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Prospects of Agriculture in the United
Slater.
From the Newburyport Herald.
Agricultural prospects in the United
States were never better than they are this
day. We make this statement distinct, be-
cause it disagrees with the prevailing opin-
ion. Men admit, as they are forced to ad-
nit, that all agricultural products sell at the
highest figures; but, then, they shake their
heads and say-"this is temporary; it wont
be SO by and by" This same tone has been
upon their lips as long as we can remember;
but during all that time there has been
constant increase in the demand for farm
products, and constant advance in prices.
Let any one compare the prices of 1885 and
'45-of lS45 and '55-of what New Eng
land or the West produces from the forests,
the cultivated fields, or the pastures, and
this will be very apparent. Thirty years
ago, when we were sitting upon the cricket
in the chimney corner, and many long
evening listening TO the marvellous stories
about Ohio, TO which the emigration was
Then setting, and about the fertility of cen
trail and western New York--at that time
the great wheat field, we have heard those
who never could see the bright side of any
picture, but were always looking through
glass darkly a.the prospects Of the world,
tell that shortly farms in New England
would be worthless; the West was to sup
ply all we needed. There was some reason
to fear compe,ion then, when corn was fifty
or sixty cents bushel; potatoes from a
shilling to quarter Of dollar; butter nine
pence poundi hogs at six cents per h.;
milk brought to your door for ten cents a
gallon, and everything else in the same pro-
portion. But Ohio grew to be one of the
great States, and the New York wheat
fields were being surpassed by others in the
great Valley, by the time OF railroads.
Then, sure enough, we wereI 10 be ruined
The western prairies were TO be moved up
to the vicinity of New York and Boston, as
in fact they have been, and eastern farmers
were to grow poor and die. The steamers
have been blowing on all the lakes and fiv-
ers, and the engines Of the railways whist
ling further and further towards the setting
sun, now for these twenty years; new States
have been born of elephantine dimensions,
and twice as fast as elephants produce their
young; and that teeming country, that spreads
out the richest lands between the Allegha-
nies and the Rocky Mountains, that the
world knows, has been sending of its abun.
dance, but all The time the prime necessa-
ries of life have been advancing more and
more in value till we have reached famine
prices. Just so much, and no more, East.
ern farmers have been ruined; and Just SC
much, and no more. will they be ruined in
the future. Their lands, if properly cared
for, have been yielding larger crops, the
means of enriching their lands are increas-
ing at home and from abroad, and not man
digs the earth but can dig more gold, with
fewer hardships; than can be gained in the
mines Of California.
That prices will remain where they are
l. IL. Hal fD.L;J 20 .ko,11 he
so! but that any great decline is to be expe
renced we do not credit; and our reasons
can be briefly stated. In the first place
with all our land sales and all the spread
out townships of the West. the progress o
agriculture is no greater than the increase
Of population. The cultivation of the eartl
in the East is being abandoned. Commerce.
and manufacturers offer great inducements
The young man and the young woman rusl
to the cities Of the sea- board and the towns
along our railways, and all the increase o
population is there, and not in the rura
districts. The census shows such to be tn,
case in the New England States, and thu
governor Of New York calls attention t.
the same fact in that Safe. The value o
lands, too, shows this. Here in Esse,
county, with the'great population we have
and market at every door and by ever.
barn yard, land sales give little or no I'D
vance. We are having then rapidly grew
ing home market to supply. We are hav
ing, secondly, large immigrant population
every year to feed; from two 10 four hun