Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-12-09
OUR COUNTY AGRICULTURALLY

OUR COUNTY AGRICULTURALLY
Last week the Monitor spoke in a
paragraph of the report of E. S. Brig
ham, Vermont's commissioner of agri
culture. This week the Monitor would
like to speak a little more at length
about the report with special emphasis
upon it with regard to Orleans county.
The Monitor has often called atten
ton to the fact that this county
agriculturally is fast becoming the
banner county of the state, giving
Franklin hardly room to stand at the
top as a whole and crowding closely
other counties that have boosted of
their supremacy in special lines. The
Monitor has championed early and long
every advanced step for the agrlcul-
tural interests of the county and may
Justly take considerable pride in the
report as it bears upon the farming
interests of Orleans county.
The first comparison noted is that OF
the quantity of maple products made.
Orleans county taps 1,043,311 trees.
The nearest competitor is Franklin
country which taps only TAG, 729. Next
comes Caledonia with only SCI, 105.
Orleans county produces more than
100000 pounds of maple sugar,
Franklin, 1, III. 900 and no other county
produces million pounds.
A peculiar feature of the production
of maple goods in Orleans county,
however, is the fact that while we tap
many more trees and produce almost
twice as much sugar as any other
county we make the least maple syrup
of any county in the state, save Grand
Isle. which really doesn't count. We
have single sugar orchards in Orleans
county that tap more trees than the
whole of Grand Isle county. Orleans
county makes but 1921 gallons OF
maple syrup. Even little Essex makes
over 5000 gallons and Washington
comes next with 1900 gallons. Il
should also be noted in this paragraph
that the number of available maple
trees not tapped in Orleans county
exceeds the available untapped NAPLES
of any other county by many thou
sands We have here over 6O0,00t
NAPLES producing absolutely nothing
that might be made to yield revenue
of probably 100000 yearly.
Note please, that conservatively
figuring, the present income from
maple goods produced in the county i:
probably SITS, 900 yearly. This is {
cash crop and is worth conserving anC
making and marketing in the best ant
most approved methods. The cash
income might be, with all available
trees tapped and a good product made
fully $500. 200 yearly. A tidy sum
indeed. 1t might be wise for the Or
leans county sugar maker to ask him
self why he is making his product int
sugar almost exclusively? Why dt
other counties make syrup to a greater
extent? Would it not pay to study
this question? What is the answer?
In the number of mich COWS Frank
lin county SliI loduS any OlHef Ill CIlt
state with $1,000 Orleans county il
practically tied with Chittenden ant
Rutland at $4,000. which is the mex
step down.
These things and the fact tina
Orleans county for some time had. an
may now have. more cow testing asso
Citations than any other in the state
claims more fine. large barns, NOR
milking machines and large dairie
than any other Vermont county, an
her showing in other matters agricul
turally places her in the foremost ran
of agricultural counties