Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1893 — The World’s Agriculture. [ARTICLE]

The World’s Agriculture.

St. Louis Globe-Democrat Only 43 per cent, of the arable land in Austro Hungary is cultivated. In 1602 beans and peas were grown in New England territory by Gosnold. In 1627 the New York price of a cow was $150; a yoke of oxen, S2OO. Cattle were introduced into Virginia in 1609; into New England in 1624. In 1888 the farmers of this country grew 201,783,000 bushels of potatoes. The land rent roll of Great Britain and Ireland in 1888 was £61,250,000. Russia annually exports over 60, : 000 tons of sugar; Austria over 200,000 tons. Less than one-tenth of the arable land of the Russian Empire is cultivated. . ' Waste land, in Turkey sells at sls per acre; good farming land at SIOO to $l5O. XLiiU A Russian farm averages thirtyfive acres, requiring three men to cultivate it.