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temperature. It has a great trunk railway, with connections 

 along its entire length, called the Delaware Division of the 

 Pennsylvania railroad, which furnishes direct transportation 

 to Philadelphia, New York, and other northern cities." 



"On the eastern shore there are many thousand acres of 

 land devoted to garden truck, and the strawberry crop has 

 of late years become of importance. Over one hundred 

 carloads of strawberries are shipped daily during the season 

 to the Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, and Boston 

 markets." 



Land properly cultivated will yield four thousand quarts 

 of strawberries to an acre. 



The canning of various fruits and vegetables has grown 

 to be larger than that of any other state and is one of the 

 most profitable of the industries of Maryland. The prin- 

 cipal articles canned are peaches, peas, and tomatoes. 



The tomato crop is also profitable to the grower. The 

 young plants are set out hi the spring ; many do this with 

 a machine, but two persons can easily plant seven acres 

 in a day by hand. 



An acre will produce from six to eighteen tons of tomatoes, 

 according to the quality of the soil. All such products bring 

 better prices now in Maryland markets than they did be- 

 fore canning was resorted to. The Maryland tin can is 

 known wherever civilization reaches. 



Tobacco is extensively produced only in southern Mary- 

 land, although it can be raised in any section of the state. 



In the neighborhood of the larger cities trucking and 

 fruit growing are profitable, combined with poultry raising, 

 often on farms of not more than five or ten acres. 



Many farmers devote part of their time successfully to 

 bees, and there is nowhere a better climate for flowers than 



