Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1886-04-10
Diversity Of Crops.


Diversity of Crops.
DEAR EDrToR:-It can lie truly
said of your paper that the older it
gets the bctteriC is. This fact is
not less gratifying 10 some of your
friends than to YOURSELF. Tilt could
be said offarmcrS that the longer
they plant the more successful they
become, much would be said to
substantive the position 81 well
taken IN Mr.. L. G. Elllott's letter,
showing that variety is the spice
of lIle' even il; the corlfels.
Ii may not be dSagrec;ihle to
some of your patrons to hear how
it is tarmed here, for the world ov-
er, diilerent localities pulSue diilrr-
cnt customs with IL purt-nic;ll ten
acily that often runs things AWAY.
Southern Maryland proper. com
posed Of the counties OF st. NIary'S,
Calvert and Charles is far different
in material wealth and l,rosperi
ty from What it once waS-;s beau
tilully undulating country emery
ing from Il confusion OF waters at
Point Lookoul-cr;.iletl in lux
ury for oyer Two ccn;urirS-em.
b0solncd by tue Chesapeake Bay
and Potomac River. land Oi
many natural resources dwindled
into insignificancr, dwaried in pros
pcrity for no reason more APP
parent than a wantof ''divcrsity OF
crops" amongst its Planters. The
same kind OF planting done
here for centuries is followed now.
Tobacco, wheat, corn, then, the
same now. The lands llave been
50 exhausted bya continual cX-
traction Of the s;llne properties
from the soil that it is With sumo
difficulty that most planters obtain
Il livelihood. Lands capable ot pro
ducing amy OF the cereals, fruits or
vegetables OF This latitude can DC
purchased for about enc hall thcn
real value. Lands that now will
scarcely siloul fall wheat and dead
tobacco plants from sheer OK
llausllon, would in Il few years, i'll
the hands of Jersey truckers. blush
/ with the beauty of mellow produc-
ton. L am Offering for sale several
farms convcniYlt Tor shipping fouI
times per week to Baltimore and
Waslllngton-lands susceptible oil
, any Improvement, but what al d
| Shorcnan world clil "polsuncd" IL
, wheat and tobacco, as lur lnstalc,
!, some Accoiuac lands to oats. Ii
!. the planters here could he induced
/. to try Il variety Of crops the avoca
/, tiollol hushandry would necessarily
| prove highly rtmancrative to amy
| region that has the geographical
} advantages and natural RESOURCES
D that this has.
: But 1t must be remembered that
= the Eastern Shore, in fact, all that
$ part of Tie great aIluvial plane III
i GLIDING Jersey, Delaware, and TX
X tending south along the coast, pos
}. sesses llla great degree characters
/, lStlcs better adapted To tuck farm
. ing than ANY othcrpart OF this con
= tinent, hence it seems sensible Il
$ ME that il every locality OF salt
t plane all truckers ought 10 Specu
= l"tn-Sn.ro neutrality-suspicious. --'-'sf. T.,
: best adapted to their immediate 10
I cality, and most lucrative to then
| Ill the long run. Then concentrate
| all efforts. 1t seems to be IL wist
+ provision of Providence that every
locality has It's leader i'll produce
one locality peas, anothcrswceJ pc
taloes, another peaches, another
cabbage, another wheat, another
COTE, and 50 on through the long
list Of the fruits of the earth
Hence it would seem eNpe.lieutantl
indeed essentially prerequisite to
SUCCESS Tor all planters to follow up
their locakleaters with carefully Sc
iecIed crops olwhatnnghL he termed
secondary Or Reserved crops. There
Is great power III reserved force
Napo.eon's handful OF carefully Sc
lectcd men, to be used only in time
OF emergency, sounded the war
whoop OF victory on many Il Euro
rcan battlefield where the rout OF
the French soldiers would have
been complete, had it not been Tor
Tic reserved corps to back up their
leader III tme Of need.
mean by reserve force in farm
my such crops us in The Judgment
oil The PLANTER are most lucrative
and best adapted to his lands, and
most likely to bearlim out success.
luily Ill Case vi the failure OF his
leader. H. does seem to me thaJin
This way the planter of cutton,rlce
pea, the straw berry, the sweet po-
iato, the peach, in fact all Kinds OF
planters might each in his respec-
i've locality ward off those fatal pc
cuillary coiiapseS, 50 detrimental to
Tue success OF the best clement Of
our cuuntry-Our sturdy yeomanry.
-G q. JoyneS, st. Jerune's Greek,
Md.