The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1912-08-15

scheduled Tor "ArnOld'S Grove about
eight miles out, under the management
Of fruit-grOwing and agricultural socie-
ties. Rapidity of Improvement with
the Importance of extension of fruit
developments in this section of Mineral
county created the main demand for
the Twin Mountain and Potomac Road,
enabling shippers to quickly dispense
their products among markets most
ready for their reception. The road
penetrates many Of the largest and best
ordered orchards Of the county, perhaps,
OF the State. Leaving the train in the
midst of a vast and thoroughly cult
waited orchard, we had to lift our heads
in catching view of the justly popular
grove GROWING a lofty eminence and
already alive with visitors centering
there. Serpentine roads and paths took
US by hard climbs to the mount all were
seeking. The fiat was covered with
luXurient green grass under the shade
Of shapely trees, while an improvised
but inviting looking rostrum indicated
the platform for speaking, recitals and
lessons in the best mode of packing.
Professors educated in the art Of agri-
culture and of fruits were there to en-
tighten the country producer in the most
modern discoveries and safest methods
known to date IN the many branches of
these marvellous Industries. Among
these educators was the Hon. w. D.
linn, Democratic nominee for Commits
sioner of Agriculture in West Virginia.
Well, it nearly took the breath from
me listening to instructions that shat
tered the teachings in Maryland upon
the subjects treated. The treatment
observed upon the growing trees here,
and the speeches delivered, positively
reverse cardinal rules recorded in Mary
land. We are advised in Maryland to
set out the trees for apples, leaving
three prongs from which the matured
tree will receive its shape, settling, to
large extent, in the incipiencY of the
tree and the problem Of future pruning,
| and then keep the branches left thin ty
judcious trimming. Now we are
taught by the growing tree and by eX-
pert instruction to put out the tre e
with its branches beginning close to TIE
ground, just as thick as they may grow,
do no thinning, but so annually cut back
the branches as to keep the tree in a
brush form and but little taller than
the reach of MANS hand. One
of our Garrett county trees will yield
more than half dozen of this new pat
tern. Attention was directed to the
better prices obtained by western pro-
ducers, explaining that such advantage
does not ARISE from any disparity in
values but from better way the west
has in packing, placing the first layer
over the bottem then causing each in
the hollows created by the coming to-
gether of two or more in bottom LAYER,
no one resting directly on another, but
placed over crevice below. These ad-
dresses were interDersed with recita-
tons most pleasingly rendered by two
Young ladies'
About the noon hour, in an hour or so
of respite from speechts, recitations,
demonstrations with sallies of humor
and flashes Of wit, such lunches were
served as only Keyser ladies can devise
and only their hospitality can dispense.
Your columns will admit of deserving
enumeration of the substantials and
delicacies of this repast. after the null
titude had been filled more than frag-
ments remained for many baskets.
Rather in advance of train time a
walk out to the edge of the command
ing summit gave view of the vast pro-
portions of these splendid orchards, one
it is said, containing four thousand
trees, with many others not quite so
large but large indeed, reaching in all
directions with the appearance of large
bushes. beginning to branch out less
than two feet above the ground, similar
in sizes and planted in mathematical
precision in rows.
Nature lavished her glories in a per
feet day, with lust clouds enough to
sober the glitter of midsummer S
sun and tone and sweeten the stiff
breeze habtual to such an altitude
Look from so superb a height over
range after range fading in the haze of
far away lines touched by the rim Of
the horizon; and then back over the
altering panorama of peaks and hills,
fields and forest suffulgent under the
mellow lights of waning sun, the tru-
ism came home it seldom comes to so
many: This is a beautiful world in
which we live" RELLIM.
Hereford Cattle for Sale.