Putnam patriot., 1913-10-03
Corn i'll New England.

About the hardest thing for a bred New Englander is To bring himself to n realizing sense that he can possibly compete with the gigantic N est in anything whatever He looks upon the West through the very same eyes the Irish immigrants were said to look, in the old days, upon America. He thinks il A region of agricultural prodigies. When he is told that a watermelon broke from it's vine on a western hillside, rolled down and hit the house, burst and drowned the whole family in the house, he IS hall inclined 10 believe it. He thinks that everything that springs from seeds will arow out there if the seed is dragged over the fields. He seems to believe that when the farmers want some corn all they have to do is to drive out on the prairie and load up the carts. And, on the other side, he is skeptical of all | claims for New England. Try it on any gatherings of New England rural people Tell them perfectly truthful accounts of what some of the enterpris- i ing ones have done and look for the sarcastic gnns and the disgusted scowls.
 1 The run of real New England farm- | CTS have not yet become reconeiied 10 the fact that they can raise more corn ! tB 1 1n in star corn states of the West, and better corn at that. But in ten years there i was but one Western state Ohio that exceeded New England in corn yieie, and that b, only $ of a bushei per acre. CT SIX "een etates, so called, New Engguud exceeded their ten-y ear average by a.4 bushels to the acre, and it exceeded the average of the United States by 9.3 bushels per acre,
 New England is some on corn, as we note by the record of a youth of massachusetts,, who raised l27 bushels 10 the acre, or the New Hompshire man who got lbs lS bushels to the. acre, or the other New HampsAy. man who harvested over leo hlr.$Shel. To the acre from 4o-a-ges''y 5s oas hundred bushels os ,;,h ,hs fodder, is worth ,,..,a.,,4 ;,, ,h. .a,,,nhoas in New Eneiahd III '''N 'Ne sy mood of Sl25-sometime' '''.S .S,. and sometimes bit less. Where <, the Western corn farm that vii
 produce Sl25 per acre, tight in th' midst of a market that Is always cage
 for more? A Connecticut man taise' ll2 bushels of shelled corn on m acre and hls boy beat him with l2l bushels
 X scientific Jtest of one mans efol showed that il yielded S65.76 per aet' actual net profit, with every posSiei
 expense charged up to it. This k rate that would make a man with hundred acre corn patch rich in few wears, or even half of it. SiNty.tiv' hundred dollars year from i60 acre
 is pretty good for the New Englon' farmer And the best thing about |
 is that he can do il, if he will, and i
 he has the corn Hand. If he has no the corn land, and has any other on' ot the more than 67 varieties Of New
 England land, he can still get rich, i
 he will do what others have done.
 IL need not be assumed that ever,
 man who plants corn k 10 get soo pe acre profit They won't. They don They can, 1T the conditions are right and if they work. II is up 10 the maI to see that the conditions are right and to work There are other men II New England who have tested tn
 va.ue of their corn crops, and the, have made all the way from s4s,.o |
 g s6 per acre. One Rhode Island lar mer raises around , 2,eeo bushels Of corr every year and uses the stover for hi