The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1891-04-04

This work is done at a very small cDst,
probably twenty live cents per tree for
the whole season, that is large tree.
| This is counting in cost of material and
labor. Who would not give quarter to
save fine crop Of apples OF pears of the
| finest fruitSo
By all meaus the members of the Cecil
| County Farmers Club should take this
modern advanced step that those less
favored may see their good works. l will
guarantee good results and large saw
ing of these luciOus crops.
want to say word for the children
of the farm. When most of them get
large enough they at once break for the
city. NVhv is it? | would do the same
myself under the general influence and
surroundings of most farmers homes.
There is always plenty to eat and wear
but not always plenty of intellectual
food and clothing. Get a young person
once entlced into the folds of dame ma
| ture where he or she can satiate their
| longing to know more OF the world and
| they will at once become satisfied. Show
them how five dollars can be made on
the farm in an honorable and honest way
| where one can be made in the city and
| that often in q method tarnlshed with
falsehood or deception. 1t can be done !;
is done. | know of young man in this
very State of Maryland that cleared So
900 on seveuty-five acres OF truck farm
last season. What lawyer, doctor, clerk,
merchant or even banker can make as
good showing for the capital invested
and at the same time enjoy life more !?
l must say as | am talking to farmers
that the country is getting too full of
leeches, and parasites. We must have
more producers aud men and women pre-
pared from childhood up to brave aud
love farm and a producing life.
Give every one Of your boys Or girls a
few trees III the orchard or divide the
orchards among your children, furnish
them with good literature as good papers
like the American Garden of New York
city, or, Popular Gardening of Buffalo,
New York, and tell them to study up
how to make their several fruit crops
paying.
Buy them shipping boxes and baskets,
show them how to pick and pack honestly
and neatly, teach them the use of the
sprayer, and the use OF pruning shears,
take their crops to even your nearest
home market for them, return them the
money and see if they can't buy them
selves better clothes than they now wear,
have enough left to buy books, handy
tools and take an excursion to some great
market once year to see how the city
| boys and girls have to make living and
how the fruits of their labor is handled.
How their eyes would be opened How
they would learn to appreciate and love
their grand country home full of com
forts, and enjoyment, quiet and peaceful.
On the farmer is too independent, too
satisfied, too comfortable III many
cases to see the needs even of his chill
dreu in the great rough handed future.
When the boys and girls get old enough
they should attend IA good industrial
school where they can satisfy the thirst
for knowledge in the higher branches Of
the same subjects they have been taught
at home. They have learned at home
the different apples, pears, peaches,
plums, ETC., ETC., when they are planted,
when the fruit was gathered and mar
keted and how much profit pe,,-lsrso tnor
made. Now they muste>ssrn the reason,
for doing many te.f6gs and how to dc
'ne'n 'nuI r>easily and economically, be.
'rTgetting knowledge of things per.
7 tanning to the world lat large in which
they live. The Maryland Agricultural
College is the place for the young men tc
attend and it would be a great economy
to the state if the same teachers and
apparatus could teach the young ladies
as is done in many of the thriftiest and
richest states III the union.