Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1864-04-05
Agricultural.
Money Making Farmers,

Money Making Farmers.
Where are the men, then, who have erubbed
out 81 the reluctant eastern soil their stocking.
10 9 Of specle and Their funds at the bank ? They
are not wholly myths there are such. Find
me a man, who, by aptitude at bargaining Qet
US otcall 1t Jockeylsm) can reduce the LABOR
e,tmateS IN the foregoing accounts by a third
and who, by a kindred quality, can add to tie
amount Of sales by II third who Gao, BY dint
OF early rising and perpetual presence, stretch
the teb-hOur system into twelve or fourteen who
BY a conquest oil all finer appetiIes, can reduce
the nome con umptlon 70 u third OF the figure
named IN my estimates, and you have a type oil
one Glass. A union OF tremendous energy and
shfewdDess keeuly alive to the phases Of the
market an ally OF all the bucksters sharp to
Pounce upon some poor devil OF an emigrant,
before he has learned the current rate Of wages
gifted with "a quick scent for all ofal, which
may be had Tor the carriage, and which goes to
pig lood or the fermentation Ol compost.
| think | have limited AZ u character which
those will recognize who know The neighborhood
OF large Ne~ E0gland towns u prompt talker
-not basntul-lull OF IIie-sele: tman, perhaps
great III corner groceries, - iorehanded +" inds-
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windwafd.
1t | were to sketch another type ola New
England farmer, who is. in u small wav. .uc.
cesslui-lt wonld be u sharp.nOsed man, thin,
why, with a blueness about the complexion that
has come from unlimited buiietlngs with north.
wssteIs one who has been : moderator " az
town meetings in his day, and upon school com.
mittees over and over one who has sharpeued
his tongue by occasional talk at - society -
meetlng-to say nothing OF domestic pi nc ice.
l iAlnk OF hin as living IN u two-story, white
house, With green blinds (abutting closely upon
the road and whose front rooms 40 knows only
by hall-yearly summatlons to d ministers tea
drinking, OF the seyerer ordeal of the sewing
circle. Ills hands are stiff and bony all the
cailoslues OF AK and soythe and hoe, have blen-
ded lnto one horny texture the whole of The epi
dermls yet his eye has Il keen, shrewd flash in
IL, from the depths of sixty years and undor
the hair OF his temple, you may see u remaining
bit OF bleached skin, which shows that he a.
-hity odd years ago-a fair complexioued boy.
lie has grown gray upon his straSgling farm
ol oae OF twJ hundred acres ; ye: it Is doubtful
II the farm will produce more now than ON the
day he entered into possession. Some walls
have been renewed aud the old ones are totteripo.
Broken barways have been replaced by new
ones the wood pile has its stock wear alter
year aud every tenth year, when oil is down,
the house has lbs coat OF paint-himself being
mixer and palnter-save under the caves, Tor
which ladder work he employs a country Jour.
neylnan, who takes half-pay in pork and grain.
When /" help y Is low he clears some outstand
ing rye field and cOmmsnctsa new bit of wall
a dlsunlted link, which possibly his heirs nav
complete. Every year six, ten or twelve hog.
grow into plethorlc proportions ; every yeIi
they are butchered, under u great excitement Of
hot water, lard .tryings, %unctious fatty smells
sausage-stufing, and sales to the Z" packer " oil
the " Every year he tells their weight to
his neighbours, between services at meeting, with
his Ioretnger in the pocket of his black waist.
coat and the same sly twinkle in his eve.
Every spring he has his - veals four. six
tea, us the case may be and every spring h,
hlggles IN much the same way with the towr
butcher, IN regard to age, 10 price, and To fat,
ness. Every summer | sec him in black hat and
black dress coat, on his wagon box, with butter
trklns behind, (,he covers closed on linen tow.
els by the mistress at honey, driving to the mar
ket. And il trot behind hun on his return.
see that his exchange has procured him a tso
gallon jug Of m~olasses, u sayory bundle of dricd
Goldfish, u mostly paper parcel Of brown sugar
u tight little bag of timothy seed. and a ner
hoe, or dung fork. But he never allows hi,
spendlngs to take up the gross sum Of his 70
ceipts always there goes home a modicum,
which grows by slow AMI gradual a~ccretion into
notes %(secuIei by mortgage) Of some unthriity
neigh0or, or an entry upon the columrs of bis
book at the Savings.
There Is no amateur Of them all, who receive
as much into a third, for what he may have 10
sell, nor any one who spends as little, by two.
thirds, for what he may have to buy. Ii is in.
credible what such II mau will save in the wav
OF barter and equally incredible how rarely he
hnde occasion to pay out money at all. Yet he
IS o6sarvant OF prolfieties bis pew rent at the
Westinghouse and tax bills are punc,ually hon.
ored. IL | bargain with him. he loves deIib,ra.
ton he has an opinion but it only appears
after long travail and comparison OF 'view.-io
the course oil which he has whitfield a stout hi.
let OF wood to a very foe point. If addr,s.
him IN the field, he stops, leans on his hoe. and
Is willing TO lavish upon me the only valuable
commodity for which he makes no CHARGE 10
wit, his tiPe.
Such a man repairs his barn promptly, when
the ellis are giving way he does not hesitste at
the r%ureha.e Of u " likely pair of cattle " at a
bargain he will buy occasional bags of uuano,
upon proof in his turnip.patch, or on bis winter
rye but 1t a sub-soll plow is recommended, he
gives a ely twinkle to That grey eye of his and a
complimentary ~allusion TO the old " EAGLE No
A." which settles the business.
slch men are, in their way, money.mase,s ;
but rather by dint Of not spending than b, large
profits. These b'ck-country gentlemen have
their families educated thanks TO our school
sysiem) {; boys, lank at the first, in short. armed
coats, and with a pinch Of the vowel sounds in
their speech but they do net linger around
such a homestead they come b the keeping of
hotels, or Of wood. ards on the Mississippi ;
many are writtu down in the dead-books OF The
war.
Our money-noking farmer has his daughter