Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-06-19

Nevada is the only state IN the Union in
which the value of wheat per acre exceeds
the value of the average for New England
30 that the value of this product is seen to
be in inverse ratio to the number of acres
cultivated-a fact which supports our asser-
ton that competition is reducing the value
of small farms in the West.
New England possesses advantages for the
small farmer vastly greater than the West
can offer at the present time. The New Eng
land farmer has the market, practically at
his own door The commission dealer readi-
ly takes all that he can produce, at the high
est market prices, and without further troub-
IL and anxiety on the farmers part. A great
variety of farm products can be raised in
New England, and the proximity of the great
markets ensures an unfailing demand for ALL
What are known rs miscellaneous crops are,
or may be, great source of revenue to the
New England farmer. Tobacco, cranberries,
cabbages, onions and all garden products and
table Injuries can be raised in most parts of
New England, and are always in demand at
profitable prices. Fruit farming furnishes
no small part of the income of the enterpris-
ing New England farmer. Chittenden aud
Grand Isle counties in Vermont are instances
of what may be done in this line. And in all
products for table use, it is remarkable that
the greatest demand and the highest prices
III dT6 tuOb6 WHICH come from
New England. The Vermont farmer does
not have to advertise or push his butter or
his maple sugar it 'goes on its reputation"
and 80 long as its quality is maintained, it
will be in demand at fair prices. "Vermont
butter, Vermont cheese, vermont maple
sugar" sell rapidly over others perhaps equal
ly good. 1t is doubtless the fact that the av-
erage New England farmer can pur-
chase both the necessities and the Injuries of
life, aside from farm products, cheaper than
they can be had in the West.
In view of these facts, we can only repeat
the advice which we have so often given our
readers who are engaged in agricultural pur-
suits. Stay where you are. Put your enter
prise and your money into the old farm. II
you must have something new, get some new
ideas and methods. Find out how you can
get the largest returns by a liberal outlay
rather than by the smallest. Make a science
of your farming. Put brains into the SOIL
and you will reap both knowledge and mon
ey. The farmer of the future is destined to
be the representative man. He has never
yet realized his possibilities. But the far
mer, least of all men, can accomplish any
thing by running from pillar to post The
fruits OF his efforts can be reaped only where
they have been sown.
We note with satisfaction words like these
from the Burlington Free Press, which show
a just appreciation of New England, and
especially of our own state, which has been
depleted by emigration to an extent that it
never would have been had such facts as are
given above, and to which many more of the
same tenor might be added, been better I'M
derstoOd We claim a little credit for hav-
ing made the first complete comparison of
all the staple products of Vermont, and the
cost of their production, value, etc, with
their cost and value in other states including
the most fertile states of the West, the sub
stance of which was published in the third
annual report Of the Vermont Board of Agri.
culture, and has appeared from time to time
in nearly all the papers of the state In
these comparisons Vermont has stood high.
II would be difficult TO find another state
that the statistics of agriculture favor
more The figures of all the census reports
and of the reports of the department of ag-
riculture agree in placing Vermont, accord
ing to the area of improved or cultivated
land, among the most productive of the
states, and in some products at the head of
them all. The sons of Vermont farmers
should know these facts, and not be mislead
by the immense aggregate of grain produe-
tion in the West The corn crop of the sin
gle state OF Illinois is grown on $50 times as
many acres as are planted in Vermont, but
the product is not $50 times as large, and its
value per acre is less than half as much as
its value per acre in Vermont.