The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1885-02-28
The rsrmers, Convention.-The Mary

| The Farmers Convention.-The Mary
| land Farmers Convention, which met in Balti-
| more on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week,
was we'll attended by agricuturists from different
sections of the State, some twenty counties being
represented by delegates. Hon. William t.
| Hamilton, of Washington county, was permanent
| chairman, with one vice president from each
county, Col VIM. Allen, ofthe McDonogh School,
being the vice-president for Baltimore county
| Our own county had a large number of delegates
in attendance, follows: G.. Stengle, John T.
JONES' Thomas B. Todd, G. j. Rogers, I. A. Mer-
| rift, Edward Rider, J. M. Matthews, Capt. E. Her
man, W. F. Massey, Thomas r. Jenifer, Dr. G. M
| Bosiey, J ohm Pierso G. E. Shelley, T. " Richard
| son, G. II. Price, Richard Vincent, Jr., Henry
| Volz, John Gross, Henry Bassford, James L. Mill
| ing, N. R. Miles, D. A. Conn, Samuel s. Cole,
| VIM. Little N. Frederick, Gerard Emmart, Ohm
| H. Kab, Samuel G. Heird Gustav W. Lurman,
VIM. Fell johnson, j. Fenner Lee, George H.
Elder, A. Tillard, John P. Mays, Col. W. S.
Franklin, John Ridgely of Hampton, Edward
Austen, John A. Conklin, A. l.. Crosby, Nimrod
Gosnell, Charles Lyon Rogers, Col. William Allen,
Joshua +. Benson, Jacob N. Shauck, James M.
Brian, Samuel Brady, G. 7. Cockey, Joshua Par
sons, Arthur Chenoweth, John W. Bowen, Frank
Sanderson, Thomas Craddock and Alex. McCor-
mick, Jr Besides these a number of wel-known
farmers and truckers were present as interested
spectators.
Addresses were delivered by Judge Robinson,
of Queen Anne's; DIR. D. e. Salmon, who discussed
hog cholera; Mr.. Allan Bowie Davis, of Mont
gomery Ex-Gov. Hamilton, of Hagerstown;
Prof. McSherry, of Baltimore; Mr.. B. H. Biggs,
of Delaware, and Others all of which were listened
to with attention.
Among the resolutions offered and adopted was
one calling upon the Maryland senators and rep
resentatives in Congress to use all honorable
means to reform the tariff laws, so that the agr-
cultural products may enter into fair competition
with other industries. Other resolutions were
also introduced to prevent Determinations against
farmers in freight and passenger rates; to reduce
salaries of state officers for law Furnishing tres
passers with gun and dog with fine or imprison-
ment, or both to modify or repeal the present
fence law; to prevent stock running at large;
that stockmen be urged to ship their stock upon
such days in the week will prevent the present
mode of selling stock on Sunday.
Ex-Gov. Hamilton was warmly received when
he arose to speak on "The Cereals-should we
keep up and extend the cultivation of wheat, or
gradually give it up and turn to other crops? Can
we not increase our cereal crops proftably by i'm
proved methods of cultivation ?" He began by
abiding to the remarks of Mr.. Davis relative to
railroad discrimination, and said that should not
alarm the farmer. Wherever competitive rail-
roads meet we must expect all kinds of rates.
"With the resources that we possess, we can stand
all kinds of competition. All that we want is
fair chance to place our products in foreign
markets" Referring to the demand of foreign
countries for products, the speaker said that
the tariff had much to do with the decreased de-
mand. As an instance he cited the fact that soon
after the increased tariff of 35 per cent. on sour
wives had been imposed two years ago, the Ger
man government had refused to permit the i'm
portation of American pork. This was resent
full tariff, nothing more. 1t was in revenge for
the prohibitory tariff imposed on Germanys pro
duct. Gov. Hamilton continued at some length
on the resources of this country, and contended
that even if there decrease in price, by
tinued narrowing and plenty of labor the increas-
ed yield would more than make up for the falling
in value.