The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-02-26

Pending the publication of the Stats
tics of agriculture by the census of 1890
the Brattleboro Phenir prints the fol-
lowing summary of some of the
facts found by comparing certain avail
able statistics of this character:
1. Vermont leads 81 States in the aver
age value of all farm produc,i lions to each
person engaged in agriculture.
2. The value of all farm productions in
Vermont averages nearly $500 to each
person in the State engaged in agricul-
ture, against corresponding average of
$3.50 for the United States.
3. Vermont produces more than four
times as much butter to each person ell
gagged in agriculture as the average to
each such person i'll the United States.
4. Vermont produces an average of l6l
pounds more butter to each person en-
gagged 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.
9. Vermont makes 10 pounds more
butter per COW than is made in any other
State.
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each farm of PAT pounds more butter
than the average to each farm in any
other State.
8. Vermont produces an average to
each farm of $40 pounds more butter
than the average to each farm in the
United States.
o. 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 milch cows
to farm is greater in Vermont than in
any other State.
II. The hay crop in Vermont averages
more to each person engaged in agricul-
ture than the hay crop of any other
State.
u. The hay crop of Vermont averages
more to each farm than the average TO
each farm in any other State. 3,
Is. Vermont has live stock averaging
in value $40 more to each person en-
gagged in agriculture than the correspond
ing average value of live stock in the
United States.
IA. Vermont leads 80 States in the
average value of live stock to farm.
Is. The average annual product of
maple sugar to each farm in Vermont is
nearly seven times as much as the aver
age to each farm in New York. Nearly
two-thirds of all the maple sugar pro-
duced in the United States is made in
Vermont and New York.
Is. In the yield of corn, potatoes and
other crops per acre, Vermont 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 Department
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 Mississippi. The yield of
buckwheat per acre exceeded the yield
per acre in Vermont in only one State.
BY the tenth census only two States had
a larger yield Of oats per acre than Yer
mont; only three States larger yield of
corn per acre, and the yield per acre of
almost every crop cultivated in the State
was far above 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 fertilizers
used in the United States averages more
than twice as much for each farm as the
cost of purchased fertilizers for each
farm in Vermont.
IS. Vermontleads 80 States in the aver
age value of forest products to each
farm, not including maple sugar as one
of these products, and not including
the product of timber lands not belong
ing to farms.
VermOnters troubled with a tendency
to heart failure an account of what they
fear to be a general decline in the agri-
cultural interest of the State should cut
the above out and read it frequently.
Such an exercise will serve as an excel
lent tonic.