Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-11-20
From the New England Farmer.
REVIEW OF THE SEASON.


REVIEW OF THE SEASON.
The agricultural year. is now drawing
to close. A severe frost occurred on
the goth ult. and vegetation is broug ht 10
stand. The leaves have in a great meas.
ure fallen. though some still cling TO the
trees, like men, after the powers OF action
and enjoyment are gone, still holding on
to life. The Indian corn harvest is gen
orally concluded; and the house and cell
lars must soon be barricaded against the
entrance of those relentless enemies, if so
they may be called, cold and frost.
The review of the season, so far as the
| labors of the husbandman are concerned,
present most emphatlca. call for grateful
acknowedg ment The earth has brought
forth abundantly. Almost all vegetable
products have been IN perfection and
there are ample supplies for man and
beast 1t is both presumption and folly to
suppose that every thing, or indeed that
any thing in nature should be measured
by our wishes or our notions of utility or
expediencyi but it would be difficult to
point out season, when more liberal
compensation has been made to agricultu-
raj industry and skill.
Early vegetables of every description
came forward seasonably and in abund
ance. The small fruits yielded profusely.
Grass has been every where much more
than a middllng crop; and after the first
part of the summer, no season was ever
more favorable to the securing of it. Rye
and oats through the State, as far as we
have heard, have. given great yield. -
| Wheat in our part of the country, has>in
general produced an inferior crop; but in
the western States it was never more
abundant. 1t is said that wheat on the
Wabash sells freel v at thiny-seven and a
half cents per bushel; and that it can ca
silv be brought round 10 New Y ork in
| sacks holding two bushels, by the way Of
New Orleans. and delivered free OF all
charges, at eighty-fve cents per bushel.-
We have been told, perhaps however Il
may be on Y travellers story, aud the
/ due Attachments are TO be made from it.
that one farmer in Michigan has this sea-
son, on thirteen hundred acres, raised
thirty nine thousand bushels of wheat
Be this as it may, western New York is
full of wheat Dairy produce, too, throI
the country is abundant Indian corn has
come in we'll, and SO perfectly has it rip
ened every where, that many farmers are
in the situation oione who said he did no,
know what he should do for pig corn 10
feed his swine. The crops of onions, in
some of our towns large product, have,
i it is believed, fallen short of a usual sup
ply. Sugar beeIs, ruta baga and carrots,
were perhaps never better More young
stock has been raised in Massachusetts
the current year, than is remembered to
have been raised in any previous year.
! We might 60 on, but We stop here.
! With all this abundance, in the midst
of these unmeasurei bounlies of Divine
| Providence, perhaps there was never more
or louder complains of hard times and
hard pressures and the commercial
world seems to be threatened with a gen
eral crash. There is no mystery in all
these matters; and we mean at some fu-
ture time, 10 discuss at large the causes of
these embarrasSments and sutferings. Il
may not be very palatable to our pride TO
hear of them, but it may prove medicinal
to our morals. Presently we shall learn
that neither individuals nor communities,
through either ayarice or folly, can vio-
late the great laws of nature or providence.
with impunity. If men will not labor
they cannot be allowed to eat; and if they
will not be satisfied with the gradual and
moderate, yet ample gains of honest in
dustry and just fr0galty. but will plunge
/ neadlong into every species of speculation
and gambling, then, according to the PROV
cribs of the wise, he that maketh haste 10
be'rich shall seldom be innocent; and the
folly of fools shall destroy them. All
that seems to be lamentable in the case is
tina. the guilty drag the innocent into the
same vortex of ruin. This arises from
our social constitution and is not without
its benevolent designs and bene6cent uses.
Whatever the honest and industrious.
however, may be doomed to suffer on
account of other mems foIlies ond crimes,
there is one good. the greatest of all earth