The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-06-02
Quilp's Diary, that He Kept as Il Bohemian.
COlOra and What he Saw Around There.

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, we were awakened TINS morning by
Street Browns SHANGHAI rooster that has n
vo;oa th.t sor,3od I'll. tho roor;,o, 81 =
INV ''' ''"''"s VI I"
JUN anu ll'c praying Vi an ass ooth pl'ch-
ing in at once, but was quite different from
either He appeared to be leading a concer,
of all the feathered part of cre,tion-black
birds. blue birds. tbrushes robins red hirds
wrens sparrows. cat hird : and cb;nn;es
we don't think that last pame i tbc scinn-
titic name of that bird but if vour readers
know the bird we mean it makes no differ.
: ence, and a mournfully coonn dove awav
in the dis,ance-dId its est to mt in the
sorrowful part of the music We ont nm
and made inquiry of Street about the
shanghai. He said he had hean firhtinn
for week and a had lost half his had i5
the battle, and crowed because he was Glad
lie was alive. Street is a good fellow. and
has an improved crouuet ground. with a
bank around it. for his own and his fami
lies amusement He is AGENT for the rail
road here. and he and his hrothar II n
Brown, are in the hav trade and handle
from 500 to / 900 ton Of hav vear Far
curious, funny and aptjc speeches we will
pit" Street Brown AGAINST the world
Mr. Thomas. successor TO Micbaner G.
80, sells all kinds of AGRICULTURAL imnla
ments and does a GOOD business Z,rha
riah Gray carries on the carpenter business
with much success. Kennard 4, Noora
keep a country store here. and have \ fine
stock of goods on hand. Mr.. ]. McRippv
carries on the shoe making with success
John A. Hunter, one of the best mill
wrights in the county. lives here and Mill
ticed the farm of John Tosb and were
pleased with the neat and thrifty appear
ance it presented to the eye Mr. T. has A
nice farm and is one of the leading farmers
of the county.
Near the village of Colora stands the
Orthodox Friends meeting house. The cen
gregation is not large. but what it lacks in
numbers it makes up in piety, zeal and
punctuality,
We visited the phosphate and bone mann
| factory of Thomas Warinp 4 BRO They
established themselves here in 1869, and
| what was then a small business has grown
to be a very large one. They expect to
manufacture 600 or 700 tons of South Caro-.
lima rock this wear. Their trade in bone is
large and will be twice as much this wear
as in any former one. The rock comes
| from the Ashley River. in South Carolina |
and is composed of the fossil remains of |
animals This rock is dried thoroughly |
and ground fine as flour and treated with |
sulphuric acid. This makes a manure that
appears to be especially adapted to many
soils. The rock is full of alligator teeth
and petrified bone and Shells 1t contains
large quantity of phosphate of lime.
The firm have introduced a new feature in
the TRANSFORMATION of their acids. HAVING
constructed tank-car for CARVING if in
b,,l L., lo1l
and by an ingenious mechanical arrange
ment, they can unload it by the force of
steam into large receiving tank IN their
mill from which it can be taken as needed.
They get large quantities of bone from the
west and some idea may be formed of the
extent of their business when it is learned
that thew paid So, 600 for freipht on ma.
terial received during the month of March
This is a reliable firm, and we are clad to
hear that their business is increasing 50
rapidly.
Ten wears ago we shot rabbits where the
village of Colora now stands. Its a nrcttv
little place and does quite an extensive bust
ness in shipping ali kinds of marketing,
principally to Philadelphia.
On Tuesday afternoon we visited the farm
dairy and nursery of Messrs. Balderston
father and som. We found, George. the
son. in a part of the nursery near the viii
lace. and. thouoh we had met him once
before and thought we OUGHT to know him
failed for a moment to believe that he, of
the nursery. was the man we had met 4
wear or two before in the temperapce con-
yention. However. unon STATING oure rrand
which was to see the nursery and green :.
house, he assured MS he was the man we
wanted to see. So leaving his work he
put himself entirely at our service. and
showed us all over the farm and made it
pleasant for lis in every way Seldom have
we spent an afternoon more profitably or 5
agreeably. and. Mr.. Editor If Won or any
.of vonr readers yyiSh tn coo moo fo,r, =
nice nursery GREEN housa and 5a;rv ;nst
90 to Colora and call mon George Hal5er .
ston and tell him vour errant GEORGE told !
us that the name of the farm. in the orig;- ;
nal patent was paradise" and that til,
first purchase made by his father Iloyd $
B. he had named Colora, and that this I
was the origin of, or first application of,
the name, which was afterwards applied to 5
the VILLAGE. Afterwards Mr.. r had rur- ,
chased the western norton of the tract he q
owns. which hears the ORIGINAL name We =
would suggest that thew call the whole
tract Paradise as descriptive of it's lows and |
beauties They now have about 235 acres 4
of land in the two farms. and GEORGE I
leases NO. Il eleven acres adjoining for f
nursery purposes, it being best not to grow
trees too long in the same soil. Mr.. L.
Balderston has herd of about 40 alderney
COWS, and has recently constructed a dairy
large enough to accommodate much larger !
herd. Just now they make about 800 Il
pounds of butter a week, which they send a
to the Philadelphia market, one of his c
vounoer sons ATTENDING tn tbat branch of S
the business. The average nrice Of their a
butter last year was so cents per pound. b
They churn twice week, about one hun s
bred pounds at time, using large barrel ?
churn, upon which Mr. b. has made mauy Il
He can cburp at a tenn a
perature of about so Fahrenhite, which is b
about 100 lower than msot patent cburps C
can be made to work successfully. Mr.. b. a
expects soon to churn by horse mower k
Tbe yault. where the milk is kent IS deem a
underground, arcbed over and so con. d
structed as to maintain a uniform tempera-
ture at all seasons of the wear. Mr. r
lseeps. in connection with his dairy fine
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