Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1883-10-11

~ remuneration. Bus the bonakns
Pssblicam or e0kkskkimg has always :
claim upon each and al Of us aceord-
ing to his ar their lights, and never
fails 10 yield . retnrn ultimately.
which may be paraphrased by-cast
your bread upon the Waters (noe
Johnl and when IL il soaked enough
It will return unto you or somebodv
else comminuted into ten pieces.
An article from my occasional pen
would seem 70 Be due this sometime:
but nothing 10 due till in ssason. % !
have waited for provocation in yonr
columns / have been much edi6ed
BY what / consider a marked Improve
ment in the editing Of your paper,
which 1 take some pride in because il
was started by ray namesake and cous-
in in the "syne" which was slang" and
in your last issue I find my first pro-
vocation in said sometime, from the
pen Of "Dr. g. w. EGlsey on CONNER
ciai FertilizeFs. 4 provocation which
! promise you shall elicit no epithes
or obloquy that would 'shock the ears
OF the most fastidious Of our Ameri-
can ladies'" q provocation which /
shall file away with my valuable pa
pers. and which | pronounce unqual-
ifedly the best paper I have ever
seen on Agriculture. expect TO eli
cit some epithets against myself, how
ever, from the would-be no-nonsense
men-whom Sir Francis Bacon char.
acterizes as "the most nonsensical of
men-when / state my belief that any
young farmer who should put into
practice DR.. Ellzey's tenets there laid
down, guided by = knowledge Of Chem
lstry, his own or q prompter's, would
knock the spots out Of even extra
boy Hammett himself for getting mo-
ney out Of any old tobacco worn farm
in st. Marys county. It is useless 10
sling warn out old proverbs at mod.
ia worth all the book-knowledRe in
ern progress, as ian ounce Of experience
the world" There are books and there
are books; novels are books, so is strict
science books. but these two Glasses Of
books are not TO be confounded as re-.
liable texts for truth any more than
the Bible and q political Grafton.
Science is truth recorded as far as
learn from; and that ''Truth In NIGH
ty and sOiu prevail" is datum upon
which / think / may safely assume ell
parties to any and every controversy
will and do agree as a Landmark in
argument. Without such land mark
Of common belief, all talk 10 a. useless
as to travel in parallel lines and hope
to come together at some objective
point. "Argal" (Dogberry's dogRer-
al( experience unaided by the light of
science is as useless for 'the farming Of
the (sstUre as an expensive use of nj
trates on land and q neglect to sup
ply lime to the same soil when needed.
Another way to put il is that the far
mer who puts his whole reliance in
one kind Of knowledge, experiences,
will get left with chronic case Of
"the mortgage on the hearty by bis
brother-chips who are up TO the COM
petitive times in both kinds of knowl.
edge. experience and the science Of the
subject. It is not my animus to make
fight with the farmer ofthe past, but
to be as practical az possible in eluci-
dating the paper Of DR.. Ellzey 10 the
advantage Of Agriculture in our coun.
ty in the near future. To 90 far con-
vert the st. Mary's farmer of today
that he may not set his prejudice
against Chemistry and Physics against
the education Of the rising generation
Of farmers for the struggle be has 70
engage in under the electric light of q
radically changed order of things.
The expensiveness Of experimentation
is the bug-bear in our county. George
Thomas is said to have suffered from
this-how truly / can't say-but I'd
cite as Offset against ahy loss by Mr.
Thomas in this direction the elder Mr..
Wible's sad experience in the empyric
(this word means by experience alone)
use Of the commercial fertilizers. But
why let the fluctuations of progress
make ghosts Of the most innocent and
inexpensive innovations? I sueees-
ted in defense Of Mr.. Thomas expert
ments to Q corOner's jury Of represen-
tative farmers ct al with whom I was
riding past his place, on the topic oi
expensiveness, that ''those little stalks
Of corn could have been made TO bear
larger ears BY cutting off their tops
before they had bloomed, 90 that tie
silk Of their ears could have caught
the pollen to impregnate their grains
only from the tops Of the stateliesG
stalks. This suggestion was received
with. contemptuous silence or more
contemptuous smiles. Yet should
have met no dissent, or doubtless
somebody would have suggested-Pi-
pers news I-if I had made the state
ment that . Flanders mare By q CHA
c0tique horse would give an offspring
bigger than its daddy. Now, wherein
lies the differences between the two
propositions7 ! win not assume that
any Of the company was ignorant that
corn 10 Q Hermaphrodite grass Her
maphrodite-Hermes (Nsrcnryl who
was male-cOmbined with Aphro-
dite (last syllable pronounced like ty)
Greek name for Venus-who was Q f.
male-in one individuall. ! explain
IN brackets. because / don't expect
the farmer Of the future or Ofths pre-
sent to understand Greek, while
shall hold the latter 10 . strict ac-
countability If he fail to have the for
mer well qualified in Chemistry esps.
cially. This brings us, / hope, 70 &
] point where your no-nonsense farmer