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great. If you raise oats, the average crop of Mass. is 28 bi:slicls 

 Avhich is worth one year with another .75 per bushel; in Ohio, the 

 crop is 30 bushels, and Texas 28 bushels, worth .40 per bushel, with 

 the same difference in the Value of straw as before given. The to- 

 bacco-crop in Mass. is 1100 lbs. jjer acre, and the superiority of the 

 Conn, river vaUey tobacco, over that of most other States, is too 

 well known to need comment, while the crop in this State is more 

 than treble in value that of Virginia. Of hay, we raise one ton in 

 Mass. to one and one half tons in Ohio and one and two thirds 

 in Texas, but the crop in Mass. has been for years, when harvested 

 worth $25 per ton, Ohio $12 to $15 and Texas $16 to $18 per ton. 

 Although the soil of Mass. is often mentioned as being exhausted by 

 over cropping through a long series of years, yet in no State is the 

 crop so varied, the quantity produced so large, or the harvest so 

 valuable as in this State. California and Minnesota exceed us in the 

 quantity of wheat raised acre by acre, but do not equal us in other 

 products. Allowing these figures to be true, one may still contend 

 that the cost is so much greater here than elsewhere, that the bal- 

 ance remains in favor of the South and West. Taking an average 

 of the whole amount under cultivation and of prices by the actual 

 results, it appears that in Mass. the value of produce per acre is $28, 

 Ohio $18, and Texas and California $21 each. The aggregate amount 

 is of course dependent on the area of land cultivated, but taken acre 

 for acre the result has been shown. 



Even if we allow the financial advantages claimed by the fi'iends 

 of Western or Southern farming, still the balance remains in favor 

 of Massachusetts, particularly when we take into the account, the 

 domestic comforts of the different sections. There, a small, rudely 

 built house, containing from one to three rooms, without cellar and 

 out-buildings, suffices for the comfort and enjopnent of the family, 

 the cattle while sheltered from the driving storms and piercing cold, 

 by a neighboring haystack or rail fence. 



On a Sabbath morning behold the sturdy members of a Western 

 family, gravely seating themselves in the farm cart or wagon, (totally 

 devoid of springs or other conveniences,) behind a yoke of patient 

 oxen, and then quietly wending their way five, ten, or even fifteen 

 miles, to the nearest church, while the internal and external gov- 

 ernment of farm and household is on the same scale of magnificence, 

 and our argument still is, that with the same amount of domestic 



