Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1853-01-06

IousUt, dependent on peace tue MeNlcai
War being a partial exception to the gener
al policy. And this fact, too, shows The
Yet peace is at the bottom Of all our pros
perity. Peace is our wises, policy. Peace
is the basis Of all our enjoyments and free
dom, when compatible with our honor
We want no war to help other nations tc
anything. Ifany people want emancipation
from their rulers, let them strike the blow
We are not proper jury TO try the merits oil
disputes between remote empires. As a ma.
ton, We are bound to preserve the neutral
ity we profess. All questions of freedom
/ between people aud their rulers properly
belong to themselves alone, and to interfere
/ is the very inlraction Of the first prime Piles
Of liberty, that we hear SO much of all a.
round us. Peace-peace--ls our motto,
where the wrong is not our own. Peace is
necessary to the success Of agriculture, and
agriculture TO the prosperity of the nation.
That our readers may see this IN its proper
/ light, we extract what follows on the sub
jet of agriculture from the excellent report
Of the superintendent Of the census:
in regard to agriculture, it is ascer-
tanned that the average quantity of i'm
proved land is about u acres to each
lnhabltant. In the New England States,
the average Tor the whole population is
LITTLE more than 4 acres to each per
son; in New York and Pennsylvania, 3
$40 acres; in the other Middle States
The same. In Virginia the proportion
is about 7 acres in South Carolina, 6
acres in Kentucky 2 acres ard in
Tennessee , acres. The cash value of
the firms Of the United States is set
down at S3,27O,733 O93. The whole
number OF acros Of improved land is
IlS, f57 622 unimproyed, lS162l.-
34S; total, 3O3, 07S $40; average cash
value per acre, elO.79. The aggregate
value Of farming implements is set down
nj 4 Ij), 100000, Of which New York
has S22 .0S1 ,926; Pennsylvania, Sl4,-
722 sill Louisiana, lI,576, 1913, (per-
haps to a great extent in machinery for
crushing sugar cane) Ohio, Sl2,75O,-
SO; Kentucky, $5,l69,037; Virgin
ia, &I022 722.
ct HorScs, there are 25O, 900 in the
United States, an increase Of 100000
since 1910. In New York the number
has decreased &c, 500 in Pennsylvania,
10000 in New England, II ,00O,-ow-
ine, probably, to the extens;eo of rail
roads. In Ohio, and the new States OF
'l'e Nef'hwest, The increase Of horses
has kept pace with that of the popua-
ton. There is in the United States one
horse TO five of the inhabitants. New
York has one horse 10 seven persons :
pennsylvania one TO six and six tenths /:
Ohio one to four; Kentucky one to three
free inhabitants. The number of horses
~ the United States is more than three
times as large as that in Great Britain.
OF ASSeS and .NHies there are 559.-
070, Of which all but 30. coo are in the
Southern States.
oi cutie there are 10 800. 2S7.
The amount Of BuHa produced in
$50 was 3,99i.512 rounds of Cheese
10, 6l,I09: total value SI,I21652.
OF SHEEP there has been an increase
OF 1899. los in the whole number dur
ing the past ten years. In New Eng
land the number has decreased 10 per
cent; IN the five Atlantic Middle STATES
the decrease has been 224 per cent; in
the Southern and Western States the
increase has been very large. The mum
Der OF sheep has increased on the whole
IL per cent during the last ten years
while, owing 10 improved breeding. &c,
the weight of their feeces has augment
cd 40 per cent. In 1910 there were
1913 ,311 sheep, yielding 81, SO2.Il4
pounds of wool-equal to iSA pounds
per head. In 1850 the average weight
OF each fleece was 2.43. In Vermont
the average weight of the fleece in 1910
was2 l-5 pounds, and in 1850 it had
increased TO 3 7l-l00 pounds; the gain
being equal to almost 10 per cent. In
Massachusetts the average weight of the
fleece has been increased from % to
3 ITO pounds. The State OF New
York produced 100000 pounds more
wool in 1850, from 3,453 900 sheep,
than from 5,llS,O00 in 1910, showing
that the weight of the fleece has been
raised from less than two to nearly three
pounds. Our imports of wool in 1850
were lS,669,794 pounds, in value s.
6Sl ,69l the quantity imported now
amounts to about one-fhird of that pro-
duced in it, while from lSll to 1915 it
was nearly one-half.
In the Wheat crop of the United
States there has been Il gain of l5,615,-
37S bushels. The crop of New Eng
land has decreased from 2,Ol4,OOO to
LOIS ,0O0 bushels, a decline of 936, coo
bushels, and indicating that the attention
of farmers has been much wilhdrawn
from the culture of wheat. The States
from the Hudson to the Potomac pro-
duced in l6l9,f 35,OS5,0O bushels, a.
galnt 2O,936, 900 in 1899 la Virginia
there was an increase of l2,l23,OOO.
These Stofpe qmlracp tho oldest ,yhao,