The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1880-01-08
AgrIealtural.
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Not nAay years tincs the GsRsss,
valley sad Tie central parts nl III,
State u New Yort we're nAsly dsrot
ed 10 TIE prodaction Of wheai fsoE
Z dat point i,s caltlsatiou gradually
uored westward AID BortAwArd ase
row Aianes0is sud Kansas take tht
cad 10 this great crop. Bat this change
does not mark the decay. bet rather
the progress Of agriculture Ia the re.
gions from whicA the culture Of wbsAt
has mAiuly passed. 10 the great Miss.
lssippi Valley wheat has fonnd lie
natural home upon ,hs Locss formation
lion The bouudries Of which are not yet
kaown. The cell Of this same lorna.
Las been cropped with wheat for CEN
turtles In China without exhaustion.
The value Of this soil is presented in
Mr. Abram $. Hewitts speech, 10
which the resources Of this country are
50 ably presented. The eastern bonn
dairy Of this Formations is somewhere 10
Ohio the western sXieBds TO the great
plains west Of the Mississippi.
The farms Of Central New York are
better cultivated and more productive
than when they were devoted TO wheat.
kven ia the more sterile state Of Mass.
achusetts the data Of the last national
census (which were quite inadequate
Ia respect to the products Of agrlcul-
Iure u that Stste) disclosed the fact
hat Worcester county stood only third |
among the county divisions of the
whole county 10 the value Of the pro-
iucls Of agriculture. The frat was
Lancaster county. Pa, the second
be great dairy county of St.
lawrence, N. Y the fourth was Hart
ord coonty, Conn not until the 9Th
Id We reach the corn country, La Sale
county H., sixth the wheat county
oakland county, Mich; and next We
,ome back TO Burlington county, in
Iew Jersey.
In 1870 the value Of products OF sg-
ionIture OF the Eve counties Of Ian.
aster, Pa; st. Lawrence, N. Y. Il
Worcester, Mas, Hartford, Conn, and
Burlington, N. j.; all situated in the
ar East, was $3S. sO4.2iO. Yet the
rea Of improved land on which this
alue was produced was only 3,05S
quare miles. The value Of the farms
I these five Eastern counties repre-.
ented by this square was in 1870,
lS2,7S6.6ll. Tbs value OF oil the i'm
roved lands 10 the great corn State Of
Illinois was only Eve times as great
ne value OF all the farms 10 the great
'heat state Of Minnesots little more
nan one-half as much, and the great
otton state Of Mississippi less than
ne.hAlf.
In this country corn and wheat are
Ut the pioneers Of agriculture, and
he cultivation Of cotton 10 almost semi.
arbarous, even under it's present i'm
roved conditions OF free labor--less
ian half bale to au acre 10 the aver
&c, aud that is the product OF land
nder the rudest methods and most un.
conditions Of cultivation or OF the /,
oorest kind One bale Of cotton TO an
ere Is the minimum OF good cultiva.
on
The dairy products of the nation
lnnot readily be graphically presented
! line representing specific area
land, but the value Of butter and
reese ia nearly, if not quite. as great 4
that Of the cotton crop; and. il the '
alue OF The milk consumed ss food be !
ided, the total value OF The dairy pro- b
act is more than that of the cotton j.
op and as much as or more than that .
the wheat crop-N. y Herald. =