Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-01-09
THE MARYLAND FARMERS.
A Demand That Corporations Pay Their
just Share Of Taxes.

At the fifth annual session Of the Maryland
state farmers association in Baltimore yes.
terday Mr.. Edward Stake, president, deplored
the condition Of the agricultural interests of the
state for the past year and the decrease in
the value of farm products below the cost OF
production. He said: "The farmer needs pro-
lection from the dishonest manipulator Of fer
tilizers. Wealthy corporations, being granted
valuable franchises, escape taxation, and
mortgages upon land are not taxed, while the
land implements and stock Of the farmer
are taxed at their full value. The re-
suit is that where demands are
made for local purchases, the farming class,
with ons-third Of the property, for much OF
which they are in debt, are paying nearly all the
taxes. There 10 q pressing demand for legs-
10: 70 correct extravagant methods in pub
lio affairs and to compel corporations to pay
their proper share"
PROPOSED BOARD OF AGRICULTURE
DR.. +. w. Patterson Of Baltimore county
presented the report Of the committee APP
pointed at the last meeting to formulate bill
for the establishment of Maryland state board
OF agriculture. Messrs. Samuel Brooke of Anne
Arundel, ID. W. H. De Courcy Of Queen Annes,
Major Henry E. Afford and G. w. Miller of
Frederick were the other members OF the COM
mittee. The bill was read and handed over to
sho icBisidtisc CoWUlttee Win lnsUuctlOnS 10
present 1t at Annapolis Delegates were also
requested to prepare petitions asking for the
passage OF the bill, and, after securing all the
signatures they could get, to present them to
the senators and delegates from their own
counties.
was to keep the board out Of politics. Two
plans OF forming the commission had been sug-
gested. One was adopted and the other was to
place the choice Of members in the hands of
the governor, " no could choose one from each
congressional district
Mr.. T. ]. c. Williams Of Washington county
declared that the farmers might as we'll try to
fan the sun into ice with peacocks feather az
TO keep the board away from the politicians.
PROF. UHLER's ADDRESS.
At the evening session Prof. Philip R. Uhler,
president OF the Maryland academy of sciences,
made an address on "Some facts in the struct-
ure and resources Of our tidewater agricultu-
raj domain" The region of country the pro-
fessor desired to call attention to. he said, was
bounded by the Potomac river on one side, by
the Patapsco on the other and confined on its
outer or seward expanse by the Chesapeake
bay. 1t possesses no mountains, no cliffs of
rocks project over its running waters, no cas-
cades mark its streams and no true rivers course
through any part Of its territory. But it has
rich variety of features, great diversity OF
composition and venerable history. The
natural conditions Of the region are here of q
very superior kind The whole region ia COM
posed OF sedimentary material. All is soft and
easy to work. Its depth is unreasonable 80
far as the needs of tillage are concerned: and
when the surface is exhausted there lies another
surface which can be brought to the top and
go forward indefinitely.
THE DELEGATES
from the counties adjoining this District are:
Montgomery-Vice president. Henry C. Hal
lowell; delegates, Capt. John Mcdonald Henry
NJ. Miller. Asa NJ. Stabler, John Drummond,
VIM. E. Muncaster, Julius NARROW, T. F. Lam
dale, r. b. Farquhar.
Prince George's-vioe president J. B. Per-
rie; delegates. DR.. w. w. Warning. VIM. E.
Duvall, d. Bealle Mulliken, Jos. B. Aver. L. c..
Beall, F. NJ. Magruder; alternates, Harrison
Sasscer; VIM. A. Linthicum, Henry Miller, VIM
r. Smith, Luther Brashears.