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of cattle and sheep iu Aroostook, and more or less in all the counties 

 mainly agricultural in population. In Hancock a surplus of 600,000 eggs 

 is sold. Some young or store cattle are purchased, a few sheep, and 

 some improved stock of various kinds for breeding. Corn and flour 

 are very generally imported, and pork to less extent. The percentage 

 of home consumption of flour is high in some portions of the State, 

 amounting to 99 per cent, in Sagadahoc, 90 per cent, in Androscoggin 

 and Cumberland, 75 in Piscataquis, the proportion declining to 20 in 

 Aroostook. The town and village population obtain such supplies 

 from other States almost exclusively, and a large proportion of the 

 farmers are equally dependent upon the cereals of the West. 



Potatoes are also the main reliance of the New Hampshire farmers } 

 milk is prominent in the vicinity of large towns 5 butter and cheese are 

 produced in interior dairies; apples produce iu bearing years a fair rev- 

 enue in Hillsborough and southern counties, and maj)le-sugar yields 

 small gains in spring to nearly all sections. Veal, lamb, some mutton 

 and beef are also sold. Corn, for feeding horses and fattening other 

 animals, is largely brought from the West, together with nearly all the 

 flour used in the State. 



The surplus of Vermont consists in improved breeds of horses and 

 sheep, butter of high repute, some cheese, poultry, eggs, potatoes, hay, 

 maple-sugar, onions, and various vegetables and fruits. Most of the flour 

 used is brought from other States, and much corn for feeding and fatten- 

 ing village and farm stock. Essex, bordering on New Hampshire and 

 Canada, sells half the horses raised, half the mutton and beef, some 

 hay, potatoes, oats, and maple-sugar. 



As Massachusetts grows less than a quart of wheat to each inhabitant, 

 flour must be sought from other fields. Nor could it be expected that 

 72,810 persons in rural pursuits could furnish bread for 579,844 engaged 

 in all occupations, besides the children under ten years of age and other 

 non-producers. And yet a large proportion of the vegetables, the 

 milk and fruits, and some portion of the veal and lamb and other meats 

 consumed, are home products. Some products are sold to go out of the 

 State ; a considerable quantity of tobacco in Franklin, Hampshire, and 

 Hampden; cranberries in Norfolk, Plymouth, and Barnstable; onions 

 in Essex and elsewhere ; lettuce is sent from Suffolk to New York City. 

 In Hampden the tobacco is manufactured before it is sent out of the 

 county. 



Little Rhode Island sells onions and potatoes, and some gilt-edged 

 butter, though large supplies from abroad of all the cereals and meats are 

 required in the manufacturing counties. 



. Connecticut produces eight to ten million pounds of tobacco, much of 

 which, in the leaf or manufactured, goes elsewhere. Hartford grows Iwo- 

 thirds of it all. Litchfield and the whole Housatonic Valley sends large 

 quantities of milk to New York, much veal, poultry, and eggs, some 

 cheese, potatoes, and fruit. In this county are kept 23,000 cows, 

 yielding $1,000,000 per annum in dairy-products. Hartford County im- 

 ports three-fourths of her breadstuff's and nine-tenths of her meat-sup- 

 lilies. Windham sends milk to Boston and Providence. Onions, garden- 

 seeds, and other special crops are largely sent abroad. Young stock, 

 cows, and steers for feeding are brought from other States to some 

 extent. 



The dairy is an important element in New York agriculture. Herki- 

 mer, Jeflerson, Saint Lawrence, Montgomery, Oneida, and Oswego, each 

 producing from one to five million pounds of cheese, are quite as cele- 

 brated for that product as the following are for butter production, each 



