Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1866-11-07
HYDE PARK VERMONT, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER T. 1856 "

are unsurpassed; hut in mill machinery,
in agricultural implements, carriages. in
labor saving machines, they are away back
in the 18th century.
"Why do you not plow your land in
stead of digging it over ?" | asked of one
Of the people.
"Oh, labor is very cheap" was his re-
ply.
The multitude have no conception of
the true principle which underies econo-
my-that mind is more powerful than
muscle. So Ignorant are they of this
principle that they use the hoe instead of
the plow themselves instead of horses.
They transport everything possible on
their backs instead Of using carts Their
wheeled vehicles are mainly hand carts
But in the utilizing of manures and the
fertilizers New England men can come
here and take lessons These hills and
valleys of western Switzerland are not
green the year round, because the winters
are milder than at Boston: not because
they are naturally more fertile, but be-
cause fertilizers are saved instead of vast
| ed, and because they are applied in the
best manner to the growing crop. veri.
| ly believe that if the husbandry of New
England was equal to that of Switzerland
in the matter of saving and applying fer
tiizers that the State of Vermont might
sustain population of millions of inhab.
itauts
0, you farmer of the Green Mountains,
who are beating the world on sheep hus,
bandry, just come over here and see how
the people Of Switzerland make their hills
as green as their valleys-notwithstaud.
ing their wretched tilth. simply by the
management of their fertilizers. would
not have the charming girls of those YER
dant hills along Lake Champlain swing ,
hoe from morning till night through al
the summer mouths; would not hav,
their sweetness and grace thrown away
b. ceaselcss labor in the field; woul(
not like to see them trampirg into th'
fields with wooden vessel shaped like al
old fashioned churn strapped to thei
backs filled with manure. The Swis!
peasant girls give themselves to such la
Dor. Everything is saved here in a prac
tical way. You see heaps of rotting stran
scrapings from the roadside, piled near thu
sink spouts, watered in dry weather tt
keep up the decomposition. ashes, slop
all refuse from house or stable, is thor
oughly decomposed and reduced to liqui,
form, before applied to the crop. Straug
THAT people 50 wise in the application o
fertilizers should be 80 foolish in othe
things Yet such are the contrarictie
/ of lie. They might retort and say
''Strange that the people of New England
who are SO inventive, so ready to produc
all sorts of machinery, to make iron anC
steel do the wor3 of human fingers, so in
: telligent upon sheep husbandry, and ii
) raising horses. should be so unwise in tn
0 simplest and most important of all mat
ters in husbandry of food for tn
, soil !"
do you think that an American ploN
E could be introduced here" WIS my in
ouiry of an American who has long bee
G resident of the country, who well under
stands the character and habit of the pee
, pie.
, "The only way to introduce it." sal
E he would be to give one or two to lead
q ing men. The Swiss are slow. cautious
, prudent, jealous of new things; yet the
i are COOL shrewd, calculating people, VIII
understand the value of dollars and cent
. and if one or two farmers shonn, start
I with new thing. oth,srs would follow
o If there rs a Yankee who wants to try h
If hah' IN this direction, the whole of f
1t rope is open to him. for switzerland is
!. far advanced as the other nations In tt
Is use of improved implements ga sae
The people are hospitabie and kin
h aud out in the open land there is re
&c comfort and enjoyment, but in the mou
rs tain valleys life is but little more th'
a. bare existence. 1t is, however, progrt
y sive country. The great and lncIeasl
ut iuflux Of visitors. the return of chose W
1t hov. been IN America and who are imbu