Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-03-13
For the Freeman.
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Mr.. EDITOR We have been very much
interested the past winter in reading from
your paper notices of profitable dairies, big
calves, large pigs, squashes, "some pump
kins,'' and almost priceless sheep,-generally
winding up with-if anybody can beat his
we should like to hear from them? With
the sheep stories We are always disguised
but we have mind to try our hand on grass
hoppers. We will not vouch for the utility
profits of the crop, but will give our
method of raising early grasshoppers, SO far
as we are able to comprehend and explain it,
and then, if anybody do better, the field
is open for effort.
On the second day of March, as my wife
was seated at a table, on which rested mum
Der of house plants, she noticed in vase
containing cactus planted in a rich mould
of earth, on the surface, quite number Of
young grasshoppers. She Immediately called
nv attention, when to our mutual astonish-
ment, we witnessed the advent of quite an
additional number as they emerged to the
surface of the soil. throwing off at the same
time little white sack, then appearing all
in hopping order, and l should think we had
as many as fifty, as jublant, happy little hop
pers as one could wish to see. There were
Petunias, Fucias, and a monthly rose all in
blossom, with grasshoppers sporting in every
direction. and we almost fancied the win
ter was passed and the singing of birds was
at hand" My wife watered the plants at
~ L. H. III lo&,
twelve and five O'Clock. How and when the
germs were deposited. I have no means OF
knowing, but am fully satisfied that grass
hoppers can be raised in hot-beds.
But their sojourn was as brief and evan
escent DIR. Lords hopes of liberty and
equality after the g overturn of arbitrary
power which he thinks will be brought
about by the 81 volcanic throes of the nation, y
as expressed in the FREEMAN Of the 9th inst
The DR.. says, 81 sometimes imagine that
could do more among your people and even
among the outcast, suffering, and perishine
negroes, than among philanthropists, who
have given them boon, which they know
not how to use'' We think the DR.. ought
to follow his imagination here he ought MOI
! to 50 stand tho ordo- of hio eUing, but g.
at once! go where he can breathe congenia
atmosphere, and be surrounded by kindred
spirits, go by all means where he will no
outrage the moral sensibility of the Nortl
with his Old Testament, fossilized theology
Peradventure he will be able to convince tn
g suffering negroes 81 that slavery is not
" NAHUM in se,'' but conservative neces
sity.' Possibly he will be able to persuad
them to dispense with the I" BOOM of lib
erty which Z" they know not how to use,
conferred upon them by the misguided "phi
lanthropists - of the North, and submit t
the provident and patriarchal wishes of thei
r former masters.
: We fancy if the DIR. could go South, an
have good bed made of the feathers take
from the quails that surrounded the camp {
Israel thirty miles around and three fet
f deep, attended by the descendants of Han
: he might repose and prate and lament
!. the progress of freedom in the world, an
q spend the remainder of his days in compo
n ure at all events, we say, go. by all mean
6 6 and, if Bishop Hopkins is disposed to bes
Z him company, the people of the North wi
try to be resigned. B.R.