Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-09-13


profitable hours each day, having abund.
ant time for vigorous, mental AMI moral
cultivation. In order to raise our peo-
pie TO the highest standard of citizen
ship, this principle of free aud intelli-
gent labor must be recognized North and
South, and Federal authority should en-
force this principle.
Our agriculture has been somewhat
exhausted, but still our products have
largely increased. In 1910 the total
value of the principal crops was $780,
600, 1000; in 1862 this value reached
S7S6, 5S6, 1926 in the loyal States alone,
excluding the cotton, rice and tobacco
OF the States then in rebellion. In the
81 States upon whose crops the compu-
tation of 1862 has been made, we may
estimate the grain crops Of 1880 worth
81, 500,000,000. OF the cotton crop
we can hardly estimate the value
when subjected to free labor.
Within the last 20 years the great
channels OF civilization have also
changed. Over the navigable rivers
constituted the principal means of com
munication. Now every hill pasture,
the crops of every valley are brought
within a few hours of market. The
transit of 4 thousand miles to-day is at
tended with less labor and annoyance
than the farmer half century ago I'M
derwent in carrying his grain to market
over 80 miles Of rough and rugged road,
and now that the war has closed we
may anticipate an increase of agricul-
tural enterprise such as has seldom been
been witnessed. The South and West
will feel this, and the stimulus given to
Eeastern manufactures will furnish the
N. Z. farmer with local markets for all
the products Of his fields, orchards, gar
dens and dairy. And when this time
shall have arrived, the highest Northern
civilization will have penetrated this
whole land, the light of n. Z. schools
will have penetrated its darkest places :;
through the trials Of war, conflicting
social institutions will have become
harmonious, the labor of the country
will have been brought to the standard
Of free institutions, the way will have
been opened for the individual exercise
Of the best and highest individual fac
ulties, and that American agriculture
which has heretofore flourished in spite
OF national rivalries and jealousies, will
receive new strength from the energies
Of one people united in the common OBJ
ject of encircling, Cultivating and civil
lizing this land as a home for themselves
and their children, and a refuge for the
oppressed of all nations.
New England requires and demands
the most careful agriculture In this re-
spect it is annually improving, and in
horticulture and pomology, in field
crops, in the construction of farm build
ings, n the breeding of animals and
their selection, there is constant pro-
Sress.
The address closed with d well de-
served tribute to the early farming of
New England and an earnest desire
that the rural tastes of our fathers
might be restored.
The address was received with the
most profound attention, and during the
delivery, DR.. Loring was often Interrupt
ted by loud applause.
This afternoon occurs a stallion race
and other things Of which l will speak
in my next.
The entries closed at noon to day and
are unusually large in most of the de-
partments.