544 State Board of Agricultuue, «fec. 



three to five cents per pound, butter ten to eiglitecn cents, 

 beef four to five cents. The income from the farms is 

 greater now tlian then. If there is an unfavorable difFer- 

 ence now, it is owing mainly to more expensive habits of 

 living. A respected and venerable citizen of this village, 

 in company with his brotlier, laid the foundation for a com- 

 petence, upon a hill farm in a town adjoining, tliat eiuibled 

 them to live half their lives without labor. One . of their 

 sources of income was raising pork at three cents per pound ; 

 never selling for more tlian five. Instances without number 

 mio-ht be mven of success achieved here in farmino; or other 

 business pursuits, above the average of what it is believed 

 has been attained, by those that have sought their fortunes 

 abroad. 



We have some desirable things in Vermont, not always 

 found in the places to which our emigrants have gone. Some 

 of these, with some of the advantages that our ^5tate po&- 

 scsses over the extremely fertile States of the West are : 



1. An Abundance of Pdre Water for Man and 

 Beast. — Here we have water running from pure springs at 

 aluiost every house. In level countries this is impossible. 

 In large portions of the West, rain caught upon the roofs, 

 and convej^ed to citterns, is tlie only dependence for water. 



2. Plenty of AYood and Timber Wiihin Convenient 

 Distance. — I have a friend who boasts of a line prairie 

 farm, in Minnesota. More fortunate than some of hia 

 neighbors, he has a wood lot also ; but the wood lot is six- 

 teen miles from liis house. Thousands of prairie farms have 

 no wood or timber within many miles. 



3. Hard Roads. — Tliose that have been stuck in the 



