The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-12-11
The Farmers Institute.

The first of a series of Farmers lnSti-
tutes which will be held this winter i'll Ma
ryland took place here yesterday. Direc-
tor Amoss, of Hartford county, called the
meeting to order promptly at 10 O'Clock
and announced the following programme:
Grazing and Feeding Cattle, George E.
Silver, of Hartford county.
tobacco Grading and Packing, F.
Snowden Hill, Esq.
The Dairy for Prince Georges county,
Prof II. ]. Patterson, Maryland Expert
ment Station.
Our Country Homes, Mrs. Alice Robin
son, of Baltimore.
Among those present were were:
Capt Sylvester, DR.. W. w. Duvall, Will
liam B. H. Blandford, DR.. Henry Brown,
Franklin Weems, Eugene ROBBERS. DR.. X.
s Hill, Enos Ray, William A. Linthcum,
Geo. Beall, Col Frank Hall, Edward Wal
ker, Benz Band;ll, Richard Hardesty,
John Miller, r. Irving Bowie, Charles
"raband, E. E. Berry, S. S. Cox, William
G. Brooke, W. w. Roberts, Geo. Brooke,
Thomas S. Stone, F. s. Hill, E. E. Berry,
H. T. Ward, Wesley Beall, P. w. Chew,
Trueman c. Slinglutf, c. G Magruder,
Grafton Townshend, Tobias Duvall, j..
Thompson, William B. Wilson, VIM. s.
Ryon, Benz. H. Brown, William D. Bow
lie, Upton Brooke, Fred. Binger, Scott
Armstrong, A. e. Darcy, William Binger,
Rev. Mr. Turner, William H. Holmead,
William Berry, Prof. Robinson, James
Owens, James Heiskell H. B. Kobe,
Beale Mullikin. Lum Humphrey.
F. Snowden Hill, Esq, read an article
on Growing and Marketing Tobacco. He
urged upon the farmers the necessity of
using their best judgment and energies
so as to overcome the conditions imposed
by soil and climate, and thereby produce
the better grades of tobacco for which
remunerative prices can be obtained. The
lower grades come in competition with
the tobacco produced in foreign countries
aud the demad therefor is constantly de-
creasing, but Maryland tobacco possesses
certain monopoly in that the best grades
can not he produced elsewhere The
great advantage of Maryland tobacco
are its free burning quality and mild taste.
the market for Maryland tobacco has
been injured by the bad method of strip
ping and packing that article. The trade
demands uniformity Of quality in hogs
head, and a great many contain variety
of grades. If tobacco be stripped and
packed uniformly, in proper condition,
neither the planter nor the buyer need
have any fear of the sample, for the in
Spection goes of itself But in all mixed
hogsheads, there is every probability that
the sample does not correctly represent
it. 1t may be oversampled to the loss of
the buyer, or undersamped to the loss of
the planter, for the bundles drawn must
depend upon the accidental location of
of the breaks; and they can not furnish
accurate information concerning the
proportion of each grade in the cask The
prudent buyer, therefore, discounts the
possibility of loss in purchasing, and the
packer is justly the looser. There are
Certain brands OF manufactured tobacco
known to the trade and gratifying the
the established taste of consumption.
Uniformity in the quality of these brands
is necessary, and any variation must be
for better and not for worse. Hence
mixed tobacco is not desired, and if
used at all the worst must be equal to the
required type, while the better grade is
gift to the consumer to the extent of
its superiority over that type
Among the questions asked and answer
ed were:
Best method of making compost An
swered by Prof, Pattison.
Should we pillow in the fall? Answered
by Capt. Sylvester.
Mr.. James Armstrong, of ireland, spoke
in an interesting manner upon cattle feed
ing, and congratulated our people upon
the holding of institutes
Prof Pattlson spoke Of Dairying, and
at night Mrs. Robinson, of Baltimore, de-
li,ered an address on Country Homes.
Mr. Edwin \ ScdewitZ Tourist from
Baltimore spoke of the culture of chrys
anthemums.
We expect to publish the admirable
addresses in our issue of next week.
Hoods Pills are purely vegetable and
do not purge, pain or grippe All drug