Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1836-05-03
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AGRICULTURAL IMPROVEMENTS

AGhlCl ITIRAL IMPRON BMENpS.
Some farmers. We arc told tunh that The cell.
mates of crops. prudis, ~. occasionally publehed
IN tins paper, sre sometimes cxttatsrcnuy hlch.---
We notice that The articles objected TO on the
ground, arc Ia fact nothing else then statements
Of actual rcsu!,s obtained by individuals whose
nanos arc given. The product. named 10 such
osse' are not 81 course common. They are pub
hsAcd 60 show the effects OF skil and care or Of
new suj particular methods Of cultivation or man
ogcmen,. Now We beg our readers not to pot
too low an estimate on the capabilities Ut Yer
mon, farms, or the intelligence and enterprise Of
those who cultivate them. We know. os vet very
little abou, The rich rewards that are to crown az
uculiutal industry among those vordant bills
Compare the condition OF our farmers now, with
what It was fifteen or twenty years ago. What
an immence advance in enterprise and ,hrN -
For ourselves We see nothing to hinder and many
things that promise a far more rapid advance for
many years TO come. These who have pursued
he same old routine that they began with twenty
or thirty years ago are already dIsianccd py such
think and plan about their farms in the spirit
# intelhgen, iHnor0iors. You see the difference
every where. 1t will be far more SINKING five ten
or twenty years hence.
IN our first number we published some account
of the early history Of agricultural enterprise and
Improvement in Duches county n. Y. A late
number ofthe Poughkoepsie Journal, afier noticing
the vast amount Of agricultural produce sen, TO
market from that county last year, says:
"Dutches county farms eagerly sought after
at higher prices than farming lands will command
IN any other part of the State, or perhaps of the
Union, and these prices are every year advancing.
large portion Of The farms in this county have
advanced in price about 100 per cent. during the
last ten years and yet great have been the i'm
provements in farming, that it is generally believed
that these farms pay better interest now, these
advanced prices, that they did at the former com
paratiycly low prices. OF one thing there can be
no doubt--and that is, that the farmers of Dutch.
ess are more really and substantially prosperous
than they ever have been at any former period
This prosperity brings with it an increase Of CAPT
tai, which leads to still futher improvements il
farming, and these again contribute to swell ,h,
tide of prosperity, and hence 1t is that Dutchcss
county farms will sill continue to advance in price
! for all time to COME
| SO will Vermont farms, though not so happil.
| located near the best market as those of Duchess
! County, continue to advance in price, if only The
like split of improvement--of intelligence and en-
erprise in their business-shall animate those wh(
cultivate them.
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says that the cxpence of cultivation in that COUNT
had been thought 10 exceed the amount derivet
from it, Ten bushels of rye 20 the acre, twent
of corn, one ton of hay, and two hundred bushel
of potatoes were formerly considered average crops
g. rt--- r i--r--' L. 1000. -""hu''o
there have been crops from 40 TO so bushels G
rye, ll5 to 100 of corn, from 3 to tons of la
and from 400 TO 500 bushels of potatoes TO tn
acre. In several instances the products of farm
have been more the quadrupled And SO in Esse
County in the State. Daniel p. King Esq
in an address at late meeting of the Agriculture
Society appealed to his hearers for the truth of ih
remark that, within fifteen or twenty years, III
+ produce of many farms had been nearly doubled
that the crops Of hay. corn and other kinds
grain had increased on an average from so to 10
per cent--that agricultural labor had been yer
much facilitated by improved tools--the profits
the dairy greatly increased, &c. Yet the mot
= intelligent and successful farmers in those region
consider their Improvements as yet in the
, infancy, and are looking forward with confdenc
to far more abundant rewards of industry an
skill.