The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1906-01-19
He Thrives In Maryland.

Mr. Herman J. Badenhoop, secretar y
of the Maryland Bureau Of immigration,
,as visited at his Office yesterday by Mr..
Herman B. Richter. former Ohio farm
er, who settled in Prince Georges county
t wo years ago through the agency of the
bureau
A native of Germany, Mr.. Richter is a
living example of the wholesomeness of
frugality and thrift. He came to the
United States Is years ago, and, after
paying his way to Ohio did not have IS.
He secured employment in dairy at $12
a month with board. To-day he owns a
we'll stocked 248 acre farm and has bank
account. He is still on the sunny side of
life, and all that he needs, according to
Mr.. Badeuhsop's thinking, is wife.
Mr. Richter discussed farming and farm
products much as a scientific farmer or
political economist might. He had been
reading The Sum-, he said, since he
came to Maryland in March, 1904 He
prefers Maryland to Ohio, and has sever.
al neighbors who came from different
parts of the West and who say Maryland
is the farmers paradise.
The nearness of the farms in the East
to the big cities is great advantage" he
said. "Washington, Baltimore, Philadel-
phia, New York ana hundreds of smaller
places make good market for everything
e. VnotarI,u sold
LAT pound calf in Washington at 9 cents
pound which was cents more than
ever got in Ohio. My place there was
seven miles from Cincinnati and I am
now ID miles from Washington. l have
large herd Of Holsteiu and Durham cat
tie
Il tind that Maryland is batter adapted
to raising sweet corn aud other vegetables
for canning than the Western States
put out 40 acres of sweet corn last season
aud made $1,l50 on it. Twenty acres.
which did not have time 20 cultivate
myself, I rented to colored man on
shares. which yielded total Of $3.50.
81 also raised so to 50 bushels to an
acre of field corn, while 1 never raised
in Ohio"
Mr.. Richter bought his farm At $32 so
AN acre and has been offered $50 an acre
for it. The great drawback with most
Maryland farms that he has seen is that
there are not sufficient hands to work
them and keep them fertile.
They don't have any cOlered farm
hands in the West" he said. II notice
that many of the Marylad farmers send
their Children to the cities to be educat-
ed and that the children do not return to
keep up the farms, which every year grow
| weaker and weaker. All that these so
called WORKOUT farms need is farmer
who farms know of a case in Howard
county near the Prince Georges line of
farmers son who was a clerk in a bank
and came back because he was an only
son and his father begged him not to let
the farm pass out Of the hands of the
family. He never worked on the farm as
boy, but somehow learned and now be
has one of the finest farms in the com.
munity. have also observed that the
farmers in Maryland do not GO from one
to another giving their neighbors friend
ly lift in busy season as they do out
West"
Mr.. Richter, in giving an account OF
himself in the West, said that he held his
first job in the dairy for two years and
was getting $25 month and board at the
end of that period. He bought SINAI
dairy himself for 81 200, giving a mort
gage. The dairy consisted Of 10 cows
wagons and buildings and was located
on leased ground. When he came East
he sold the dairy for $4,000. He spen,
$4,000 in improving the buildings, bu
the owner of the land allowed him only
$1,000 for these improvements when b,
moved.