The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1847-11-11

. dcncy OF our situation is to make us carelcs
! in husbandry. All the wide domain Of III
, West comes in to exert an influence on ever
neighborhood, to entce our young men iron
: their homes, to bring more land into market
! to make us estimate it by quantity rathc
, than by produce, by rods and acres, by Gun
{ jeIS chain, rather than by the barn and gran
airy. If shut up By contracted limits, VIZ
sho0id turn our minds to the increase OF pro
duce as IN China, or England or Flanders
There is intellect and energy enough to war.
rant success il turned in that direction Thai
subject will not fail, when led on, all over the
county, by such minds as cur own ALWAYS
honored and now lamentcd Wright. Would
it not be wise economy, if your stock exceeds
your land, to lay out your money to make
that better rather than make it more. The
great aim should be to have constant produce
without exhaustion; not simply a good crop
this year; bat 10 leave the land in such n state
/ rs TO yield good crop the next year. !
would suggest to the farmers Of This county
tie necessity Of providing for the recurrence
OF s&ch year Is tie present The grass
hopperS have not come up like the locusts of
, Egypt at the bidding Of Noses. They have
come once, and twice, and following the law
OF their nature, they will come aga,n. Now
"lil 1t not he prudent iorcaste to occupy
H"F1 Oh your lands with n crop which they
WIN not destroy ? Ibese will be valuable in
''ie pest seasons and VIII save the sacrifice of
your stock in disastrous years. This may be
done " green crops-perhaps roots-which
in Lag!and are thought profitable, when there
IS no 5uch contingency as ours for which to
PT9'iue' Green crops do not exhaust the
son tnat IS Goae when plants 60 to seed
r0F thiS reason, much Ct your grass land,
"Neh inc roots are not injured may be OK
pected 10 produce more p'entluiiy on the
,ieAt year lh&n on other good years. The
rama mas pad, II measure, the advantage Of
gym? laiioW' it has not been drained by
bearing second crop. VIII 1t not he WIS
dom to institute such system OF lU51aaGry
as aA&L meet tins cNlgenry? Take such
crops As wiz bo profitable IN any season. and
DC Dody ci reserve TO protect your Hocls
when all your other forces are routed.
with the intent to find and follow the laws
OF our nature, we should apply ourselves to
the improvement Of stock.
BY the last census it ob1tars Vermont has
more horses. more neat cattlc and sheen. than
any New England state. She is surnosscd in
sheep hyon1y three states in thn Irn;nn. (Nnw
York, PENNSYLVANIA ana O5io1 Rv the same
census Addison county is shown to have
move bay an1 wool taH on, conntv in V ',
mont Inyc "oo t I % n e~"' y INV w. rn
ancst nv yonn % cn1 y, cojoo 90 sf,n;v;
h" nroi.~c AVID ,onnat , ~ 81 Ill ihr Gowns
les Fran this i 4 sacr fbot rnIatTo, wa
havc not onIy moro woo and n,orc boy bnt
more sbSan and [ato tar , INV, o,or cortv
in tho Etato' CoioJorio Loots' ~ sow ON borsos
Bcnninron in G"o, Tr "G,9 j.; 0 WV lc' nd
Chittcnden in POTATOES. Th;s is the I POSITION
NJdiSon connt occros !; W. Vor -. , j.; New
EnoIand, and in tIo j'";on Sbc r.nnot
Iouht w1oTn to,, ;ntoro,+ Ice orJ ,~bot +Iot
interest demands SIc ,,n,. i" ' now ~, soon
bnt if she is o,,trnn in innroyc.
mcnt it will be her own fault. Nature will
not do it. Every farmer should do his part,
that Addison county shall no5 be surpassed