The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-08-05
HOME MARKETS SHOWN UP"

HOME MARKETS SHOWN UP"
The State immigration Commits
sioner of Vermont is letting a little
daylight into the results of the past
and present financial methods Of the
two old parties. Here is what he has
to say about what the independent
and prosperous farmer has found out
in Vermont. Under the glorious
financial management of the Republi-
can and Democratic parties he says:
In the the town of Reading, Wind
sor county, 1000 acres can be pur-
chased at from So to 81 per acre.
Some of this land has buildings, and
some has only old cellOr holes an
stone walls to testify to former civiliza-
ton. In Chelsea, the county seat of
Orange county, a farm of 80 acres,
with good barn and farm buildings
has just been sold for $3.50 another
farm of 800 acres with good buildings
was recently sold for S., 100, and
there are many others opportunities
to buy real estate equally low, In
VershIre, in the same county, 35 to
40 contiguou Jus farms are abandoned
and unoccupied. Many have fair build
ings and others could be made com
Portable with small outlay. They cal
be bought for a sum not to exceed
S. per acre, and considerably less for
much of the land. In Jamaica, Wind
ham county, a farm of 800 acres, with
fair buildings, sugar orchard, wood
of 1876 acres with goou building and
orchard, at 500 80 acres in high
state cultivation $3.50. Norton Essex
county, reports 10000 acres good
farming land selling for S. per acres
In that county there are more than
l25, 900 acres of %unoccupied contigu
Gus land, which would make good
producing farms, and could b. bought
very low. In Newark, Caledonia
county, there are at least 25 farms of
as good land as any in the county,
which can be bought for from So to
81 per acre. The commissioner states
that there are large tracts of ti'l4ble
land which can be bought at a price
approximating the price of Western
lands, situated near schools and church
and not far from railroad facilities.
Much of it can be made to yield a
liberal reward to intelligent labor, and
a good portion is especi lily adapted
to dairy purposes.
The Maine Farmer, of which paper
Joe Marley is half owner comments
on the commissioners report as fol
lowers
q further fact is, that these cheap
lands are by no mean confined to the
State Of Vermont. They may lie
found, and in plenty, in every n of
the New England States. This is
true of our own State to as large an
extent, without doubt, we're the facts
dug out and made public, as in our
sister State of Vermont. Very few
public men are aware Of the low
selling value Of farm lands 10 general,
in our State, and particular of those
lands where the general appreciation
place them as the less desirable.
Then let the facts be known. If the
effort of Vermont in inviting immi-
grafton to that State results in nothing
more than a disclosure of the real
facts IN regard to the existing value
of farms it will be the first step
towards a relief of taxation on fictitious
values which, if followed to the court
of Justice, would be the means towards
bringing them back again to a higher
value.
This true statement Of the deplor-
able condition Of Maine Farmers by
the chief fugler's organ in so short a
time after election ought to be an eye
opener for the poor, deluded fools
who swallowed down the hogwash
given them during the campaign by
Manley and Blaine's stump speakers,
about their great prosperity. What
a pity it is that these idiots cannot
rene nber from one campaign to
another, and not take down the old
mouldy chestnut every two and four
years. We keeping IN eye out for
some of these facts which the old
party organs publish when there is no
election pending as it will do the
people good to see themselves "As in
a looking lass."-Lea0iston (lIe.) At
U0cGte.