The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1866-10-30

iilb khAAA ht{sN la tlaaoAea. Aht young
mon, With tho veteran Of many battles,
persisted together The cold waters
went over them. and they are gone
Friends and kindred mourn their sud-
den departure But the country owes
great debt 70 her soldiely Let their
names not 81 forgotten Let some fit
| tingmemorial perpetuato their memory
J ANDERSON
Manchester, Oct, 1866
TuE SWITZERLAND or AurmcA AND TIM
SaEuANp OF ErnorE Carleton
writes from Zurich to the Boston Jop.-
Iua. az follows
By the census q 1850 Vermont and
New Hampshire contained SIS hundred
aud thirty thousand inhabitants. while
Switzerland contained two million five
hundred and thirty thousand. Of these
about iAe hundred thousand ere IN The
Alpine section leaving two millions Ion
territory about as large as tho wes-
tern bali Of Vermont How 10 they
/ hye2 What is their occupation 7 Arc
they progressive or stationary Is il
possible for New England TO maintain
population equally dense? These are
practical questions, deserving attention,
ior Il has been said that New England
has exceeded the limit Of agricultural
production; THAT SHE can only exist by
importing bread from tho West, and
giving manufactured articles in return.
The question Of climate comes first
New England has hot, short ummers
aud cold winters, with from three 10
five months Of snow on Ter hills Swift
eIland las longer cooler summers and
warmer winters. Here, Ms / write, on
this second day Of October | can look
from my window upon the roses ia
bloom ia Che garden, and upon the Alps
white with snow No frost as yet bus
touched With cold fingers tie VINES up-
on the surrounding his; bUtitis not eli
mate alone which enable The Swiss Is
produce two crops Of grass ycmly on
their moving lands, but husbandIy
such Is New England farmers know
nothing Of Ia climate, Switzerland
has the advantage, bat the hills Of YER
mont are naturally as fcltilc as thoseof
this Republic; they are Of the amac
geologic formations dark gray lime
stone.
The next question is chat Of labor
which in Vermont is worth 4 dollar or
il dollar and quarter q day Willie here
it ranges from ten to twenty cents No
woman Of Vermont wields the hoe al
day long by the side Of her husband,
but here the wife performs quite as
much labor in tho field a. the head Of
/ the family Ia a population SO dense,
every rod Of arabic land is under cult
walton. But / wish that iAe farmers 81
New England could have D Swiss pillow
on exhibition az tbeir agricultural fairs
/ know Of nothing which would Be more
attractive Riding across the country
last week, laid my hands 70 one Of
them and saw it in operation. And
such a pillow The Swiss plowBhares will
not be beaten into swords when the
Millennium comes round the reason
why will be shortly apparent
The instrument is on this wise: a
piece Of oak ioist, three feet long and
three inches square, forms the foot; one
end Of the timber is scarfed and upon
the scarf thin piece Of iron is nailed,
which forms the point Of the plow.
Two upright framed into the foot
hold the beam; a straight board, with.
out iron, without a line Of curvature,
projecting from one Of the uprights
turns the furrow, while two handles
complete the instrument, which simply
scratches The ground measured the
furrow, which was about five inches
wide and three deep / noticed IN one
field where the sub soil wus hard that
men and women followed the low with
hoes 70 deepen the fuuoB / dare say
that y0Iu readers viii be astonished 70
learn that the largest part Of tho land
is never touched even by this rude IN
strumcnt, but Is turned solely 81 hoe
There are thousands Of acres which
might be plowed, which arc rs free from
stone and is easy Of cultivation as the
magnificent meadow lands of the Con-
necticut but which arc dug over every
season by men and women, with great
clumsy hoes, which contain more weight
81 metal than the piows
There ii a remarkable discrepancy ~
the industry and mechanics q Switzer-
land, for il railroad engineering 10 me
construction * locomotives, "a afehi-
lecture, ia the manufacture II watches
they ale unsurpassed but % m'li ma
chinery, ia agricultural implements.
carriages. III labor-salng machines,
they are away back il DE l3ti' ceutary
@Why DO you not plow your land IN
stead of1Iieang il oyerf / asked u
one ~ the people
aOh. labor is very cheap, was the ro-
ply
Tic multitude have no conception 81
the true pruap,e which anderlies eron-
omy that mind j. more powerful than