The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-09-29
"GOLDEN NEW ENGLAND.o

The current issue of the Outlook
contains an article on Golden New
England" from the pen of Sylvester
Baxter which is not only interesting
but inspiring. In his introduction the
writer says: "They talk about the
golden West, the golden North. In
the West a responsive soil yields trea-
sures convertible into gold In the
North, with infinite toll and hardship,
golden treasure is extracted from the
frozen ground. New England, too, is
a golden land She draws her riches
from manifold sources: from the
beauty of the land, from the glory of
the sea; from the multiform fabrics
wrought by her busy children; and
yet, as elsewhere, from the fruits of
fertile soil.
"In golden New England one indus
try alone, the caring for summer Wis
! itors, amounts to more than $4,000
| 900 a year-a sum greater than the
annual yield of the gold mines of
Alaska and the Pacific slope 1t
| means that more than 100000 people
go into New Hampshire every sum-
mer and more than 100000 into Maine
to spend money and enjoy themselves,
not to mention the other hundreds
of thousands who visit Vermont,
! Massachusetts,, Rhode Island and Con-
necticut for like reasons Altogether
| the summer population of New Eng
| land is thus increased by not less
than % per cent"
1t Is to be feared that the hundreds
of thousands who visit Vermont exist
as yet only in anticipation The ar
ticle also refers to some OF the WIN
ter resorts of this region. The great
err part of the description deals with
agricultural conditions. 1t shows
that New Hampshire ranks first IN
the number of bushels of corn to the
acre. AL. with Connecticut close
second with a yield of 4O.3 bushels
The yield of Massachusetts, 1874 ex'
ceeds Illinois, which reports 1873 ant
Kansas with 27.S bushels A Massa
chusetts man took the first prize fol
flint corn at the National Corn Show
in Omaha last year.
The figures given deal largely will
Massachusetts, being taken from thu
compilation of the State Board of Ag
riculture. The records show tina
while Iowa's farm lands are clever
times larger in area than those o
, Massachusetts the value of her agri
cultural products is only nine time
as great. Illinois has ten times tn
: area and eight times the value; Kan
sas, thirteen times the area and fou
and one-half times the value; Cali
5 fornia, nine times the area and tire
times the value; Texas, forty time
r the area and five times the value
: OF course the area referred to is tn
Y area of cultivated land.
1t is said that within fifty miles
Boston there is uncultivated land sui
q ficient to feed the 100000 people
that city and the cities and village
in its vicinity that make up the Grea
err Boston, and leave surplus fc
export. Instances are related of
: strawberry patch of half an acre thu
II Yields 5000 quarts, worth $625; OF a
# acre and a half of cantaloupes thu
! bring S1100; of a Cape Cod woma
8 who makes 5000 every summer fro
l. patch of sweet peas the size OF
l. city backyard; of an Italian mark
5. gardener whose profits from fo'
It acres of land are $4,000 or $4,000 al
e nually; of a five-acre peach orchal
r which yields a profit of $4,000 in
10 year; of thousands of acres OF aspar
re gus lands in Massachusetts, whi'
show an annual profit of $500 to ~
81 an acre.
N The cranberry industry has BET
10 developed in wonderful manner