Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1885-07-10
Farming


Mail and may be read with interest
api meditated upon with profit to the
farmer and thc farmers sons everywhere.
As the population Of the country in
ere,ses and the various occupations Of
i6 become ovcrcrowdei agriculture
will form the great refuge for those
striving after a livelihood There can
b. ,uperanity Of professional man, o.
mechanics and of trldcsmcn, but ii
agriculture the ranks cannot he over
crowded tits true that a vast increase
10 aQricu tura products may aud will
decrease tbe market price yet man
.ith family WHO is struggling for cx-Si
tome. make markut for his own
goods -lle produce, his own meat and
Tread frutt. vegetables, aud by raising
.berp most Of bis clothing also. Thus,
however hard times may be-, the former
ana his family are secure from starvation
and beyond the necessity for ct arity
Tbe unemployed Or striking operative
ma, be feeling the pinch Of hunger.
+ di,a argcd clerk may see his family
m want but tie farmer as long as he Is
reasonably thrifty is safe from want
Ia y.rw # all this 1t Is not pleasant 10
L. tha sous If farmers Abandoning the
hamc-,teais and going off TO the cities
NJ become clerks at contemplate wages
and with mo- prospect. or but remote
cne of improving their condition 1t
has been amusing to see some of our
who have lately been
di,cu,sin. this subject, undertake to
account for tall on the ground Of social
uoyluon Il seems 10 be the opinion Of
sem. Of these observing ones that the
social position Of bookkecpcr or even
Ola dry good, or grocery clerk is higher
Than taat Of a farmer. There has never
been tme since the agricultural
Esyp.Iaus refused to sit at meat with
Joseph brcthcrn, that farming was not
.,teemel most honorable pursuit.
The ancient Romans the proudest Of
aa people went 20 little farm to get
their Dictator, the great Clucinnattus
ana rhc Cucinnattus Of the West
was himsc'fa most ardent farmer. The
.hanec from partoral to agricultural
pursuits in ancient times, marked the
,Iyauce in civilization of a people
There is probably no society in the
avizod world from which a cultivated
gentleman would be excluded because
# his being a farmer The recent
Of representative farmers %
held in Baltimore, was
made up We suppose Of as intelligent,
Intellectual and able men as could have
,ecn selected from any of the learned
Professions, and more so than could
ave been gathered from the ranks Of
my other calling.
We believe that the real cause of
cluctnuce of young men to become
armers is the desire to avoid the hard
york and drudgery which they are taught
o be inseparable from the life Of
lrmer And herein is the mistake
iade by the farmers themselves. A
has no right to deprive his
N Of the advantages of a fair education
nd m Ike mere day laborer Of him.
farmer should bring up his boys to
Ike delight in the farm and in every
,ipe Aappertaisipg to farm work
- i<t6n --.-ught to be industrious,
ut not like dumb driven cattle. Most
rms in this county are too large, and
they we're divided up among the
lrmers sons until the average size was
educed to about 100 acres, we believe
would introduce such improvements in
lethods, that in not many years the .
rm of 100 acres would bring more
honey in the market than 200 acres
I'LL bring now Indeed, the price of
ur land is too low and it is largely [
ecause it takes so large a sum eff money .
0 purchase a farm of average size, tha'
here can be but little competition
mong buyers We reported last week
he sale of small farm in this county
Or 1925 an acre II it had contained
100 acres or even better land 1t would
lot have brought near so much per acre,
,ecause few people are prepared -oinvest
s25. 900 at a time. We believe that
armers would advance the prosperity of
ur county and ofthemselyes individually
they would consent to educate their
ons better, not work them like common
aborcrs, but give the work 10 those
,eople who have no other means Of
Import and who are rapidly leaving US
because they cannot get work, aud to
Iivlde their farms up into smaller tracts
nd set up their grown sons as
armers
Every man who 5 worthy of the name
Iesirs for himself and his children not
,nIy comforts and Independence, but
ocisl sanding. In others words, the