202 Competition of the East with the West. [April, 



Such is a bare outline of the system. How much of it 

 would be applicable here, the good sense of each one must deter- 

 mine. That it has wrought a great and ameliorating change in a 

 portion of Ireland, under the auspices of Lord Gosford and Mr^ 

 Blaker, there can be no doubt. It is rapidly extending in that 

 country. Agriculturists (some of them tenants), tutored under 

 the eye of Mr. Blaker, are constantly going out to take charge 

 of other estates, thus spreading the system far and wide. Suc- 

 cess to them ! Success to the poineers in this philanthrophic 

 work! Across the wide Atlantic, we tender them the meed of 

 American sympathy, and American praise. , 



WHY THE EAST CANNOT COMPETE WITH THE 

 WEST. 



BY COL. T. J. CARMICHAEL, SING SING. 



Having spent my early life in the state of Ohio, where the 

 farmer suffered so much for want of a market, before the days of 

 steam boats, canals, and rail roads, and witnessed the immense 

 change which these inventions and improvements have made in 

 the wealth and prosperity of the west, by affording a ready mar- 

 ket for the lighter and most valuable products of the soil, I con- 

 fess, I was surprised on taking up my residence on the North 

 river, to find the farmers here trying to compete with the great 

 west in the same products, instead of turning their attention to 

 the more bulky and perishable articles, for which they have a 

 good market, and against which they may defy all western com- 

 petition. 



Now let us try my position mathematically. And for that pur- 

 pose, give a farmer on the Hudson river one hundred acres of the 

 best arable land, at a cost of one hundred dollars per acre, and a 

 western farmer, say in Wisconsin, the same quantity at five dol- 

 lars per acre — which is a full price for arable lands in that coun- 

 try under improvement. Now let each farm be located within 



