Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1847-09-16

And whenever from any cause, such as
change Of weather, or the sudden ripening
of crop, an extra number of hands are
needed, they can bring so or 100 into the
field at once, with any required number of
teams, and thus enjoy great advantages in
cultivating and securing their crops. By a
rather minute division of labor, each man
or set of men are required to do one thing,
and order and system are everywhere mani
fest, and nothing wasted In high sense.
place was provided for everything, and
everything found in its place. In portions of
their machinery for their factory and mills,
and in agricultural Implements, they are
cautious in adopting our most recent inn
provements, preierring to use those they
brought with them from Germany. Still
their cloth and other manufactured articles
are made in the best manner, and their
farm operations crowned with the highest
success.
Separate barns, spacious and we'll ventil-
ated are provided for isrses, oxen, COWS.
yearlings, calves and sheep, so they are all
sheltered in the most comfortable manner
through the winter andthe apartments for
the sheep are thoroughly whitewashed four
or five times year. Thus they promote
health and increase the weight and fneness
of the fleece. The sheep are divided into
parcels, and each is in constant attendance
of a shepherd and his dog during the day,
in summer, and driven up every night and
huddled and the land thus MANFRED by
them during the night, is at the proper time
sown with turnips.
The cattle also are kept in separate clas-
SEES; and each is under the constant attend
ance every day of its herdsmen, and driven
up to their yards at night And then look
at their series of barns, say $50 by 40 feet,
standing in line eight or ten rods apart,
and the whole lower part fitted up exclusive
ly, one for horses, another for COWS, anoth-
err for young cattle, another for calves, and
another for sheep; another series standing in
another line and filled, some with hay, 9TH
ers with wheat, others with oats, corn, bar
ley, SC; and then other ranges of build
ings, enclosing hundreds of swine; and 9TH
ers still, to accommodate all the poultry be-
longing to the community
Every stable for horses and cattle has
trenches to carry off the liquid manure into
tanks, to be thence conveyed to the growing
CIODS vi tHC ldTul anu lHu6Gu Ill all lnelr
barns and yards, the utmost attention is
paid to making and preserving manure, and
their luxurent crops bear ample testimony
to its Importance, and the skill with which
1t is applied.-Even the privies at their hous-
es have their vaults extended three feet back
and covered by lid hung on hinges; and
the night soil removed by long handled dip
pers provided for the purpose, is used most
pentlfully on their gardens. And such
splendid heads of brittle lettuce, such Gu
cumbers, cabbages, beans, peas and corn,
as were grown under the stimulating effects
of this liquid excrement, it has seldom
been my lot to see.
Flora, too, had her votaries. There are
also, eagrGxes. c0-sUpisita paiptors of
plants, fruits and flowers, for whose works
orders are constantly on hand from A. j.
Downing, and Wiley and Putnam, and En-
dicott, of New York, and DIR. Gray, of Bos-
ton, &c.
Altogether, they are a singular and in
teresting community, and visit to them
being but pleasant ride from the city, can
hardly fail to be attended with both pleasure
and profit. Wishing to enlarge their oper-
atoms, they have recently purchased large
tract of land Il 600 acres) four miles above
Chippewa, in Canada on the Niagara river,
and established there branch of their COM
munity. Success to their efforts.
Buffalo, July, ls47.