Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1853-03-31


enterprise, the enterprise Of New England,
and the thrift of free labor must ultimately
be introduced aud the sooner the better.
in our judgment, for the North aud the
South. The South must become "impor-
tiers Of men aud raw materials, instead of
being, as now, c1Borters Of both." -
If time is money, clocks to measure time,
and enable the possessor duly TO improve it, /
are valuable. We read of the " Dial of
Aha" seven hundred years before the chris
,ian era. But the earliest complete clock,
moved by weights, of which we have any
record, was constructed by Saracen, ear
/ ly in the I3lh century, VAC received some
/ $40, 600 for his ingenuity Fifty years ago
common house clock sold for S65-now
an elegant and accurate time piece may be
purchased for $3.50 to $500 Every far
mer's family almost is supplied with time
keeper. Every farmers tools should keep
time with the click Of the clock, if he would
convert time and labor into money. -
The ancient Britalns are indebted to the
Romans for knowledge Of agriculture
When Britain was subject to the Romans,
Rome annually supplied the Britons with
great quantities Of corn, aud the Isle of
Angesea was then looked upon as the gran
airy of the world. 1t would be interesting
to know the process OF manurug, plowing,
sowing, harvesting, reapiug, ihreshing and
moving in the days of the Romans, and
compare it with the process now IN opera
ton in our own country, and thus show the
march of improvement aud agriculture
VIII some antiquarian enlghten ms Oh the
SUBJECT - Every seed contains within
it the germ or embryo of anew plant BE
careful how and iohat you SOW. -- A
farmer in Connecticut suggests that while
public lecturers, on almost every subject,
are perambulatiug the country, aud giving
their views on many important subjects, no
one seems disposed to enlghten the farmers
on the subject of agriculture, by way OF pub
lie lectures lie thinks the farmers gener-
orally, throughout the country, would be
glad to pairoulze an intelligent and well
qualified lecturer, on the great subject of
agricultural progress and Improvements
- Mr. +. A. Brake, OF Gerry, n. Y. has
arare specimen Of apple in his orchard, one
hafof which is sweet and the other sour.
We should like to know the precise centre
of the apple where the sweet and the sour
meet, and what is the taste there. This
haf-and-haf apple reminds us OF the extra
ordinary " gentleman ob color" who was
said to be coal black, one half OF him, Just
up to the centre of the back Done IN the
rear and to the line Of his nose in 'front.'
And pray what color was tudder hall" in
CURED a wonder-gazIng brudder Oakley
Oh course, " replied the story teller, "tud-
der half was-black, too. "--The crops
in South Russia, the past year, are repre-
sented to have been So abundant, and the
consequent demand for labor 50 great, that
during the harvest, the shops of the tat
ors, shoe-makers aud stone-cuueTs were
deserted. children, once said a
considerate mother, you must always re-
member the poor-aher you and and IA
Their have toasted, and you have fed the
chickens, the pig and the cat if there's any
thing left that amt fit for soap grease, give
it TO the poor-it 5 despul good To be char
, table and prudent, and feed the hungry
with what's left 'rwould been a sight
better for the rich man, if he'd a saved the
, big pieces and agn the little crumbs to Lac
arus. -O OF al, the flowers that adorr
our door yards, our borders, or our gardens
none are more fragrant, beautiful and at
tractiye than the rose. We have few flint
roots to spare, gratis, to those OF our friend
p who may want them. --- 1t has Otter
. been asserted and repeated that there is
confederacy between agriculture, ciylliza
lion and machinery. Man would be com
paratiyely helpless being if he were fur
nished with no other help to his physlca
powers than those which has own organlza
ton supplies. II he sees a serpent, HI
thinks of stick or stone. Hunger teach
= es him TO form The bow, and the spear, for th'
pursuit of game, aud he twists the vegetable
: fibre into line, aud forms the hook from TN
attenuated wire to catch the fish. Mechan
ism aud machinery come IN to aid man
comparatively feeble physical powers, unit
we see the power of steam, of compresse'
air, and the very lightning Of the clouds
combined, to move at his bidding and minis
ter to the supply of his wants. --- Bee
p, Cuhure.-Few are aware oithe value of thi
. nutritious root, for man and beast. 1t doe
not require so much manurlng as most veg
etables OF the root species The mango
: wortzel especially, grows mostly aboy
: ground, aud draws its nourishment prlnc
: pally from the air. We have some twent
y bushels of them, in our cellar, fresh aud fai