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number and importance of the home markets have been 

 greatly increased. 



The questions very naturally arise : Have our farmers 

 in the meantime manifested the same energy and pro- 

 gressive spirit ? Have they been making their rough 

 fields smooth, their waste places productive, adding barn 

 to barn, doubling and trebling their crops to meet the 

 wants of these new markets ? What are they now doing 

 towards supplying the inhabitants with food, and what 

 can they do ? The fact that the produce of the County 

 is not sufficient for its own demands, is Avell known. 

 The exact amount required beyond what is produced is 

 not so easily told ; however, the returns of the last State 

 census enable us to obtain an approximate idea. From 

 these we learn that the beef, pork, mutton and veal pro- 

 duced within the County, give to each inhabitant a little 

 over 21 pounds; all the wheat, rye, barley and buck- 

 wheat divided would be not quite seven quarts apiece. 

 Allow that the whole potato crop is merchantable, an 

 equal division would give 2.21 bushels for each; but de- 

 duct a fair percentage for refuse, seed, and what is in 

 other ways used upon the farm, and there would be left 

 only five or six pecks. If all the butter sold from the 

 farms were carried to Salem, the good people of that 

 city would find themselves limited to about ten pounds 

 each ; the cheese likewise if taken to that market would 

 furnish about one pound. The supply of milk may be 

 equal to the demand. 



In fruitful seasons there is a surplus of winter apples 

 and cranberries, and any one at all acquainted with the 

 onion crop would not doubt there was always enough 

 for home consumption with some to spare. With other 

 vegetables there is a deficiency, for while a portion of 



