St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-01-04

yield is above az bushels. In
Iowa, the leading state in the
quantity of oats, the yield is s78
bushels per acre.
The average yield of barley is 81
bushels per acre and there are i've
other states that give a higher
yield but none of them are in New
England although the yield in Maine
is the same as in Vermont. Cali
fornia produces the most barley of
any state and the yield per acre
there is the same as in Vermont.
The average yield of rye is 17.5
bushels per acre and there are eight
states in which the yield is better.
No other state in New England
equals this yield and Pennsylvania
which produces the most rye of any
state has the same yield.
The average yield of buckwheat is
"a bushels per acre and the two
New England states, Maine and New
Hampshire, are the only ones show
ing better yield. New York which
leads in the production of buck
wheat has a yield of % bushels per
acre.
The average yield of potatoes is
$50 bushels per acre. Six other
states show better yield and three
of them, Maine, New Hampshire and
Rhode Island, are in New England.
New York which produces the most
potatoes has a yield of 102 bushels
per acre and Maine produces 220
bushels per acre which is the highest
yield of any state.
The average yield of hay is 1.35
tons per acre and Is other states
show a better yield. Vermont how
ever stands at the head of the list
in New England. New York produc-
es more hay than any other state
acre.
The average yield of tobacco is
1900 pounds per acre and there are
three other states where it is higher.
They are the New England states,
New Hampshire, Massachusetts and
Connecticut. In Kentucky, the state
producing the most tobacco, the
yield is only SO pounds per acre.
These figures show that New
England can produce about as much
per acre as any section of the coun-
try but that Vermont does not
rank very high compared with her
nearest neighbors on four of her
leading crops. Her standing in New
England and the nation on corn is
fifth, on oats it stands third in New
potatoes it stands fourth in New
England and seventh in the nation
and on hay it stands at the head in
New England and sixteenth in the
nation.
These figures are at once encour-
aging and discouraging. It
is pleasing to say to those
who are always pointing to Vermont
as a backward state that only four
other states can produce more corn
to the acre than Vermont, that
Vermont is in the first third of the
states even with the crops showing
the lowest comparative yield per
acre and that it actually leads the
nation in the yield per acre of
some crops. But when we compare
Vermont with its New England
| neighbors we find it altogether too
| seldom at the top or even in the first
half of this group of states. This in
| dicates that there is room for much
further improvement on the part of
Vermont farmers.
The census figures of 1910 COM
pared with 1900 show that Vermont
farms and farmers are not decadent
| They show the number of farms in
1900 to have been 33,104, in 1910,
farm in 1900, 142, in 1910, 143;
price of farm lands per acre in
1900, SIS, in 1910, $22; total value
of farm lands in 1900, $83,072, 900,
in 1910, $1O1, 813,000; value of
/ farm implements and machinery in
1900, $8,538,O0O, in 1910, $10,162,-
600; expenditure for fertilizers in
1900, $4,000, in 1910, $4,000.
| Taken as whole these figures
should encourage us to talk back
| quite saucily to the smart folks who
say mean things about us but should
set us to thinking seriously how to
keep up with our neighbors.