Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1869-10-05

The. farmer in fact rctires from his farm
in many cases, but his teams continue 70
be an expense to him. During the winter
my horses are eating me up, and | am
working to support them in idiehsss, But
the steam-engine ia no expense to you, ID
the winter. You clean and oil your en-.
gine, when you are done with it, and nut
it away under shelter, and it does not
cost you one cent until you want it again
in the spring. Steam power may be ap.
piled for nearly all farming purposes With
advantage. 1T first stationary engines.
will be employed, but ultimately we shall!
have locomotives, that will walk back and
forth over our farms, and do all our work,
that will need no breaking in, that will
never run away. In fact stean, power
will prove itself to be rery much cheaper
than animal power.
In England, eighteen years ago. when
hefrst reapers were eAkili.ed--when they
saw our American reapers in operation
they perceived at once the great advantages
of the invention for their climate. They
said, "Wc have a very uncertain
climate. We cannot take the advantage
of fair day, when our grin is just
right to do up our harvesting, with the
imperfect machinery we now have, va
want to be able to get in our whent when
the time serves" We find right here the
same thing. Wo want sometimes, to con.
centrate in week the labor Of { tionth.
Now then, steam-power will enable US to
harvest our crops exactly when they ought
to be harvested.
| l believe that steam is to be the right
hand of agriculture. The s.esmn engine
will be used tSf a thcHaisssfd things that:
/ t #+Ht - .. ut r
are now done by manual labor. The time
was when the farmer was the hardest
worker in community, so far as muscular
exertion was conccrned--but it's not so
o.day. can remember when the farmer
fortified himself for the haying seasot; BY
one or two light days works just to get
broken in Now his moving is only play
for him. A girl of fourteen can NOW
more than six men by the old fashion.
BRAIN vs. MUSCLE.
Brain powet is destined to DO tHe work
of farming and not musct1ar power. This
is the future Of agricultdre-that a man
can eafd more money BY two kours' brain
work, sitting quietly in his study, than by
driving and delving all day long.
Of old there has been a prejudice
against farming, as requiring the least in.
tellectual power Of any pursuit. Even in
the book called the "Wisdom of Solomon, /"
the q lestion is asked, how you CAT "ex.
pect man to have understanding whose
talk is of bullocks." &c. But at the pre-
sent day. agriculture affords advantages
for the exercise of brain-power unequal.
ed in any other profession. The farmer
will need to know more than the follower
of any other pursuit on earth.
> The time is coming, when, if farmer
has boy particularly smart, he will say.
E This boy Knows enough to be farmer.
The Others will do for laA, or trade" +
e believe in the future, the world will place
, implicit reliance on this truth, that ag-
D riculture above all other pursuits. requires
poiusr.
D | have seen farmers who knew Eow to
I make profit out Of what others would
] make simply nuisance. Every farmer
: will realize that he ought 10 NOW over
4 his weeds and pile them up while they
i ar, green. know a farmer who would
: dig small coal pit, for his weeds and
e rubbish, gathered from the farm and the
1 roadside, and let it shoulder, and dig
out hundred loads Of ashes, that would
e fertilize his upland as though dressed
J. with bis richest manure from the harm.
e yard.
There is no such trade for making mon.
}. ey as farming. if the farmer only under.
L stands it.
h Prof. Mapes of England is man who
g has fried farming and made it pay. He
L was a chemist by occupation. He bough,
Il him little farm of .wenty five acres. and
j. although SO moor that he could not pay fol
J. moving his furniture, he made farming
II pay. He said to Ihe. II bought tina,
II twshty-fve acres, on credit. l draissd
u i'll subsoiled it. dug it over--I ma.
u nured it--I put my whole energy into it
L | have paid for it, live on it well for fif
D teen years, and made money" This wa,
N because he kneio chemistry.
o believe there are sources Of fertility
right here--mines Of wealth, equal to any
guild mine in California - mines which
" can be worked AMI made profitable a