The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-02-05

acter, gives scope to all his energies and
relieves labor of that monotony which
makes man mere machine. Yet how
many there are that spend their whole lives
in one routine of action, totally oblivious to
the beauties of nature spread all about,
that far surpass all the puny works of art
If we here, situated as we are, between
two of the great cities of the continent, and
in daily communication with each by rail,
with water communication sufficiently near
to forever prevent extortionate rates of
freight do not open our eyes to our sur
roundings and adapt our products to our
markets, it is our own fault and we should
not sit down and talk of hard times that
our own ignorance has brought upon US.
That it will no longer pay to pursue the
same routine of farming that was followed
by our great grandfathers must be patent
/ to all observers. With a virgin soil to
pillow, and the native timber still standing
on large tracts that were to be brought
successfully under the pillow, different sys-
tenn was pursued from what is needed now,
when the soil has, in great measure, lost
It's pristine vigor. Now to farm without
manure will make both farm and farmer
poor.
Manure, then, is our first essential to
success, and how to do this most effect
ually and at the least cost, is a subject
worthy of your careful attention, and a
few hours spent together and devoted to
the consideration of this question, may
elicit more value to the farmers interested,
than a week or years labor. l would
suggest more accurate trials of fertilizers
| on our own lands. The results of others
on different soils cannot be relied on always
| to meet our case.
| Rotation of crops also claims our atten-
ton. Our present markets make it spe-
cially desirable to grow such things as ex-
haust our soil least and will produce the
greatest return. Among these we may,
in many places, find fruit culture to be the
thing. Potatoes are a crop that take less
from the soil than grain and generally yield
better return when properly grown
Special care in growing and in the care of
them until sold, often makes the difference
between profit and loss.
| Peaches have been paying crop, and
will continue to be in localities adapted to
them, even if injudicious over production
has brought financial ruin to hundreds in
our county.
Apples will probably pay as we'll in the
long run as peaches if grown with the
| same intelligent care that is necessary for
the former crop. With the latter, our mar
kets are now supplied by that shipped at
large expense, some of it for five hundred
miles. We rarely grow enough apples for
home consumption, and we find our coun-
try stores retailing apples brought here
from New York, New England or Ohio
| during the Winter months. And yet our
apples can be sold for a better price fire.
quently, and we can put the cost of freight
from New York to Baltimore in our pock-
| cts.
Fattening beef cattle is not so sure as it
once was, except for the best quality that
can be sold at the highest figure, and why?
Beef in tolerable order can oe brought from
Illinois or Texas cheaper than it can be
| fed here. But beef in the best order can
not be sent alive over five hundred or more
miles of railroad.
| Making poor butter is not profitable
| hnSi at nd ha RI Re
ale overstocked with it, yet there is always
a paying demand for first-rate article.
There is aud will continue to be de-
mand for Spring lambs IN our great Cities
and they cannot be transported great dis
tances in hot weather, and here is branch
of industry we have allowed to be killed
out by worthless ours.
| But why enumerate. The demand for
these things is always the same and the
profits will depend on the expense and risk
of putting them in market and chiefly on
the quality of the article when it gets there.
One other idea and am done. There is
no antagonism between farmers doing the
same kind of business as between other
trades. There is rather community of
interest, as there need be no danger of an
| overstock. When any locality takes up one
branch Of industry and pursues it success
fully, their product becomes sought in the
market, and what benefits one, will bene-
fit all alike, and the depreciation Of the
product of one farm, has a tendency to
lower that of his neighbors. Thus you see,
even if you put it upon the lowest motive,
that Of selfishness, it is to the interest of
the agriculturists to help one another
The same principle that is good in the
moral world is good here also. No men,
Der of society can be injured and the body
not suffer. In honoring one member, all
are exalted, while we all suffer from the
vices of the most despised among u.s.
! These considerations should make us con-
| slider the higher and educational interests
own minds, we establish higher standard
of mental culture, better schools, more pub
/ lie libraries, better newspapers and period
icals, and improved agricultural journals
of all sorts become public necessity.
| Let us rise then to the true dignity of
our calling, and make it deserving of the
place assigned it by "the father Of his
country" as the "the most healthful, most
useful, and most ennobling occupation of
man.
Extraordinary Detection of Crime.