Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1865-10-05

When we came within hearing Mr..
Seaver was describing in beautiful Ian.
guage the valleys of Vermont, so level
that one could hardly tell which way the
water ran, and the mountains rising to
the height Of thousands of feet and
covered with verdure to their SUBMITS,
the whole furnishing a great VARIETY or
SOIL, which he mentioned as one of the
superior agricultural resources of Yer
mont 1t was these that filled the but
ter tubs and cheese rooms with their
unctuous wealth. This Is ourPalestine-
our goodly land Of Canaan, which flows
with milk and honey as well as clear and
living brooks of water,
Even the stones are marble and from
the earth we dig out brass. This varic-
ty of soil renders the people to certain
extent independent of extremes of wea-
theT. In England a single week OF un-
usual rain or drought will make the
farmers bankrupt; but with US, the
same weather that is too hot for pasture
ripens the corn and grain. A backward
spring while delaying other interests,
draws from the maple trees their streams
of sweetness. From this system of com
pensation it follows that no season can
possibly destroy everything,
This consideration suggests the i'm
portance of studying variety in crops,
TT tha old y,rovarh ic trua that ono n1Uht
not to "have too many irons in the fire, "
that other hOmely adage, Don't carry
all your eggs in one basket" is equally
true, and we may safely allow the one
to counterbalance the other. You ought
not to be all horse, alpwool, all butter, or
all cheese. II iessenlng the number and
variety Ci products, are you not lessen
lnS your profits Might not those old
orchards be pruned, cultivated and graft
| ed, and thus be made a source of great
! profit In England one may see vast
fields of peas, beans and turnips, while
here we can scarcely find half an acre of
| them.
A second resource of agricultural
wealth may be found in our climate.
This is continental, not insular. We
have great extremes of heat and cold,
| but these are favorable to the farmer.
If we suffer inconvenience from the Bit
ing cold, we are to remember that this
| Is Gods great ploughshare which
| scratches up the stubborn rock and re-
| duces it to fertile soil and if we Ian
| guish under the heat Of Summer, we
should not forget that this is Gods sun
shine. This is calculated to give us some
thing of the fire and glow of our South
ern brethren, while the Winter cold in
fuses energy, hardihood and endurance.
While we cannot deny that our summers
are short, may we not in effect lengthen
them out? By careful drainage, that
| meadow Of yours into which you are
now liable to sink knee deep might be
made dry, and thereby you would re
deem acres and acres which you could
com mence Cultlvaung a week or even
month earlier than You do now.
| third resource is found in the su-
! peror intelligence Of the farmer This
State was not settled by ignorant serfs,
or thick headed DutChmen, who contin-
ued voting for Andrew Jackson for years
after he has gone to his grave, or by
| Jersey Blues who have not yet learned
that Democracy is dead, (Applause.)
The first settlers were from Massachu-
sets and Connecticut and they were
| puritans to the back bone. One hun
| dred years ago the only settlement in
this vicinity was an Indian village near
the junction of Outer and East Creeks.
| Now mark the contrast, in the intelli-
gent population which is scattered all
over this region. Some people seem to
be afraid that the farmer will get to
know too much, but this is impossible.
He has to know chemistry, geology DO
tany and law.
The advantages which the farmers
now enjoy mog be squandtred and vast
ed away We are apt to think that the
, soil on which we live is indestruccible.
1t is true we cannot annihilate the firm
set earth, and the rock ribbed hills; but
BUT it is also true that the valuable in
gradients of the soil are as perishable as
the flowers and plants which grow
therefrom. Unless we pay back what
we receive, we shall leave barren waste
to our posterity. You cannot remove
Killtngton and Pico from their seats
but you can strip them Of their verdurt
! so that when our children come to then
for bread they will obtain only stones
1t has been estimated that for restoring
one hundred million acres that have al
readybeen exhausted, thousand million
dollars worth of ferI.' Ulcers Will be re
quired. Our husbandrs oushV 10 o'
conducted more scientifically Vhah IL Il
az present, As the old Philos,, one
planted trees for posterity, so we say
| our farmers ouuht tn map1lY,p for r,oc