Connecticut western news., 1872-04-05


 and lived to enjoy with them the sweets of liberty and independence.
 To be Continued
 New Englnnd as n Home for Farmers.
 It is customary to speak of the climate of New England as cold and bleak, of her soil as rocky and barren, and of her rural population as living in a four pence half penny style. scratching hard for small re- turns and gaining subsistence more from the sea, the quarries and the frozen lakes than from the products of the soil. The HoOsier, as he passes through he Eastern states on our railroads, generally sees the most uninviting portions of the cQun- try, and wonders how the famers can live. If he would leave the rail- roads, examine the, country more thor oughly, study the nature of the soil go into the houses and barns of the far mers, look over their stock and more es- pecially look into their farm accounts, his wonder would be how such comfortable homes and such large herds of cattle could be supported from such rough looking land and how such large surplus earnings are laid aside against rainy day. +..' . As an example of what our Hoosier friend Housatonie railroad, few days since, at West Cornwall, Conn, situated in the nar- row valley of the Housatonic river where the traveller sees on either slde precipitous hills-mountains, Westerner would call them, and went east forithree miles, the road winding by the side of a brook up a pretty steep grade for the whole distance, passing some small manufacturing shops and many substantial farm establishments. Arriving at the home of our friend. Mr. T. s. Gold, on "Cream Hill," we found farm of 800 acres, which supports stock of COWS, horses and sheep equivalent to hundred head of cattle. On the premises is home stead, the like of which, can not be found in travelling hundreds of miles, over the prairies. The mansion is ,commodious and comfortable, furnished tastetully but not luxuriahtly Books abounded, we should judge that there were 2OoO volumes in the house and among other things we noticed quite an extensive cabinet of minerals. Mir. Gold isia stock grower and milk producer, having many thorough bred AYreshires and South downs and furnishing some 200 quarts of milk daily for, the New York market. This land is naturally rough and rocky, but the rocks have been dug out from his moving lots and placed in huge stone walls, some of them nearly broad enough for the passage of an OK cart. Mir. Colds farm, and home are well worthy of minute description, but we merely allude to them as showing what can be done on our New England hills, some l4Oe feet above tide water, g4aa.zzg 4aE .H5Hulss If we examine the statistlcs of agriculture in the United States census, or the estimates of our agricultural commissioner, we shall find that the accreable products of New Eng land in most of the great staples, exceed those of Illinois or any of the Western states. The census statistics for 1870 are not yet published, but in 1860 Vermont led the Union in the amount of Indian corn produced on an acre, and from the report of the commissioner for 1870 we find that she keeps the, head, raising in the last named year 39.6 bushels on the average while Illinois raised only 35.2. In the article of wheat, which most suppose vii not grow in New England, it will be found that the average production per. acre ir each of the Eastern states is greater thar that of New York and thai the average production of New England is far ahead oi that of the Mississippi Valley. In that in creasingly great staple, potatoes, Vernon excels every state in the Union except Cali fornia. -.., ...-,s.. f,-s.---......
 If we compare the cash value per acre o the agricultural products of New England with that of the West, the advantage is stil greater in favor Of the East The commis sioner estimates the average value per acr, of corn in Vermont for TITO at $43 56; il Illinois for the same year at $12 32. II Iowa at .$l0SS. The value of wheat pc acre in Massachusetts is estimated at $50 80 in Iowa at $9 75. We know that as al
 offset to these greater prices and products it may be said that the capital invested il
 houses, lands and stock is greater and tha more labor is required to raise the crops but the general thrift, comfort and surplus means of Eastern farmers prove that thu enhanced prices more than compensate fo
 increased expenses. We have practiceC eastern farming and have examined wes tern farms and western modes of farming and do not hesitate to give the preferanc to the East, taking everything into consid
 eration. The Eastern churches, schools and society are matters not lightly to b esteemed when taking comparative viey l of the East and the West, as the farmer home. We have no doubt that for youn men with small capital, who are willing t , trough it" for series of years and groy
 up with new country, the West offer | great inducements; but for those who hay l the ability to own farms in New England and especially to those who are somewha advanced in years, there is no place in tn world where more hone comforts can , received than in the Eastern states cold bleak and barren as they are generally es l teemed. ALEXANDER HYDE.