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Indian corn, $94,000 ; wheat, rye, and barley, almost $50,000 ; 

 fruit about $25,000 ; sugar about $20,000. Leaving out the 

 columns of horses, swine, sheep and neat cattle, which cannot 

 be accurately estimated in the amount of annual production, 

 the county of Berkshire produces annually, from her farms, the 

 sum of $1,350,000. For a community, which at the period of 

 these returns did not much exceed 40,000 persons, these are 

 statistics which require neither comment nor embellishment. 

 They are colossal facts, like the mountains that produce them. 

 Exhausted lands there are, and to spare ; but they are in Vir- 

 ginia, not in Berkshire. Inert and decaying communities there 

 may be, but they are afar, not in Western Massachusetts. 

 Theories and fancies in agriculture have come and gone, like 

 the ghost in Hamlet ; but these are practical results, which in- 

 dicate that your mountain slopes have been witness to the 

 tramp of vigilant and intelligent husbandmen. If the Swiss 

 Cantons of Massachusetts are here, we may now be quite sure 

 that not all the armies of the east and west could either con- 

 quer or starve them. 



But there is another side to the books, and I now call on 

 Berkshire agriculture, so affluent in its productions, to give 

 credit and pay its debts to the other vocations of Berkshire in- 

 dustry. And what they are, the same returns shall say. They 

 inform us that the same county, which with 40,000 persons 

 produced more than a million and a third of dollars from its 

 farms, has some other veins of production penetrating its moun- 

 tain passes and threading its resounding valleys. They tell us 

 in the never lying language of figures, that she is annually 

 sending out an amount of cotton manufactures of more than 

 $550,000 ; of woolen manufactures, $982,000, within a frac- 

 tion of a million of dollars ; of iron products, $254,000 ; of 

 paper, $465,000, which exceeds that of any other county, and is 

 more than one-quarter of the paper manufacture of Massachu- 

 setts ; of chairs and cabinet ware, $53,000 ; of carriages, $78,- 

 000; the products of her tanneries, $172,000; of boots and 

 shoes, $105,000 ; of marble, $79,000 ; of lime, $40,000 ; lum- 

 ber and shingles, $115,000; but I must pause, and content 

 myself with exhibiting the annual aggregate of the products of 



