. California agriculturist and live stock journal. Agriculture -- California; Livestock -- California; Animal industry -- California. The Profits of Farming. The farmer who resides within reach of a good market, where everything he can pro- duce will command a ready sale at fair prices, and where nothing goes to waste, has a de- cided advantage over the farmer who lives farther from market and depends upon such staple articles of produce as grain, stock, etc. The perishable articles which he cannot hand- die yield the largest profits. The advantages of a good home market are well illustrated b
. California agriculturist and live stock journal. Agriculture -- California; Livestock -- California; Animal industry -- California. The Profits of Farming. The farmer who resides within reach of a good market, where everything he can pro- duce will command a ready sale at fair prices, and where nothing goes to waste, has a de- cided advantage over the farmer who lives farther from market and depends upon such staple articles of produce as grain, stock, etc. The perishable articles which he cannot hand- die yield the largest profits. The advantages of a good home market are well illustrated by the following table, taken from the last vol- ume of the Agi-iculturid Report, just issued. It shows the average cash value of farm pro- ducts per acre in each State and in the Terri- tories: Average value per i States. acre. Maine $14 16 NfW HampKliire 10 .W Vermont IT H7 MassatliuKttB 31 10 ; Khoile Island 31 00 Connecticut 33 '.tl New York 22 'H New Jersey Average value per Stales. acre. Texas $12 S4 .\rk:insa6 17 m Tennessee .. .. 12 70 West Virgiuia. 1501 15 54 14 ."i" MichiRan 15 C5 Pennsylvania 20 80 Delaware 13 24 Marj;lanil 15 52 Virginia 14 15 North Carolina 11 38 South Carolina . 10 45 Rcor<;ia 11 IM Floriila 11 47 Alabama 13 78 Mississippi 15 61 Louisiana 15 61 27 90 I Indiana 13 51 Illinois 11 13 Wisconsin 14 18 Minnesota 1138 Iowa 8 49 Missouri 11 99 Kansas 8 92 Nebraska ... ITS California 15 10 Oregon 16 70 Nevada 44 30 The Territories 26 10 The Eastern States, which are not half as productive as those at the West, yield double the returns, in cash, to the farmer; Nevada and the Western Territories, not producing the supply equal to home demand, pay the farmer from two to five prices for all he can raise, which makes his business profitjible. the value of the laud must be determined, therefore, not so much by its productive qualities as by its market facilities. The far- mer who can get as much money out of ten acres of ground, with half the labor,
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