The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1888-09-21
OUTLOOK IN CECIL COUNTY.
DIR. K. G. MACKALL STATES
HIS VIEWS.

HIS VIEWS.
The Eastern Shore the Garden Spot
of America-Cecil County's Ad
vantages-Its Famous Hay
Lower Taxes Wanted.
Under the above somewhat forid
caption DR.. R. G. Mackall furnishes the
Baltimore Weekly San the following
article on the merits of the Eastern
Shore and. the superior advantages Of
upper Cecil county as an agricultural
section. The Doctors "frec trade"
weakness which was one of the tenets
Of the old time southern gentleman's s
political religion will be passed by our
more ardent Republican readers with
a charitable smile for what they will
term constitutional weakness, which no
doubt lily stomachs President Growers
and Representative Mills humbling
themselves before the moloch of pro-
lection in the now famous ''Mills Bill" "
in recognition of what they no doubt
believe is debauched public sentiment,
and for which they are receiving no
credit.
THE EASTERN SHORE.
The fame Of the Eastern Shore of
Maryland is so widespread that even
the large circulation of the Baltimore
Sun can extend it but little. From
Mason and Dixon's line to Accomac
county, Va, it may truly be termed the
garden spot of America. To live in
this garden is the highest ambition of
Shoreman until he turns politician,
and then if we lose him, our loss is
small, for he is seldom Of much account
afterwards. Having once tasted the
feshpots of public life he is no longer
content with even the luxuries of either
his native land or water. Cecil county,
at the head of the Chesapeake bay, is
the wealthiest county Of the nine into
which the Shore is divided. A glance
at the map shows the advantages she
enjoys commercially. The bay heads
in her soil. The Sassafrass river is her
southern boundary. The Bohemia
divides the first from the second dis
trict. The Elk traverses for twenty
miles her territory north and south.
The Northeast cuts into it from the
head of the bay, and the Susquehanna
bounds it on the west. Through its
centre passes the p, w. & B. Rail
road, and a little further north the
Philadelphia Branch of the B. & O.
whilst the northern border is crossed
by the Philadelphia and Baltimore
Central. This topography challenges
comparison with any county in the
State or the United States. And Cecil
has not been slow to avail herself of
her advantages.
WHAT CECIL CAN BOAST,
Let us look over her somewhat in de.
tail. Her first district is either level
or rolling land. The soil is chiefly a
sandy loan, well adapted to general
agricultural purposes, and especially to
the raising of corn, wheat, potatoes and
clover. Here, too, the peach is pro-
life crop. The drewback to Sassafras
Neck is the fact that the farms are too
large, and consequently the population
is not one.fourth of what it might be
with advantage to the country. 1t is
true the farms are generally we'll culti-
vated and fine crops of wheat and corn
are raised, but wheat and corn are not
among the protected industries of Amer
lea; no artificial market is provided for
them, and the farmer has nothing what
ever to do with the price he gets for
his crops. He mnst take not what he
asks, but what he is offered. By the
use of tried fertilizers he improves his
land and makes twenty to forty bushels
of wheat to the acre, and from thirty
to sixty bushels of corn. He raises
but little else for market except his
peaches. Our Sassafras neckers are
Industrious, but they are not thrifty.
They work to live, and not to accum-
ulate. The stranger is ever welcome.
Old Maryland still lives in this district.
The second district, of which Chesa-
peake City is the chief town, is very