The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1889-02-15
VOL. XXXIV----NO. 7.

| -luc euuJeCt WAS Optueu ny DIT. W IN. Lee
Amoss, who thought the only way to solve
it would be TO fill the holes with brains in
stead of mud. The farmers club he repre-
senls, he said, thought nothing can be done in
Hartford county until the system is changed,
and urged upon the Commissioners to aban-
don the old system and try TO get intelligence
on our roads instead of offering a premium
| for ignorance.
Mr.. w. H. II. Whileford said one reason
we have not better roads is because farmers
do not understand road-mending. The
roads, too, are mended in midsummer
whereas they should be mended carly in
the spring. Thus we have bad roads in early
summer because they have not been mend.
ed, and bad roads late in the summer
because they have been mended. His
remedy for the evil of bad roads would be
to have competent supervisors. Let them
employ competent men and be supplied with
proper machinery, throwing politics out of
the matter. Nine-tenths of the work on our
roads could be done with machinery. We
are still working with pick and shovel when
road machines will do the work better and
cheaper. Mr.. Whiteford read letters from Off
cials 10 various States showing how taxes had
been reduced by using road machines A
stone crusher is also Another important I'M
| plement to have. With ten-horse power
engine aud stone crushcr cubic yards of
stone can be crushed in an hour at total
cost of 10 cents per ton. He was also in
favor of having the roads mended by con-
tract.
Mr.. Darlington Hopes said the plan Mr..
Whiteford advocated commended itself to
him. Road mendng should be made pro-
tession and men should follow 1t as their
special business, having suitable team for
the purpose. AS for stone improvement no
time is out of season. We have an abund-
ance of good stone and it would pay US to
take them off our lands.
| MIR. John Z. Tucker, a tax collector said
there is a road scraper in this district but
only two road were worked with Ii last
| season, and those were the best roads in the
district. He suggested that this machine be
! given 10 some energetic man who can furnish
a good team and a man, and that he be kept
at work on the roads. He could work half
Il mile a day. He had paid out S., 900 on 150
road warrants and there are 300 taxpayers
in the district These $50 are benefited but
| the rest are not
Mr.. Gilpin said that in Montgomery coun-
ty If farmers will haul stone and place them
alongside of the public road the county will
pay for having them broken.
Mr.. George l.. Scott endorsed the remarks
which had been made on the road question.
AT first he thought he would stay ut home
and read the proceedings of the meeting in
the county papers, but he was glad he came
| His eyes had been opened, especially on the
subject OF commercial fertilizers, and the tme
has come for farmers to protect themselves.
He therefore moved the appointment of q
committee to examine the fertilizer law of
the State and report at the next meeting of
the convention. The motion was adopted and
Messrs. John Moores, VIM. L. Amoss and A.
p, Silver were appointed as the committee.
Mr.. Thomas A. Hays, resuming the road
question, said his experience of seven or
eight years in working road machine con-
WINGED him that it will do more work with
six mules and two men than rs men can do
in the usual way.
The President, in closing the convention,
made some remarks on the necessity of Or
ganiza,ion by farmers TO have their views
carried out, alter which a vote of thanks was
given to the presiding officers and the meet
ing adjourned.
Some of the farmers and others
present were Messrs. William NJ Edelin,,
John Moores, Thomas Hollingsworth,
worth, r. t. Bovine, William /. Price, Will
liam I. Watson, Edward s. Edge, William
II. Reasin, w. Scott Whiteford, G.. G. Curtiss,
William Webster, james Lee, c. Q. Knsey,
Hopes, Harry Wiley, James w. Baldwin,
of Baltimore county; Edward Haviland,
William T. Sawyer; Turnbull Murdoch,
mos Gilbert, Z. G.. Kirkwood George r.
Stephenson, Henry G. Hall, William r. Ho-
loway, Thomas II. Wiley, Joseph Lively,
William G. Hoskins, John w. Paca, Joseph
b. Hoskins, J. Wilson Moore, G. r. Milton,
james X. Keech, s. Is. Silver, Joseph G.
Favour, James A. Hanna, Henry A. Osborn,
Franklin Whitaker, George L. Scott, N.
Newlin Smith, Nathaniel Hollingswortb,
Inh
Hopes. Joseph Hopes, s. Martin Bayless,
w. H. II. Whteford Col. Herman Stump,
b. Frank Hanway, w. s. McCombs, Edward
9. Gpin, of Montgomery county; Matthew
Stamford, Garrett Amoss. John F. Raitt,
Ralph G. Lee, E. Lyon Rogers, Baltimore
county; James NJ. Cain, Corbin NJ. Grafton,
j. Lawrence Mccormick, Charles Russell,
John S, Bullock, Baltimore Robert F.
Hanna, John G. Tucker, J. P, Silver, AM
brose Cooley, George W. Grant, George
Wonders, George F. Walker, r. John
Rogers, b. Silver, Jr., William Stephenson,
Isaac Ii. Thompson, Augustus Smith, H. B.
A. Hays, Edward II. Price, G. l.. Vail, Jos,
Parry, William A. Hope, William b.
Hopkins, Alexander NJ. Ful:ord. John
Cha,terton, George b. Silver, John
John z Bayless, William p. Trmble, James
r. Massey. Joshua Rutledge James B Kenly,
John w. Gabreath, G. A. Cairnes, Thomas
Butler, William Silver, William s. Coale, j.
Thomas Webster, DR.. w. w. Hopkins, DR..
N. b. Bryan, Alphonzo Robinson, A. p
Silver, William r. Easter, John II. Reckord,
j. S. Richardson William Munnikhuysen,
Benjamin II. Silver, William F. Hays, Ira r.
George, Joseph B. Hsuway, Dr. j. G. Butler,
Charles Crew, Cortauld Smith, Z. NJ. Allen,
Jr., w ilbur f. Wallis, Charles Osborn,
Christopher SIade James s. Calder, d. G.
Stamford, of Baltimore Seneca Hill, VIM
Buckingham, S. w. Hollingsworth, William
Devoe, William Rogers, Joseph Harkins. z.
DeBow, Joseph E. Batcman, F. q. Norris N.
Dean, Mr.. Baldwin, b. F. Cronin, Edward
Hollingsworth, Albert Almony. Baltimore
county; VIM. II. Grey, Hon. STEVENSON Ar
f. Robinson, Thos. ii. Street, II II. Brad
ford, Charles A. McGaw, VIM. Il. Monks.