The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1881-02-19
Advantages of Maryland and Capabilities
of Her Lands.



Maryland, little Maryland. lying like i
wedge between pennsy lvania and Nir-
ginia. divided into two by tue noble
Chesapeake. with nearly as much water
Us land, diversified by mountain and
plain. her largest rivers rising in the
highlands OF Virginia and Pennsylvania,
her large streams. indentationS of her
magnificent bay, her smaller streams per
meating every pant Of her. aliording every
necessity for agricultural requirements,
her bays. eStuares and rivers filled with
fish, oysters, ducks. geese and swan ::
Astounding i'll limestone in every locality,
or where the stone fails oyster shells will
supply its place: her railroads, her canals,
her rivers and her bay giving every facil-
ity Iur commerce for removing crops to 4
most favorable market her chief city
open to the northern lakes aud 10 the
great west and to he south: her mcr-
camille marine bringing among other
things abundance of cheap phosphates to
supply the principal deficiency of her
lands.
Her people. disciplined by misfortune,
made up of all races, ready to welcome
the new corners as friends: her unculti-
waited lands Astounding in wood and
water. and requiring only labor and cap
ital to render them productive with
schools and churches existing in every
district in the State. with every form of
worship frce-toleration everywhere her
marsh deposits and marsh hay properly
| manipulated ailor,ling facility fnc i'm
proving land and sustaining cattle.
The State everywhere offers induce
ment for investment in our lands in COM
petition not only with the great west but
north. south or west, to all men either
rich or poor. Her improved lands yield
to progressive agriculture 100 bushels of
corn. 30 of wheat and , tons timothy
Her impoverished lands. Astounding in
timber and water, pUrchasable for five
dollars per acre, yield readily to good
management with phosphates, and can
be prolitahiy brought to Il high and pay
ing yield. 1t surprises Marylanders that
State so aoundantly supplied so rich
i'll all the inducements to agriculture
with such facilities of transportation as
compared with other States, with land
so cheap, should be passed by in the
stampede from Europe. We have already
shown how easily capital can raise our
outlying lands into profitable productive
ness. While We uphold little Maryland
for her many advantages. and claim that
capital applied to her lands can more
than equalize her in competition agricul-
turally with any part Of the world-we
admit she requires phosphates and man
agement literally supplied.
The cream is being SKINNED off our
rich western lands. They are certainly,
as it were, increasing their distance from
our eastern markets. and it will be long
time before they make markets ut home
The large farms will yield to pressure of
population and be cut up. and wheat can
not be continued to be grown for fifty
cents at home. AS population increases.
grain must rise, as capital multiples and
QuadrupleS itself. its gains will lessen.
until it finds itself absorbed in improving
land at three per cent. particularly in
the readily yielding Maryland lands.
Astounding in everything save phoSphates.
i'll every facility for removing crops and
everything else to or from the farms.
The water itself can also be made to
pay as well as the land Oysters. fish.
ducks. &c. already abound. Our scien-
lists are showing the extreme proliicness
Of the oysters and the fish. With care
our waters are inexhaustible. We can
raise either fish or oysters in the water
as well as grain on the land. Our Legis-
tature will. after awhile. make it possible
ion farmers t, discover the exact needs OF
their land they will inaugurate the
means for the discovery of all frauds in
fertilizers. they will place it in the power
OF every farmer to IinI the precise article
his land requires, whether simple or com
pound; whether it is better to settle
amidst Il population fixed with all the
appliances of civilized life, with favor
able climate, with timber abundant, all
Sects tolerated, compared with a country
without timber, schools or churches :;
cold: soil rich and adapted to wheat,
grass and oats, but too cold for corn
transportation expensive, costing from
twenty-five to thirty-tive cents to an
eastern market. depends upon the finances
al the party about to choose. If he DOS
>eSSeS sufficient means to improve i'm
poveriShed land, here is the place to set
tie. Ii his finances are small. he can
probably do better out west. 1t is not
the question what farmers can do on the
eastern side of the Alleganies to live.
With thirty cents in their favor on a
bushcl Of wheat, we can double the Weld
~ our crops by improving our lands We
have decided advantages on all other
crops. such as corn. hay and truck crops
We still hold the home market. Let
us enrich our lands to the full extent of
our capital, and contine our efforts accord
lns 10 our ability to enrich, selling all
We cannot tcrtliZe. In this way we can
successfully compete with the whole
world. We cannot enrich our lands with
out feeding cattle or supplying their
place by using marsh mud. 1t is better
to employ both in combination with phos-
pilates for rapid improvement. We are
not abiding to limestone lands. or lands
already highly improved: we embrace the
lands lying along our rivers and bay,
where marsh grass and marsh Deposit
are abundant furnishing food for both
cattle and land: and. in combination with
fertilizers. ineXhaustlble resources for
restoring land to a high state Of fertility.
1t is Ill these localities where land is cheap
all that is required is labor and capt.
tai
BGhtiHlOrc Co.,. Nd
LOur correspondent tells the whole
story i'll the smallest compass. as to the
advantages in this State over those of the
far West. Mr.. Holman. of Va. and .Ir.
Withvrspnon, of ). Carolina. and we
could add host of other testimony rs to
similar advantages of both the Eir@inias.
y. and s. Carolina. rs well as little Del
aware To the t,orth oi lis, to prove that
the mi.dcr Southern states open greater
to those seeking cheap and
profitable lands than those of the West
can imcriran Fdrmcr.
Br:ckayer and Parson.
\ Manchester cur3fe wa1kiur aipnr q