely minute to wash
and straighten her hair.