The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-08
RICHES IN NEW ENGLAND LAND
 By GEORGE FRENCH of ''The Independent'

mate Is favorable for the trees and tn IruIt 10 give the scientific reason TOT the supremacy of New England a a fru1t-producing region would neces sltate a book. It is a fact that Nev Hngiand raises better apples than oth CT regions, excepting only a portion O New York, a small portion of PenngyI
 Van1a, some of Delaware and a littI section of Virginia. The chemical com position of our hillsides gives us tn New England apples that have tn pest flavor of any apples in the world
 The trees live to be a hundred year old, bearing all the time. They grov big. and produce farrels of fruit t pecks from the trees in the famou. fruit sections of the West and North west
 A Wisconsin man sold his farm there, came to. southern New Hamp. shire and bought one of the same area and put the difference in value in bank some $25,000. He makes more money now than he did in Wisconsin, and his |plant-his farm-stands him only about one-fourth as much.
 This is about the relative cost o1 land in the West and in New Eng. land. mean land that will yield as much or more gross income. That ie the economic story about New Eng land land. It is gold mine of more value than any mine in the world II may be made to return great dividends every year. It is good land, but at the same time it is the use that is made of It that counts-that makes the dol lars for the owners.
 know a little farm that has vfoIdAd two workers more than $2,5oo a year profit for many years The pit1fl1l thing about it is that, so far as@Izknow, not one of the other farmers in ttat vicinity has learned the lesson Tbex, are all waiting for that land to ssrun out. It IS better every year. It is properly fed and properly worked. and it yields crops as certain and staJ,Ie as the output of any factory. The own CTS never try experiments They have never asked the land to do what it is not fitted to do. They go to market with big two-horse wagon loaded with roots every day in the year. They Keep. the roots in pits, for the most part. They do not try to raise any thing but roots They have grown rich off a little piece of farm land thai was idle when they bought it. for S7OO It was an abandoned farm, 2 and was aDandoned because the owners could not make living off of it. They did not know how to make the land work for them.
 The more one looks into this matter Of the value of the farming lands in New England the more he wonders that there is an acre Of it for~saIeA But when he finds that he can buy the best of farming land in New England for a third or quarter what is asked for land no better in the West, he is lost in amazement. Then he goes on to learn that from New England land he can get bigger crops than the Western far ner can get-more corn ito the acre, more wheat, more potatoes, vastly more fruit and truck-and his amaze ment grows.
 people of New England. They still be- Iieve that this region is a cold and sterile one, and that the gods have fa-| vored 'The Vest far more than they have favored New England It is a myth, pure and simple. There is more money in New England, land than in the land in any other section. The history of Aroostook county and it's potatoes is as full of the romance of the land as hs the history of the fa- nous Hood River Valley. There are hundreds of truck raisers in New Eng land who make more money than the most favored among the apple men of he West and Northwest, and get more 'or their land when they sell it, Some of the trucking land near Boston is worth $5, 900 an acre, and cannot be bought for that. There is not tale If apple success in the West that can lot be matched by the experience of lpp1e growers in Massachusetts, Con- lecticut, Rhode Island, New Hamp- ihire, Maine and Vermont. There is much land in New England, wo or three million acres, that is reckoned "'waste'' 1and-good or nothing but to keep off of the lists If the assessors of taxes. Actually, | here is but a small proportion of this |
 
 arge dividends on a fair valuation and he necessary amount of work and | money to make it pay. Much of it is | dealIy fit for a planted and tended l rop of white pine-a crop that will | ay more than 300 per cent. profit when t natures. The farmer with 100 Acres | f land that has been skinned for pa- ger or matches or f1rewood can, if he 'lants it to white pine, surely count n a crop worth from $25,0O0 to $5o,00 t the end of 40 years, according to he then price of white pine lumber, nd if he is wise and knows how to To it he can then take off a certain mount every year. Then there are heep. They put great value into poor and. They improve poor pastures at he rate of something like 10 per cent. CT annun, while cattle cause dete- fora ton of pasture lands. In sheep nd reforestation there are millions of olIars in profit for the New England arrner. He is now afraid of both prop with good reason.
 
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