The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-08-19
Profits from Vermont Farms

Way is it that one farmer receives
hundreds of dollars from his orchard
while his neighbor does not have ap-
pies to sell, though he may have an
orchard? Why does one farmer near
Burlington realize handsome income
from his few acres devoted to market
gardening while the next farm ten
times larger than the first named can
barely make both ends meet? Intel
ligent methods of cultivation account
for the whole difference in both cas-
eS.
There is no good reason why farms
in this region should not be devoted
to far more profitable crops than are
now produced The St Adams Mess
enger in commenting upon what we
had to say recently concerning the
possibility of developing important
canning interests in this state said:
"St. Adams has a very prosperous
industry of this kind that began sim
ply as a corn canning factory but has
gradually extended its operations so
that it gives employment to consider
able numbers of people for ten
months in the year and, of course has
work for somebody the whole year
round. The farmer finds a ready
market here for certain products and
can plant his crops from season to
season with the assurance of cash on
delivery for practically all that he can
raise that conforms to standard of
course"
$50 far as that goes, when Yer
mont farmers generally come more
and more to understand that their OPP
portunity lies in the development of
a scientific system of intensive farm
ing along specialized lines and that
the growing of orchard, garden and
small field crops is, next to dairying,
the most profitable thing for them
to do. we shall see a very great in
crease in the number of canning fac
tories in this state. When the farm
ers show a disposition to raise the
fruit and the produce the Gamers
will come in to take care of it, And
that will mean that Vermont can de
velop an industry along this line that
will equal that which has helped to
make Maine noted in the market
place."
What has been accomplished in
this single instance can be multiplied
many times in Vermont for there is
an almost limitless demand, whereas
as a matter of fact Vermont is inn
porting canned goods today.
It is not necessary for the average
farmer to wait for a canning industry
to come along and furnish him a mar
ket. There are crops for which ne
can find a ready sale now. For ex-
ample Vermont apples are famous the
world over and it is not difficult or
an expensive task for the farmer who
sells no fruit at the present time TO
set out a few acres to choice varieties
of apples that command a ready mar
ket. 1t is not hard matter to note
what lines of vegetable raising on a
large scale have paid a neighbor best
and to reach the conclusion that sim
liar lines on land of similar charac-
ter can be made equally profitable.
In the meantime our department OF
agriculture might well direct part OF
its efforts to the inducement OF capl.
tai to develop canning industries and
market gardening, in the vicinity OF
the larger towns many of which I'M
mort not a few of their vegetables
There are grand opportunities in tins
direction and the sooner our lntelll-
gent farmers become more Thoroughly
alive thereto the greater will be the
returns from our Vermont FARMS
Burlington Free Press.