Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-02-21


producing a crop and the amount received
for it. Farmers should try 10 live indie
pendently. Don't buy too much Raise
your own corn. If the 30, 600 farmers in
Vermont should raise each go bushels more
then there would be no need of buying any.
This is the last full meeting of the Board
this season. 1t was very largely attended
and interesting discussions followed each
speaker The new town hail was used for
the first time since its dedication. Prof.
Barber of Bellows Fails, the Misses May
nard of Nalpole, and the Misses Fisher of
Westminster, furnished appropriate music
for the occasion
THE FARMS OF VERMONT.
The Next state Census Supervisor Pre-
SCENTS Some Interestiu. statistics.
The seventh lecture in the winter course
of lectures to farmers was given at the ex-
pertinent station Tuesday afternoon by NJ
o. Howe, agricultural editor OF the Brat
tleboro Phoenix, aud the next State census
supervisor, ON "Thc Farms and Vermont"
In Introducing the speaker President Buck
ham said he had been looking forward to
this lecture because he expected some light
on the question. not whether farming pays,
for that is an admitted fact, hut how well
it pays, how it pays in Vermont as COM
pared with other States, how well each
branch pays and above all how we can make
Il pay better.
Mr.. llowe's lecture was largely Of n
statistical character. He spoke substantial
ly ss follows:
There i, u wealth Of poetry connected
with many Of the farms Of Vermont, but
for this occasion We Will pass by all that
and consider the subject in purely prosaic,
matter Of fact manner. 1t is said that
figures will not lie and the figures furnished
by the census enumel ators show that farms
in Vermont are among the most productive
of any in the country. This is not in ac-
cordance with the generally understood
opinion abroad and at home. No other
State approaches Vermont in the ratio of
emigration to population. Probably not
less than 200. OO3 native Nermonters are
living in other States and countries The pop
ulatlon of our State is probably about 800
GOO to-day. This increase Of $4,000
over 1880 is almost entirely found III the
cities and villages, for the farms are 70
more thickly inhabited now than they were
III $3.50 BY means of charts Mr.. Howe
brought out some statistics of interest,
The native nonresident per cent Of popua-
ton in Vermont is %. New Hampshire
Coi!lIiI3 LtAU " ltl Ol4Il - per 'dlll. ne
native resident per cent of population in
Vermont is IS, New Hampshire coming next
with Gj per cent. In the value of aaricul-
tural products TO each person engaged in
agriculture Vermont heads the list of 81
States and territories with 800, Ohio com
ing next with 1904 to each person. Refer
ring to Il recent letter Of Secretary Proctor,
in which the latter said that Vermont raised
better meu than crops, Mr. Howe said that
the men must be pretty good Judging them 10y
this standard Ten States and territories
| lead Vermont in the value of agricultural
products to each person engaged in agricul-
turc, because Of surrounding circumstances,
such rs differences in the value Of land, the
| market price of produce, cost of farm ma
chinery or amount Of capital invested.
Another chart showed the average num-
her Of mich COWS per farm IN several States.
The average was given as g. in Vermont
80 in New York and 3 in the United
States. Another chart showed the average
| number of pounds Of butter made from a
COW, including that made in creameries. In
| Vermont it was &c pounds, Michigan fol-
lowing with 1Ol pounds, la cheese New
York makes on an average J31 pounds to
the farm and Vermont l2 pounds. The
average number of pounds of butter to each
person engaged in agriculture in Vermont
| is 4j1 pounds. New York coming next with
| 29G pounds. The average for tho United
! States is 10J pounds. Vermont makes III
! pounds Of butter to each farm New York
| coming next with aga pounds The average
/ for the United States is POI pounds. In the
average amount Of hay raised on each farm
| California stands at the head with 81 tons,
! Vermont coming next with 30 tons. The
average number of tons Of hay raised to
each person engaged in agriculture in Yer
mont is 10, California and New York fol
lowing with II tons each
Vermont leads all States in the amount
OF maple sugar manufactured and makes
one.third of all that is made in the United
! States. Vermont has about twice as many
COWS to each farm as the average to each
farm in the United States Vermont loads
30 States in the average value of live stock
to each farm. Vermont has live stock
averaging in value to each person engaged
in agriculture 81 10 more than the average
for the United States Vermont leads &c
States in the value of forest products yield
ed from the farms, without reckoning ma
pie sugar as one of them. Vermont genar-
ally stands near the head Of all the State,
a to several products OF agriculture per
acre as shown in the reports of the depart
mont OF agriculture. II has more than once
stood first in the yield of corn per acre. Our
state stands al the head Of 30 States and
Territories in the average OF property &c
each Individual.
President Buckham then gave Mr.. Howe
n problem, asking him to furnish an answer
AT some future time. The problem is u:
follows; Taking u farm OF l34 acres,
which is said to be the size of the average
farm IN Vermont, and allowing for all re
pairs, labor, taxes and interest on money
invested, how will the financial result com
rure at tho end Of 10 years, with that
which could reasonably be expected from
other pursuits
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