News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-09-02
49, 599FARMERS IN VERMONT
Census Bureau Finds Agricul-
ture Covers Wide Scope, Hay,
Corn, Sugar. Our Farmers
Mostly Dairymen

ture Covers Wide Scope, Hay,
Corn, Sugar. Our Farmers
Mostly Dairymen
In a report that has recently been issued
by the census bureau the fact is made
known that there are 144,0S9 persons in
the State of Vermont that are engaged in
some occupation for living, and 40, sos
of them are employed in agricultural pur-
suits.
The bulk of those engaged in agricul-
tural pursuits are only farm laborers and
operators. There are 24,361 operators in
the state, 984 of whom are women. There
are 19,432 farm laborers in the state and
272 are women.
The statesis also largely dairy state,
being favored by natural dairy country.
There are 2o72 dairy farmers in the state
and they employ 1855 laborers and 20 fore
men. There are also 40 persons in the
state whose principal source of income
is from stock raising, and there are 80
cowboys in the state.
CAN RAISE OWN FooDsTUFFs.
Agriculture in Vermont covers a wide
scope and everything in the line of neces-
sary foodstuffs that can be raised in this
climate is grown to more or less extern.
The most important crops are potatoes,
dairy products, sugar and hay. Corn is
also important as crop to feed the
animals or more in the line of hay, than
for domestic purposes.
Dairying is without question the most
important agricultural pursuit in the
state and all farmers attempt to 60 into
this line more or less extensively, accord
ing to their location and the natural &C
cess to good market. W
DAIRY PRODUCTS GO TO BOSTON.
Most of the dairy products that are not
used at home are sent to Massachusetts,
especially to Boston. Every day long
cars of milk, cream and butter are drawn
from this state to Boston which affords
the nearest and best market for Vermont
dairy products.
| From the vicinity of Montpelier to
Boston is trip of not more than eight
hours and the modern refrigerator cars
that are attached to the express trains
preserve the products excellently on
| trip of this length.
Hay is raised more as a domestic CROP
and not much is shipped to other states
in fact there is BOT enough hay ised in
Vermont to satisfy its own demands
Corn being an easy crop to grow and one
| that does not demand much attention,
| and also one that serves very we'll for hay
is grown to feed live stock in large guam
titles throughout the entire state.
I MAPLE SUGAR is IMPORTANT
tant crops of this State and Vermont
ranks first in the production of this arti-
Gle. Maple sugar is one of the staple
products, and every farmer has his sugar
grove; in fact. without this a farm is
hardly considered complete.
! The sugar crop can be collected only
in the spring but it comes at time that
the farmer is not busy in his fields and
that is ono of the most idle periods of
time of the whole year. Therefore the
income derived from the sugar crop on
the farm is something that the farmers
have come to look upon as one of the
spring helps.
No matter whether the extent of the
sugar orchard and crop is large or small,
tits always looked upon as one of the
natural sources of income for the farm.
| Large crops of potatoes are also raise d
in the State and, according to a report of
the United States crop reporting board,
this year there are $4,000 acres of Irish
| potatoes planted in this State and the
production will be approximately $780,
600 bushels.
The condition of the crop is 80 per
per cent normal and the price at present
is in the vicinity of IS cents bushel.
Last year the entire crop that was pro-
duced was considerably smaller than this
but sold around 80 cents bushel.
NATIONAL STATISTICS
The entire crop for the United States
is estimated at $50, GA 900 bushels, de-
rived from 8, 7Os, 600 acres of land. This
crop is larger than the crop for the past
five years and will exceed the average
crop for each year in that time by 4.O06,-
, 900 bushels.
The nations production last year was
331 ,525, 900 bushels, which sold at 80
cents bushel, bringing total income
of 1927, 9O9,000. This amount of potatoes
was produced on 3.66S, 900 acres of land
The total number of people in the Tn.
tied States that are engaged in agricul.
tural pursuits are 12,65G,203 As there |
II, $50 720 persons in the United States |
over 10 years of age, and 3S. 16T, 1886 of
these are engaged in gainful occupations,
this would make the total of those en-
gagged in farming exactly one-third of |
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