Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1914-11-27
Montgomery County Wins Two
Essay Prizes.

One Of the features of the Maryland
Horticultural Society's annual exhibition
held in Baltimore last week, was the award
ing of prizes to those who were winners il
the essay contest under the auspices O
the Society. Statewide prizes of $40 il
gold were offered in two classes. The frs
class was for boys and the subject of the
essay was why the Maryland Farmer:
Boy Should Remain on the Farm" The
second class was for girls and the subject
of the essay was "How Social Conditions
in Rural Life in Maryland Can Be Bettered
BY the Daughters Of Maryland Farmers"
Two of these prizes were won by Mont.
Observation-Disclosures L. Waters, of Gath
ersburg, and Allen F. Brooke, of Sandy
Spring.
Col. Albert w. Sisk, of Caroline county,
who was elected president of the Maryland
State Horticultural Society on Wednesday
night, made statement before leaving
the city in which he strongly urged devel-
opment of the factors that tend to keep
people on the farms. He urges work of
this sort as one of the deeper needs of the
times.
1--WE people of the farms" said Colonel
Sisk, carried our products to the city that
the people there, and especially the young
people, might see and know. Actual dem
onstration of facts was the order during
the week. Potato vines with potatoes on
the roots and not on the tops, showing that
potatoes grow in the ground: corn on the
stalk. showing that corn grows above the
ground; bees at work on their honeycomb
and cows that were MIXED twice day
were there before the eyes of the people,
If that exhibition interested dozen young
men. or old ones. for that matter, and in
spired them to take up agriculture. horti-
culture or Horticulture as their special life
work. it was well worth while.
Something must be done to stop the
steady flow of our best blood from the
country to the city. The country is suffer-
ing more from this tendency than from
any other thing. For myself. believe that
the time is now at hand when. as between
the city and the country. the latter is offer
ing greater inducements to the intelligent
young man. 1t has not been so long. but
today there are few comforts or even luxu-
ries in city life that cannot be had in the
country, not to mention the many luxuries
offered by the country which are not to be
thought of in the city.
This subject of keeping our boys in the
country is one that demands the most pro-
found consideration. 1t involves many
difficult economic problems, but no matter
how difficult, proper and speedy solution
must be sought and found. The very foun-
dation of our social and industrial fabric
is laid in our grain fields and orchards. 1t
is upon them that every other business
and profession depends. They are funda-
mental, the banks Of first issue, and as the
amount and quality of their currency rises
and fails. so does the prosperity of the
metropolis the town and the hamlet ebb
and flow
This is the point and place where the
interests of the city and the country are
in common, where they meet on the level.
Our cause is one and our purpose must be
one. To accomplish our needs definite
line of action should be mapped out"