The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1883-02-02

inMo '''.. 39,T5O
Illinois and Michigan, ......,,.,....'. 43,ooo
MISSOURI ....'.".'..'.''' 500 '''''''' ,E'00o
Nqsgochusrtts ......... % 600
iOlal pack SEQ, l'O, L."
Delaware, New Jersey and New York
show decrease compared with any pre-
vious year, while Maryland and Virginia
almost, doubled their pack of1SSl and trebed
that of 1880 The West also shows an equal.
" large increase The Giocer adds
Maryland is prominently the banner State
In Hartford county there are by actual count 800
packers We have been careful to get close
estimate on the pack of 1882, and our figures,
while far below several estimates made, are sup
ported by the opinion of those best informed as
10 the extent of the industry, and err, if at al,
in that they arr under instead of over the actual
result.
In November, factories in Hartford county that
had closed were compelled in many cases, 10
rcopen in order to accommodate the farmers
Good stool; was offered as low as 10 cents per
hushel in the field, and great deal was sold AT
90 cents per hushcl delivered at the factories. A
drought in June delayed the planting OF large
area until July. August was cool month and
packing, which generally begins about the first
Of that month, die not get good start until
September. The prevailing price for tomatoes
was 500 40 cents per bushcl, and the season
having been good one for growers, 1t Will I'M
dOubtcdly lead 10 an extension of the area 10 be
devoted 20 tomato growing in 1889. At the
sauc time the fever for starting tomato fac
tory still RACES, so that next year there is good
reason to expect, if the season proves favorable,
pack of one and one quarter million cases in
Hartford and adjacent counties
The pack of 1882 has given total supply OF
=? 81, 90 cans of tomatoes, or one per annum
for each individual in The United States II
equally distributed, every family OF live persons
would receive for one years consumption, hye
cans of tomatoes or one for each national hOll-
,lay in the wear. Certainly there is wide field
for the expansion oftOmatO packing, and as the
value of canned goods as an article OF FOOD Is
becoming more highly appreciated every year,
there can be no limit put to the production OF
such staple article as tomatoes, corn and
peaches. The day is not many years distant
when five million eases of tomatoes will exert
no more influence upon the market than two
million cases this year. The facts are sufli
GENTLY well known TO deter packers of first class
goods from selling them at any time at or below
the cost of production. Of extra brands the
supply is always limited, and prices remunera.
tive to the packers, so that there is really nc
excuse for their losing money. Novices in
packing must expect to pay for their expo
Renee, especially when they attempt to compete
with old and experienced packers. IL is II qucs
ton worthy the attention of Hartford county
packers, whether large central factories vii not
secure better results than the multiplication OF
small packing houses . a.
AT present prices large buyers have confidence
in carrying good stock of tomatoes. There il
- scarcity Of choice brands. Stocks of canned
Goods are light all over the country, and, with
The opening of trade in the spring there Is ev'
cry prospect that prices will rule firm until new
packing arrives. We can come to only one con
rlusiOn, and that is, that TO the trade at large
the tomato pack of 1882 was fully as large as
expected, and fairly rcmunrrative to the packer
The TARIFF ON THIN the Senate, last
Friday, Senator German succeeded in having
he tariff on tin. plate reduced TO one cent
per ID. The tariff commission had raised il
TO two and twotcnths cents, but the Senate
tariff bill put ii back to the old rate, one and
one tenth cents per pound. The House bill
ne reported provides for duty Of one and
onetcnth cents per pound, the present rate
The Gamers can now probably rely upon il
that no change will he made in the amount oi
tax ON their raw MATERIAL or, if there is, that
ii will be in the right direction.
CHARLES CARR0IL's SwoRD.-Mr. ii. II
Smelling, editor of the Cornwall On W Re
Rcctor, has sword formerly belonging 10
Charles Carroll of Carrolton. In note be-
fore us relating to it he says:
"The sword of Charles Carroll Of CurrOltOn
Md, now in my possession, was presented by
him to Col. House, of the Fourth N. Y lnfan
try. who carried it during the Revolutionary
War, and when the Indian war of 1911 broke out
Cot. House presented it to the then Capt. Josiah
Smelling, who belonged to his regiment. At the
death of Col. Smelling it passed into the hands
Of his eldest son, who still has it, 1t has been
used in every war OF the United States except
the war Of the Rebellion"
i CURE FOR SMALL Poy "A Hartford
county correspondent sends the Baltimore
Heraid an English remedy for small ox, by
which, it is said ) the worst cases can be etiec
tually cured in three days. 1t is as follows
One ounce of cream of tartar dissolved in q
pint boiling water, to be drank when cold
at short intervals. 1t can be taken at any
time, and is a preventive as well as n curative
Os =
The Court of Appeals, having affirmed
the coIsttutonality of the law to punish
wifebeaters by whipping them, the first pun
ishment under the law was inflicted at the
Baltimore City Jail, last Monday The cul
prit, a colored man named Charles Foote
was tied by the hands and seven lashcs were
well laid on by deputy sheriff. The Bulti
more Sun says that the whipping-post was q
part of the paraphcrnalia of justice in Mary
land, from early colonial days until 1909.
s.r---
W. nj =,
Congress, Hon. j. Fred G. Talbot for q
copy of the tariff bill before the House OF
Representatives. 1t has been rightly demon.
mated by Mr.. McIane bill to reduce the
revenues of the country without decreasing
the burden of taxation. We must have q
tariff on certain imported articles, but il
should be in the interest of the many and moi
of the few.
Hon. Robert M. McLane will please ac
cept our thanks for copy of his speech on
the bill to encourage the American foreign
carrying trade, delivered in the House of Rep
resentatives, January 9Th, 1888.
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