Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1883-06-22
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Scarcely do we have occasion to trav-
81 over the b. & p. Il. II. from either
Of the lower station, Cox's, La Plata, or
White Plains when our observation is
attracted to car loads after car loads Of
lime being shipped by Messrs. Howard
Bros. from their lime kilns at Pope's
Creek to various sect .ons Of other coun-
ties ofthe State. Upon examination Of
the she'll resources at Pope's Greek which
this firm is now utilizing aud from, the
best information we car gather from
Judging men on this subject there is
not more than shell enough to give
small portion Of the arabic land Of the
county fair dressing Of lime. Yet our
people fail to take proper advantage of the
opportunity offered of obtaining lasting
and reliable fertilizer almost at their
door step, and are allowing it to be ship
pc to other sections, to people who are
aware of its valuable properties as a
manure and are shrewed enough to take
advantage of our own industry right be-
fore our eyes, the product Of which our
wasted lands so badly need. Again our
attention has been called to the large
shipments of guanos made to slis county,
annually or semi-annually during the
crop seasons, and experience has taught
that few, if any, Of our farmers are in
better condition pecuniarily, or their
lands in fertility to-day, than they were
the first day they began to use them.
These fertilizers, two thirds of which are
no doubt quacks are annually flooded in
to the county by artful and beguil.
ing agents and sold to every class of farm
ers, the landlord, as well as the tenant,
and scattered upon our lands with the
sole idea of making crop. The result
is, the lands in short time become ex-
austej. and non-productive, and upon
the failure to make a crop the farmer is
ruined. There is some reason why
tenant should prefer Phosphates of
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lasting manure. because our tenants
system here of renting land from year
to year will not justify a tenant in i'm
proving lands one year for another.
They cannot afford to miss crop of
fair proportion one year, and expend
money upon land, with hope of OBJ
tanning double the yield thereafter, for
they may not be there own successor
and their expenditure in such an i'm
provemeDt, would be total loss to !
them.
But there is no excuse like this for
the landlord. The more he improves
his lands, the greater the profits he
reaps thercfrom, and he can only do so
by using such ingredenents as will in
vigorate and give life to the soil, and no
better article for this purpose could be
purchased than lime, a fertilizer of al
most endless duration, that will give
vitality to it and nutriment to veg
citation. Let our people open their eyes
to this fact and prevent further shipments
from the county of this valuable man
ure by giving it home market. If
they can afford to borrow money or 90
in debt to buy guanos and take the
risk of its being valuable as represented
and the probability of making crop,
after which it is of no use, as it becomes
exhausted in one year, why can they not
strain point to raise money to expend
for the purchase of permanent fertil
izer, from which they can obtain several
crops, and put their lands in such a con-
dition as will enable them not only to
pay the cost of the expe nditure but
yield handsome return.