Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-05-25

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waste of four years of war.
On turning to the statistics of Massachusetts
as arranged by counties we find that Worcester
county has the largest number of farms, 5l91,
and the largest average of farm land. Middle
sex approaches it most nearly in the first par
ticular and Berkshire in the second. In this
county there are $40, 1856 acres of improved land,
125,S4S acres of wood and 40 ,SO4 of unimpfoved
land. The cash value of the farms is reported
as about twenty-five and Il half Millions and
that of farming implements about one million.
lu the amount and value Ofmost farm products
Worcester exeels every other county in the
state, but is surpassed in orchard produce by
MlddleseX, in the products of market gardens
by Norfolk, Middesex, Essex and Bristol,
in the number of sheep by Berkshire, franklin
and Hampshire, in number OF swine by Middle
sex, in winter wheat by Franklin and Hamp.
shire, in rye by Berkshire, Franklin, Hampden
and Hampshire, in oats by Berkshire, in buck
wheat by Berkshire, Hampden and Hamp-
shire, in tobacco, of which none is reDort-
ed from this county, by Berkshire, Essex and
the Connecticut river counties, in wool by Berk-
shire and the river counties, in peas and beans
" 1AiuuiSseN, III SIISSsS ny DSThSultS, III LndplS
sugar by Berkshire and the river counties again,
and in honey and wax by Berkshire. The pro-
ducts in which this county is greatly in ad
vance of any other are those of the forest, ami
mails slaughtered, spring wheat, corn, barley,
potatoes, butter milk, hay, and hops. There
are in Worcester county no farms reported of
over one thousand acres, and only three of such
size in the state. The county has six farms be-
tween five hundred and one thousand acres
124S between one hundred and i've hundred,
1886 between fifty and one hundred, 1869 be-
tween twenty and fifty, SS1 between ten and
twenty, 100 between three aud ten, and six of
less than three acres.
Some selected statistics by townships are
given in one table, protesting TO include all
towns whose whole agricultural product
amounted to 100000. Worcester is not among
the number, from which we infer, either that
the returns were seriously defective, or that our
farmers, market gardeners and nursery men are
less successful than we have believed. The fault
is no doubt, in the returns, and a comparison
will show how defective and untrustworthy
these are. THE agricultural products OF this
city, as We have Just stated, appear
TO be of less value than 100000; the
same may be said, Judging by the
census tables, of every other city in the state ex-
cepl Springfield; but there, instead of falling
short of the purely agricultural towns, the value
of these products is more than three times as
great as in any other town of that county. The
explanation is that in Springfield the returning
officers reported as they should, the products of
the nurseries, orchards, market gardens and
greenhouses, while in this and other cities, these
were overlooked. We can probably trust the
tables pretty safely, however, in so far as they
compare one agricultural town with another.
OF those in this county we find that Barre
has the largest amount of improved
land, IA, 900 acres, aud produces the
largest amount of hay, 5,571 tons; only two
towns in the state, Pittstield and Belcheltown,
had Il larger hay crop. Hardwick, Charlton
and Warren follow Barre in the amount of hay
raised. Westborough had agricultural products
of greater value than any other town in the
county, and the farms and farming implements
of that town exceeded in value those of any 9TH
er; after it in this respect followed Southbor-
ough, Fitchburg and Harvard. Barre was first
III tue NdiuC vi lht SlOth, anu HtAl III DIttGI
came Hardwick, Marlborough and Sutton.
WENDELL PnILLrrs' OPINION OF GREELEY.
In letter to the Traveller, in which he gave his
reasons for prelerring President Grant to Mr.
Greeley, Mr.. S. P. Cummings published the fol-
lowing extract from a Letter TO him by Mr.. Wen
dell Phillips;
You know | am neither a republican nor a
Grant man. Whom shall vote for, or whether
l shall vote at all | do not know But certainly
as against Greeley am for Grant. We have
had one Andy johnson; will not run the risk
of getting another in Horace Greeley. | want u
man with some decided principles. Greeley
never had any. Besides, | consider Greeley
secession candidate. believe the plot to nom
mate him was Matched by southern white rebels
more than year ago, and has been mainly
nursed bv them. l advise any one who means
to vote for him to find cut first what agreements
have been made by Mr.. Greeleys friends with
jeff Davis aud his staff as 10 office and patron
age | am perfectly certain that there is dis
| tlnct mutual understanding, if not a positive
contract, between them. Ii Horace Greeley
enters the White House, JEFF Davis will be as
truly part of the administration as Seward was
IN Llncoln's day. No negro can vote for Greeley
who values his life or property or cares for his
race. If by frown of Providence he is elected,
shall advise every southern loyalist to load
the revolvers that Grants arrest of North
Carolina kukluX has allowed TO be laid aside.
If he is elected, let the negroes live in squads of
| fifty, whom no coward will dare shoot down, and
show no property after sunset. Lonely men
| will be shot, and no black will own mule forty
| eight hours if any rebel knows the fact.
/ As for Adams, | do not fear him-an aristo-
erat by birth and democrat from perverseness
| the love of money makes such union posi-
| BILE. He is democrat but afraid to confess his
creed, or wear its uniform. Ii any party allows
him to lead it, he will lead it TO its grave, as all
the Adamses have always done. Old John
Adams vanity, bigotry and hate of Hamilton
put the federal party into its tomb. John
Quincy Adams administration was the death
blow OF the whig party, then called repub
licans. The light which gids the Adamses
is that OF sunset. They insure defeat. Chatham
said Sir VIM. Young's voice was the death kne
OF his country. The breath of an Adams fame
has the chill of the tcharneI house in it. lie
| them nurse their money bags like timd misers
| and allow holder and more unseish men, who's
ioreheads are lit by the rising sun, to help tn
$ world forward, undisturbed by their greedy am
h bition or their querulOus crotchets.
For a loyal administration to protect the negro
5 awe the rebel and give the working man a chanc,
: Grants little finger is worth a bakers dozen O
e Greeleys.
Yours, WENDELL PHILLIPS.