Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1870-07-27

Stay Where You Are.

The following from the Germantown Tee-
graph, though intended for Pennsylvania
readers, is adapted to this or any other lati
tude This has always been our advice to
farmers and had it been followed great
amount Of disappointment and sorrow would
have been avoided Asa rule, people who
go away from their old homes and old friends
where they have always resided within rea.
sonablc access Of the ready markets Of a large
city, where they receive the cash for every.
thing they sell, truly 90 away from their
homes, from the comforts Of life and from com.
paratiye happiness. You may argue that
your family is growing up and the old home
stead is too small for all, and you desire to
keep your family together. lfyou 60 West,
with the money for which you can sell your
present farm you can buy five times as much
land etc. but you forget that this farm is to
be stocked with horses, cattle, sheep, swine,
and implements besides houses are nearly
always to be built, aud that these things take
a pile Of money. You can raise out there
more wheat or corn per acre than here, which
you may have to haul many miles to a mar
ket aud then get about one-half the prices
the same sell for here
II you own say only 10 acres of land with.
in 30 mile, Of Philadelphia, with railroad
facilities, you possess mine of wealth, by
only going in the right way to work it, There
are other things besides wheat and corn aud
oats to raise But you must increase your
capital upon your farm You must keep
more CATTLE make more milk and butter, and
as natural sequence more manure, which is
the best capital. Instead of pasturing you
must soil the catte-that is, give them their
green food in their stalls instead Of in the
field. If you raise wheat you must get from
% to 40 bushels to the acre if corn, from
70 to 30 bushels per acre if oats, from 70 to
100 bushels-aud so on. HOumust have full
supply Of ruta-bagas and sugar-beets for your
dairy cattle in winter, aud carrots for your
horses. You must have your acres of straw
berries, raspberrics aud blackberries to catch
the early markets. You must have your two
apple-orchards--a young one always coming
on-and your pear-orchard Of the best stand
ard varieties. You should also raise the
most saleable aud productive beans by the
acre. Highly MANFRED and always ready to
take advantage of the markets. farm Of 10
acres or less, would be practically gold.
mine, and would give employment to every
masculine member Of the family, however
large, always excepting that Of Brigham.
Smaller farms must be more devoted to
vegetables and fruits, and will pay at least
equally well, and ought to do so even in lar
ger proportion. No one who knows how to
conduct his work skilfully here, and will be
industrious ard economical, can fail of becom.
fttsg rf.u1I, II L.
drawback, but there is no place on the face
of the earth where the elements going to Sc
cure freedom from diseases of every kind ex-
list TO a greater degree than in eastern Penn
sylyania. lfpeople scken and die here, they
will siokon aud dio anywhere There is no
protection against contingencies which Gro
unavoidable, even in the best regulated
families.
We would therefore say to all who hayeal-
lowed the idea to get into their heads that
they could do better somewhere else, that it
is the dictate Of the commonest wisdom to
combat all present evils rather than to fly to
others Of the magnitude Of which you know
nothing But above all, if you are determined
to resist the solid advice Of those who have
only your welfare at heart, and change your
homo to some distant point-avod the late
rebel States Shun them a. you would your
deadliest enemy, though any amount Of land bp
offered you as a present The great body Of
the people there are as reasonable now as
they ever were, and you will either have to
live as whipt spaniel, degraded being,
with your manhood left in Pennsylvania, sub
hitting to every imaginable insult or you
will have to cultivate iho land, as our first
settlers did, with your rife strapped over
your back. We do not say there are no ox-
ceptons to this, but they are only exceptions
We warn you again, therefore, avoid those
States where even to-day the flag of your
country is looked upon with scorn