Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1875-03-12
agricultural Column.
How Farming in Maryland may be
Improved.

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Daniel Webster
.Messrs. Editors american Farmer.
In 1852, Lord Baltimore landed OF
the st. Mary's river, St. Mary's county
Maryland, with colony Of Englishmen
The ancient city Of st. Mary's" was
built at this place, the only remains OIL
which is an Episcopal church, . Trim
ty," and depressions here and there,
representing the cellars Of bygone days.
Tobacco has been the staple crop Of
the counties of lower Maryland on the
Western shore. In Western Maryland,
wheat has been the money crop. Both
wheat and tobacco are expensive crops.
The continued cultivation of tobacco
and wheat has reduced the fertility Of
the soil of our State to such an extent
that many of our old families have sold
out and moved to the West.
We often see in the papers accounts of
the immense crops in the West, the
great fertility Of Western soils, &c, &c
For instance, in a Hagerstown paper,
last week, it is stated that a Mr.. Roth
rauff, Of Macon county, Illinois, assisted
by his six sons, made last year, on two
hundred and sixty-6ve acres, fifteen
thousand bushels Of corn. Each of the
seven men cultivated 81 6--7 acres Of
land, that yielded ffty-six bushels of
corn to the acre.
John d. Welty, one Of our county
men, made some years ago, one hundred
and twenty-six bushels Of corn to the
acre.
d. H Reiff. another of our citizens,
made last year sixty-seven bushels of
corn to, the acre, on some forty acres.
Samuel Shiaer, another Of our citizens,
made last year, seventy-two bushels Of
corn to the acre, on field Of twelve
acres. The field was lined few years
ago--not MANFRED.
David Zelle., another one Of our citi-
zens. made, some twenty years ago, on
field of thirty acres, ninety bushels Of
corn to the acre
I heard froma reliable source that the
farm of the Hon. Frederick Watts, the
Commissioner Of Agriculture, has made
repeatedly, at Carlisle Penn. ninety to
one hundred bushels Of corn to the acre.
A Mr.. Moore, of Carroll county,
Maryland made, some years ago, one
hundred and fifty bushels Of corn to the
acre
Samuel L. Brooke, Of Prince Georges
county. Maryland, made, some years ago,
one hundred and ten bushels of corn to
the acre, on field of forty acres.
John Simons, of St. Mary's county,
Maryland, made, some fifty years ago,
one hundred and twcnty-eight bushels
and one peek Of corn to the acre.
The above facts indicate that the CHI
mate and soil of Maryland are well
adapted to the cultivation Of corn Corn
IS now worth in Baltimore eighty cents
per bushel Mr.. Shiiler's corn would
sell for fifty-seven dollars to the acre.
Twenty to thirty bushels of wheat to
the acre is good crop. Thirty bushels
Of wheat, at one dollar and twsnty cents
per bushcl, is worth thirty-six dollars
1t costs ten dollars an acre, including
interest on land, to cultivate an acre in
wheat. The cost Of cultivating an acre
in corn, and housing the corn. would
cost five dollars per acre
Tobacco and wheat arc liable to seri-
GUS injury and may be lost after they are
made by neglect, inattention, misman-
agement. or exposure to the weather.
But corn, when made, may be kept in
pens, and may be safely left in the fields
for several weeks.
A farmer in Indiana, last year. sold
one hundred fat hogs. weighing three
hundred pounds each, at seven dollars per
hundred -twenty-one hundred dollars.
d. II. Reiff, of our county. sold this
winter one hundred fat hogs, part in
Philadelphia, for ten dollars and fifty
cents per hundred.
1t is time for our farmers, like s'the
tempest-tossed mariner, to take latitude,
and to determine whether in the future,
us in the past wheat and tobacco shall
be our money crops.
crop, manure well, cultivate thoroughly.
and feed our corn to hogs, to cattle and
to sheep, we could make large quanti-
ties of manure, and large crops Of corn
and wheat and grass. Good pork, or
beef, or mutton, will bring good price.
It is easier to make fifty bushels of
corn than twenty bushels of wheat to the
acre.
Our system of farming has impover-
ished the soil of the State very much
but yet our farmers take from the soil
all they can--they restore to the soil
comparatively nothing
In England the crop of wheath has been
doubled in the past thirty years. In
our State, the crop is much smallers
In England they buy cattle, buy and
feed our corn, our wheat. our q oil cake, ?
and buy and use our bones; manure
making is carefully studied and attend
ed to. We make no manure.
The demand for our meat has in
creased. The Chinese prefer our beef
and pork to rats and mice. Well-fed
cattle and hogs, make quantities Of
manure, and the manure-bank is the
farmers best friend. A plenty of good
manure secures to the farmer good crops
Of corn, wheat, hay. potatoes. every
thing.
In the West, this year, money is
plenty. because the Western farmers
have meat to sell. In our State money