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Let us see. The population of the two countries is about 
equal. But the areas are very unequal; that of France being 
a little less than four times as great as that of Wisconsin. 
Nevertheless in most of the staple crops produced by the two 
countries, France leads the whole United States—or didin 
1860, the last date when any fair comparison could be made— 
as will appear by the following figures: 
Product. 
United States. 
France. 
Wheat, bushels, over. 
173,104,924 
20 ,000, 000 
12 ,000,000 
12 ,000,000 
170, 000,000 
300,000, 000 
70,000,000 
32,000, 000 
60,000, 000 
230, 000,000 
Rye, bushels. 
Buckwheat, bushels. 
Bariev, bushels. 
Oats, buslieis. 
If we feel inclined, as an offset to these reproachful fig¬ 
ures to set up a claim on the score of cotton, Indian corn 
and tobacco, we must not forget how great are the special¬ 
ties which France makes of the sugar-beet, wine, wool and silk. 
This disparity will appear still greater if it be borne in mind 
that in France a much larger > proportion of the people than 
with us are engaged in manufactures, and that the total of her 
exports, just previous to the late destructive war, was nearly ’ 
twice as great as our own. 
Comparing portions of this country with other portions, 
more particularly the West with New England, the difference, 
although less marked, is still decidedly in favor of the smaller 
farms. For much as we incline to ridicule the idea of farm¬ 
ing on the stony hill-sides of the old Bay State, we are com¬ 
pelled to admit that the averages of that state, in the case of 
most cropsgjrown by her and by us, are considerably above 
ours. 
The facts prove, therefore, what anyone might determine a 
priori , that small farms sustain a definite relation to 
BETTER CULTURE— 
A sufficient reason of itself for denouncing the policy of that 
farmer who, instead of using his means and efforts to make 
