Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1902-01-23

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great many instances they have
been very successful.
| win now describe the operations
OF young man who had plenty OF
book learning, bnt no knowledge
Of farming and little or no money.
yet on the most impoverished land
has made great success. Only
facts viii be given as we saw them
or were vouched for by others who
knew the circumstances Six years
ago, Prof. Waite bought 400 acres Of
very poor land, nearly every foot Of
which was in woods, none smaller
than cord wood size and today he
has nearly $4,000 fruit trees, about
half yielding paying crops. This
land that is not cleared il very poor
in appearance but is similar If not
better than what is in cultivation.
Mr.. .Waite's methods were rather
novel, as he cut the woods, burned
the growth and set the land TO fruit
trees then grubbed the stumps,
putting the land in corn and sweet
potatoes, the latter crop being the
main one. and keeping the expenses
down. Three years in succession
he cultivated potatoes between the
young trees, by which time they
were too large and peas and corn
had TO be substituted. Under that
system. with severe cutting back in
Winter, il was the best looking or
chard taken altogether that ever
saw. This was the sixth year from
date Of purchase. and after giving
you some figures as to expense, will
give results that will astonish you.
The entire or gross expenditure for
purchase, building two nice dwell
ing houses, two barns for storing
potatoes, labor expense, manure and
fertilizer, IN fact every cent 10 date
has amounted to 49, 300. The results
or rather a part of them, for this
year (the 9Th is crop of over 1900
barrels of sweet potatoes, worth on
any market over $1,000, and the
fruit crop was also one of handsome
proportions bringing in quite nice
sum. Some will say this place had
nearby market, &c. but the truth
il il is quite Assistance from market,
Washington being the nearest, and
everything has to- be shipped by
rail, besides hauling to station three
miles away. | have given the above
description, thinking il might pre-
sent suggestion TO some one who
wishes-to make step forward and
get away from old methods, for here
was presented an OBJECT lesson of
Prof. Whitneys ideas of planting
crops upon lands adapted to their
growth-sweet potatoes doing best
ON light sandy soils-and i'm this in
stance paying the expense of grow
ing magnificent orchard, the con
tinuous and thorough cultivation of
which carries out the most advanced
views upon fruit culture, for as Mr..
! Taylor, the leading authority ON
fruit in this country says, the only
sure way to get paying crops yearly
is to work the trees constantly and
spray at least twice yearly, and
failure will be- rare Fruit and po-
tatoes were the only products of
Prof Waite farm.
III going over TO Baltimore we rot
off at the Relay Station to inspect
Armour 5 celebrated herd of import
ed Hereford cattle. some of which
were from Queen Victoria : herd.
| can give no adequate description
of these grand animals, but il Just
seemed To me they simply combined
all the good points of all other breeds.
They were very symmetrical. carry
ing great flesh, still preserving their
best points. will mention some of
the weights. simply toastonish some
of the natives. For instance. a 4
year old and 2year old bull weighs
respectively 3O00 and 1900, heifers
at years old weighing 1900 pounds.
Can anyone Imagine anything in the
cattle line to reach those figures
We were met at The New Carroll
ton by a delegation of tobacco buyers
and commission men, the object of
which meeting was TO talk over the
condition Of the market of our most
important crop. To be brief. the
buyers assert that conditions could
not be worse, and the commission
ipen sustain them ip that view.
They charge rs the main cause of
this condition, that the inspections
are poorly done, in fact. either dis
playing want OF knowledge as to
proper sampling or else showing a
disposition to favor large shippers,
or repackcrs, the latter being men
who buy the tobacco in the country
and have il packed at their houses.
This class Of shippers not packing
asfairlyas the farmer, and inspectors
are not careful pnouUh In rive n