Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1883-07-13
Maryland Independent.
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REVISE yonr FlRUING.

m I>E yoM F-IHUING.
The tenacity with which people cling
TO old notions would be rcmarkabl,
were it not for the universally of tn,
thing. Most Of Us have no better rca-
son to offer for continuing 10 an Oh rut
than that We are in it aud that our faith
efs and g.undfathcrs were there before
as
This is as true in farming rs I, Is in
philosophy, religion and politics Before
the war, when man owned large farms
and any number Of slaves t. DO his
work at small cost, the crop that yield.
cd him most money in tic mar'-et WAS
generally the crop that opaid him best
for cultivatiug. Things have changed
since then aud It is the difTie5lty Of real
izing this change whislt helps to keep
our trainers in the old rlts oftheir fore
fathers.
If our farmers *onlt convert them
selves into business men aud keep books
keep a strict account with themselves
b every crsp they oultivIse. they surely
=ss: see tat it docs no, pay TO raise TO-
baSco in large Quantities by our present
methods. We 10 rot believe there are
six farmers "a DTS county who keep
such accounts, and the result is they 90
M from year tcycAr working themselves
sinYOst to dcath over tobacco, paying
out in dr7bM,ts sums which, for the
most part, aggregate the full value Of
ne crop $hen ready for market, and yet
they martel they are so mu h behind
baud.
Mdch Of the land in Charles county is
Of excellent quality most Of it is capa-
be cf substantial improvement and can
be made to yield abundantly Of corn,
Sheat or tobacco We must have corn,
aud it is cheaper to raise it than to buy
1t at any ordinary price. Any farmer
who fails to raise a sufficient quantity of
corn for home consumnti1n impovcrishes
himself to that extent Our "money
crops or market crops, therefore, are
wheat and tobacco, and the question is
which is-the more profitable crop. Clear
ly that crop which nets the higher prize
Ia. tho market is the crop to be cultiyat-
ed.
We notice that those Ermers who de
vote themselves most exclusively to
wheat are the farmers who are going
ahead most rapidly. There is Que ex-
scption in this county and evel lie does
not scorn wheat This gentleman some
'erty years age, realizing the difficulty
syen. then of making meney by our
methods farming, starvoA.ous ouA.orao-
back to seek HE fortune in the purchase
of cheap lands in Montgomery county.
Ne rode all through that county, sleep
ing in hay stacks aud living on eggs,
md became SO Disguised with such
'ile country that he returned to old
Charles After the rapid development
4 lands in Montgomery he determined
10 retrieve the fortune he lost by not
land at So per acre in that
county, aud now turns out at two clock
N the morning in summer to work to- h
bacco, and at four in winter to pack and
prize it, working over it about sixteen
Or eighteen hours day. and lie has sue
'ecded in making money. lie says this
Is the only way
On the ether hand we know a man who
is the best business farmer in Charles
'onnty. lie keeps books aud can tell
YOU at the end of each day how much
he is worth, and how much each Of his
crops and enterprises stand him. lie
works about twelve hours a day on
something. He tried tobacco for about
twelve years, and this year he has about
m acre in tobacco lie goes in for
wheat and says it will pny il a man
works it intclligently. So convinced is
he of this, after an experience Of three
or four years, that he has bought farm
which he will devote exclusively to the
raising of wheat and grass And, by
the way. the raising of gr,>s in connec-
tpn with stock can be proGtably pursued
N this county
We have said a word on this subject
Astetofore, aud tho hnc yield Of wheat
sAss suSAer suggests to as 10 again cell I
De attention Of our fellow couRtymen 10
he Funious expense of tobAcco raising,
and to urge a revised method Of farm
ing.