Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-02-05
Agricultural.
4 city paper on the value Of Land for
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a civ paper on the value Of Land for
Farming.
Son farmers are much concerned about
the high price Of land, and are expressing
the belief-vhether they have il or not-that
IL cannot pay to farm on land worth 500 or
5000 an acre. Let us see. II is quite posi-
BILE to grow so bushels of corn or 80 bushels
of wheat per acre in average years. Within
100 miles Of shipping port corn is worth 40
cents bushel and wheat is worth 10 cents
To get land for $40 to $40 per acre farmer
must 90 very far from shipping ports and
where he can get only 20 cents a bushel for
corn and 10 for wheat The difference in
value, supposing the crops to be equal, will
amount to $50 on the acre OF corn and SO
on the wheat This difference will pay five
per cent on 800 per acre 10 the one case and
S3OO on the other 1t certainly seems as II
the high priced farms had the advantage over
the cheaper ones, and when 1t comes to sell
ing bulkier crops or live stock the advantage
il all the greater To make farming on high
priced land pay, then, all that is necessary is
10 farm high and raise as large crops as the
land can possibly be made to do. II the own
er of 100 acre farm worth $50, 600 were TO
sell bis property for cash, he could not posi-
bly, invest his money nearly 30 well as it was
in the farm, for the interest at FIVE per cent
on the capital would not begin TO provide bin
with house, provisions, comforts and Injuries
which he enjoyed on the farm but never took
any account of in bis bookkeeping. ~ T.
Times.
Vermont always stands near the head of all
the states in the average product of corn per
acre. The price here is always higher than
in the vicinity of New York city. II land
near that city is worth from 500 to 5000 per
acre to grow corn at 40 cents bushel, as the
Times figures it, what is land worth in Yer
mont, where as much corn can be raised per
acre, and the price of northern corn is seldom
less than IS cents a bushel? The Times
makes a difference of 25 cents a bushel in
the price of corn equal, for the product Of
each acre, to the interest of $4OO at FIVE per
cent, and adds, when it comes to selling
bukier crops or live stock the advantage is
all the greater" A mathematician will read
lily see that, computing the value of good
corn land in Vermont on the basis Of the
Timess estimate an acre would become pref
ty valuable, and very few acres would be
worth more than the price at which farms of
from 100 to 200 acres are being sold. The
Times's estimates are based on the value Of
the gross product. We should prefer to take
the net profit in computing the value of land
for cultivation but in this we ought TO have,
and do have, the advantage over farmers that
have 800 or more invested in each acre Of
their farms, not more fertile than land in
Vermont that can be bought for less than hall
that price Though in many of the Older
states there is not ready sale for FARMS
there has been an increase in the price a
which they are held in most of them. Tn,
great de cline in the price of farms in thi
state and in some other parts of New Eng
land is exceptional and we hope not perma
nent. Vermont is the place for those whit
want to buy cheap lands, with fences anC
buildings, ready for occupancy, to look
Horace Greeley once said that nowhere il
this country would given amount of none!
bring more substantial comforts to thos
seeking homes than when invested in VeI
mont farm. These words are tIuer now thai
when they were spoken, for a home can b
found here now at less cost than then, Will
at the west the cost of a home with any thin
like the improvements that are found on tn
farms here is greater Improved lands i
the most desirable locations at the west ar
now held at high prices. The Times says
ITO get land for $50 TO $40 per acre on
must go very far FROM shipping ports an
where he can get only 20 cents a bushel fc
corn and 10 for wheat, " and 500 to 5000 pc
acre is treated rs the not unusual price c
good farming lands not remote from shippin