The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1872-02-13

Vermont and her Products.
The following just tribute to our state
and her products, is copied from the
Berkshire Co. Eagle, published at Pitts.
field Mass.
vermont is like choice parcel done
up in small package. Look at her on
the map, she covers only few inches
and this little space seems filled with
mountains. Riding through her terri
tory, the traveller is impressed with the
appearance of thrift IN the farms and vii.
lagos her agricultural resources, and her
multiplied industries and comes to the
conclusion that she is a great state for
her size. When we tell western farmers
that Vermont raises more corn to the acre
than they do they are incredulous, but
the returns for 1870 show that in her
acreal lie corn products she leads tho
union. In potatoes also she is second
only to California. OF corn she raises
1876 bushels on the average per acre of
potatoes lao bushels, California produc.
ing l4S. In her wool and dairy products
she takes the lead of the New England
states having 10000 milch cows and
549, 900 sheep, while Massachusetts has
only 139,300 cows and 10000 sheep.
Her butter and cheese are as famous for
their quality as for their quantity, the St.
Albans market being resorted to by hotel
keepers and others who wish to secure
gilt edged article. But it is not in her
agriculture alone that Vermont is great.
Her forests and marble quarres are
sources of great wealth. Being an in-
land state the forests have been undis-
turbed and the quarries idle Now that
the railroads have furnished an access to
market, the keen Yankees have not been
slow to discover what resources they had
in lumber and marble. S,me of our Berk.
shire men have gone to Vermont to make
their fortunes from her rocks. The
Messrs. Freddy, of West Stockbridge,
have opened quarry on Dorset noun.
tain, 1900 feet above the level of the
Harlem Extension railroad, from which
they are shipping 5000 tons of marble
in year. To facilitate their operations
they have built, at cost of S24 900 o
narrow gauge railroad one mile lsng, ex.
tending from the Harlem to their quarry
That there is money in the marble bust
ness is evident from the almost palatia
residences which some of the marble mer
have built. Few country mansions are
more stately than that of II. II. Baxter
who few years since projected the Rut
land Marble Company, which now EN-
ploys 800 men. This company does moi
rely upon muscle power, simply in the
performance of labor The channelins
machine which they use in getting ou
their blocks does the work Of forty men
and their diamond pointed drills, driver
by steam, cut as much in five minutes al
ordinary drills do in an hour.
We were surprised to notice the enter
prise Of w. II. Barnum, the iron king o.
Connecticut. spreading itself on the Greer
Mountains. On the line of the Harlem
Extension, he has built village, christ
ened it Barnumsvillc, from which b,
ships daily twelve tons of charcoal to hi
furnaces in Connecticut. Other parties
are shipping charcoal to Copake and 9th
er furnaces. Barnum woods are thu
going to Dunsinaine in manner ofwhicl
Shakespeare had no thought, and if an,
prophet, twenty years since, had foretold
that Vermont forests would be transport
ed to Connecticut to feed her furnaces, ,h
would have been considered vain dream
er. The cost Of transporting ton o
charcoal from Barnumsville to Millertol
is only S3.70.
But the great product of Vermont i
men. There is no state in the Uniol
where the pure Yankee is seen to bette
advantage than among the Green Noun
tain. We met the dairymen of this stat
last week in convention at Rutland, an
were impressed with their stalwart look
and roundabout common sense. Th
president of the convention, Hon. L. D
Mason, Of Richmond, Is a grandson Q
Elder Leland Of Cheshire, and is prou
as we'll he may be, of his descent. w
> found in Mr.. Mason genuine Berkshir
born man. Indeed, Vermont is only a
extension of Berkshire. We find tn
: same hills and valleys running throug
the whole state. and very much the sam
kind Of population, only less mixture Q
tho foreign element. Mr.. Mason has tn
' Cheshire propensity for making cheese
and milks from 100 to l25 COWS. II
has his possession the original letter whic
: President Jefferson wrote acknowledged
y his thanks for the big cheese which Eide
= Leland took to Washington. We expec
T ed Of course, that Mr. Mason would hay
Q inherited his grandfathers democracy .br
We found him sound republican, and b
thinks the elder would be, were he aliv,
Q for ho was ever thorough anti-slaver
!. man.
: DR.. Nathan Allen, in a recent addrel
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