Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1837-06-07

productions; for it is agreed on all hands,
hat the l6,500,000, or rather the IT,
500, 000, (for more than million have
been added since 1881, are much fuller I
fed, and on provisions Of q far better quail t
ity, than the Z 100000 were, in 1855
Nor is Great Britain indebted at all, al
present 70 foreign markets for her sup
plies. Since 1882. she has imported no
grain, worth mentioning and till within
the last six months, prices have been so
exceedingly depressed, as to call forth
loud complaints from the whole agricul-
tural interest in the country. England is
at this moment, so far from wanting any
Of our breadstuffs, If we had them to ex-
port, that she has been supplying US all
winter literally from her own granaries,
and according to the latest advices, she
has still bread enough and to spare
Again, it is estimated by British writer's,
Of high authority, that the subsistence of
9, 1000, 900 of people costs, in raw produce,
not less that G72 900, or Ge for each
individual per annum. According to this
estimate, the annual product Of this great
branch Of national inductry is S35O,OO0,-
900 more, at present, than it was in 1885;
| winch is more than twice the value of the
| whole cotton mon ufacture Of the country,
in 1881. Now if it costs $3.50, 100000 to
feed the increased population Of 9,00O,-
600. then to feed the present population Of
! 1850, 900, must cost near 100000 600!
What an amazing agricultural product,
for so small territory! And yet, it Is
the opinion Of practical men Of the highest
responsibility in England, that the raw
produce Of the island, might be we'll nigh
doubled, without any greater proportional
expense being incurred in its production.
That is to say, 35,000,0OO Of people
might draw their subsistence, from that
one little speck in the ocean! Now zoe
have a territory, more than fifteen times as
large as the Island Of Great Britain and
what should hinder it, when it comes to be
brought under no higher cultivation than
some parts Of England and Scotland, from
sustaining population of fee or sir hun
dred millions Of people, This would give
to Virginia something like thirty millions
to Illinois and Missouri about the same
number, each-to Y. York near twenty-
fee millions, and SO in proportion to the
other states. am quite aware, that this
estimate will be regarded as extremely
visionary and incredible, by many OF
your readers; but no more so, than it
would have been thought, in the middle OF
the last century, that England, Scotland
and Wales could ever be made to sustain
thirty five, OF even thirty millions.
Among the causes which have more
than doubled the agricultural produce o.
Great Britain, within the period just al
Iuded to, may be mentioned the enclosing
six or seven millions OF acres of commons
and common fields, by which their annua
product has been increased, in many
cases, more than tenfold-the cultivation
Of heaths and other waste land-the re-
deeming Of extensive and inexhaustiblt
rich fens, from the possession of aquatic
birds and animals-the great improvement
in agricultural implements-the furrov
draining Of clay and other cold and stiff
soiIs-the better rotation Of crops-the ex
tensive introduction ofturneps and Glove
the immense Increase of common ina
nure, and the introduction Of one at eas,
}, whose extraordinary nutritive qualitie
:, have but recently been discovered. Mex
e to wheat, the turnep crop, which fort
years ago was hardly worth mentioning
= is now more valuable than any other, bot
to landlords and tenants. 1t is used chic
ly. in feeding and fattening cattle an
sheep; and while immense numbers
!. both are kept in the most healthy an
W thriving condition upon this vegetable
r. one species of which, the Ruta Baga, ha
lately been introduced and is extensiveI
s, pro 1uctive, the lands are greatly enriche
S, and soon prepared for any other gro
It, which the former may find most proft
n BILE in his system of rotation. Clover, to-
is doing much to enrich the soil of Eng
a land and Scotland, and to reward the i
D. bors of those who moisen it, with tt
:e sweat of their brows. 1t is surprising
e. see, to what an extent the light, sand
h lands Of England have already been r
S. deemed from comparative sterility undt
20 this cultivation, and are now sowed wit
s. the finest wheat The process is still q
be ing on, and bids fair to proceed as long ;
Mt there remain any such land to be reclaim
a. ed and enriched. Indeed, who can te
e. how much the cultiva Ion of the turne
I'd may ultimately add to the wealth, an
le help TO sustain the population of Britain
b. According TO an estimate which | ha,
70 lately seen, it is now worth many mIlio,
2 sterling. per annum, TO the single county
e, Norfolk. Carrots, also, are found 10 be
he very profitable crop in some parts of En-,
Mt land, and the farmers are turning their q
IL tention 10 the cultivation Of this very n
to tritious esculent, with increasing intere
and advantage.
8, Among the several kinds Of manu-
re which have lono haen in HIGH renu,