Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-05-30
agriculture of New England nu,
the West. s." """


A recent exar..,InatIon NJ ths st.,is,ics
OF culture in the East aud at the
rest, beyond doubt shows that II
Eastern soils are not so rich as Western,
they are better cultivated, so that the
crop is brought to very high com.
parative point When the advantages Of
uearness to the markets Is considered,
the ease o, purchase and facilities for
sale, the benefits of society ami other
attendants of farming in the Eastern
States, there is the strongest reason In
the world why our farmers should be
content with their own fortunes, while
its agriculture Is made prominent and
profitable.
The statistics OF Ohio, Iowa, Vermont
and Massachusetts, covering the produc-
tons of certain articles are of great cur
rent value as marks Of the rapidity with
which agriculture IS reverting to its
proper channels and volume. The sta.
ustics Of Ohio as given in the annual re-
port Of the Commissioners Of Statistics
o, that State are interesting to us, as
showing how little other States, East or
West, comprehend the farming interests
in the several States. The following is
the yield in Ohio for 1865 Wheat 49,
234 1889 bushels corn, 68053, sos; oats,
1856 664 barley, 4199 900; buckwheat,
9lO,5l8 potatoes, 4,82735 tobacco,
II, TO-, 1913 pounds, and hay 1852 1903. 1t
shows at once the condition of Ohio now
in relation to 1850, and her relation to
other States, and also to indicate the
probable gross yield Of other States, if
we tabulate the facts on the points
given in the census report of 1860:
Vi. Mass. Ohio, Iowa
Wheat 43!o$7 1928 I5,ll9,9i7 $4,000
oats 688, 567 i,is0.075 i5.468 PA 5ss7S45
Rive. 90. ri 3SS0S5 6S3 6S6 1888 022
Potatoes5, 253,493 3,2Ol 9Ol S,695 10l 9St6T9O
Barley. 79,2tI 1874 sol 1868 SIS 467, 1903
Tobacco lbs22,2i5 l9s 25099,5S1 5O8,l los
1t will be seen the wheat crop OF Ohio
was lessened only l 1854, 1853 bushels from
its total of fifteen odd millions in five
years; the corn'crop $780, 22 the oats
crop increased 2177,43O; potatoes de-
creased 3,867747 and barley 756,O32.
The crop of tobacco diminished 1884.
748 pounds, or about three. ffths. If
the ratio in New England has only
equaled that Of Ohio, the crops of last
year must have been increased and those
OF the current year much more valuable.
1t may be interesting to know for those
who believe that agriculture cannot be
as lavOrably prosecuted in New Eng
land as in the West, to notice that while
the yield of wheat in New England av-
eTages Is bushels to the acre, that OF
Ohio and Iowa is but s that while corn
averages % bushels in New England, it
oaly amounts to % in Iowa and IS In
Ohio; that oats average % bushels in
New England to % and q in Iowa and
Ohio; that rye averages II bushels in
New England, 10 in Ohio aud Is in
Iowa; and that in potatoes New Eng
land produces 80 bushels to 68 and 81
in Iowa and Ohio.
1t may be of interest also to know
that the New England States in 1860,
with population of 1876, 283, produced
1888, 1913 bushels of wheat, or about
eleven and half quarts to each inhab-
liant. In 1860 the New England States
raised $50 bushels of potatoes to each
inhabitant, while the Western States
raised only $50 bushels. We might
give the proportion on all products, but
sufficient have been given to indicate
that the husbandman has no reason to
be dissatisfied with the results of his
toll in New England, and that statistics
do not show with the exception Of one
or two cereals that the productions Of
the West are more profitable or yield
more on an average than do those of