more trolley lines extending out from Washington, one between the B. & 

 O. Railway and the river, and more than one in the eastern and northern 

 l)arls of the county. 



Some areas of good soil now slowly producing crops of timlier should 

 be converted into arable fields while some abandoned hillsides should be 

 reforested. The acreage of apj^les and other orchard trees should be 

 much, yet conser\ati\'ely, extended. In many places rich bottom lands 

 and seepy hillsides should be tile drained. The farms should in many 

 cases be somewhat reorganized so as to have rotation fields in definite 

 four, five, and six year cropping series. More attention should be paid 

 to securing the best available varieties of corn, wheat, apples, and other 

 crops and to making improvements through seed selection. Cow testing 

 associations, cooperative breeding of cattle, horses, sheep and swine 

 should be developed and the up-grading of live stock of the county should 

 be attended to with more intelligence and greater care. The systems 

 in vogue in the best orchard regions, in culti\ating, fertilizing and spray- 

 ing the orchards, most of which are yet new, should be energetically 

 introduced. 



The farmers of the entire county should follow the example of the 

 farmers in the region of Olney and Sandy Spring, by organizing farmers' 

 clubs and granges in the different parts of the county, also a district 

 country life league in each district and a county federation with repre- 

 sentatives from the \'arious farmers' organizations should be es- 

 tablished to consider the interests of the oi)en country of the entire 

 county. 



Under the leadership of the farmers the start at consolidating the rural 

 schools, as at Sandy Spring, Brookeville and other places, with a teacher 

 of agriculture and a teacher of home economics should be extended to 

 the entire county. Fifteen or twenty consolidated rural school centres 

 would provide vital centres for farmers' social and economic or- 

 ganizations as well as for high schools which teach farming and home 

 making. Such instruction in agriculture as that now provided in the 

 Sandy Spring and Brookeville schools, if extended to the entire county, 

 would rapidly educate the young generation to make more of the farms 

 and farm homes of the entire county. If all the county could be made 

 as producti\'e as are the farms in the vicinity of Sandy Spring and 

 Brookeville, the total production of the county would be greatly increased 

 and a more splendid country life developed. The plan of having a 

 county farm bureau with an expert farm demonstrator and advisor, 

 which is now so rapidly extending into the counties of the United States, 

 will be of great benefit to Montgomery County. Such an office would 

 be of assistance in bringing about better rotation of crops, the more in- 

 telligent use of fertilizers, the improvement of live stock, the choice of 



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