Daily Republican., 1885-05-06

While :ue business depression In
manufacturing circles continues, iof
known causes, agricultural prospects
shouli al be correspoudingly en-
couraged. There are rs many peo-
ple in country now a. there were
Thep bu iness WAS hotter aud everyone
was en- vioyed. Though people may
net along " economizing In clothing,
they must eat. 1t takes as much bread
to keep an unem ployed man as one en-
ployed But the question arises, how
are the unemployed to secure homes Tor
themsel YES =? Thrown out Of work, they
cannot live long In state OF idleness
without feeling the pangs OF hunger
pressing uaon them. To wait for better
times Is but to get farther into debt,
from viii ID increased wages will not
lift them. Simply, then, there are too
many people engaged In manufactures
and not enough In agriculture. me
old saving that Uncle Sam is rich
enough to give Ms all q farm, is still
literally true. The country In Its ag-
YicultuI al resources Ia yet but poorly
developed. Even In this peninsula Of
Delaware, the Eastern shore Of Mary
land and a couple OF counties Of Vir-
Rinia, agriculture and horticulture are
but in their infancy of full development
when compared with other sections OF
country less blessed with natural re-
sources. Take for instance, Long Is
land, which has virtually become a
great market garden for New York city
and Brooklyn, with over two million Of
inhabitants.
Here improved land Is valued at $500
and 81, 900 per acre, and rents annually
at from $25 to $50 per acre, clear Of al
expenses. The value Of produce taken
from q single acre often amounts Il
several hundred dollars in one season
The reason for this Is because the LAM
is kept extremely rich: and richness o
soil always forces on early crops. Com
pared with this, how stands the penir
sula between the two bays Of Delawar
and Chesapeake There Is no MOI
genial land under the sun than thI
grand peninsula for raising just tt
kind Of fruit and vegetables that brin
high prices in an early market.
We can beat Long Island nearly
month in early fruits and vegetable
and take off tho cream Of high price
The only thing that initiates again
it is freight charges by railroads.
course nobody can expect railroads
run at q loss to themselves, but at Il
same time it will be to the best int
ests of the Pennsylvania, that now Pc
meates and runs through every porto
of our peninsula, to put rates down
the lowest figures. This may not bril-
in 30 much ready cash on the instaI
but it will come back in the long r
when the country develops and t
people raise more for the market. Eve
farm that increases its value increa
the receipts to q railroad.
What we started out, however,
say was that unemployed labor in {
cities will be compelled to look to
country for support. Mechanics v
have been fortunate enough to lay
something for rainy day, and v
now find themselves out Of employm
or on such wages that will not CT
forta bly, sustain them cannatdnh"
country when they will be sure
earning a competency and keep
themselves above want.
Numbers of men grow wealthy III
four or five acres of land on Long
land, and they can do the same
Delaware, when the soil Is brought
to the same high state of Guilt
ton.
The days of large farms are on
wane, and the sooner every large fl
of one hundred and fifty or two h
dred acres is cut In two, and the hal
quartered, the more wealthy will
country become There are M m her
farmers living now who are mak
more money from ten acres of l.
than they first made from one hund
acres. 1t should be the object Of IL
who can, under the uncertainties Of
manufacturing business, to beoc
possessed Of these small farms wi
they can live above want or the fea
want.