The Republican journal., 1909-11-25
NEW ENGLAND FARM READJUST.
M MENTS.

The awakening that is taking place in
New England with respect to fruit cul
ture and grain raising looks toward an
ultimate declaration of independence of
the west, or rather, greater equality
in the basis of competition than has pre-
viously been experienced in this section.
The knowledge that former conditions
have changed has not yet fully penetra-
ted the understanding of our agricultural
communities, but the perception that we
are no longer helpless or hopeless is
dawning, and will be developed by the
guidance that educated agriculturists are
giving it through special expositions and
otherwise. We have had a demonstra-
ton of the results that can be obtained
through scientific apple growing, and
the coming year the corn crop will be
the specially to be brought to the atten-
ton of our New England husbandmen.
The country's yield of this staple the
present year, as now returned by the De-
partment of Agriculture, is 2, 767, SIG, 900
bushels, which has been exceeded only
once, and that three years ago; yet the
valte will be the greatest this year in
the history of the industry. Moreover,
while prices will fluctuate in the future,
they are pretty sure to be steadily high.
What can New England do and what will
she do to share in the prosperity, that
taking one year with another, will attach
to corn growing? We cannot use ma
chinery to so good advantage as is done
on the Western prairies, perhaps, but we
have the soil and all the other favorable
conditions. At the Corn Exposition in
the West last year the prize for the lar
gest yield on single tract was given to
a Connecticut man. The State that pro-
duced the most corn in proportion to the
acres under cultivation was Rhode Island.
1t may cost little more to raise corn
here but it costs less to dispose Of it in a
profitable market.
The farmers of the East are conserva-
tive. Their traditions and environment
have made them so. The tendency for
some years has been towards dairying.
The stock, the buildings and other condi-
lions have been adjusted to that branch
of the industry. In fact, it has been
carried to excess, not beyond the needs
Of consumption, but far beyond the
bounds of profit to the producer. Grain
high cost of feed for the dairy herds has
left constantly diminishing margin be-
tween operating expenses and revenue
AAC tlIllO A1o 1CtulICo VIGIL az Gill W e
can grow at profit corn, rye, oats and
possibly barley, though wheat does not
seem to thrive in this section. We be-
lieve also that beef cattle and hogs will
give the farmer larger return than
milk under the present conditions of pro-
duction. This branch of the business
puts him at the mercy of middlemen to a
much less extent than dairying. and the
priceS of beef and nork are So mich
higher than ever before that his returns
would be fairly certain and satisfactory.
There must be series of readjustments
in New England agriculture in order to
make the most of the new opportunities
now opening. Boston Transcript.
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