Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1845-12-11

TO stock your farm. Kiln dry your grain before you
grind il, and il will be more wholesome Nov your
grass while the dew is upon it. Agriculture is no.
Bile. The dictators Of Rome maintained themsel-
YES from few acres by their own daily labour. BY
such men and such means, says the Roman satrist,
Juvenaal the men OF Rome were brave and strong,
and all the women chase The empire grew to the
enormous community of one hundred and twenty
millions Of people.
Theirs, in his Philosophy of History, has recent
" beautifully illustrated this manhood of the Ro-
man people. and also the causes of its fall Men
grew proud they began to disdain the labours OF
the farm they chained their captves, and compel
ed them to labour during the day; and at night,
says Columella, the best method to manage such
an obstinate race is to have cellar with strong
deck over it, with hole therein just large enough
to let out one man at tune. These captives were
much larger men than the Romans, and required
great care and severity to render their services IL
valuable in the labours of the field Cicero, the
eloquent Cicero, had ten thousand of these white,
fairhaired, blue-eyed slaves upon his own estates.
This system could not endure, and poor Rome
soon felt, by turns, the horrors of famine. The
world was ransacked for grain to feed the Roman
people. Egypt Sicily, Spain, every colony, was
compelled to send its grain to Italy On one occa'
sion the emperor excited by the cries of the fam
shed citizens of the imperial city, on the account
of the much delayed arrival of grain, in public
and solemn manner in the presence OF the people,
vowed to the gods, that unless the grain to feed his
people should arrive within three days, he would
Showing it) plunge that dagger into his own DO
som.
The grain arrived in time to prevent the sacr
flee. The glory of nations, their virtue and their
high agriculture, are three inseparable iacts
After stating that England for 1900 years prev-
Gus to the introduction of gardening and aricut-
ure, never had a population exceeding five mill
ions, and that the agricultural productions last year
amounted to three thousand millions Of dollars
after showing that Spain grew lazy and poor with
her gold mines, while since the introduction Of
improved agriculture she is improving in her char
acter and resources and after abiding 70 the ex-
perience of France-lhe orator thus speaks of our
own country.
AS for our own immense continent, which we
have an indsputdble commission 10 Subdue and TIL,
let for moment try to look at it it will be in
the lifetime of hundreds of thousands of our chill
dren. Think, If you can, of the future farms and
gardens bordering the two hundred thousand miles
of river banks Of this Republic Think of that
glorious variety due 10 the climates, all Of ,chick
from tropical heat to the northern cold from the
low levels TO the lofty plains of the myrads of
sheep browsing on the sides of your yet untouch-
ed chains of hills and mountains peculiar to that
feecy race. See your improved breeds of oxen.
by millions taking the place of the buffalo, on your
mighty western plains, fit for your markets when
weighing from two to fue thousand pounds EACH
See your acres, by the genius of chemistry and
perhaps by electricity united with the well instruct
ed and persevering industry of the cutivator bear
ing, not the French six and half for one but ten
times that amount, of the purest wheat.
See your roads and division lines, marked not by
choke pears, apples, and poor nuts, but by the
endless rows of hundred varieties of most deli
cious pears, apples and nuts mean by the latter,
Madeira nuts and others, including the finest wal
nuts, which may just as readily be grown as the
bad ones.
See every farmhouse and cottage, with its silk
growing department See the pound weight clus-
tiers of choice cultivated grapes, in the hands of
every boy and girl. Aud remember that by the
movement, on railroads as it will soon be, you can
safely pass through thousand miles of such
country, in two or three days Every market of
the Northern States may be supplied daily with the
fruits and flowers of the tropics-and the invalids
of either climate will be transferred with comfort
to any position advised by physician. On the APP
pearance OF threatning storms, the patient will be
SENT faster than the gale to better cline, imta
ting the birds who flee before a tempest and keep
their feathers dry