THE SEVEN WONDERS OF NEW ENGLAND. 53 



be had for twenty to forty cents an acre. She raises the finest 

 corn and cotton; her flocks abound; she needs only wisdom in 

 her councils, to make herself the seat of a great southern civili 

 zation. 



CHAPTEE VI. 



AGRICULTURE IN THE EASTERN AND MIDDLE STATES. 



&quot; The country s flinty face 



Like wax their fashioning skill betrays, 



To fill the hollows, sink the bills, 



Bridge gulfs, drain swamps, build dams and mills. 



And fit the bleak and howling place 



3Tor gardens of a finer race &quot; R. W. Emerson. 



Y.iLUE GF STATISTICAL KEPOETS HIGHEST AVEBAGE YIELD OF WHEAT IN MASSA 

 CHUSETTS A SOUTHERN VIEW OF NEW ENGLAND VALUE OF HAY CROP VKK- 



MONT AND THE WOOL INTEBEST WHAT THE NEW ENGLAND STATES liAISE AND 



WHAT THEY EAT THE EMPIEE STATE GENESEE WHEAT THE WEEVIL FlSH 



AND FUB CULTUBE PEOFITS OF CHEESE AND BUTTEB FACTOBIES MR. ARNOLD 



ON THE FUTURE or DAIRYING PENNSYLVANIA AND HER COLONIES NEW JERSEY 

 A MARKET GARDEN CEANBEEEY CULTURE PEACH CULTUBE IN DELAWARE AND 

 MARYLAND. 



COMPARISONS are odious; &quot;but it is only by their constant use 

 that we are able to form correct estimates either of our standing 

 or of our progress. The reader will find appended at the close 

 of Part First several tables made up from the reports of the 

 Agricultural Department at Washington, which will enable him 

 to estimate the great value of such information. He will observe 

 that the average yield of wheat per acre is larger in Massachu 

 setts than in any State except Oregon; while that of tobacco is 

 greater by two thirds than in any of the so-called tobacco States. 

 However small the acreage may be, the increase in the average 

 productiveness, year by year, is a test of successful agriculture. 

 With the poorest soil and most trying climate, New England has 

 contrived her remarkable success, &quot;spinning her improvements 

 out of her own bowels, as a spider spins its web.&quot; She has done 

 this mainly by the application of brains to her affairs. The re 

 sults tersely described in a Southern journal of the year 1848, 

 are far more marked at the present time. 



&quot;The seven wonders of New England,&quot; in the eyes of a 

 Southern traveler: 



1. Every man is living in a bran, span new house, or one 



