Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1894-03-01


State Encourage Them and Why
Not lJss-ws Must Discard Our old
way Il ihinking.-ls Dtd wei
Enough in the Days Of Yors.--Ths
Time Has Now Arrived When We
Must Do as Our Thinking Neigh.
bcrs are Doing or Else We cannc;
Expect to be in the Swim.
Gentlemen Il took much inter
est in the communicated article in
your valued edition of the 18th of
January, ult., in which the writer
refers to the great benefits to be de-
rived from Canning Establish
ment, which is home.market for
the people and a most valuable ac-
qulsition to any county where the
climate, land and facilities are so
well adapted to truck, as is the
case in our own county. / claim
that the canning industry is indis-
pensable to st. Mary's, where the
farmer sorely feels the need of a
home market. To substantiate my
assertion when | said that the can
ming industry was what we needed,
and that canning factory was a
valuable acquisition to any county,
ETC., / will refer to the canning in
dustry in Hartford county. which,
by the way, is one of our foremost
counties of the State. The canning
industry fairly made Hartford what
she is today. But there is way of
OVERRIDING most anything. and such
is the case with the canning houses
in Hartford, where there are more
factories than really are needed and
more than the county can support
or furnish truck for. Notwithstand-
ing the fact that most every one is
engaged in raising corn and toma-
toes for the canneries, there are foo
many Of them. My readers will ask,
what is to be done? | will answer
this by. saying that the men who
have put.their money in the enter
prise which did SO much for Har-
ford are turning their attention to
new fields. Not all of them will
leave, but enough will go to allow
those who remain TO run to their
fullest capacity. The next ques-
tion that will arise in the minds of
my readers will be as to where these
enterprising gentlemen will locate.
| will answer this by saying, that
they will go where they can obtain
the best facilities, inducements, etc.
Several of the counties in this and
in other States have been holding
out inducements to them, as they
are well aware of the great benefits
to be derived out of their probable
location in their midst. 1t is safe
to saw that Kent county VIII get her
share of them, as the energetic far
mers of Kent have come together
and publicly announced through
the columns of the press that they
had resolved to change their pres
ent mode of farming by seeding less
wheat and corn and plant more
tomatoes, which they found paid
them much better. They openly
expressed their desire for more can
neries in addition to the ones they
already have. 30 deep was the in
terest manifested in the compare.
lively new project to some of them,
that | might say the entire county
responded, and came together say
ing. we will all grow tomatoes, in
order to secure the much coveted
enterprises--in the shape of canning
factories-whose proprietors were
looking around for locations. as be-
fore stated. | might add that they
obligated themselves to grow toma-
toes at $3.50 per ton, and the pack
ers obligated themselves to take
them at this price. Several ways
of paying for the tomatoes were
agreed on, but the two most preya-
Lent were the $3.50 plan and the %
per ton plan. They work as follows
Those who have received the Sd Der
ton for the tomatoes will wait until
the expiration of the season for
their money. Those receiving IS. so
will be paid when one-half of their