The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-09-06
A MISTAKEN IDEA

=. wv va s1AS taN'IS Sot'oe iuoo ) Cai 1 &c
casionally heard 4 remark to the effect
that New England would never have
been settled ii the Pacific Coast had first
been discovered. Tie general impression
there rs elsewhere in the United States is
that New England is mighty poor coun-
try-bleak, barren and inhospitablc-a
land of rocks and snow where the people
get a living by their wits and at the ex-
pense OF the balance OF the United States
by means OF a protective tariff. I suppose
Twill astonish manyot your readers by
telling them that this little State OF Pcr.
mont is par excellence an agricultural
Statc--but it averages more corn, wheat
oats, hay, rye and potatoes to the acre
than the. average Of the country at large
and that the value OF each acre's produc.
ton is very decidedly above, the average
OF the country. Its area is only n little
oyer 5000 square lniles--not half the size
OF West Nirginia-and yet It produces
over four times as much hay as the latter
over. three times us many potatoes, over
eight times rs much milk and nearly
three times as much butter. Its 35,522
farms arc worth, according to assessment,
Sl09,34G,0l0. as against SlMl47,175 for
West Vir9inla's 09,674 farms, Roth aro
mountain States and there il mot differ
encc OF six pcrsons 10 the square mile III
iavor: OF Vermont,
According to the census OF 1880 the
value OF mi acre Of wheat in Vermont was
S2L4O, rs against Sl2.59. in West Virginia,
and Of IN acre of corn S30.5l, as against
Sl+.af in West Virginia. give YOU these
figures 10 show you that contrary to y very
prevalent anini3n this is nota nQor coln-
try by ySlneans--=not, ut least, poor in
tlic.way John Randolph mcaat wllcn lie
referred TO . certain Legis!ator's intellect
us being like.his land; s'EoQr by nature,
and exiauscd by cultivation " This soil,
however rocky aud thin originally, has
been brought ilp to produce M average OF
16l bushels Of wheat per acre md 81
bNs!c.s cs earn, The aYe:sga 6i yo,!i
State for these two same Ccrells is, re-
apeptiyely, 10 1:lQ,an IS lilo bushels. "a
90 HAsf, YnpsH MAN! si5::.
talked with IN intelligent farmcr the
other day who lives fifteen miles cast of
this place, lie told me that there was
money In farming hero, and said twas a
mistake for young men 70 leave Vermont
10 50, West 10 farm, "Comei East, young
man. rather lhan 'igq West'S should lc
the advice, said he, From what ] have
seen OF the farms In tho toNntpy near BY
here Tam inclined to attach weight "a his
remark. The Nso, Of fertilizers on land
here pays--pays more per acre, rs thcccn.
sus shows, than richer but poorer iarmcd
lands i9 ;he Nest: TIis MAJ! .l,s s.lla,l
for Rradley's tphosphates, using q Ton on
iour. aotes. t0r say ,cleYhtl aoIlaYs.pep aore
This Is ONLY done aRce in several Yeas
|h0WevnrI} Trslif,l ,lharyS tnsrotatinS!aS pieet
oi mcadoW Tito pinI land tho$n,air :reli
ance being on barn yard fertilizers Two
coats OF manure, one before blowing md
one afterwards, and then q few, spoonsfu
| OF phosphate per hill, is this gentteman's
formula. He raises twenty bushels o
wheat and MS high MS fifty bvsEols ai shell
ed corn per aoro, and thitty.ono bushels o.
barley, and iifty-iiye Of oats; He estimate;
his receipts at ono dollar eNa E(wenty-AW
cents per husliel Tor wheat, one doltnr ioi
corn, ninety cents for barley, fifty cents
1 fer oats, and eigA. dollars iier ton far hay
Then his sugar trees (Which Ia a great
Industry up here) pay about fifty cents
per tree, yielding, say on an average, fou,
4 Ipounds OF sugar per tree, q Do You know
that as hislles about 10000, 900 pounds 81
Emapte .sugar have beenraised III 6nescasor
Iinjyermont And this, too without serious
ylnsesssrlpg With " othsF farm ~ work Il 4