The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1871-11-09

fstf p ssfisf.0 So 1870 - 81 sstthf Asassa
anl taey are envclarca is thc miJai ht
dalkucss e despair Happy
ben darkness comes tiat can SO s
light aheaI
M4ay & your readers So eastern
hImefs and perhaps wil ENJOY S
sketch e farm lifg Is BE YVES, tdaasd
very impcricciiy drawn How aea
So hear j. said d tie cast farming IS
easy wet they nse - much steam aad
horse pow cr True lael De ioa fr
greater 0teBt than ast bat working
an eastern farm Is almost bay play
compared ailh working cue 5f these
large farms Whist think yan 81 ap.
PIE picking where il takes seven mon
working early and late for four weeks
10 pick aud bUrel The shipping apples
81 one farm yet sHch Is the amount 81
labor required ou this plae Before
The trees were disruilel 9ftheir beau.
tiiul red aud golden iruit the orchards
presented q truly splendid sight TIE
trees were So heavily laden that the
limbs rested en- the ground On sim
Gle sprout we counted twcaty-e.ght
large apples aud We picket Gve nice
apples from what was q single cluster
Of blossoms we measured several up.
pies that were fourteen inches in cir.
conference and seven IN diameter
Nearly sixteen hundred dollars will bo
taken for apples on this farm the pre-
sent year, while the people IN Yerm MT
many Of them, consider them elves for
tunatc II they can procure apples as
large as buttennts Larger apples
than are usually raised in Vermont are
wasting ID abundance IN Michigan.
Other crops require as much labor as
the apple crop HeIo the farmer com-
menees 70 plow 10 March and then be.
Gins nine months 81 hand work and cor
slant care, preparing the ground, plant.
ing the seed and harvesting. The
spring crops must be hurried IN, lor
June brings hayiug, aud July harvest
ing Of wheat. and lucky is the farmer
that succeeds in getting his corn all
garnercd the last Of November. / doubt
Il not that three times more money Is
made on a good farm here than a farm
in Vermont, but is the happiness three
fold? | answer nay ToiIing on those
hills is hard, but when the work of the
/ day is over and the precious hour Of
/ twilight comes, with what pleasure
/ does the farmer watch the ever chang
/ ing light and shade, as night settles
over the hills he has learned to love
from his boyhood +? And from his love
Of natures beauties he is often led to
worship natures God. Every true son
and d tighter Of Vermont carries
through life love for the beautiful
mountains, and quiet simple homes Of
their native State, as strong as that
wi ich BIZ DIS the Swiss to their loved
Alpine homes. How can that love fol
the beautiful, that attachment to place
and home, that JOY Of life exist where
there are no beauties otnature around
us, only the sky above c, the earth be-
low yet there are many happy homes
here as elsewhere.
There is little "onpIeasantness'
connected with living here this year,
the ague prevails to a greater extent
than for twenty years Elder e. would
have us believe that there can be No
| greater happiness than being a "Shak.
er." 10 some it may be SO, but |
never saw more discouraged discon-
ISOLATE and almost forsaken looking
class Of people than the siakers here.
You would think they considered NOR.
rimcnt great sin for they seldom
smile They often think they are at
the very door Of death, the physician
! is summoned and very mconcemedly
informs that 1T is only the agnc, they
cannot die with that
Nearly month has passed since the
terrible fires laid waste many pleas
ant home, and brought sorrow to many
hearts ii this tate, and nearly blottcd
ont Chicago, tic pride II The West
Ee people here arc still working fer
the sufferers, and their trials. losses
and sorrows arc the principal themes Of
conversation. Hard is the heart Il at
does net sympatIizo with these house
less stricken ones. Ancient Troy was
bun ed by wooden horse, modem
Troy came near icing entirely burned
by an iron horse aud a kicking cow it
is SAID caused { G work o. thirty years
to nearly disappear in single night
and day, and Chicago 10 lie among the
hngs that were Let New York be-
varca verse, fatemay he hers destroy.
ed by airing. Chicago purified By fire
has q nobler better fate than il raled
by mob
! see that noble generous friend Of
the good and true, Al red +. Sewell. il