Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1843-03-03

~, III aTtS, anu IN INDUSTRIAL ana eCOuOfniCdi.
processes, with statistics of the population,
production, &c. &c. Of the several States
for the year 1912.
The editors Of the New-York Tribune
have received a copy of the report, and pre-
seuted their readers with some OF the facts
embodied in this valuable document in
condensed shape, from which we extract the
following:
Indian corn may be raised in the West at
50 per acre-the cost of ploughing, plant
ing, and tlling, with the cul,igator-and
then turned into pork by allowing the hogs
to gather 1.-THE corn thus costing but lit
tie over six cents per bushel, (ears.) Hogs
in this way may be brought without feeding
to weigh 800 lbs, at which size after taking
off the two hams, they may be tried up by
the new steaming process, aud made TO
yield an average of sixty per cent of lard
BY this process hogs may be made to net in
the West, So, to $3.50 per hundred, instead
Of 81 80, which is the average now realized
for them. new article Of lard Of the
puresi white, very hard, and unaffected by
the heat of the climate, is produced by a
recently discovered process, at all extra cost
Of only half cent per pound. Hogs may
be easily kept through the winter by sowing
fields of rye, and allowing them TO run on
them. Thus pork may be produced in nm
limited quantity at a cost Of 81 per hum
dred. a.,iaF2
Lard oil is now manufactured in vast guam
titles at the West, and the business is rapid
ly extending. 1t is superior TO olive or
sperm oil for machinery, for the manuiac-'
ture of Woolens, &c, and can be furnished
at half the price. Upon chemical analysis,
it is found to be scarcely different in lis c-'
ements from sperm. ' Ne''nE
! An increase of only one cent per ID. on
the product of the pork made in the United
States would amount to $30,000,0 600 per
annum, and more than this may be easily
effected. If the skins OF hogs were taken
off on killing, the cost would be no greater
than now, the pork would taste better, and
the skins would be worth many millions of
dollars. The bristles, too, are generally
wasted, as they should not be. The foreign
marke; for pork, lard and oil are just open-
ing, and is almost boundless The quantity
produced may easily be doubled, and its
productiveness greatly increased fq
A new Wheat has been introduced from
the Mediterranean, which is impreguable TO
assaults of the IIessian fly and the rust. ot
The experiments Of the last year have full
ly established the practicability and profit Of
making sugar from the stalks of the maize
or Indian corn. The yield is ten per cent.
Of saccharine matter while the cane yields
: l-2, and the Beet but B. 1an eers 81
The silk culture is established in this
country The American raw silk is admit
ted to be superior to any other known. Its
production is increasing in New England,
Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Kentucky and
Tennessee. One establishment in Ohio
pays "a per bushel for cocoons, and prohta-
bly, manufactures silk to the amount of i 1900
Z per month. One person there will 'ieed 81
000, 600 worms next year. Very great inn
provemenls in the business have been made
within the last year. go 81a.918ft
u The editors of the Tribune state that find-
y ing il impossible TO make room for any com
y plete summary of this important document,
they have determined to publish it entire,
} with its engravings of improved machinery,
: &c. in an extra Tribune, pamphlet edition
9 of 96 large and close octave, pages at a
cost of 25 cents, or Eve copies for 81. 9.o
= Evidenccs of !Scutre Distrcss.---There is
!. no proof so decisive of severe, protracied,
!, and widespread distress as when il begins
> to produce marked effect on the increase
= of the population, and still more on their
morals--when it prevents marriages, dimin7
!, shes the number of births, increases the
: number of deaths, and increases the amount
of vice. The decisive proof is now Afford
ed in the superintendent registrars district
of Leeds, which comprises the borough of
Leeds and small adjacent district in
!. one direction. The following are the pa
:, rIiculars Number of marriages in Leeds !;
!, In 1910, 1923; in 1871, 1887 !; in 1912,
= l40S; being decrease Of 10 per cent,
), from 1910 to 1912 Number of births: in
n 1910, G, 500 in IS41 $685.; in lS42, 6, 1857,
:. being a decrease of 3 per cent, from lS40 to
1912, but, we regret to say, the decrease in
= the legitimate births is much greater, and
% there is a deplorable increase in the ile-
~ gitimate births. Number of Deaths in
] 1910, 4,4S5; in lS4l, Abb; in 1912,
IL 1900; being an increase OF nearly 3per
\ cent. Here, then, we see marriages and
10 births diminishing, when there ought TO
!. have been an increase, as the effect of a pre-
!. pious rapid increase in the population and
= at the same time deaths increasing, and the
- bonds of morality loosening. When these
= facts are added to the augmentation Of the
., poor-rates, which have just been raised SO
- per rent. In this township, irresistible
: e proof is afforded of the existence Of deep
70 and general distress. Leeds Mercury N.
:" "Gently the deaos are DER me stealing" as the