Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1889-08-16
AGRICULTURAL.
VERMONT AND VIRGINIA.
Wisconsin Heard Trom---nn AIoni-hed
EdiIor.

Wisconsin Heard Trom---nn A-tonished
Editor.
Well we are astunished The Vermont
PhwniX copied what we said on the 18th
ult. about the cheapness Of the land in Nir-
gina, and then added that there were farms
in Vermont, not large, worn out planta
tons-that could he bought for as small
sum per acre as that plantation in Virginia
Reside this it says said farms are more pro
ductive than Virginia lands, and that they
are where free thought, education refine
ment, good government and civilization
prevail TO as great an extent as in any state
in the Union. Well there is something the
matter, then, or the land would be worth
more per acre. Perhaps it is turned up ON
edge The idea that level land or that
nearly so, should be for sale at such a beg
carly price, in Vermont, seems incredible
We wouldn't live in community that had
not the vim in it to make tillabe land worth
more than $40 per acre.-Hoard's Dairy
man. Wis.
You may well he astonished. 1t is in
credible but it is true nevertheless, -ex
ceptng the horizontal surface, too much of
which is not desirable. There is some
thing the matter, as you say, and it is this
Vermont has loaned its money to the people
of Wisconsin and other Western states and
territories, and it has sent 100000 persons
out of its small population to add to the
wealth of other lands. No other state has
sent out nearly so many emigrants in pro
portion to the number of Inhabitants remain
ing. There has been, and still is, kind of
senseless panic among the Vermont farmers
to get rid of their farms and to get away
from them In some cases farms in a more
productive condition than they have ever
been before, with improvements improved,
have been sold for less than half the money
which was paid for them.
We have somewhere read this advice
from prudent author Never tell of
thing which has the appearance of improb
ability, even though you may know it to be
fact, if you would maintain a reputation
for truthfuness. Needless of that advice,
we risk the following statement a nice
river intervale farm, formerly valued at
more than $4,000, containing about 25O
acres including a valuable timber lot in a
good location on a main road, about mile
from the railroad depot and village, with a
large, new, two-story house, well-fnished
and built in good style, with wings and
front projection, bay windows, etc, shade
trees and pleasant surroundings, running
water at the house and barn, meadows
yielding 30 tons of hay,-this farm was adj
vertsed for sale long time in the county
papers without attracting buyer. 1t was
finally put up at a well advertised auction,
and the highest bid that could be obtained
for it was $2350! And this was in Yer
mont-without an exception the best dairy
state in the Union and one of the best for
the general products of agriculture state
that leads 81 other states and territories in
the average value of all farm productions
to each person engaged in agriculture We
have computed, from the last census, the
value of all farm productions averaged to
each person engaged i'll agriculture, and
find the result as stated above. The value
Of all farm productions to each person en-
gagged in agriculture in Vermont is nearly
800; in Virginia it is only $3.50. In pro
portion to the extent of cultivated area,
hardly any product of the Virginia farms
equals in quantity that of the same kind
in Vermont. Thus corn, which is one of
the chief productions of Virginia, yields
only about half as much per acre in that
state as in Vermont, the usual product here
averaging about 81 bushels per acre while
the average in Virginia is about : bushels
per acre.
The Wisconsin editor might he astonished
again if he should examine the statistics of
farm productions in that state, so well
known to be land of great fertility, and
compare them according to the number of
farms, the number of persons engaged in
farming, and the area under cultivation,
with similar statistics of farm productions
in Vermont. When the whole was summed
up, he would find that the value of all farm
productions in Wisconsin, according to the
last United States census, averaged 1872 to
each person engaged in agriculture, against
500 for the corresponding average in Yer
mont
Wisconsin is good dairy state, and has
made great progress in that line since the
last national census was taken. Then Wis
consin averaged to make PAL pounds of but
ter to each farm and Vermont averaged
III pounds to each farm. Vermont aver
ages 2i1 pounds more butter to each farm
than any other one of the United States.
Vermont has about twice as many mich
COWS to each farm as the average to each
farm in the United States. Vermont has
an average of more mich cows to each
farm than any other state. 1t lacks about
one COW to a farm of having twice as many
Ito each farm as Wisconsin. Vermont
makes 4j1 pounds of butter to each person
engaged in agriculture. Wisconsin makes
40 pounds to each person so occupied,
Vermont produces lG1 pounds more butter
to each person occupied in farming than
any other state. Vermont makes more
than four times as much butter to each per
son engaged in agriculture as the average
to each person so occupied in the United
States. The cheese manufactured in Yer
mont averages more to each farm than in
any other state except New York Yer
mont leads 32 states in the average value
of live stock to each farm. Vermont has
live stock averaging to each farm 1913 more
in value than the average for the United
States, Vermont has live stock averaging
in value to each person engaged in agricul
ture $40 more than the average for the
United States
Vermont cuts an average of more hay to
each farm than any other state excepting
California, Vermont leads 36 states in the
value If its forest products averaged to each
person engaged in agriculture. Vermont
makes more maple sugar than any other
state
And Vermont is the state in which is that
farm. No wonder that Wisconsin people
are astOnished.
New Departure.
We invite esDecial attantion tn the circu-