Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-09-28

made ola worn out hoop skirt by l.. Hub
bard. A worsted wreath by Miss f. A.
Stevens, some wax flowers by Mrs P. B.
Hancock and embroidery by Clara Stewart
were beautiful. Among the house plants
we noticed more particularly the partridge
cactus and wax plant from Mrs s. Skinner,
and pot of hanging ivy from Z. A. Chap
man. The rug department was well filled
but one by Mrs. A. Ordway took our eye.
Then came the wooden blankets by Mrs.
o. Ii. Austin, bedspreads by Mrs J. c. Blake
and Mrs. S. Annis, machine made quilts by
Mrs c. G. Hardy, embroidered bedspread
by Mrs. II. Brewster and linen table COW
er by A. B. Hinkley The inner man did
not feel quite satisfied with looking at the
display of cookery by Mrs. f. NJ. Jameson,
Mrs. j. c. Oliver, E. A. Chapman and A.
Heath.
The whole number of entries made on
the secretaries book were 6S7 against 500
last year. This year there were 95 entries
Of cattle and Sc of horses.
At ? o'clock the second day, the presi-
dent of the society, M. NJ. Kelsey, intro
duced Horace Greeley to the audience, who
then delivered an address of some hour
and half, which was listened to with the
most marked attention, at the conclusion
Of which he was greeted with the accla-
nations and the endless hand shakings of
the crowd, which the philosopher of the
Tribune bore with philosophic resignation
and good nature, as it could not but have
been pleasing to him to know and feel that
all who grasped his hand held heart in it
that beat in genuine warmth for him, be-
lieying as they all did that they grasped
the hand of a thoroughly honest man, even
though they might not always agree with
him in all his opinions or acts. OF the
| speech We shall not pretend to give a report,
for no efforts Of ours can properly portray
it, 1t hit upon theme that could not be
otherwise than interesting to the intelli-
gent farmers Of our county. He dWelt
largely upon the importance and the prac-
ticability of planting forest trees upon our
hill sides as a means of future wealth not
only for the intrinsic value of the timber
for its most common uses, but as means
Of moisture to the remaining part of the
farm, and by that moisture raising greater
crops of grass, saying that he could on an
average farm of one hundred acres, plant
twenty five Of it to forest and when they
were sufficiently grown he could cut more
grass upon the seventy five left to meadow
than is now taken from the hundred, solely
because of the rains and other moisture
these woods would attract. He also dwelt
upon the Importance of tile draining, not
only ofswamp lands but of sandy lands al
so, going into the philosophical treatment
Of the question, giving the instance Of the
sweating pitcher, when filled with cold
water it attracted the moisture of the at
mosphere to its surface, and said that tn,
same theory was apparent in Undertaking
Of dry lands in collecting moisture from
foreign parts. He dwelt at length upor
irrigation and told us how to irrigate oui
farms by bringing water from springs
on the hill sides and by a series of pipe'
conducting the water along them and thu!
by proper outlets conveying the water t.
all parts of the farm he would reduce a.
manures to liquid state and apply then
thus by means of pipes as being much tn,
cheapest in saving labor and all the ma
nure would go to the soil and not be vast
ed, as much of it now is even by the mos
parsimonious tillers of the soil. He in
stanced Utah as a notable example of tn
benefit of irrigation, saying that in its nat
ural state the soil of Utah would not pro
duce five bushels of wheat to the acre
,, whereas by the system of irrigation insti
tuted by the MormOns, it now yields nine
, ty bushels of plump wheat to the acre.
Proof surely. He made repeated compar
isons between American and European az
riculture, showing the difference betweel
the product of European science and Am
erican robbery of the soil; how the averag
product of wheat in Germany two thous
and years ago was IL bushels to the acre
, under the culture of barbarians, wherea
: by the light of science and civilization tn
, same fields now produce % bushels; h
also told us that in the early settlement c
= New England and New York, our ne'
farms gave the cultiyatOr an average
% bushels to the acre, but the same farm
now only give an average of II bushels t
! the acre, all which the speaker ayerre
> showed that there was something inherent
ly wrong in our system of farming Proc
enough, we think. He said that our pre-
auctions of wheat had been successivel
:. driven from New England to western Ne
: York, then to Ohio, then to Illinois No
Minnesota is the granary, and by and b
she will turn from producer to consum,
and we shall look to the Pacific states f
our breadstuffs, and thus when every acl
lr of our soil was exhausted we would begi
lie to look for the causes of our failure. b
~ we must close our remarks, we cannot civ
q even an abstract of Mr.. Greeleys excelle
VI address.
&c Tuesday evening, the Dist, there was 6
'e agricultural meeting at the south scho
3 room in this village. 1t was rather of {
&C. impromptu character, notice having on
: been given by posters. There was ia
Is, attendance. Remarks were made by z.
~ Jameson upon successful farming" Il
aids by means Of practical and theoretic
re education, of fairs, of lectures and agricl
VI. tural colleges the results of successful fl
tie ming in a competency; in the enjoyme
IN of mind that laudable success gives in
H. esteem with which the successful m
I'D should be regarded by others of the sal
I'm trade as exemplifed among lawyers, pf
*, sicians and divines. There may be 81
W. cess in trihes and final failure, as in I
VS., case of man who ruins his farm, yet
lie tires with property. Rev. Vim. A. Rob
nd son spoke of the effect upon community
1ty buying the great amount of corn last spri
necessary to sustain the stock also of
did wisdom of considering whether ones W,
ed; was discreetly carried on; whether but
, of cheese and lambs were not more profta
ey, than beef and wool and the mistake
gar young men in supposing farming har
me than the professions. Mr.. Drew gave SC
sh- very interesting results Of his practice
pan observation here and at the west the I
of dency of young men to trade and specu
the instead of being producers. Judge L.
1 of Tenney of Albany spoke in most enc'
'ize, aging manner of the ability of Vernon
can raise their own wheat-the valley ];
rits, giving sure crops with good manager