The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1890-01-11

shat has outhv3d tue state of sociei
which gave it birth. Count charge,
Gle, Ks aud registers, sherilfs and alto,
rey 5 fees; per ,liem of jurors. bailihs all
other appeEdages are maintained at wa
- prices; methods OF conducting courts an
Il public business of all kinds are unduI
r expensive. In times like these, when W,
are looking for relief, it is not asking to-
much OF the law-making power to appl,
: such corrective legislation as will roliev
n us of these expressions.
A STATE BOARD OF Agriculture.
: DIR. T. W. Patterson, of Baltimore coun
ty, chairman of the committee appointed
last year on the appointment of state
board of agriculture, reported and the
report was adopted and referred to thu
. Legislative committee for presentation t.
the General Assembly. It. proposes thai
the board shall consist of the pres den,
of the Mary land Farmers Association
the president of the Maryland Farmers
Alliance, the master Of the State Grange,
| the president of the Mary lana Agricul
/ turl College and the manager of the Elk.
pertinent Station. The board shall con.
, stitute committee of visitation of the
college and Experiment Station. -Four
Thousand dollars, or as much of that sum
AS is necessary, shall be Appropriated for
expenses. 1t provides for the appoint
ment of a state chemist and "a secretary
Quite lively debate took place on the
subject.
DR.. Patterson and Henry y. Devres
urged the Importance of the appropria-
ton of 81, 900, and Major Alvord gave an
account of the work OF other state boards
of agriculture.
c. Lyon Rogers thought, as the farm
ers paid nearly all the taxes, they should
not hesitate to ask an appropriation suf
ficient for the work.
Mr.. T. c. Williams, of Hagerstown,
said: 'It $4,000 is appropriated, the
politicians then will be sure to get their
hands into the management of the board,
for where the carcass is there the vul-
lures are gathered together. Politicians
and we must keep far away from them,
Politics is the great upas tree of our
state"
| NUMBER OF TOPICS TOUCHED ON.
| At the afternoon session President
Henry E. Alvord, of the Agricultural
| College, submitted, whether in view of
the great competition of the West with
the Eastern farmers, it was advisable for
| Congress to make the proposed appro-
priation for the improvement by irriga-
Gion Of the waste lands of the West, to
make more wheat land to compete with
| the East He thought the association
should protest against such appropria-
| TORS.
Mr.. W. Fl. Armstrong, of Washington
County, of the Committee on Fences, re-
ported they did not feel competent to
speak IN favor of any particular fence, as
| abundance of timber, etc, affected the
question. There should be suitable out
side and inside fences SO long as the
present system is necessarily sustained.
The committee advised that the General
Assembly be petitioned to give the far
mers relief from the present expensive
fencing system.
The committee on the death of Colonel
William Allan reported memorial resolu-
tions.
The following were appointed COM
mittee on resolutions: W. Fl. Armstrong,
of Washington County; Edward Austen,
of Baltimore County; o. Hammond, OF
Talbot; E. B. Emory, of Queen Anne's;
H. O. Devries, of Howard; FL. NJ. Muir
ray, of Anne Arundel, and Alex. Bowl
ing, of Charles.
Prof. P. r. Uhler, president of the
Maryland Academy of Sciences, delivered
all address oD Some Facts in the Struc
ture and Resources of our fidewater
Agricultural Domain" 1t was very
interesting geological paper, in which
was given the history of the cretaceous
rocks of Anne Arundel, Charles and
parts of Prince Georges Counties. The
farmers appeared rather sleepy as he de-
scribed in poetical language the seven
changes in these rocks, but they bright
ened up when he came down to the prac-
tical subject, how an application of the
greeu-sand fertilizer which is found in
Anne Arundel and neghboring territory,
might make old Anne Arundel blossom
as the ross.
On Thursday morning the proceedings
opened with lengthy and very admir-
able address by the Hon. E Twin Willis,
of Michigan, Assistant Secretary OF Agri-
culture. After the address, a legislative
committee was chosen, on which Cecil is
represented by Mr.. E. Noyes, who has
been a wheat. grove in Dakota the past
ten years, as we'll as Mars land farmer,
offered resolution requesting all the
Representatives i'll Congress to take an
interest in all matters pertaining to the
welfare of the farmers. The paper reel
ted that while manufacturing products
are protected by very high tariff, agrl
cultural products like potatoes and wool
do not fare so we'll, and urges that the
farmer be put upon the same footing as
the manufacturer. Il says that if manu-
facturers have duty on leather farmers
should have a duty upon hides. The pa
per was referred to committee on resolu-
tious After discussion OF the roads,
and the transaction of routine business
the session closed onThursday afternoon.
The Second persOnaliy-cOnduc-
ted Tour to Florida via Penn
sylVania Railroad.
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