The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1867-10-16
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Farmer, published in Baltimore and the Far
mer published in Richmond are as usual.
promptly on hand, and we 6ud them for o.
tober, if possible, more than usually interest
ing. The venerable American Farmer has
been standard authority on all matters ag
ricultural since the day of its origin in 1919;
the number before us gives the usual lecture
on the duties of the hour on the farm and
in the garden. has a good article on scientific
Farming" recommends the keeping of pet
hawk to protect cherry trees and seeds from
little birds &c. The article on Grape Gull
ture is very good, but We dissent from the
view of the author that the South shore of
Lake Erie is the "Cannan" of the vine grow
er-the '.fruit belt of Virginia" embracing
the Great Valley, the Blue Ridge and the
Piedmont Region, is the Promised Land. y.
The article On agricultural Reconstruction
we like exceedingly--it states that Oneida
and Herkimer counties N. Y. annually con-
vert the milk of 40 900 cows into cheese, and
in Ohio in 1865 there were 1897 cows that
yielded 80, $50, 1856 lbs of butter and $780,
213 Tbs. of cheese, the capital invested was
about 264 million dollars, the interest Of
which would be near million and half of
dollars, but the value of the product was
over 10 million dollars! Compare this with
Virginia: there high priced land and short
season, here the reverse. The question is
asked if the Southern country can breed as
good cows and produce as fine beef: and the
answer is, that Steenberger, of the Valley Of
Virginia, for years had monopoly of the
beef market Of Baltimore, Philadelphia and
New York: Geo Patterson, near Sy kesville
in Md, has herd Of De vons of his own
breeding as fine as any in the world that
the butter of Maryland is as good as was ever
eaten, and that the dairy Of Ross Wimans.
near Baltimore, yields more gallons of milk
year than that Of any other man on the
continent From Report of the Dairy
mans Association, of Montgomery county,
N. Y it appears that the usual size Of dali
nv farm is 100 acres, with Is cows, a span of
horses, &c, and the yield, 1880 lbs of
cheese, and butter for the family, if the
cheese is made at factory, at 11cts ID. Ut
is worth Is cts here.) it brings in S1725.
The land there is worth $50 an acre? Why
cannot We vary our productions. avail our
selves of other sources Of agricultural wealth
and add more variety to our employments,
thus checking the tide Of emigration that
is constantly flowing from us to other states
where hundreds of employments. in the full
tide Of success, furnish ample fields for the
qualification Of every taste? Have we no
candidates who will offer themselves to help
us in this sort of reconstruction We would
give infinitely more for man that would es-
tablish good cheese factory among the rich
pastures Of old Augusta, than We would fol
one that would make constitution that
would conform to all the requirements of the
$50 called" reconstruction plan.
The three Farmers before us are so sug
gestive that we do not know where to stop
and we quit by advising all our farmer read
err to subscribe for theln any one or all, read
them and take heed to their suggestion and
they will certainly be classed among the ben
efactors that made two blades Of grass grow
where one grew before.