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potatoes yield bountifully and are of the finest quality. 

 Asparagus and early white potatoes pay handsome profits. 

 Tomatoes, the great canning crop, are grown by the thou- 

 sands of acres. 



"The grasses and clovers grow hi luxuriance, and hence 

 dairying and beef production are profitable. Poultry pays 

 as well as anywhere else ; chickens often run on green clover 

 all through the open whiter. 



"The game consists of various species of ducks, quails, 

 reed birds, hares, marsh rabbits, and other small creatures. 

 Shad, trout, herring, crocus, black bass, pike, white fish, 

 rock fish, oysters, clams, crabs, and terrapin are abundant 

 in Delaware waters." 



The tax in the rural counties is generally sixty cents on 

 the hundred dollars. Besides this there are taxes on business 

 and a very light school tax. There is no state tax, yet the 

 state makes large appropriations for the support of the public 

 schools, which are free to everybody. 



Maryland has established a State Bureau of Immigration 

 in Baltimore to give information to home seekers, and advise 

 them as to choice of location, opportunities for getting started 

 in agricultural production, and aid them in any way consist- 

 ent with a State Bureau. Most of these facts are taken 

 from such reports. 



Southern Maryland and the eastern shore are especially 

 adapted to gardening and trucking, as well as fruit growing. 

 Land is cheap and can be purchased in tracts of any size 

 from an acre upwards, at from ten to fifty dollars per acre. 

 Farms from twenty acres to seven hundred acres and up 

 are for sale in nearly every county in the state. The removal 

 of a large part of the negro population from the country to 

 the cities has resulted in the partition of the large estates 



