The Portland daily press., 1865-09-14
TRIP Down HAST.
RIchMoND, IND, Aug. 20, 1866.
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candoT, In which the advantages oi mani" ~
he rest of the Union have been exniDlleu'-
| While allow no man to surpass me In my
elimination al. lave for the-S State which gave.
no birth. amnot among, those who see no
,dva,,ta gas bevohd her borders This letter
viii consist of a rambling and curseFy eempar-
;son between what have seen in Maine and
| Indiana. left Indiana ON the 9th of July
| and reached my native town in the interior Of
| Maine on the 9Th. A'
II 4 THE CROPS. II
had anticipated great disparity between
the state of vegetetion in Indiana and that IN
Maine, which in many things, to my surprise
lid not exist. "A Throughout the West the
5pring had been uncommonly wet and corn
IS general thing, was not planted previous
20 the aOth Of May. 3 An planted before that
never came up. Consequently corn in the
;wo states was in about an equal state of ad-
| Vancement. "N
1t was In the midst of the wheat harvest,
but the haying was hardly begun in Indiana,
| yet in Maine the haying was far advanced
Green peas were hard and dry here while in
Maine they were just in condition to be en-
joyed. In general the productions of Maine
are more concentrated than m Indiana Such
is the case with potatoes, of which you raise
more and of better quality than in any vest
en State of equal extent pam -
In Indiana there is more danger of early
| aost than with you, Of which we had fore
taste one night last week, and people were
frightened wonderfully Corn grows taller,
put l have never learned that the Hoosier gets
more per acre thanfs often. obtained by the
Yankees. But the farmers Of Indiana can
cultivate ten acres of corn with about the
lame labor bestowed upon one by the farmers
If Maine. Pie land requires no manure, or
1t least so it is asserted, but perhaps the next
,eneration may report differently.
Corn is often harvested by the hogs, OF
which some farmers raise hundred or more
| a a season. For those farmers, living at some
distances from a large town, the easiest way to
market their corn Is to turn loose upon it a
.arge 9herd of swine" who @root hog or die. p
Inharyesting corn it il. rare that the stocks
pre- cut. A cart is driven through the corn
ield and the ears are liusked and thrown int
me cart leaving the stocks standing9 by this
rrangementnots so much vegetation is taken
-romthe land each year, for the, stocks, which
row to the height of 8 to - feet, are plowed
into the soil. and that amount of dressing is
retained upon the land. rTiTvy
H. PROCEEDS oF A WESTERN FARM.
In arecent eonyersationwith farmer resid-
ing five o. six miles from here, learned many
saewtiings In regard to ID western farm.
among other things, I asked, how much 100
lcre farm ought to nett after paying all farm
and family expenses, supposing his family to
consist of half dozen. He said that depend
sdu upon theman!e His neighbor Jones, an in
iustrious and hard working mans considered
himself fortunate If at the end Of the year, he
lad supported his fanlly,paid all his current
expenses and had anything left For himself
She owner of 125 acres he could clear $1,000
tbove all expenses with the aid of his son.
But in reckoning, he said, that he supposed
eman on a farm to be provided with all nee
sssary farming tools and all the machinery for
moving, raking, &C., &c, and all the "expen-
seS" were for repairs and supplying deficien-
lies. Istf 1lA1H k1T III -lls
IIc Gardeners with ten on fifteen acres, living
Eithin three or four miles of Richmond, can
make $500 which does not include family ex-
)enses, as was the case with the farms. But
here is one thing TO be taken into considera-
ion which New Englanders are not apt to
mink of,-the price of land. Land within
,roo y,a;loc of ft;o y,1ooo AZ q oood e,,,o ;-
worth s10Oto $500 per acre. Land within
en- miles is worth $50 to $50 per acre. A 100
lcre farm then, is worth from $4,000 to $4,000.
| A farmer within ten miles ofPortland or Lew
iston who has a farm worth 500 has a won
lerfal farm and it win contain very many
more acres than afarnin this vicinity Of the
'aIne valueTn8a ban n924T
In writing the above have endeavored to
becandid and truthful. Ihare aimed to say
nothing which would prejudice the East or
Vest lhave been led to write as I have, be-
cause of articles to which have before reiers
red, all proper enough in themselves, but evil
IDENTIFY written for an Eastern market. What
have written may or may not reflect credit up
on the Weston rather that part Of the West
which daily see.
While 1t is my opinion, which I shall frank
u and boldly express, that young man, with
little or no capital, can come out here and
make more money and have a higher prospect
Of adying rich = do think, that he who has a
good homes pleasant surroundings, a large and
influential circle of friends, anywhere in New
England, especially II he has family of sons
and daughters, had better remain where he
Is, and he willeonclude 50, before he has been
put here as long as have. but if his circum-
stances are the reverse and he comes West, he
will find the people cordial, hospitab.e, gener-
ous If heis young man, his youth will not
be cast in his face as a crime. If he has no
money his poverty willnot render him liable
70 contaaely and disgrace. HAS a
That man has had distinguished parent
age, or that he was born with asilver spoon
IN his MOUTH avails him only so far as he IS
tble to keep up the family reputation and
make additions to his inheritance siae
A man enjoys reputation more for what he
is,than for whathis parents have been, and it
IS not uncommon TO shop girl, Of good char
eler and intelligence, to,be welcomed in the
families of the first water. In fact it is fre-
1uentl that the scions of rich ancestry find
among the poorer classes, wives who are not
looked upon with contempt because of their
-aumble pretensions, but are received as their
merits demand. .a
Alady, whether she IS the wife Of a member
of CnnprpSs mr. nf n r,ror lv,,ir,,, ;,,ah,;af,, ic
always acknowledged, and unlike the East, the
slisgraceof thehusband or wife, does not, nee
sssarily, pull down and ruin the other. Soci-.
ety. it is true, Is behind that in an old and set
tied town in the East, but your correspondent
is acquainted with manufacturing cities in