The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1841-11-09
AGRICULTURAL.
[Ftom the Vermont Chronicle.l
A VERMONT DAT CROP.

Mr.. TRACY II noticed IN your paper an
account of Gov. Hills oat crop this season
and if any man had produced more, he was
invited to communicate the fact.
Will give you a brief statement of my oat
crop, ON the same number of acres, flour. -
As he gave his manner of cultivation, will
give mine, as they differ in some respects.
Our lands were under about equal state of
cultivation, to begin with. In the season of
1889 my land was plowed up in the sward.-
In the month Of May, 1910, it was plowcd and
thoroughly narrowed; then twenty loads of
good manure were spread TO the acre, and all
plowed in to the debth of four inches, and har-
rowed down smooth. Then the four acres
were planted to potatoes; and | harvested
nine hundred and seventy seven bushels from
the lot. In the spring of 1871 the land was
plowed once, and sowed sixteen bushels of
oats upon the four acres The oats stood mp
remarkably well but few lodged; and | think
the cause was, that we had no rain to timber
or burthen the stalk after the cats began to
fill. The piece was reaped, and the oats
bound in very large bundles,-so large that it
was difficult in many instances TO stock twelve
bundles in stock. had them stocked in
that manner fer the purpose of counting Ger
recty; and the result was five hundred and
eighty. eight stocks, of twelve bundles 10 the
stocks If New Hampshire has beat Vermont
on oats this year, let us know it, and we will
try them next season.
ORANGES JUNE.
BRANpoN, VT, Oct 4, 154l.
-Gov Hills crop um ,ooks la bundles
to the stook-rahcr than many Junes
W. slouid like 10 the number bushels in each.
EDITOR.
S1LK CrLrCRE. We learn that Mr.. Rob-
crt Sinclair, Ct Baltimore, has raised in his CO.
coonory, the past season, one hundred bushels
of cccOons, which he has disposed otto advan-
tagc 4 Mir. Allen of Brockport, in this state,
devoted eight acres OF his farm to the silk cul
ture, and was so well satisfied with his success
that he has since appropriated fourteen acres
to the same purpose. Several of his neighbOrs
have each raised, with small attention, from
fifty to sixty bushels of cocoonS and in all ca
ses, at a less expense than the bounty allowed
by the state.-COnn. Paper.
Railroad up The Connecticut. The Bellows
Falls Gazette SAYS "The descent Of Con-
ncctcut river from Dodge's Falls a miles a.
boye Wells rver) to Hartford, is 420 feet and |
the distance 2I9 miles. A more favorable |
route for Railroad favoEable on account of
the evcnncss of the 60 untry, the ascent 10 be |
obtained, and the great wealth and business of
the country through which the road would pass, |
is not, perhaps, to be found in the United |
States 1t would cost to build q road the whole |
distance, not far frem $6,000,00O, taking the |
cost of other railroads in this country as the
criterion by which TO estimate its cost. "-Cour-
AM.
Gov. Davis, of Massachusetts, has issued his
proclamation for the observance of the 25th of
November as thanksgiving day in Massachu-
sets.
THE Cincinnati Chronicle has been exami.
lining the six returns of the census, taken at in
tervals of ten years each, since the adoption of
the Constitution. The Investigations show
some curious facts:
1. The population of the United States in
creases exactly "a per cent. each ten years,
and doubles every twenty-four years. This
law is so uniform, and permanent, that when
applied to the population of 1890, and brought
down TO the present time, it produces nearly ;
the very result shown by the census of 1910.
And thus we may tell with great accuracy {
what will be the census of 1850. 1t will be G
nearly twenty three millions. r
2. But though this is the aggregate result, :
it is by no means true of each particular part =
of the country for New England increases at !;
the rate of Is per cent each ten years, while /
the North Western States increase 100 per
cent. in that period. i
g. The slave population increased at 80 7
per cent, but since, at less than 20 per cent. .
The free population have, however, increased G
at the rate of SO per cent. At this rate there S
fore, the difference between the free and slave Q
population is constantly increasing. 1
A.. Another fact is, that the colored popula- f
ton increase just in proportion to the distance
South and that slavery is certainly and rap I
idly decreasing in the States bordering on the F
free States. f
This state of things continued, would in half o
century extinguish slavery in these States, e
ana concentrate the whole black population of d
the United States on the Gulf of Mexico, and Ia
the adjacent States on the South Atlantic. II
Vermont Temperance Society held its ANN. e,
al meeting in this place, at the Brick church to
on the evening of Tuesday last Hon f.. -