The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1896-08-15
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A MARYLAND GIRL.
This One Knows How to Run a
Farm and Run 1t on Up-tO-
Date MethOdS--HOw Monte
bellO is Managed.

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planning bitterly of hard times, saying
they cannot make both ends meet, and
that at the close of each succeeding season
they are worse off than they were when the
season began, is a plucky Maryland girl
who cultivates fertile farm in the south
western part of Frederick county.
She does not follow the system of agr-
culture followed by many women farmers
in Maryland and the adjoining States, par
ticularly Virginia and Delaware, who gen
orally reserve the principal house on the
farm, with few acres of lawn, fruit trees
and garden around it, and have tenant to
run the remainder of the place ON shares,
never knowing until the harvest is over
where they stand. On the contrary, this
young lady runs the place herself, decides
at the beginning Of each season what crops
she will have and the various fields in
which they will be planted, tells the farm
hands what she wants done and sees that
they do it. In fact, she superintends
everything about the place. She knows
just what she wants to do and does it in a
systematic manner, while some of her
neighbors (men, of course sit on fence
rails pensvely chewing straws while they
bemoan the downtrodden condition of far
mers and wonder how on earth they can
only get thirty cents a bushel for corn that
costs them thirty five to raise.
a TYPICAL MARYLAND WOMAN.
And this farmer is not old and angular,
and ''mannish," with features sharpened
and hardened with years of toll and anxiety,
but is a bright-faced, cultivated and happy
girl, who but few years ago became Of
age-a thoroughly womanly Maryland
woman. She is Miss Mary Deaver, and
her farm is the old "Montebello' home
place of her father, Capt. Henry T. Deaver,
a short distance from Knoxville, little
Frederick county village, on the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad, few miles east of
Harper's Ferry.
Her father died about ten years ago and
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passed into her possession, but before then
she managed the farm and managed it well.
Captain Beaver was one of the best known
farmers in Western Maryland and his es,
tate was one of the largest in the county
containing more than a thousand acres. He
entertained largely and his home was de-
lightful place to visit.
THE MONTEBELLO HOME.
The big old-fashioned house, with its
wide hall and airy rooms, is on the crest of
a knoll. From its broad veranda beauti-
full view of the country can be had, taking
in the heights of Loudon, just over the
Potomac in Virginia, and the picturesque
gap through which the Potomac and Shen-
andoah rivers roll down to become one.
Away up through the gap with Maryland
Heights on the one side and Bolivar
Heights in West Virginia and Loudon
Heights in Virginia on the other, the vista
stretches until the Potomac winds out of
sight, a shimmering thread of silver.
HER FATHERS COMPANION.
Here Miss Beaver was born and raised,
and here, she says, she wants to live al
ways. She has no longing for the city,
although she spends much of her time in
the winter in Washington. AS girl she
was her fathers companion. She went
cunning with him, tramping over the fields
from morning until night many and many
bag of quail Or plover Or woodcock. She
went fishing with him, and soon learned to
know the pools and hollows in the Potomac
where the largest bass lurk and where
they bite the best. She is an expert with
the rod and reel as she is with shotgun
and rifle. An expert horsewoman she
thinks no more of jumping her horse over
any fence on the farm than she does of
running across her lawn. Expert as she is
in all these things and strongly as her
taste runs to athletics, for she believes that
sound and strong body is necessary for
the best development of the mind. she has
not neglected the more aesthetic side OF her
nature, as her music and pictures and
books SHOW
MAKING FARMING PAY.
She is a Maryland girl out and out She
is loyal as can be to her State and all her
tastes and sympathies and inclnations are
with and Of the South. She keeps posted
on what is going on in the world. is up on
the prices for farm products, knows all
about rotation Of crops,' and other things
equally perpleXing to city.bred folk. She
does not believe that the farmer is as
"downtrodden" as he thinks he is. On the
contrary, she is of the opinion that the
farmer is the most independent man on
earth and doesn't understand why country
boys would rather sell calico in stuffy
city store than raise crops out in Gods
fresh air.
She does not raise corn for 30 cents to
sell at 30 cents, but feeds it to the stock
and makes it pay that way. She finds that
raising cattle and horses and hogs pays
better than raising grain for the market,
so she raises cattle and horses and bogS