Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1840-07-08

For the fjrst time in my life, have devot-
ed week and half together to risiting.
And pleasant time ! have had of it. New.
er take the winter season, in this climate.
for visiting, unless you have better means
than have ever been able TO furnish nv
self for guarding against the cold. Farmers
may think they have more leisure in the
winter. But most Of them can employ them
selves, if they will, to very good advantage
in the wikter. Then you can visit so much
faster, and there is so much more to be en-
joyed, when the earth is clothed in beauty
and gushing cut with plenty, and the atmos-
phere is filled with fragrance and music
and health-it is vastly more than an equiv
alent, reckoning on the score of true econo
my.
But it was another idea that was in nv
mind when | sat down. During nv short
tour, passed through some parts of the
counties of Essex, Clinton, Franklin, and
I st. Lawrence, in the State oil New York
The idea which revolyed in my mind from
time TO time, and which | wish to commu
nicate, is this: New England emigrau,s
who wish 10 settle on new lands, would fud
homes, far more cohgenial to their consliu-
items and habits, in the regions which viz.
tied, than In the southwest, whittier the
tide of emigration has been flowing for sew
eral years past. True, the southwest can
boast Of her rich lands. But what do these
avail, IN connection with stagnant waters
which I'LL the atmosphere with miasma and
death Give me lands that with industry.
trugality, and an enlightened ,husbandry
will afford competence, while they are fill
ed with living springs of tie purest water,
which are always accompanied with a
healthfnl and exhilarating atmosphere, and
you may have all the prairies and low lands
IN creation, although they afford abundant
harvests with comparatively small exerion.
Health first. Wealth afterwards. The
former, by all means, if you can have but
one.
| But the resources for wealth, in the re-
| gions which | visited, are neither few nor
small The lands will not all of them pro.
duce corn-Dor will England, Scotland, oil
Ireland. saw good corr, however, in all
the counties mentioned; and | have nc
doubt that corn-growing will be found prac,
ticable and profitable in those regions. in
proportion as the dense and extensive for
es's OF green timber are removed, which are
now conducive TO frosts. Wheat, oats, po-
tatoes and grass are good crops, where the
lands are well titled Their wa,erpower
their lumber, and their minerals are abun.
dant. These, however, should be held as
secondary interests. Farming first. When
they get their railroad, from Lake Cham
plain TO Ogdensburgh, all these resources
will be sufficiently available for the most en-.
terprising. Such railroad was due to tha,
region, in my humble opinion, rather than tc
have widened the western canal, as the
State is now doing.
The present drouth is much the same
there as here. Its effects are not vet so Sc.
we're, either here or there, as the com,
plants would indicate. II ii continue much
longer, it will cut short the late crops. Grass
especially on cultivated lands that are in
high condition. SO that there was an early
start, will be better than has been anticinat.
ed. If the droulh continue il will need
TO be cut with all possible expedition.
For the Telsgreph.