Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-03-26
Some Points ofvermont.

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Vermont farmers are apt to enter
tain gloomy notions about their State.
They often speak of it as a desirable
place of residence, but-and then pro-
ceed to point out the particulars IN
which, in their opinion, it is inferior to
most of the other states in the Union.
But the facts will not justify such O.
pinions, if we are to trust the figures
given by the usuallycareful Brattleboro
Phoenix, whose agricultural editor was
the State supervisor of the census last
year and in position to know where
of he afiirms. He says;
! /. Vermont leads 81 other States
in the average value of all farm pro-
ductions TO each person engaged in ag-
riculture.
! 2. The value of all farm produc-
tions in VT. averages nearly S400 to
each person in the State engaged in
agriculture, against a corresponding
average of S2S9 for the United States.
3. Vermont produces more than
four times as much butter to each per.
son engaged in agriculture as the aver
age to each such person in the U. 5.
4. Vermont produces an average of
l61 pounds more butter to each person
engaged in agriculture than the highest
average to each such person in any
other State.
5. Vermont makes nearly twice.as
much butter per COW as the average per
COW in the United States,
6. Vermont makes 10 pounds more
butter per COW than is made in any
other State.
Z. Vermont produces an average
to each farm of 247 pounds more but
ter than the average to each farm in
any other State.
8. Vermont produces an average
to each farm of $40 pounds more but
ter than tae average to each farm in
the United States.
0. The average product of cheese
to each farm is greater in Vermont
than in any other State excepting New
York.
10. The average number of mich
cows TO farm is greater in Vermont
than in any other State.
IL. The hay crop of VT. averages
more to each person engaged in agri-
culture than the hay crop of any other
State.
y. The hay crop Of Vermont av-
erages more TO each farm than the av-
erage to each farm in any other State.
10. Vermont has live stock aver
aging in value $40 more to each per-
son engaged in agriculture than the cor
responding average value Of live stock
in the United States.
IA. Vermont leads 32 States in the
average value of live stock to farm.
Is. The average annual product of
maple sugar to each farm in VT. is
nearly times as much as the average
to each farm in New York. Nearly
two-thirds of all the sugar produced in
the u. S. is made in VT. and New
York.
16. In the yield of corn, potatoes
and other crops per acre, Vt. generally
stands at or near the head of the list of
States. But two States had a larger
yield of potatoes per acre, according to
the annual crop report OF the depart
ment OF agriculture for 1890. For the
same year the yield of wheat per acre
was larger in Vermont than in any
other state east of the Mississippi. The
yield of buckwheet per acre exceeded
the yield per acre in Vermont in only
one State. BY the tenth census only
two States had larger yield of oats
per acre than Vermont; only three
States larger yield OF corn per acre,
and the yield per acre of almost every
crop cultivated in the State was far a
bove the average per acre in the United
States. Vermont has more than once
stood at the head of the States in the
yield of corn per acre.
II. The cost of purchased fertiliz-
ers used in the United States averages
more than twice as much for each farm
as the cost of purchased fertilizers for
each farm in Vt.
Is. Vermont leads SO other states
in the average value OF forest products
to each farm, not including maple sug-
ar as one of these products, and not in
cluding the product of timber lands not
belonging to farms.
The farmers of the West are finding
If for their interest to diversity their