The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1875-03-06
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The Farmer is the Founder OF
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From our Agricultural Correspondent
Climate.


Taking the whole of the United States, and
for nearly twenty years have lived in several
of them, Maryland stands first, and Towson-
town and vicinity will compare fayorably with
any other portion of that State. ofcourse there
are unhealthy parts, especially near the water
and on low, undrained valleys, but as an agri-
cultural district it is unsurpassed in several re-
spects. 1t is well watered with springs in eve-
ry direction, the summers are not too hot nor
the winters too cold. 1t is true Virginia and
Kentucky have milder winter weather and live
stock can run at large on the blue grass when
it would be necessary to house or yard it in
Maryland. But if agriculturists in the latter
State were to establish some old pastures and
have some comfortable sheds on the most shell
tered and convenient places either with loft
for hay or otherwise with convenience for keep
ing some food to have given them twice day,
it might be the best stock raising State in the
Union, for it is near to the best markets for
every animal that can be raised, and there is
no risk in buying cattle or any animal what
ever to improve the flock, herd or stud because
no acelimatiug is necessary as from North or
South, from Europe or any other quarter of the
globe, every living thing thrives right away.
Horses prosper in every way, and by managing
some grass land so as to have good varieties of
grass for permanently lying in pasture and by
grazing with different kinds of animals, it may
be made to pay very great deal better than
by blowing and growing corn and grain, for the
repeated blowing and seeding is very expen-
sive, and unless the soil was kept in a much
richer state of fertility as to grow double the
quantity of bushels there is nothing left for
and expenditures.
Milk, beef, wool, mutton, horses for pleasure
or for draught, poultry and eggs, pork and ba-
con, can be produced in quantity and quality
equal to any part of the world, and when it is
remembered that all of these productions are
brought from the West, many hundreds of
miles, excepting that the milk comes in the
shape of butter or cheese, and farmers prosper
where produce costs so much for freight, it
proves that Maryland must be very advan-
tageously situated State.
Any land owner in possession of ready
money capital might increase his wealth amaz-
ingly by displaying corresponding talent for
business with frst-class merchant in Balti-
more, Philadelphia or New York, for in agri-
culture as in commerce the secret of success is
in gaining possession and having for sale such
commodities as sell the best and being able to
keep up supply to suit the public taste. And
as breeding and raising live stock instead of
selling hay, corn and grain Keeps up the fertil-
ity of the land till it becomes doubly produc-
tive, every good and patriotic farmer sees his
own and his country's prosperity combined in
consuming the crops on his land that he may
renoyate and enrich his soil till his returns be-
come so remunerating as to make him enor
mously wealthy.
CAPITAL.-Ready money when a man starts
in business is such help, such blessing that
if the possessor of it has the knowledge requi-
site for the conducting oft and has good, sound,
common sense he cannot fail to be successful.
1t is very essential to farmer, as farming with
the most paying breeds of animals cannot be
accomplished withoutcash at command. And
then there are always times when auction and
other sales have to be made for cash and at
such times a man with capital at hand can in
crease his profits astonishingly by buying and
selling again at leisure.