Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1889-03-01
VERMONT'S INDUSTRIES.
ITS HIGH RANK AS A MANUFACTURE
ING STATE.
The Farmers Interests in Manufactures
-Vcrmont'S Manufactured Products
Compared with Those of Other
Statcs-Tacts aud Figures.


i'll agriculture and manufactures, but thar
they are "eminently more distinguished by
their superiority in the latter than in the
former. England is scarcely equal in area
TO the average size OF one Of our 81 states:
yet it sustains population OF 2J.OOO,OOO'
The mauufactorios of England are the prln-
Cipal source of tho immense wealth and
power which is there concentrated. Agri-
culture and manufactures are the two great
industries that give employment to the mass
of mankind and support toall. Only naked
savage. living upon the natural productions
of the earth can be independent of both.
Agriculture supplies most of the material
used iumanuiacturcs. and the food which
sustains the life of all: yet the two interests
are mutually dependent and thrive on suffer
depression together Without manufactures,
agriculture would be reduced to little moro
than gathering the spontaneous products of
the soil. The pcrpetuation OF our clvillz1-
tion depends equally upon the two industries
for it would be lost without either. These
general principles are stated as leading to a
practical matter which intimately concerns
the farms of this State, as we'll as all others
interested in our prosperity.
1t is known to all who have given the sub
iect attention, that Vermont ha, great
facilities for manufacturing far beyond
what has yet been utilized Compare it
with Massachusetts, 1t has larger area;
il has more extensive forests and better
tim5ers: its soil is more fertile: its natural
N"'el pow oIs ., .te Sio"''I anu ilIo'c "0''II-
better in nearly all respects except the cost
"l "'I5"'' "ii' 'i''S slio'''r GUS, n'i" ii'Il
nl'I'G inc ",ii ''''' 81 i' ~
ioI I"'5 instances II "ii Do SeSn y 'ile
H9ul'' "elo" no" 'ie '9'"lI 'lIO H''9 III 80
many 5',''..i az,
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S'.ls ~ "a uITu lio,o,'1 anu "iSo
Win 'He o'HoI -'9" 11"o'''i" '''"'1S'
VALUE or FMANCfAcTURED PRoDUCrs-cENsrs
VI i9-'' .,,, ..,- 90,
Connncii1i,t az 5li
Rhode Island. observation-disclosures. lJi,lG}.G?l
Maine, ,......,. ..,.:...................... ."S:9l:3
1 iI|i I'7i ''''''''''''''''''' a. a. o
Iraff tI,n ,.ol,,o of +ho annual ,rod,,c, Of
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y,r,,,l,,+ TIo ,,oi,,a Of yorr,o,,,,. n,o,,n-
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i't o ,.pi,3n nr 9iiiny 1,,odctl n11da in
1f,.s.,.,,,,.,+-si i 30 ti,,o, a. ,,,,,,b mi ig
ono of tl,. ,,.i,,.i,,I ,.as,,,s ,r,v that Srota
los ooinod greatly, in ,yoaltb and non,lla
4icn ,rbil, [-o,,,,,,,,t hos ,,oda commandments,
Iit+I. ,,.,,.,,o-s Tflalt ,,,,,cb ,,,.,,,,f.,.-
,r,,ir,, was. dom. il, Vermont .i,, Nfo..,l,,-
ee+ts ,,,. ,,,,,,,Ia+i,, ,,.g,,iJ Ie Increased Inv
oOn ODO ird the ,olro of rronprt,- within
tbo N,o+a moro +bon doubIad
1,,,.o T. mol, L.. ,,,,,,fo +,,,i,,,r n, y-,.
,,ont th.r /, INV ~tI,'. Tor, EnoIo,,3
St,tn tl,nI,,1 tI, foci1it;.. f,, if o,,e ,,or
s,,,,,ssoI il, o,, of tho ot,nr. I,,Io.. il ,,o,-
he in fine nar,icuIor borore mentioned