Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1866-10-12
Vermont's Agricultural Advan-
tages. and Emigration.


The following article upon Vermont we
clip from the Lowell Courier. The facts
contained therein are from the United
States census aud the conclusions of the
article are truthful and just:
The population in Vermont in 1860 was
3l5,O98-an increase of 978 less than
one-third of one per cent. from 1850.
There were found in the same year
throughout the United States 4l3,552 ma
tives Of Vermont, of whom 235,0S7 we're
found in her borders, showing that over
$4,000 of her natives had gone to spread
her free principles in every part of the
Union. Of these, 47.c00 were found in
the State of New York of whom only
1906 we've in the great metropolis. The
second largest number of Vermonters, 49,
6S4, were found in Wisconsin. Massa.
chusetts had given a home TO 1862; Il
linois 1929; Michigan 1879; New
Hampshire 1880; Ohio IL esp; Iowa
1881; Pennsylvania 1926; Minnesota
4,208; Indiana 3,439; California 3,4I9,
&c.
While the citizens of Vermont, as of
all the New England States, are valuable
in new country, like most of the West
ern States named above, we believe they
would make as good citizens at home, and
in nine cases out of ten as well, if not
better, remunerated, and, furthermore, be
saved IRON the troubles and anxieties that
attend the settlers of new country.
By the returns to the Agricultural B =
reau at Washington, it is shown that dur
my the four years from 1862 to 1865 in
elusive, an acre of land in Vermont on the
average produced 1888 bushels of corn
worth $48 so, while an acre in Wisconsin
Qhe favorite resorts of the Vermont emf
grrnts,) produced $40 bushels, worth $780,
81, showing largely in favor of Vermont.
In the latter State 1909 bushels of wheat
worth 50 03 was raised, while in Wiscon-
sin the product was IA 03 bushels valued
at sid 63, and nearly as large an advan-
tage 10 favor of Vermont was shown in
other staples, such as rye, oats, buckwheat,
barley and potatoes, both as regards the
number of bushels to The acre and the
price obtained. A still greater advantage
to Vermont was she wn in some of the
leading products over Illinois. the second
favo:ite Western State for Vermont emf
grants, and the same is true of the other
Western States. Now, as.there are thous-
ands of acres in Vernon where the pillow
has never been, and as market can be
found and the highest prices obtained in
New England for everything raised within
its boundaries, as disinterested party we
would submit whether the young man of
Vermont who is DESTROYS OF engaging in
agricultural pursuits would not find ii as
well to remain at home, and make the bills
and valleys of bis own State more fruitful,
and gain liberal recompense nearer his
own friends and early associates, instead of
seeking home among strangers in the far
West, and depriving himself of the adj
vantages he would receive in the "Green
Mountain State. What is good argu-
ment for Vermont is also equally applica-
bic to every New England State, Tor even
in Massachusetts and Rhode Island there
are thousands upon thousands of acres of
land as yet unimproved, while in Maine
and New Hampshire the unimproved acres
are to be counted by millions. We in
stance the case in Vermont because in
looking over the census tables the largest
emigration in proportion to the whole
number was shown from her native born
population.