The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-07-24

New Freedom Items.-So far this summer
the temperature has been pleasant, no doubt
arising from the heavy rainfall that has charac-
terized this year especially, but as fair weather
now appears to reign supreme and the earth loses
much of its moisture by evaporation We may ex-
pect an increasing temperature for the remainder
of the summer.
This has been bountiful year to husbandry in
this section. The harvest Of wheat and rye is
over and the threshng season indicates crop far
above the average in quantity and quality. The
oat season will soon be at hand. Its exception
from other years lies in q heavier growth of straw
and to a casual observer promises to be an abun-
dant crop. Corn is somewhat backward but is
making rapid Roadway under hot July suns, and
with an occasional rain during the pollen changes
will mature much earlier than anticipated. The
earth is teeming with all kinds Of indigenous ber-
ries and garden vegetables are growing luxurient-
ly. Humboldt and Piddington have observed
that the vegetation Of q country increases pro-
portional to its annual precipitation Of aqueous
elements. Certainly this has been exemplifed
fully this year. for of the ~ inches yearly allotted
us on this isothermal Of 81 degrees averaged tenn
perature nearly 80 inches have already fallen. On
the whole, considering the bad agricultural reports
from the north and southwest, cereals promise to
command fairer consideration than many antici.
pated, and well should our farmers feel thankful
for the blessings showered on them by divine
Providence.
Our town is growing more lively each day
Many city folks are in our midst and still they
come, and will continue to do so until camp time,
which is billed for the latter part of this month.
The new hotel is not quite completed, but private
houses are filing up with their regulars. There
is one lille family here consisting of iwentyone
persons. Nice little family, you know; but it
must be uphill work if one papa pays the bills,
especially when the gentlemanly cOlored footman
smokes two dollars worth of fvecent cgarsa week.
We have q real live pension agent here whose
morning mail fills bushel basket Our genial
postmaster should keep on the right side of him,
as he will soon make up for the twelve-cent boy
cotter who throws his letters on the train.
We observed in your issue of last week the ref
erence made to the invention of Mr.. Albert H.
Walker. Mr.. Walker resides at Ruhps, in Balti-
more county, and is quite an original mechanic.
Several years ago he planned a model rye separa
tor and after patenting it the Glen Rock Manufac-
turing Company constructed one for him. In the
trial last week it proved success, the machine
threshing, cleaning and separating the grain with
out tangling the straw. Mr.. Walker will now
place new binding apparatus on his machine, and
as it will be the only one of the kind in the world
we predict fortune to this worthy young genius.
During a visit to Shrewsbury we had the plea
sure of meeting our old friend, Mr.. B. F. Roller,
York correspondent of The UNION. He is enjoy
d
legal work. He is also possessor of one of the
most beautiful residences in this whole country.
By the way, Shrewsbury is the home of DR..
Edward Gerry, very prominent candidate for
Congress. We wish the genial DIR. a complete
walk in the Nineteenth district.
Many friends of Mr. Edward Winehot, of Bal
timore county, will be sorry to hear of his severe
illness. For the past fortnight he has been suffer-
ing with an attack of typho- malarial fever of a
malignant type. Drs Gerry and Manifold are
the attending physicians. We trust he may be
soon restored to perfect health.
The orchards are loaded with apples and what
a jolly cider making time this fall will usher in.
Our buxom girls and boys have been already
counting on their fingers how many apple-butter
boilings they have in store, for you must know
the old German proclivites still linger pleasantly
in this neghborhood. Suffice to recall your youth
full memory, Messrs. Editors, to your old Pennsyl
vania homo when perhaps you thought of being
en- neiser, feisiger, schtandhafter junger Banere-