Eastern times., 1851-05-01
This 10 an historical fact
Advantages and resources Of
Maine.

A writer in the Maine Farmer set. forth
some of the advantages OF this State as con.
lrasted with those Of other States, in ney.
although entirely true light. Speaking of
the particulars in which Maine excels, hs
saysi-
/ Her water power is without parallel
The simple expense Of cnnsling the waters
OF the Concord und MerIlmac rivers, through
the city of Lowell, getting il ready Tor use,
| would literally build = CITY of splndes,'
on hundreds of privileges in Maine. equally
accessible TO nayigable waters as Lowell.
| In thus we see the advantage that Maine
holds over Massachusetts, in Two particulars;
First, the availability of her power, and sec
ond, the superiority of her harbors and
shipping. Then let Maine build her facto-
ries and machine shops, Of every description,
and work them with her own hands al q
a vastly cheaper rate than can Mas
sachuserus, Rhode Island or Connecticut,
while the articles produced will bear the
same price in the market, and, Of course,
afford greater profit. Let Msne raise her
own wool for manufacturing, which should
be of the finest quality-such as cannot be
raised, in competition, III warmer climates.
1t has neven been my lot 10 see in any
other State such nice herds of cattle as nre
seen in Maine. The horses raised in Maine
will sell in Rhode Island and Connecticut for
twenty-five per cent. more than the same
quality OF horses brought from the west
They are considered harder and more ser.
viceable animals.
There is one thing that the farmers,
generally, in Maine, should turn their
attention TO. The raising OF apples can be
carried on in Milne with better success than
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same quality of apples raised in Maiue will
keep some TWO months longer than those
which are raised in Connecticut, New Jersey,
or even Ohio. With her advantages for
transportation, the ever ready sale of good
apples for cash. the impossibility of Cutting
the market, for The more apples you give the
world 10 eat, the more they want, and the
more they will have, the supply creating The
demand-Malne has The greatest facilities for
the proJnction of apples. ] now have 10 pay
TWO cents in Massachusetts for an ordinary
| apple, or what should be considered so, for
it IS as easy TO raise the best of fruit as the
poorest. If the people Of Maine rightly
understood their interests in this matter,
they could afford TO go 10 New York or Ohio
| TO mill. / do not hesitate TO say that the
| Counties OF kennebec, Somerset and
| Franklin could raise apples enough 10 buy
|
WAYNE, Stark and Ashland, in the State of
Ohio. Let US 60 into calculation TO test
Ihe truth OF this, rs many, no doubt, will be
surprised at the expression Of such a
thought.
To he brief, we will suppose that bushel
of apples in Maine. is worth as much as
bushel OF wheat, in Ohio and the expense of
transporting bushel OF apples from Maine
10 any American or European market, would
be less then that Of transporting wheat from
Ohio. Then we have taking the best
wheat year of OHIO, 1850 only 10 raise four
millions Of bushels OF apples, per year, in
the three Counties above named. Now
suppose that in those Counties there are fifty
towns that have eighty farms that would
raise one thousand bushels each, and we
have the number Of bushels Of apPles-four
millions But there are many farms that
could produce ten thousand bushels as well
as one; so this may be considered small
esrIn,ate, if the people would only take hold
Of the matter as they should. And then,
how much easier it is to raise and market
bu.heI of apples then il is the same amount
Of wheat This business w uld also bring
into profitable use a vast amount of the waste
| lands. which are better adapted 10 orchard
ing rhan to almost anything else, such as our
ledey hillside., &c. The raising of apples
would also DO away with the necessity Of SO
much physical labor. The farmer now
has to work from daylight ill dark, from
Spring ill Fall, TO scrape together enough to
enable him 10 live through the long, cold
| winter.
Maine might engage with profit in tbs
ice trade. The ice in her rivers and many
of her ponds is of the purest aud best quai-
tY, and would demand the first sale and the
highest price in the market. In this busi-
! ness she could compete with any other State,
with admirable success.
Maine can carry the boot and shoe busl-
ness cheaper than Massachusetts and with
| greater profit, and in this business thriving
village can be built up on the most barren
hull in the most lnauspicious locality.
| have thus adverted to some of the nus
merou. advantages Of Maine. Then why
NOT deyelope her natural resources, and
improve Them for our own advantage and
lhe good Of the world ? Maine, with her
! lumber, her orchards, her cattle, her ice, her
ships, her manufactures. might become one
of the most extensive exporting States IN
the Union. Her natural facilities are sum
cient to enable her to become. eventnaiiy,
one of the first States, in point OF wealth, 40
she is one of,be first in point OF morals and
common honesty.
The facts and suggestions contained in
the foregoing, are, every word OF them true,
and the people of Maine would DO well 70
handler them, and act upon them.