The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-10-04

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE.

| changes of cars, at Baltimore and Will
Transport, Lycoming county, where left
the Pennsylvania line for the Reading line
to Halls, and thence up the mountain six
miles by the Narrow Guage road to this
place. The Northern Central passes -
miles through Baltimore county into York
county, and through Lancaster county to
Lycoming county to Williamsport, where
l changed cars for the Reading line to
Halls, and thence to Eagles Mere
The farming through York and Lancas-
ter counties is the most beautiful l have
ever witnessed, and the preparations for
wheat seeding would surprise the easy go
| ing farmers of Southern Maryland. The
road traverses in it's whole length the
beautiful Susquehanna-the home once of
who frequently carried their fierce war in
to our defenceless Maryland homes, even
| to st Mary's county. All persons who
own OF have examined Scha1f's history of
Maryland will recall the giant form of the
great Susquehanna chief, which if I re-
member rightly appears in the frontispiece
| On the right and left of the railroad are
spurs of the Allegany range, and at one
point, several hundred feet high, stands
an ideal summer boarding house. The in
tervening valleys are rich and productive,
and are titled with perfect cultivation
The corn planted, generally one way, has
lu oil nf off oh .
inches from the ground, tied with straw
bands into small shocks, the fodder re-
sembling bright, well-cured clover hay.
On expressing surprise, several farmers on
the train, told me the ears of corn would
be perfectlys ound, and the blades more
nutrient for stock. The shocks are
hauled and fed, corn and all, by farmers
who feed beeves on the land, and by those
who do not feed in that way, to their barn
yards and shucked there-a mode that
would certainly facilitate the operations
Of farmers, who like Mr.. Ballenger, of ST.
Mary's, as am informed hauls all of his
corn from the land before he commences
to seed his corn land. The land for wheat
is reduced to degree of firmness resemb-
ling the best cultivated garden The three
horse plough, on fallow land, followed by
heavy rolling after the spring tooth har-
row, seems to do the work, so that every
grain of wheat deposited by a drill in per-
feet order, will germinate and mature
Time is saved in drilling, and less seed is
required, which will more than compensate
for the greater time taken to prepare the
seed-bed would love to see every far
mer in lower Maryland adopt this practice.
l conclude that tobacco land especially
that worked late, may, by cultivating both
ways, and dragging thoroughly, be reduc-
ed to similar condition. Fine manure
saved over from the spring and summer ac-
cumulations, should be spread after run
ing the cultivators the first way, the land
worked with the cultivatOrs and then
with the drag harrow until thoroughly
fined, would, it appears to me, be equivo-
lent of the York and Lancaster system l
should think, from witnessing the work of
the spring tooth harrow on fallow land,
followed by the roller and smoothing har-
row, the corn, stalks and all, having been
first removed, in the way above suggested
wenld give US a good corn fallow, and
$50 pounds of Dudley & Carpenters $500
wheat fertilizer. crop time to those who
want it, would give on good land at least
twenty bushels of sound merchantable
wheat weighing at least 81 lbs to the
bushel
There is very interesting article in the
September number of the North Aneri-
can Review, entitled "Crop Conditions
and Prospects" by the Assistant Statisti-
clan of the Agricultural Department, which
should be in the hands of every farmer in
Mary an from which it appears that wheat
will be largely sown this fall, to take the
place of deficient corn crops of the great
corn producing Middle States. And an
other article of intense interest on the
Trend of National Progress" by Robert
H. Thurston, Director of Sibley College,
Cornell University, with maps and charts
and curved lines, showing the development
of power, as applied to the various busi-
ness and pursuits of life, and how man
power has been replaced by steam power.
l quote "The basis of all wealth and the
measure of the power of accumulation of
wealth, is this aggregate working power
of a people. The working power of civ
ilized people has come to be measured by
the total of its steam power. The growth
in ,tS total sshorSapowar0i in Of on M on rip pas
of all kinds, is the measure of its growth
in all the material foundation of civiliZa-
ton and progress, and then material prog
ress underlles progress in all the arts and
sciences and every Intellectual as well as
material advance" The first of our dia-
grams Figure 1, Az exhibits the trend of
progress in developing power of national
advancement. Its smooth, steady curva-
ture shows not only advance and constant
gain in rate Of gain. THE century has
seen great gain in power of doing work,
of accommodating wealth, and great yain of
rdpidhy of gain of power and wealth. All
our subsequent deductions confirm this
primary and essential, this fundamental,
conclusion. The United States of North
America constitutes not only the most
powerful of nations, in the most literal
and meaning sense, but it is all the time
increasing its speed in the race and as con
stantly more and more rapidly distancing
its competitors. AS we shall see present
ly, its greater and growing intelligence,
its great inventive power, fostered bv our
exceptionally effective patent system; its
industry, its education, fostered and en-
couraged in Maryland by democratic
states men, and liberal appropriations of
money, by our Legislature, upon the reco-
mendations of it's committee on appropri-
alton, of which, if my memory is not at