The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1884-04-11
The Agricultural Advantages OF Har-
ford

The Agricultural Advantages OF Har-
ford.
The Easton Ledger, one of our most able
and enterprising contemporaries, directs espe-
cial attention to the advantages which Talbot
county offers to farmers OF other States de-
sirous of settling in Maryland. The Ledger
has elected the opinions of number of in
telligent people from different States, who
have made homes for themselves in Talbot
and all of them are warm in their praise of
the soil, climate and agricultural advantages
of that county.
Without making any invidious compar-
rson with Talbot or any other of our sister
counties of Maryland, we think facts war
rant the assertion that no county in the State
possesses equal advantages with Hartford for
the en,erprising farmer from other States.
Springs and streams of pure cold water
abound in every part of the county, and it is
unusual to find farm which can not be di-
vided with water in every field. Fine water
powers are abundant requiring only capital
and technical skill to bring them into profit
able employment.
The soil is varied, susceptible of the very
highest degree cultivation, and suited to
almost any crops. The production of wheat
for the last ten years has been from 20 to 40
bushels to the acre. of corn from 10 to 20
barrels of hay from to tons, and of tobac-
co from 900 to 1000 lbs. Hartford stands
first among the counties of the State in the
amount of corn produced to the acre, and in
fattening cattle is also foremost. Indeed,
the excellent quality of Hartford beef causes
hundreds of our cattle to be shipped annually
to Europe Fruit of all kinds including
peaches, grows to the greatest perfection
here, and for garden truck some portions of
Hartford are unsurpassed. Game of all kinds
is abundant. Our waters TEEN with the
finest shad, herring, perch, rock fish, crabs,
&c, while myriads of canvas back and other
ducks frequent the rivers that indent our
where else in the world, by feeding upon the
wild celery found in our waters.
The finest timber abounds here. Oak,
hickory, chestnut, walnut, ash, poplar, locust,
&C. attain their best development, and the
timber of Hartford is bought and shipped to
manufactures in Baltimore, Wilmington and
other places, where it is considered the best
that can be obtained.
The facilities for getting crops to market
are all that are needed, and will soon be in
creased. The Philadelphia, Wilmington and
Baltimore Railroad traverses our eastern bor-
der, the Northern Central our western border
and the Maryland Central the centre of the
county. The Baltimore and Ohio's Phila-
delphia extension is also in course of con-
struction and branch of the Pennsylvania
railroad will probably soon be built through
Hartford. Besides these means of rapid tran
sit to the great markets of the country, the
lower part of our county has the advantage
of water transportation to Philadelphia, Bal
timore and New York.
Or the score of health, also, much can be
said for Hartford OF course on the level
lands near tidcwater malaria is not unknown,
but diseases of that character appear to be
decreasing in violence as the lands are drain
ed and cultivated. A few miles from the
the rivers and bay the land becomes rolling,
picturesque and free from malaria.
Hundreds of beautiful sites can be found
for dwelling houses, from which extended
and diversified views can be had of as fair a
land rs the sun ever shone upon.
Hartford, too, is a county of churches.
Every denomination is represented here by
beautiful and comfortable places of worship.
Our public schools are kept open four full
terms year, and are equal TO any in the State.
The rate of taxation is low and the coun-
ty affairs economically administered. Our
public roads are for the most of the year
smooth and well-kept, comparing favorably
with those ofany county in the State.
With all the advantages we have named
land in Hartford sells at an average of
only $40 an acre, with fair improvements.
That money can be made here at farming, one
man can be cited as an instance, who in
twenty years, on 800 acre farm, has cleared
$4,000.
The people of Hartford are noted for their
intelligence, refinement and hospitality.
Strangers who come here to settle and identify
themselves with our people are treated with
kindness and courtesy and are valued at what
they are in themselves morally and socially
they can bring little capital and engage
in manufacturing of any kind they will be
doubly welcome
.