Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1883-04-06
IEr US NAVE F4CToRIES.


IBT US NAVE FiCTORIES.
Dur neighbor, the Port Tobacco
Times. had on article some weeks ago
Advocating the establishment Of canning
factories in this county The same mat
Ter has been urged elsewhere and we
are glad TO learn that a movement is
now on foot looking to the establish
hent Of such an industry at La Plata.
We most hariily jim our contemporary
aud others in the advancement Of such
an enterprise and believe it would not
only repay those who invest in it but
Aat il would as the Times suggests,
encourage our farmers to cultivate fruits
AID vegetables to the growth Of which
COR lands are so fayorably adapted =
The lands about La Plata aud extending
for some miles up the forest are peculiar
y 20 adapted Instead Of the futile eff
fbrts 10 raise Tobacco, the account OF sales
sf which are not rendered for morJ than a
year from the beginning Of the cultiva-
ton ofthe crops, we could have returns
81 s~sl. f.~.- Tomatoes and other vege-
mklea within a few months from the
planting, while our enlarged peach
orchards would yield US daily revenues
fer weeks at time We hope our cap
ItAliAn will lend hand in this matter
By supplying the cash for organizing
stock company, unless some one or two
Of Ihem wish to 60 into the business on
their own account
We have heard Of gentleman in
Prince George county who cleared four
thousand dollars the first wear be went
Int the canning business and Of farm
or in Hartford who made nineteen hun
dreg dollars in Que year from the sale to
a canning factory Of Tomatoes alone
This should be very encouraging to our
people and we hope soon to hear that
the building Of canning factory at La
Plata is assured
We suggest slso to some Of our enter
prisiug and money blessed citizens the
great Advantages we would derive from
and the profit their would be in -four
ing mill at some convenient place on the
railroad. One of the most prosperous
and far seeing merchants in this village
declared not many days since that more
Hour was sold in this county now than
81 any time within the memory of the
oldest inhabitant, and that the sales
seem to be steadily increasing every year.
Now why not keep some Of the money
thus expended within eur county? By
manufacturing orr own -four we would
save more than the freight and commits
sion on the wheat shipped and the -four
Ne receive from Baltimore. We are
thslDsasb county in the STATE in the pro
duction Of wheat and very Etde behind
four others and nu. yield Of wheat has
been increasing for some years past
Wa must look about US. shake off the !
lelhargy. which our enemies say is SUI
uerinduved by malaria and general
Rsiness, take hold of some of the great
advantages which lie around us, develope
and utilize some of the possibilities Of
eur soil, climate, rivers and railroads
and make old Charles county what she
can be made, one of the most fourishing
counties in the State
Montgomery county had originally no
more natural fertility Of soil than our
county. indeed we doubt if her advan-
AAges were equal to ours. and yet in the
year 1879, with an improved acreage of
o third moro than ours it is true, she
produced about three times as much
corn, oats and fruit, sixteen times as
much rye, six times as much wheat and
swenty times as much hay as We did
while the total estimated value of her
arms and Improvements was seven
and one half millions against our three
end one tenth millions.
The fact is, our people have gotten
behind hand Most of our farmers do
not keep books and they do not know
what it costs to cultivate aud gather their
crops. They expend and pay out in
dribblets for labor, seeds and fertilizers,
in many cases, more than the market val
se Of the crops and are surprised that at
Ne end of the year they are in debt :
Wa know of no enterprises that will
help us out Of our difficulties more speed
ly shsn the canning and Touring facto-
uies whose establishment we advocate.
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A mans wife in Hart county, Ga,