Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-11-07

the province of Maryland was 100000.
of whom $4,000 were white and $4,000
negroes. This population was nearly
all in the tidewater part of the coun-
try. The population of Frederick coun-
ty in 1910 was 52,673; in 1900, $3.50;
1870, 47,572. Frederick is less popu-
lous than Allegany county t62,41l)
with it's large towns of Cumberland,
Homecoming and Frostburg.
Frederick is somewhat more popu
lous than Washington county. which at
the last national census had a popu-
lation of 1851: is considerably more
populous than Anne Arundel, Carroll,
Montgomery or Prince Georges coun-
ties, and is much more populous than
Worcester, Wicomico, Talbot, Somer-
set, st. Marys. Queen Anne, Kent, How
ard, Hartford, Garrett, Dorchester,
Charles, Cecil. Caroline Calvert
The whole population to the square
mile in Frederick county is 79.4, and
the rural population per square mile is
Js.1. The county, population is divided
between 4I,2I2 white and $3.50 negro.
The native whites of native parentage
number 1888; the native whites of
mixed parentage number 1927, and the
native whites of foreign parentage
number GAS
There were at the last count of
heads 63S foreign born residents of
frederick county, of whom 40 were
Germans, 102 Irish. 46 Russians. 81;
English, 81 Italians. 10 Scotch and a
small scattering of Canadians, Greeks,
French, Dutch, Hungarians, Swedes,
Swiss and Welsh.
In the county were 2616S males and
265OJ females with males of voting
age numbering 14,iS2, of whom 12,03S
were native and 23l foreign born.
There were 1856 negro voters. The il
literate males OF voting age mum bered
1.OOG, or IL per cent, a decrease from
limo to-,
years
The native white illiterates were 549,
or A per cent. while the negro litter
ates numbered 437 or 34.1 per cent.
ages of six and twenty years was 49,
$50, and the number of these attend
ing school was 1892, or 67.5 per cent.
while the percentage of children be-
years attending school was $50 per
cent.
Agriculture is the great industry of
Frederick county. 1t is the richest
county in agricultural values in the
state of Maryland, with the exception
of Baltimore county, where there is an
urban effect on values. The county
nearest to Frederick in point of wealth
is Montgomery county, another of
Washipgtons neighbor counties, and
here urbaN values have some effect on
the general valuation.
sThe value aof all farm property in
Frederick county was placed in 1910
at SO, 952, 722, which was an increase
of something over % per cent, for the
preceding ten years. and there is no
doubt that the appreciation since 1910
has been nearly as great as during the
period of 19O0-191O. Five years ago the
value of the farm land in Frederick
county was set at $13,327,41O the value
of the farm buildings at S7,500,321. the
value Of the farm implements at
81, O61 1853 and the value of the domes-
tic animals. poultry and bees was put
down as $3,463, 42s
In the next richest farm county,
MONTGOMERY, the farm values aggre-
gated $2OS5S. 469. and the county far
thest away in point of farm values
from Frederick was Calvert county.
where the values were set down as aS-
Rregating S2,626,417.
The products of Frederick county are
dairy products-nilk, cream butterfat,
butter and cheese; poultry and eggs.
honey wax wool, cereals-corn wheat.
oats, rye, buckwheat, together with dry
peas and dry edible beans, hay and
forage, including all cultivated grasses,
timothy, clover, alfalfa millet or Hungari
an grass, wild grasses and grains cut
green; special crops such as potatoes.
sweet potatoes and vans; all field and
garden vegetables and tobacco; orchard
fruits, such as apples, peaches and nee
tarines pears, plums. prunes, cherries and
ounces and the small fruits. like straw
berries raspberries and loganberries,
blackberries and dewberies, and grapes
and nuts
The annual value of the dairy products
of Frederick county, excluding the home
use Of milk and cream, is about 100000
The annual production of the milk is
about 100000 gallons, of which $780,
900 gallons are sold outside the county.
The county's annual production of cream
is about $4,000 gallons, the production
of butterfat $4,000 pounds. the produce
ton of butter 100000 pounds and the
amount of cheese about $500 pounds.
The average annual production of the
county in fair crop season Is about
1000, 600 bushels of corn, 100000 bush
els Of wheat. 10000 bushels Of oats.
10000 bushels of rye, $4,000 tons of hay
and forage, $4,000 tons of cultivated
grasses, 100000 bushels of potatoes, 5000
bushels of sweet potatoes. $4,000 bush
els of apples, $4,000 bushels of peaches
5000 bushels of pears. 5000 bushels of
cherries, 100000 pounds of grapes, $780,.
900 quarts of Strawberries. 10000 quarts
of raspberries and loganberries and $4,000
pounds of nuts. The total value of the
crops of one year Is about $4,000. 000
In 1910 the total value was $4,210.S53
The receipts from the sale of live