Rutland County herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1848-1850, 1848-11-01
Seven Wonders OF New England


A correspondent of Southern agricultu>
raj paper, The Plow the Loom and the
Anvil, enumerates the following wonders
observed while travelling in New England :
! J. Every man living in a bran .p,ndinp
new house, or one that looks as II 1t had been
painted as white as snow within the mast
week.
I Q. All the houses Of wood. where all the
fences are Of stone, which Ia some places
lie 90 thick as 10 require 10 be removed at
the rate OF ton from six feet square,
/ ,. Wood for house and kitchen all sawed
and split up into one uniform length and size
and snugly piled away under cover OF an op-
en- shed, 81 that tho work OF house and kitch.
en- may suffer the least possible interruption;
III word, he sees place for everything and
everything in It's place,
,. The care obviously bestowed in the
saving and preparation OF manure 10y sccu-
mutation and composition.
O. Universal aiientlon 10 a good supply
OF fruit adapted to the climate
q. Not poor or supertluous OK, COW
morse, hog, OF sheep, the proportion Of the
short lived expensive horse being on every
farm wisely and economically small
4 The seventh wonder is, after DAYS
ride, Uwenty-hve years ago, with great una
nmity in their stages, al the rate OF 7I.2
miles an hour. now on railroads al the rate
VI thir,y) where, in the name of all that 10
mysterious and ineIplicable, are these peo-
pies staple crops What do they make for
sphlsw ana ioSJier, and oats I'D rye fHhsN
Ihelr tobacco houses. and their gin-houses,
their great herds OF cattle and swine, roofing
in the swamps, browsing in the fields, or re-
posing ia the shade How is 1t that these
people conlrve TO keep out Of debt and vet
never ropudiale ! How do they 90 on in
proving their rocky land, carrying tons Of
stone from The bills above to undo rdrslu the
meadows below : building school houses in
sight OF each other, and expending millions
on education, while buying for themselves,
one liule bank stock, another little rail
road stock, and little stock IN a neqhbor-
ing factory, al which he sells his milk and
T his apples. his carols and potatoes, once IN
a while giving 500 an acre for a small farm
in his neIghborhood Dear reader to ex-
plain all these wonders OF New England
thun and goaheadlivenoss in foil, would
make \ long story, but II you will iuIn back
TO the FIRST page OF the cover of this lourns ,
you viii see at once the KEY TO the riddle 4,
There you see the secret by which alone
poor land throughout a country can be pro-
DENLY and economic ally made rich for there
you see The plough the loom, and the anvil,
all close to each other, the first being the
most prominent.
Ii is there, and there only, where he cul-
tiyatoTs OF The soil have the wisdom 10 en-.
courage all other branches OF American In
dusIy, that you will ever see or hear OF nine.
~ tons OF milk add slrawberies going by
one road, in a single day, TO be consumed
baIn ha nail ~ a..
strawberries can sour, by wea.ers and black
smiths, and shoemakers and tailors, and
churchmen and aymen, and printers and
printers devils and what ~ more some OF
these perlshable articles going in one night
probably al least one hundred miles, To be
eaten fresh the mort morning for bfesklaSt
SO much for easy and expeditions channels
OF communication that concentration laws o.
yer the ground, 10 provide Tor the lranspor-
tsiion OF food that concentration only can
bring oui Of the ground.
I IL is in this that We find the sc srri Tor ma
king poor land rich II IL not all the pre-.
NUNS that can be offered, nor prize essays,
though they be spun out as long az the main
top bOwlines thai can convert poor eIbaus
ted county into a rich one, and cause a
hounshing agriculture and dense popula-
lIon to take the place OF bstfouness and OILS
abundant csplta 10 buy manure, or lime and
skill 10 accumulate II, all accompanied with
good tlllsRe and good seasons, any one may
make poor land productive but that 10 no,
the know ledge that 10 needed We have had
that illustrated IN pfacuco and told on pa
per ~ . thousand instances. Nsihsf do va
want mIlilia musiefings, nor manisl music,
nor rare shows Of any sort, 60 aursct gaping
crowds Of tboushtlsss spectators. What the
agriculture OF old STATES needs win iheir
thousands of scTes OF dndrainsd aud uncUl-
tiyaied land or lsnds exhausted Of Their loI.
ulity, and stationary ia pOpulanon, -, not
the knowledge Of how TO make, bot Sheie
he can find q market Tor what he could make
II there we're PeoPls near, with money N
their pockets and mouths 10 be fed
Where 10 The farm, ia Maryland or Viz,
ginia. that might not produce ~ bushels u
strawberries and tons Of butter and cheese
beels sud carrots, aud polatoes, and csbbag
-, q there, a. IA New Fog Hand, the slough
lne DON, and the anvil me tanner. lhe shoe
mahet and the butcher, were all al work IL
The Sight aud sound Of zach other Mo-
does anything cung0ce 80 much o. genefs
happiness as steady snd hsbiiuAl labof-
where labor 10 sure OF SIS reward. Ailihss,
results Ne should have lhfoug bout the cosn
uy, T. sc could have unifOfm, pstmsnssl