The Press., 1890-02-13

AT THE FARMHOUSE DIOR
 The Litchfield Erqulrer can see only the tariff as a cause for depr. citation of spondent of The New Haven News ses 8 other reasons as follows:
 I notice in The News of January 31 an editorial upon the time e-worn subject of the decay of Connecticut farms. founded upon statements made by The Litchfeld En- quirer, that beg leave to say few words concerning. a#
 It is stated that there was a time when the dairy products of Goshen were remarl- able for quantity and quality, that bet ter price was obtained for them before the war than now, and that the farms We @ worth more than now. It is inferred that this is owing to "high custom taxes"
 If man engaged in manufacturing be- fore the war had followed the methods of that time till now, invested his profits, while there were any, outside of his own business, allowed his plant to ruu down and his machinery to wear out, he would probably think there was something the matter with the tariff s...z,
 I haven't the figures as to Goshen, but an adjoining agricultural town has sent $630, 900 in western bonds aLd notes to Il @ treasurer's office to be registered under the new law, and reports $50, ,00O not yet presented. Goshen has undoub btedly done her share toward developing the west, aud iu the meantime, Goshen's hardhack has overrun hundreds of acres of the best pa . lures and rendered them worthless ow- ing, not to the tariff, but to the need of $ little money spent at home.
 Other farmers are getting 10 cunis mo. @ per pound for butter than before the war. If Goshen's product is less in quantity anu poorer in duality, whose fault Is 1t The Enquirer's informant says that Goshen creamery butter soid the last year for Is cents. The average price of all the cream erles ill the state, good, bad and indIfer- ent, was over 22 cents. Ii Goshen sells its butter at 20 per cent. less than the average price, there IS good reason why thy tall to make farming protitable. The COWS that make the highest priced butter make the most of it, and the processes that pro- duce the best butter get the most from d given quantity of cream. Twenty-Five per cent. loss in price means at least another 10 per cent. loss i'll quantity from give n amount of food, and what business vii. admit of loss of 30 per cent. from average results? No Wonder Goshen walls aud ae Lhqulref Sy SyupaIAlzSS Ou accOuut Ol he ''tarlff.
 And all this tune these same men, who have let the hardhack drive them of thei, farms, and who, If they tell the truth, let the rest of the state beat them out of sight at thelr own trade, have harped about the unproftableness of farming tili they have ,poiled the market for land that had s. value. happen to know of one of theil ueighbors that has within short tune bought farm that Was thrown OH the market at price that enabled him to more than. pay for it with the net profit o1 the wood and timber, and. having anotlel farm on which he lives, he rents the new one for good interest on the original cost As 1t stands him in less than nothing, 1t Is probably as well as he could have done before the war;"
 l am not an advocate of extravagant booming, but why Connecticut men and Connecticut newspapers should persistent y misrepresent, to the detrlment of the state and their own disadvantage, IS d wonder: It may be good politics, but 1t Is awful bad economy,