Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1889-06-21
FORWARD MARCH.
LET MARYLAND GRASP THE PRE-.
SENT OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE
HER RESOURCES KNOWN.

PRESIDENT FRANK BROWNS
AABLE ADDRESS AT THE EDI-
ToRIAL CONVENTION.
Gentlemen Of tho Press:
"The idea underlying the pro-
posed exposition scheme is that the
purposes for which the State of
Maryland and the City of Balti-
more contributed so literally in
placing at the disposal of the Mary
land State Agricultural and Me-
chanical Association the extensive
aid valuable property known as
the Pimlico Fair Grounds shall be
fully carried out. That purpose
was to establish at point most
easily accessible an agricultural ex-
change where the farmer, the stock
breeder, the tobacco planter, the
dairyman, and all others interested
in agricultural pursuits, could meet
together, exhibit their products,
campare methods and systems, dis
cuss their experiences and the vari-
dks avocations incident to agricul-
taral life and transact their busl-
ness through their own agents.
"What merchants and manufac-
t6rers and others in different voea-
tions in practical and professional
life have long ago done for their
mutual advantage and protection,
in organizing themselves into their
business associations, can be done
and ought to be done by those who
look to the soil and the products
ereof for their means of liveli-
,d. 1t makes no difference
! i.ether that product is grown from
the soil in the shape of grain. fruit
or vegetables, or grown on the soil
m the raising and breeding of
horses, cattle and sheep or in the
form of dairy products and poul-
! try; their interests are identical.
Ehere interests are identical there
should be organization, an associa-
tion of energies, of experiences, and
Of ideas, to the end that out of dis
eussions and comparisons the best
1ystems may be evolved and the best
results secured. 1t is only by the
adoption of some such plan that
the agriculturist of this state can
gain any idea of the great natural
advantages which We possess, and it
il the only way in which to educate
our own people up to proper ap-
probation of the material resources
Of our own state. 1t is only by q
practical exhibit of our own prod
acta that we can ourselves learn
what is really the true condition of
rhe agricultural interests of this
Common wealth.
maryland was in former days
famous for its herds of pure blooded
cattle imported from the best herds
of Europe. / have on my place,
s.Springfield," some of the de-
Iascendants of herd that was i'm
lported through the port of Balti-
mort ia 1917. Baltimore was at
that time probably the largest cat
tie importing port in this country
1t was the gateway through which
the educated and wealthy planters
Of the south and southw est i'm
ported the highbred horses and cat
tie with which they sought to i'm
prove the herds upon their planta-
tions and ranches, and the ener-
getic and discriminating western
farmer looked to this state for the
imported blooded stock which his
keen business sagacity taught him
was the most economical after all,
whether for special breeding pur-
poses or for general farm work. All
this is now changed. Since the
advent of corporations, all this bust.
ness has practically departed from
Baltimore and Maryland. With
their large. aggregations of capital.
with their combinations Of means.
with their corps of trained and eager
officers and agents they have been
prompt to avail themselves of the
opportunity to control in their own
interest so large and valuable
trade. Their agents are all through
the country to discover the untitled
wants, while their buyers are abroad
at the homes Of the herds, ready
and prompt to supply all demands.
"Thus it is that we see the old
order of things reversed. Formerly
we raised our own beef cattle and
also had beef on the hoof for sale,
now we get it from the west. For
merly we bred and sold high grade
stock in horses, cattle and sheep.
Now the highbred stock goes west
and in that direction we must look
for the grade of stock that ought to
be cropping the herbage upon our
own hiIlsides and drinking the pure
wholesome water from the never
failing springs and streams in our
own valleys. Cannot something be
done to reverse these conditions?
Can we not bring back again to old
Maryland her olden name and
fame? 1t only requires organiza-
tion and effort. Is there not patri-
otism enough among the agricul-
turists of our state to take hold of
this project and carry it to sue
cessful conclusion. If the men in
terested in this subject were to
follow the example of the men en-
gagged in other lines of business it
would not be long before we would
have here In Maryland such an
awakening among the farmers and
breeders of this good old Common
wealth as would astonish the Rip
Van Wrinkles among our people.
Every trade, industry, profession
and occupation is organized. The
grain men have their corn and -four