Evening journal., 1893-08-11
SElLLFUL FARMING OF THE GERMANS

Westerners who Are Removing to the Fer
tile Soil of This Peninsula, Where There
is Great Money" In the Future.
Brief but significant allusion was
made recently by the Baltimore American
to a proposed settlement of Germans
from Kansas in Dorchester county, Mary
land Some of the land has been bought,
and negotiations for more are pending.
Crop failures and cyclones are announced
as the probable causes Of this abandon
ment of Kansas. The interruption Of Ger
man immigration to Kanfas, or the depar
ture of a considerable portion of the resi-
dent German elem MT, which has assisted
so materially in developing IL, would be a
distinct loss to the state
The German farmer is not given to
change He usually clings to the soil on
which he has settled tenaciously. No
race has stronger local attachments. or
uproots it's home more unwillingly when
once the choice of home has been made
II Pennsylvania the farming counties,
which were originally settled by Ger
mans, remain German to this day, while
their inhabitants are constantly gaining
frm footing in the bordering English
communities and are largely supplanting
the English farmers. The departure of
German farmers from Kansas appar
emily indicates some important unfavor.
able change in the conditions of agricul
ture in that state, or they may think
that the cheapening of farm lands in the
East has reached a stage which warrants
their settlement here.
German immigrants settled in the
most barren portion of Carroll county,
Maryland, some years ago. 1t was re-
garded as a most unpromising venture,
but, by skillful farming, their lands have
become as fertile and profitable as any
Maryland farm. The movement of Ger.
man farmers from Kansas to Maryland
may end with this small detachment,
or 1t may be the advance Of
tide of immigration from Kansas
which will continue for some time and
make an important inroad on its popu-
lation.
There are many opportunities here in
| the East for those Western farmers who
for any reason have become dissatisfied
with the West. We have been accus-
toned for so many years TO watch the
tide Of emigration flowing westward with
no returning wave coming eastward that
an announcement chat Kansas is now
| contributing 10 Tue hoJllemeub OF state
so far East as Maryland may surprise
some of our readers. Perhaps some OF
these cautious and provident Germans
are becoming restive under Populist
policies, hich they fear may retard the
development of the state When q
sturdy race like this begins TO leave the
state the Kansas authorities, who are re
sponsible for its growth and prosperity
may be brought to their senses
At the present low rates which rule
for much of the farm land in the Eastern
states there is money in farming here fol
the Western farmer, who will bring hi.
economic habits with him. It Is the
common observation that farming will pay
on our side Of the continent at the present
prices OF good farms. Then there arr
the abandoned farms, or on the brink o.
abandonment, and those tracts which
have never been farmed, the hill side
and so-called waste places, which woul'
be carefully titled in some European
countries. These can be bought for
song. They all have possibilities whicl
will sooner or later be discovered. =
Philadelphia Ledger.